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• Outstanding Efforts in Securing Extramural Funding - ORSP, University of Texas at El Paso (11/01/2016)
• Outstanding Performance in Securing Extramural Funding - ORSP, University of Texas at El Paso (04/30/2016)
• Outstanding research award - ORSP (05/15/2014)
• 2014 Antoinette Lierman Medlin Scholarship - Geological Society of America (03/10/2014)
• John Dorr Graduate Academic Achievement Award - Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan (01/01/2009-12/31/2009)
• Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award - Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan

• Ph D in Geochemistry, University of Michigan (2008)
• BS in Geochemistry, University of Science & Technology of China (2001)

• Regional Drivers of Stream Chemical Behavior: Leveraging Lithology, Land Use, and Climate Gradients across the Colorado River, Texas USA Water Resources Research 58 11 (2022), Grace M. Goldrich-Middaugh, Lin Ma, Mark Engle, JW Ricketts, Paola Soto-Montero, Pamela L. Sullivan.
• Dryland irrigation increases accumulation rates of pedogenic carbonate and releases soil abiotic CO2 Scientific Reports 12 (2022), Anna Ortiz, Lixin Jin, N. Ogrinc, J. Kaye, B. Krajnc, Lin Ma.
• Record of neotectonics and deep crustal fluid circulation along the Santa Fe fault zone in travertine deposits of the Lucero Uplift, New Mexico, USA Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 22 (2021), Victor Garcia, Lin Ma, Jason Ricketts, Anthony Dosseto.
• A geochemical and isotopic assessment of hydraulic connectivity of a stacked aquifer system in the Lisbon Valley, Utah (USA), and critical evaluation of environmental tracers Hydrogeology Journal (2021), C. Noyes, J Kim, M Person, L Ma, G. Ferguson, J. McIntosh.
• Dryland irrigation increases accumulation rates of pedogenic carbonate and releases soil abiotic CO2 Scientific Reports 12 (2021), Anna Ortiz, Lixin Jin, N. Ogrinc, J. Kaye, B. Krajnc, Lin Ma.
• Hydrogeochemical evolution of formation waters responsible for sandstone bleaching and ore mineralization in the Paradox Basin, Colorado Plateau, USA GSA Bulletin (2021), J.H. Kim, L. Bailey, C. Noyes, R. Tyne, C. Balletine, M. Person, L Ma, M. Barton, I. Barton, P. Reiners, G. Ferguson, J. McIntosh.
• Combining Uranium, Boron, and Strontium Isotope Ratios (234U/238U, d11B, 87Sr/86Sr) to Trace and Quantify Salinity Contributions to Rio Grande River in Southwestern United States. Front. Water (2020), Lin Ma.
• Effect of copper oxide nanoparticles on two varieties of sweetpotato plants PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY 154 (2020), N. J. Bonilla-Bird, Y. Ye, T. Akter, C. Valdes-Bracamontes, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Geoffrey B. Saupe, J. P. Flores-Marges, Lin Ma, Jose A. Hernandez Viezcas, Jose R. Peralta-Videa, Jorge Gardea-Torresdey.
• Effect of copper oxide nanoparticles on two varieties of sweetpotato plants PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY 154 (2020), N. J. Bonilla-Bird, Y. Ye, T. Akter, C. Valdes-Bracamontes, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Geoffrey B. Saupe, J. P. Flores-Marges, Lin Ma, Jose A. Hernandez Viezcas, Jose R. Peralta-Videa, Jorge Gardea-Torresdey.
• Record of neotectonics and deep crustal fluid circulation along the Santa Fe fault zone in travertine deposits of the Lucero Uplift, New Mexico, USA Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (2020), Victor Garcia, Lin Ma, Jason Ricketts, Anthony Dosseto.
