Basic Introduction:

Zhilin Guo, a Young Talents of the Ministry of Education, graduated from the University of Arizona with a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Hydrology at the University of California, Davis. In August 2019, she joined SUSTech. She has been studying on the mechanism and remediation of groundwater pollution and the sustainability of groundwater resources under global change. She has been supported by national, provincial and municipal projects such as the National Key R&D Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program, the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation Distinguished Young Scholars Program, and the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation. She is currently the Vice Chair of the UNESCO Groundwater Youth Network, a member of the Groundwater Committee of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the Groundwater Hydraulics and Management Technical Committee of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR). She is also the associate editor of Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology and Groundwater, top international journals in the field of groundwater, and serves as a peer reviewer for several top-tier international journals.

Professional Experience:

2022.09-present Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen

2019.09-2022.08 Research Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen

2016.02-2019.08 Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Davis, CA

2015.09-2016.01 Senior Research Associate, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

2012.07-2015.08 Research Associate, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Education:

2012.08-2015.08 University of Arizona, Ph.D. in Environmental Science (minor in Hydrology)

2010.08-2012.05 University of Florida, M.S. in Environmental Engineering Science  

2006.09-2010.05 Shanxi University, B.S. in Resources, Environment & Urban-rural Planning Management.

Synergistic Activities:

1. Associate Editor for Journal of Hydrology, Hydrogeology Journal (2023-present)

2. Associate Editor for Groundwater Journal (2020-present)

3. Vice Chair of UNESCO Groundwater Youth Network (2022-present)

4. Member of IAHR Groundwater Hydraulics and Management Technical Committee (2020-present)

5. Secretary of CSES Ecological Geology and Environment Committee (2019-present)

6. Member of AGU Groundwater Technical Committee (2017-present)

7. Primary Convener and Chair of AGU session, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

8. Primary Convener and Chair of GSA session, 2020

9. Reviewer for Journals

10. Advances in Water Resources; Groundwater; Hydrogeology Journal; Hydrological Processes; Journal of Contaminant Hydrology; Journal of Hydrology; Water Resources Research

Awards and Honors:

1. 2024, Young Talents of the Ministry of Education 

2. 2024, Youth Science and Technology of Ecological Environment of Guangdong Environmental Science Society (Gold Award)

3. 2020, Water Resources Research Editor’s Choice Award

4. 2019, Outstanding Presentation Award at the 5th Groundwater Science Youth Forum

5. 2015, NIEHS K.C. Donnelly Externship Award

6. 2014, EPA Superfund Research Program Training Core Fellowship

7. 2015, Graduate College Fellowship

Selected funded projects:

1. Outstanding Young Scholar of Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 2024B1515020038), 2024.1-2027-12, PI.

2. Sub-project of the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2023YFC3706501), Task 2, 2024.01-2027.12, PI.

3. National Key R&D program of China (Grant No. 2016YFC0402806), Groundwater over-exploitation protection key technologies and application in Huang-Huai River. Topic 2，2021.12-2025.5, PI.

4. The Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 92047202), Mechanisms and simulations of groundwater changes in the southwestern river basins. Task 3, 2021-01to 2023-12, PI.

5. Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 42007162), Parameterization of upscaling method on modeling contaminant transport under transient flow conditions. 2021-01 to 2023-12, PI.

6. Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Grant Nos. 2020A1515010891), Contaminant migration and groundwater environmental management at an industrial park, 2019-10 to 2022-09, PI.

7. Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission (Grant Nos. RKX20190718213410182), Study of sustainable development cases and development strategies in Shenzhen, 2019-10 to 2020-09, PI.

8. U.S Department of Energy，CERC-WET,Energy consequences of ongoing conversion of groundwater systems into closed hydrologic basins due to overdraft, 2016-2021, Participate.

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Superfund Research Program (P42ES04940), Mass-Transfer and Mass Flux Dynamics of Chlorinated-Solvents in Heterogeneous System, 2010.08-2015.08, Participate.

Research Interests:

1. characterization of aquifer heterogeneity, non-Fickian transport modeling 

2. evaluation of site contamination and remediation processes 

3. upscaling of non-Fickian transport processes

regional groundwater contamination risk assessment

Published Works:

[1] Yang Zhan, Zhilin Guo*, Sacha Ruzzante, Tom Gleeson, Charles B. Andrews, Vladan Babovic, Chunmiao Zheng*, Assessment of spatiotemporal risks for nationwide groundwater nitrate contamination[J]. Science of The Total Environment, Volume 947, 2024(174508), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174508.

[2] Yang Zhan, Zhilin Guo*, Bicheng Yan, Kewei Chen, Zhenbo Chang, Vladan Babovic, Chunmiao Zheng, Physics-informed identification of PDEs with LASSO regression, examples of groundwater-related equations[J]. Journal of Hydrology, Volume 638, 2024(131504), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131504.

