An Y. Li

First Author

In preparation

Li, A. Y., Ramo, K., Hurowitz, J.A., Tice, M.M., Liu, Y., Klevang, D., Árting, U., Tosca, N.J., Kizovski, T.V., Cloutis, E., Schmitz, N., Amundsen, H.E.F., VanBommel, S.J., Knight, A., Simon, J.I., Brown, A., Flannery, D., Randazzo, N., Jones, M.W.M. Element mobility and alteration styles recorded by PIXL in the Margin unit with comparisons to other Jezero Crater units and terrestrial analogs. Intended for JGR Planets.

In review

Li, A. Y., Vu, T. H., Malaska, M. J. Tale of two sugars: trehalose and hyaluronic acid in a frozen Enceladus-analog brine. Submitted to Icarus Special Issue – Carbon in Planetary Environments: Sources and Evolution.

Published

Li, A.Y., Koutnik, M.R., Brough, S., Spagnolo, M., Barr, I. (2026). Cirque-like alcoves in the northern mid-latitudes of Mars as evidence of glacial erosion. Earth Surface Dynamics, 14(1), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-1-2026.

Li, A.Y., Kite, E., Keating, K.A. (2022). The Age and Erosion Rate of Young Sedimentary Rock on Mars. Planetary Science Journal, 3(10), 246. http://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ac9121.

Co-author

In review

Bennett, K.A., Lally, A., Rutledge, A., Koeppel, A., Edwards, C.S., Edgar, L.A., Rampe, E., Eifert, H., Henderson, M., Jones, N., Li, A.Y. Landscape evolution at an emerging esker at Breiðamerkurjökull, SE Iceland, over weekly-to-annual timescales: Implications for preservation and interpretation of englacial eskers. Submitted to Journal of Glaciology.

Broz, A. P., H. Kalucha, D. Flannery, B. Horgan, A. Jones, A. Klidaras, & 57 others incl. Li, A.Y. Green reduction spots reveal complex redox chemistry in an ancient Martian river channel. Submitted to Science.

Published

Hernández-Montenegro, J.D., Kizovski, T.V., Treiman, A.H., Li, A.Y., Asimow, P.D., Schmidt, M.E., Liu, Y., Labrie, J., Knight, A.L., Tice, M.M., Klevang, D.A., VanBommel, S., Wade, L.A., Hurowitz, J.A., Brown, A.J., Cable, M.L., Allwood, A.C., the PIXL team. (2025). Petrogenesis of the olivine cumulate outcrop Issole – the missing link between the Séítah and Máaz formations in Jezero crater, Mars. Icarus, 116620. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2025.116620.

Hurowitz, J.A., Tice, M.M., Allwood, A., Cable, M., Hand, K., Murphy, A., & 83 others incl. Li, A.Y. (2025). Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars. Nature, 645(8080), 332-340. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09413-0.

Shumway, A.O., Kizovski, T.V., Catling, D., VanBommel, S.J., Jones, M.W., Orenstein, & 18 others incl. Li, A.Y. (2025). Mineralogically Diverse and Salt-rich Regolith in Jezero Crater Characterized using X-ray Spectroscopy. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 130(10), e2024JE008912. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JE008912.

Soare, R., Gallagher, C., Garvin, J., Williams, J.P., Hepburn, A., Costard, F., Koutnik, M.R., Li, A.Y. (2025). “Icy” scarp exposures, “ice-rich” overburdens and ephemeral climate-warming at Mars' mid-latitudes in the very late Amazonian epoch. Icarus, 116727. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2025.116727.

Tosca, N.J., Tice, M.M., Hurowitz, J.A., Klevang, D., Henneke, J., Mandon, L., McCubbin, F., Ross, O., Tung, P., Harrison, R.J., Li, A.Y. & 24 others. (2025). In-situ evidence for serpentinization within the Máaz Formation, Jezero Crater, Mars. Science Advances, 11(27), eadr8793. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr8793.

Neveu, M. Quinn, R., Barge, L. M., Craft, K. L., German, C. R., Getty, S., & 24 others incl. Li, A.Y. (2024). Future of the Search for Life: Workshop Report. Astrobiology, 24(1):114-129. https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2022.0158.

Siljeström, S., Czaja, A.D., Corpolongo,, A., Berger, E.L., Li, A.Y., Cardarelli, E., & 51 others. (2024). Evidence of Sulfate-Rich Fluid Alteration in Jezero Crater Floor, Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 129, e2023JE007989. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JE007989.