• Tracing gypsiferous White Sands aerosols in the shallow critical zone at White Mountain, New Mexico using Sr/Ca and 87Sr/86Sr ratios Geoderma 372 (2020), Patrick Rea, Lin Ma, Thomas E. Gill, Jorge Gardea-Torresdey, Carlos Tamez, Lixin Jin.
• Tracing gypsiferous White Sands aerosols in the shallow critical zone at White Mountain, New Mexico using Sr/Ca and 87Sr/86Sr ratios Geoderma 372 (2020), Patrick Rea, Lin Ma, Thomas E. Gill, Jorge Gardea-Torresdey, Carlos Tamez, Lixin Jin.
• U-series and Sr isotopes as tracers of mineral weathering and water routing from the deep Critical Zone to streamflow in a high elevation volcanic catchment. Chemical Geology Chemical Geology (in press), Lin Ma.
• Global travertine deposition modulated by oscillations in climate Journal of Quaternary Science 34 (2019), Jason Ricketts, Lin Ma, Amy E. Wagler, Victor H. Garcia.
• Global travertine deposition modulated by oscillations in climate Journal of Quaternary Science 34 (2019), Jason Ricketts, Lin Ma, Amy E. Wagler, Victor H. Garcia.
• Reconciling chemical weathering rates across scales: Application of Uranium-series isotope systematics in volcanic weathering clasts from Basse-Terre Island (French Guadeloupe) Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2019), Jiye Guo, Lin Ma, Jerome Gaillaedet, Peter Sak, Yvette Pereyra, Jacqueline Engel.
• Variable pathways, residence time, and geochemical evolution of seepage beneath the Mississippi River levee during the 2011, 2015, and 2016 floods Applied Geochemistry 108 (2019), K Voll, G Davidson, D Borrok, M Corcoran, J Kelley, Lin Ma.
• Quantifying weathering rind formation rates by in situ measurements of U-series disequilibria with laser ablation (LA) MC-ICPMS Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 247 (2019), Lin Ma.
• A Tale of Two Rift Basins: Geophysical and Groundwater Studies of the Hueco and Mesilla Bolsons, Western Texas, Southern New Mexico and Northern Chihuahua Fall Meeting American Geophysical Unioin (2018), Diane I. Doser, Jose P. Cervantes, Matthew Hiebing, Lin Ma, Pawan Budhathoki, Marc Ornelas.
• A Tale of Two Rift Basins: Geophysical and Groundwater Studies of the Hueco and Mesilla Bolsons, Western Texas, Southern New Mexico and Northern Chihuahua Fall Meeting American Geophysical Unioin (2018), Diane I. Doser, Jose P. Cervantes, Matthew Hiebing, Lin Ma, Pawan Budhathoki, Marc Ornelas.
• Tracing Quaternary Faults within the Mesilla Bolson, Western Texas and Southern New Mexico Fall Meeting American Geophysical Unioin (2018), Jose P. Cervantes, Diane I. Doser, Matthew Hiebbing, Victor M. Avila, Lin Ma.
• Global travertine deposition modulated by changes in global climate Geology (2018), Jason Ricketts, Lin Ma, Amy E. Wagler, Victor H. Garcia.
• From unweathered core to regolith in a single weathering andesitic clast: rates and trends of in situ chemical weathering on a tropical volcanic island (Basse Terre Island, French Guadeloupe) Chemical Geology 498 (2018), Sak Peter, Lin Ma.
• Large-Scale Uranium Contamination of Groundwater Resources in India Environmental Science&Technology Letters (2018), Rachel Coyte, Lin Ma.
• Geophysical studies of fault and bedrock control on groundwater geochemistry within the southern Mesilla Basin, west Texas and southern New Mexico Geosphere 14 4 (2018), Matthew Hiebing, Diane I. Doser, Victor Avila, Lin Ma.
• Cadmium isotope fractionation during coal combustion: insights from two coal-fired power plants in the United States Applied Geochemistry 96 (2018), Fotios Fouskas, Lin Ma.