[3] Yang Zhan, Balamurugan Murugesan, Zhilin Guo*, Hongkai Li, Kewei Chen, Vladan Babovic*, Chunmiao Zheng, Managed aquifer recharge in island aquifer under thermal influences on the fresh-saline water interface[J]. Journal of Hydrology,Volume 638,2024(131496), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131496.

[4] Wu Rixin ,  Guo Zhilin*, Zhan Yang, Cao Guoliang,  Chen Kewei, Chang Zhenbo, Li Hongkai, He Xin, and Zheng Chunmiao, Impacts of Land Surface Nitrogen Input on Groundwater Quality in the North China Plain[J]. ACS ES&T Water Article ASAP, 2024, DOI: 10.1021/acsestwater.3c00712.

[5] Chang Zhenbo, Guo Zhilin*, Chen Kewei, Wang Zibo, Zhan Yang, Lu Wenxi, Zheng Chunmiao, A comparison of inversion methods for surrogate-based groundwater contamination source identification with varying degrees of model complexity[J]. Water Resources Research, 2024 , 60 , e2023WR036051. https://doi.org/10.1029/ 2023WR036051

[6] Kuang XingXing, Liu Junguo,Briget R. Scanlon, Jiu Jimmy Jiao, ... & Guo Zhilin, et al.,The changing nature of groundwater in the global water cycle[J]. Science, 2024, 383, eadf0630. DOI: 10.1126/ science.adf0630

[7] Xu Peng, Li Geng, Zheng Yi*, Fung Jimmy C. H. *, ... & Guo Zhilin, et al., Fertilizer management for global ammonia emission reduction[J]. Nature, 2024, 626, 792–798. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07020-z

[8] Kang Xueyuan, Kokkinaki Amalia, Shi Xiaoqing*, Lee Jonghyun, Guo Zhilin, Ni Lingling, Wu Jichun*, Modeling upscaled mass discharge from complex DNAPL source zones using a Bayesian neural network: Prediction accuracy, uncertainty quantification and source zone feature importance[J]. Water Resources Research, 2024, 60, e2023WR036864. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR036864

[9] Zhang Yong, Liu Xiaoting, Lei Dawei, Yin Maosheng, Sun Hongguang*, Guo Zhilin, Zhan Hongbin, Modeling hydrologically mediated hot moments of transient anomalous diffusion in aquifers using an impulsive fractional-derivative equation[J]. Water Resources Research, 2024, 60, e2023WR036089. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR036089

[10] Kewei Chen,  Zhilin Guo,  Yang Zhan,  Eric E. Roden*,   Chunmiao Zheng*, Heterogeneity in permeability and particulate organic carbon content controls the redox condition of riverbed sediments at different timescales[J]. Geophysical Research Letters, 2024 51, e2023GL107761. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107761

[11] Rui Ma, Kewei Chen, Charles B. Andrews, Steven P. Loheide, Audrey H. Sawyer, Xue Jiang, Martin A. Briggs, Peter G. Cook, Steven M. Gorelick, Henning Prommer, Bridget R. Scanlon, Zhilin Guo, and Chunmiao Zheng, Methods for Quantifying Interactions Between Groundwater and Surface Water[J]. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2024, 49 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-111522-104534

[12] Peng Wang, Zheng Yan, Xiang Lin, Bingrui Yang, Wen Zhang, Dongsheng Wu, Zhilin Guo, Shengyan Pu, Influence of continuous phase evolution of non-aqueous phase liquid on the retention and transport of coexistence perfluorooctanoic acid in saturated porous media[J]. Journal of Hydrology, 2024, Volume 636, 1313, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.13132

[13] Linfeng Fan, Fang Ji, Xingxing Kuang, Zhilin Guo, Rui Zhang & Chunmiao Zheng, Impacts of permafrost degradation on streamflow in the northern Himalayas[J]. Science China Earth Sciences, 2024, 67(6): 1990-2000.

[14] Liu Hanle*, Zhilin Guo*, Zhu Yinxia, Sarah Van Glubt, Mark L. Brusseau*, The influence of NAPL distribution on the transport of PFOS in Co-contaminated media[J]. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2024, 462, 132794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.132794. (共一)

[15] Kewei Chen, Shuai Yang, Eric E. Roden, Xingyuan Chen, Kuang-Yu Chang, Zhilin Guo, Xiuyu Liang, Enze Ma, Linfeng Fan, Chunmiao Zheng, Influence of vertical hydrologic exchange flow, channel flow, and biogeochemical kinetics on CH4 emissions from rivers[J]. Water Resources Research, 2023, 59(12): e2023WR035341.