• Geophysical studies of fault and bedrock control on groundwater geochemistry within the southern Mesilla Basin, west Texas and southern New Mexico Geosphere (2018), Matthew Hiebing, Diane I. Doser, Lin Ma.
• Changes of soil quality due to flood irrigation in agricultural fields along the Rio Grande in western Texas Applied Geochemistry 90 (2018), Christine Cox, Lixin Jin, Girisha Ganjegunte, David Borrok, Vanessa L. Lougheed, Lin Ma.
• Changes of soil quality due to flood irrigation in agricultural fields along the Rio Grande in western Texas Applied Geochemistry 90 (2018), Christine Cox, Lixin Jin, Girisha Ganjegunte, David Borrok, Vanessa L. Lougheed, Lin Ma.
• Soil quality changes due to flood irrigation in agricultural fields along the Rio Grande in western Texas Applied Geochemistry 90 (2018), Christine Cox, Lixin Jin, Girisha Ganjegunte, David Borrok, Vanessa L. Lougheed, Lin Ma.

• Investigating Evapotranspiration Partitioning Dynamics of Shallow Desert Soils of a Piedmont Site in High Temporal Resolution (2022), Volume Chicago, Illinois, Alfredo Dagda, Orlando Ramirez-Valle, Martha Gardea, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Lin Ma, Mark Engle.
• Impacts of arid land agriculture and flood irrigation on soil quality, water dynamics, and gas transport (2022), Volume Chicao, Illinois, E M. Andrews, L Li, Valeria Molina, Lin Ma, Mark Engle, Lixin Jin.
• Using dissolved (234U/238U) ratios as a watershed tracer for climate, lithology, ad land use: A combined geochemical, geological, and geographic approach in Texas rivers (2022), Lin Ma, Nuria Andreu Garcia, Lourdes Moreu, Grace Goldrich-Middaugh, Paola Soto-Montero, Jason Ricketts, Pamela Sullivan.
• Differentiating biotic vs. abiotic CO2 in the formation of pedogenic carbonate in an agriculturally altered site (2022), Volume Las Vages, Valeria Molina, Lin Ma, Mark Engle, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi-Nardi, Jason Kaye, Lixin Jin.
• DIFFERENTIATING BIOTIC VS. ABIOTIC CO2 IN THE FORMATION OF PEDOGENIC CARBONATE IN AN AGRICULTURAL SITE (2022), Valeria Molina, Lin Ma, Mark Engle, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Jason Kaye, Lixin Jin.
• Controls, rates, and impacts of enhanced calcite accumulation and abiotic CO2 emission in irrigated drylands (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, Lixin Jin, Anna Ortiz, V. Molina, V. Orona, M. Quiroz, J. Kaye, Diane I. Doser, Lin Ma, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi.
• Controls, rates, and impacts of enhanced calcite accumulation and abiotic CO2 emission in irrigated drylands (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, Lixin Jin, Anna Ortiz, V. Molina, V. Orona, M. Quiroz, J. Kaye, Diane I. Doser, Lin Ma, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi.
• Controls, rates, and impacts of enhanced calcite accumulation and abiotic CO2 emission in irrigated drylands (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, Lixin Jin, Anna Ortiz, V. Molina, V. Orona, M. Quiroz, J. Kaye, Diane I. Doser, Lin Ma, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi.
• Quantifying water stress and productive vs non-productive water use in the critical zone of dryland agricultural areas with alternating surface and groundwater irrigation: lessons learned from a combined remote sensing and groundwater data analysis. (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, Orlando Ramirez-Valle, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Alfredo Dagda, Martha Gardea, Lixin Jin, Lin Ma.
• Dynamics of Plant Water Use and Water Movement in Shallow Desert Soils of a Piedmont Site: Insights From an Integrated Hydro-Geophysics-Geochemical Approach of a Highly Dynamic Shallow Dryland Critical Zone (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, A. Dagda, O. Ramirez-Valle, M. Gardea, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Lixin Jin, Lin Ma, Mark Engle.
• Dynamics of Plant Water Use and Water Movement in Shallow Desert Soils of a Piedmont Site: Insights From an Integrated Hydro-Geophysics-Geochemical Approach of a Highly Dynamic Shallow Dryland Critical Zone (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, A. Dagda, O. Ramirez-Valle, M. Gardea, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Lixin Jin, Lin Ma, Mark Engle.
• Dynamics of Plant Water Use and Water Movement in Shallow Desert Soils of a Piedmont Site; Insights From an Integrated Hydro-Geophysics-Geochemical Approach of a Highly Dynamic Shallow Dryland Critical Zone. (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, Alfredo Dagda, Orlando Ramirez-Valle, Martha Gardea, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Lixin Jin, Lin Ma, Mark Engle.
• Exploring Controls by Pedogenic Carbonates as a Critical Interface on Water, Carbon and Nutrient Interactions in Drylands: Initial Insights from the Dryland Critical Zone Network Cluster (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, Lin Ma, Mark Engle, N. Valenzuela, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Diane I. Doser, M. Baker, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Lixin Jin.
• Exploring Controls by Pedogenic Carbonates as a Critical Interface on Water, Carbon and Nutrient Interactions in Drylands: Initial Insights from the Dryland Critical Zone Network Cluster (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, Lin Ma, Mark Engle, N. Valenzuela, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Diane I. Doser, M. Baker, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Lixin Jin.
• Exploring Controls by Pedogenic Carbonates as a Critical Interface on Water, Carbon and Nutrient Interactions in Drylands: Initial Insights from the Dryland Critical Zone Network Cluster (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, Lin Ma, Mark Engle, Nohemi Valenzuela Garay, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Diane Doser, Mark Baker, Anthony Darrrouzet-Nardi, Lixin Jin.
• Quantifying water stress and productive vs non-productive water use in the critical zone of dryland agricultural areas with alternating surface and groundwater irrigation: lessons learned from a combined remote sensing and groundwater data analysis (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, O. Ramirez-Valle, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, A. Dagda, M. Gardea, Lixin Jin, Lin Ma.
• Exploring Controls by Pedogenic Carbonates as a Critical Interface on Water, Carbon and Nutrient Interactions in Drylands: Initial Insights from the Dryland Critical Zone Network Cluster (2021), Volume New Orleans, LA, Lin Ma, Mark Engle, N. Valenzuela, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Diane I. Doser, M. Baker, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Lixin Jin.
• Combining Uranium, Boron, and Strontium isotope ratios (234U/238U, 11B, 87Sr/86Sr) to trace and quantify salinity contributions to Rio Grande river in Southwestern United States (2020), Volume SF, CA, Lin Ma.
• Reconciling chemical weathering rates across scales: insights from U-series isotopes in volcanic weathering clasts from Basse-Terre Island (Guadeloupe) (2020), Volume Hawaii, HI, Lin Ma.
• Water Sourcing Strategies of Highly Resilient Vegetation in Desert Soils: Stable Isotope Analysis of a Northern Chihuahuan Desert Ecosystem (2019), Volume San Francisco, CA, Hayden Thompson, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Lin Ma, Lixin Jin, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi.
• Water Sourcing Strategies of Highly Resilient Vegetation in Desert Soils: Stable Isotope Analysis of a Northern Chihuahuan Desert Ecosystem (2019), Volume San Francisco, CA, Hayden Thompson, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Lin Ma, Lixin Jin, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi.
• Water Sourcing Strategies of Highly Resilient Vegetation in Desert Soils: Stable Isotope Analysis of a Northern Chihuahuan Desert Ecosystem (2019), Volume San Francisco, CA, Hayden Thompson, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Lin Ma, Lixin Jin, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi.