[16] Guo Zhilin, Fogg Graham E., Chen Kewei, Pauloo Rich, Zheng Chunmiao*, Sustainability of Regional Groundwater Quality in Response to Managed Aquifer Recharge[J]. Water Resources Research, 2023: 59. 

[17] Guo Zhilin, Kewei Chen, Shuping Yi, and Chunmiao Zheng*. Response of groundwater quality to river-aquifer interactions during managed aquifer recharge: A Reactive transport modeling analysis[J]. Journal of Hydrology, 2023: 128847.

[18] Wang Yanxin*, Yuan Songhu, Shi Jianbo, Ma Teng, Xie Xianjun.,…, Guo Zhilin, Dong Yiran, Zheng Chunmiao, Jiang Guibin, Groundwater Quality and Health: Making the Invisible Visible[J]. Environmental Science & Technology, 2023.

[19] Chen Kewei, Yin Maosheng, Guo Zhilin, Liang Xiuyu, Wei Xiaoou, ... & Zheng hunmiao*, Estimating lateral groundwater inflow to rivers using heat as a tracer[J]. Journal Of Hydrology, 2023: 617.

[20] Yin Maosheng, Rui Ma*, Yong Zhang, Jingjing Lin, Zhilin Guo, and Chunmiao Zheng, Competitive control of multiscale aquifer heterogeneity on solute transport in an alluvial aquifer[J]. Journal of Hydrology, 2023: 128819.

[21] Jing Hao, He Xin, Tian Yong, Lancia Michele, Cao Guoliang, Crivellar Alessandro, Guo Zhilin, Zheng Chunmiao*, Comparison and interpretation of data-driven models for simulating human-impacted groundwater dynamics in the North China Plain[J]. Journal of Hydrology, 2023: 128751.

[22] Kewei Chen, Xingyuan Chen, James C. Stegen, Jorge A. Villa, Gil Bohrer, Xuehang Song, Kuang-Yu Chang, Matthew Kaufman, Xiuyu Liang, Zhiling Guo, Eric E. Roden, and Chunmiao Zheng*, Vertical hydrologic exchange flows control methane emissions from riverbed sediments[J]. Environmental Science & Technology, 2023 57 (9), 4014-4026

[23] Zheng Chunmiao*, Guo Zhilin*, Plans to protect China’s depleted groundwater[J]. Science, 2022, 375(6583):827-827.

[24] Yan Ni, Guo Zhilin, Brusseau Mark L.*, Sucralose as an oxidative-attenuation tracer for characterizing the application of in situ chemical oxidation for the treatment of 1,4-dioxane[J]. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 2022 : 1165-1172.

[25] Yin Maosheng, Ma Rui, Zhang Yong, Chen Kewei, Guo Zhilin, Zheng, Chunmiao*, A dual heterogeneous domain model for upscaling anomalous transport with multi-peaks in heterogeneous aquifers[J]. Water Resources Research, 2022, 10.1029/2021WR031128.

[26] Feng Yu, Zeng Zhenzhong*, Searchinger Tim, … Guo Zhilin, …  Zheng  Chunmiao*, Doubling of annual forest carbon loss over the tropics during the early twenty-first century[J]. Nature Sustainability, 2022, 10.1038/s41893-022-00854-3.

[27] Liu Xiaoting, Zhang Yong, Sun Hongguang*, Guo Zhilin, A fractional-order dependent collocation method with graded mesh for impulsive fractional-order system[J]. Computational Mechanics, 2022, 69(4):1-19

[28] Guo Zhilin, Ma Rui, Zhang Yong, Zheng Chunmiao*, Contaminant transport in heterogeneous aquifers: A critical review of mechanisms and numerical methods of non-Fickian dispersion[J]. Science China: Earth Sciences, 2021, 64(8).

[29] Pauloo Richard A.*, Fogg Graham E., Guo Zhilin*, Henri, Christopher V., Mean flow direction modulates non-Fickian transport in a heterogeneous alluvial aquifer-aquitard system[J]. Water Resources Research, 2021, e2020WR028655.

[30] Pauloo Richard A.*, Fogg, Graham E., Guo Zhilin*, Harter Thomas, Anthropogenic basin closure and groundwater salinization (ABCSAL)[J]. Journal of Hydrology, 2021, 593, 125787.

[31] Jiang A, Liu Y, Yi S, Guo Z*, et al. Impact of artificial recharge on groundwater and springs: Jinan, China, case study[J]. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2021, 14: 1-10.

[32] Guo Zhilin*, Henri Christopher V., Fogg Graham E., Zhang Yong, Zheng, Chunmiao, Adaptive Multirate Mass Transfer (aMMT) Model: A New Approach to Upscale Regional-Scale Transport Under Transient Flow Conditions[J]. Water Resources Research, 2020, 56(2): e2019WR026000.