• ASSESSING THE SUSTAINABILITY AND HYDROLOGIC FUNCTIONING OF A SEMIARID ENDORHEIC BASIN WITH A HEAVILY STRESSED AQUIFER SUPPORTING A LARGE AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY IN NORTHERN MEXICO. (2019), Volume Valencia, Spain, Suzan Aranda-Luna, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Orlando Ramirez-Valle, Carolina Cisneros, Lin Ma, Lixin Jin.
• Global travertine deposition modulated by oscillations in climate (2019), Volume Phoenix, AZ, Jason Ricketts, Lin Ma, Amy E. Wagler, Victor H. Garcia.
• Global travertine deposition modulated by oscillations in climate (2019), Volume Phoenix, AZ, Jason Ricketts, Lin Ma, Amy E. Wagler, Victor H. Garcia.
• A quantitative assessment of the presence and mobility of trace metals in soils and groundwater (2019), Volume Barcelona, Spain, Emmanuel Sosa, Lin Ma, Anna Ortiz, Lixin Jin.
• A quantitative assessment of the presence and mobility of trace metals in soils and groundwater (2019), Volume Barcelona, Spain, Emmanuel Sosa, Lin Ma, Anna Ortiz, Lixin Jin.
• Modeling Salinity in a Semi-arid Agricultural Watershed Using SWAT-Salt (2019), Volume San Francisco, CA, M Samimi, Ali Mirchi, Ryan Bailey, Lin Ma.
• Deep critical zone architecture imaged by seismic tomography on windward and leeward sides of Basse Terre Island, Guadeloupe (2019), Volume San Francisco, CA, J Hayes, Sylvain Pasquet, Pete Sak, Lin Ma, J Gaillardet.
• The response of dissolved inorganic nutrients to hurricanes Irma and María at the Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory (2019), Volume San Francisco, CA, Maria Chapela Lara, William McDowell, Lin Ma.
• Tracing sources of mineral nutrients with conventional 87Sr/86Sr isotope ratios in a highly weathered tropical volcanic island (Basse-Terre, French Guadeloupe) (2019), Volume San Francisco, CA, Lin Ma, M O'Hara-Navarro, Y Pereyra, J Gaillardet, Pete Sak.
• Characterization of formation waters in the Paradox Basin to constrain paleo fluid flow and water-rock-microbial interactions. (2019), Volume Phoenix, AZ, Jihyun Kim, C Noyes, A Dell'Oro, Rebecca Tyne, Grant Ferguson, Mark Person, Lin Ma, Z-T Lu, W Jiang, C Ballentine, P Reiners, J McIntosh.
• COMBINING URANIUM, BORON, AND STRONTIUM ISOTOPE RATIOS (234U/238U, δ11B, 87SR/86SR) TO TRACE SALINITY SOURCES IN THE SEMI-ARID RIO GRANDE RIVER OF SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES (2019), Volume Phoenix, AZ, Lin Ma.
• A Tale of Two Rift Basins: Geophysical and Groundwater Studies of the Hueco and Mesilla Bolsons, Western Texas, Southern New Mexico and Northern Chihuahua (2018), Volume Washington, DC, Diane I. Doser, Lin Ma.
• Modeling competitive adsorption of phosphate and salicylate on the goethite (210) surface (2018), Volume Washington, DC, James Kubicki, Lin Ma.
• FLUVIAL KNICKPOINTS AND TRANSIENT EROSION ON BASSE-TERRE, GUADELOUPE, WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR ESTIMATES OF CHEMICAL WEATHERING (2018), Volume Indianapolis, IN, Peter Sak, Lin Ma.
• MODELING COMPETITIVE ADSORPTION OF PHOSPHATE AND SALICYLATE ON THE GOETHITE (210) SURFACE (2018), Volume Indianapolis, IN, James Kubicki, Jiye Guo, Lin Ma, T Ohno, P Hatcher.