[33] Guo Zhilin*, Russo Ann E., DiFilippo Erica L., Zhang Zhihui, Zheng Chunmiao, Brusseau Mark L.*, Mathematical modeling of organic liquid dissolution in heterogeneous source zones[J]. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 2020, 235: 103716.

[34] Wang Jiaqi, Ma Rui*, Guo Zhilin, Qu Le, Yin Maosheng, Zheng Chunmiao, Experiment and multicomponent model based analysis on the effect of flow rate and nitrate concentration on denitrification in low-permeability media[J]. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 2020, 235: 103727.

[35] Hua Shanshan, Jing Hao, Yao Yingying, Guo Zhilin, Lerner David N., Andrews Charles B., Zheng Chunmiao*, Can groundwater be protected from the pressure of China’s urban growth? [J]. Environment International, 2020, 143: 105911.

[36] Guo Zhilin*, Fogg Graham E., Henri Christopher V., Upscaling of Regional Scale Transport Under Transient Conditions: Evaluation of the Multirate Mass Transfer Model[J]. Water Resources Research, 2019, 55(7): 5301-5320.

[37] Guo Zhilin*, Brusseau Mark L., Fogg Graham E., Determining the long-term operational performance of pump and treat and the possibility of closure for a large TCE plume[J]. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2019, 365:796-803.

[38] Guo Zhilin*, Fogg Graham E, Brusseau Mark L, LaBolle Eric M, Lopez Jose, Modeling groundwater contaminant transport in the presence of large heterogeneity: a case study comparing MT3D and RWhet[J]. Hydrogeology Journal, 2019, 27(4):1363-1371.

[39] Brusseau, Mark L.*, Carroll Kenneth C., Guo Zhilin, Mainhagu, Jon, Borehole diffusive flux apparatus for characterizing diffusive mass-transfer in subsurface systems[J]. Environmental Earth Sciences, 2018, 77:648.

[40] Brusseau, Mark L.*, Guo Zhilin, The integrated contaminant elution and tracer test toolkit, ICET3, for improved characterization of mass transfer, attenuation, and mass removal[J]. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 2018, 208:17-26.

[41] Guo Zhilin, Brusseau Mark L*, The impact of well-field configuration and permeability heterogeneity on contaminant mass removal and plume persistence[J]. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2017, 333: 109-115.

[42] Guo Zhilin, Brusseau Mark L.*, The impact of well-field configuration on contaminant mass removal and plume persistence for homogeneous versus layered systems[J]. Hydrological Processes, 2017, 31: 4748- 4756.

[43] Guo Zhilin, Brusseau Mark L.*, Modified well-field configurations for improved performance of contaminant elution and tracer tests[J]. Water Air & Soil Pollution, 2017, 228: 261.

[44] Brusseau Mark L.*, Guo Zhilin, Assessing contaminant-removal conditions and plume persistence through analysis of data from long-term pump-and-treat operations[J]. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 2014,164: 16-24.

[45] Matthieu III Donald E., Brusseau Mark L.*, Guo Zhilin, Plaschke Manfred, Carroll Kenneth C., Fred Brinker, Persistence of a Groundwater Contaminant Plume after Hydraulic Source Containment at a Chlorinated-Solvent Contaminated Site[J]. Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation, 2014, 34(4): 23-32.

[46] Zhilin Guo, Groundwater Quality Modeling and Assessment. LSGI research seminar, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 2024 (Invited Lecture).

[47] Zhilin Guo, Yang Zhan; Groundwater contamination risk assessment from nitrate at a continental scale, 49^th IAH, Wuhan, 2022 (Invited).

[48] Zhilin Guo, Graham E. Fogg, Christopher V. Henri, Yong Zhang, Chunmiao Zheng. Upscaling of Regional Scale Transport Under Transient Conditions. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francsico, CA, US. 2019 (Invited).

[49] Zhilin Guo, Graham E. Fogg, Christopher V. Henri. Upscaling of regional scale transport under transient conditions: method development. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. Washington DC. US. 2018.

[50] Zhilin Guo, Rich Pauloo, Graham E. Fogg. Groundwater Salinization Due to Hydraulic Closure in Tulare Basin over a Long Term Time Scale. Toward Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture - An International Conference Linking Science and Policy. San Francisco, CA. US. 2016.

[51] Zhilin Guo, Graham Fogg, Mark Brusseau. Case study of using the stochastic method for contaminant transport in groundwater. NIEHS Environmental Health Science FEST. Durham, NC. US. 2016 (Invited).

[52] Zhilin Guo, Assessing the Long-term Groundwater Quality in Regional Scale Aquifer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Climate Brownbag, Berkeley, US. 2019 (Invited).

[53] Zhilin Guo, Persistence of Groundwater Contaminants Plume. EPA Superfund Colloquium. Tucson, US. 2014 (Invited)