• Using Uranium isotope ratios (234U/238U) to study water-rock interaction and solute sources: case studies from Rio Grande and more… (2018), Volume Las Cruces, NM, Lin Ma.
• Combining U-series and Sr isotope ratios as tracers of hydrologic flow paths across catchment boundaries (2018), Volume Boston, MA, Alissa White, Lin Ma.
• Quantifying weathering rind formation rates by in situ measurements of U-series disequilibria with laser ablation (LA) MC-ICPMS (2018), Volume Boston, MA, Lin Ma.
• U-series isotopes of travertine deposits near the Santa Fe fault in Laguna, New Mexico: Reconstruction of paleo flow paths and hydrodynamics (2018), Volume Boston, MA, Victor Garcia, Lin Ma, Jason Ricketts, Anthony Dosseto.
• Sources of calcium and carbon in pedogenic calcite of dryland agricultural soils. (2018), Volume Boston, Massachusetts, Anna C. Ortiz, Karen Valles, Lin Ma, Nives Ogrinc, Jason Kaye, Lixin Jin.
• Sources of calcium and carbon in pedogenic calcite of dryland agricultural soils. (2018), Volume Boston, Massachusetts, Anna C. Ortiz, Karen Valles, Lin Ma, Nives Ogrinc, Jason Kaye, Lixin Jin.
• Tracing Gypsiferous White Sands Aerosols in the Shallow Critical Zone at White Mountain, New Mexico Using Sr/Ca and 87Sr/86Sr Ratios (2018), Volume Boston, Massachusetts, Patrick R. Rea, Lin Ma, Thomas E. Gill, Jorge Gardea-Torresdey, Carlos Tamez, Lixin Jin.
• Tracing Gypsiferous White Sands Aerosols in the Shallow Critical Zone at White Mountain, New Mexico Using Sr/Ca and 87Sr/86Sr Ratios (2018), Volume Boston, Massachusetts, Patrick R. Rea, Lin Ma, Thomas E. Gill, Jorge Gardea-Torresdey, Carlos Tamez, Lixin Jin.
• Tracing Gypsiferous White Sands Aerosols in the Shallow Critical Zone at White Mountain, New Mexico Using Sr/Ca and 87Sr/86Sr Ratios (2018), Volume Boston, Massachusetts, Patrick R. Rea, Lin Ma, Thomas E. Gill, Jorge Gardea-Torresdey, Carlos Tamez, Lixin Jin.
• Quantifying weathering rind formation rates using U-series isotopes along steep gradients of precipitation, bedrock ages and topography in French Guadeloupe (2018), Volume Indianapolis, IN, Lin Ma.
• Combining geochemical tracers with geophysical tools to study sources of groundwater salinity in the Mesilla Bolson aquifer of the semi-arid Rio Grande watershed (2018), Volume UTEP, Lin Ma.

• Collaborative Research: Parsing out the controls of climate, geology, and land use on riverine (234U/238U) ratios: a combined hydrogeochemical, geological, and geographic investigation
• MRI Acquisition of inductively coupled plasma-optical emissionspectrometer for research and education uses in water, energy, and environmental sciences
• Network Cluster: Patterns and controls of CO2 fluxes, ecohydrology, and nutrient availability on the carbonate-dominated dryland Critical Zone
• Space and Seed Grant Proposal to Establish a “One Water” Cluster in the Interdisciplinary Research Building, University of Texas at El Paso
• Collaborative Research: Parsing out the controls of climate, geology, and land use on riverine (234U/238U) ratios: a combined hydrogeochemical, geological, and geographic investigation
• MRI: Acquisition of a noble gas multi-collector mass spectrometer for geochronology and geochemistry research
• Community based lead source mitigation for reducing child lead exposure
• GP_EXTRA: Academic Year Pathways Research Experience Program (AY-PREP
• Collaborative research: a multi-tracer (U, S, B, and Sr) approach to fingerprint and quantify anthropogenic salinity sources in the semi-arid Rio Grande watershed