主要从事海洋环境监测技术研究和传感器研发。近年来主持国家级项目1项，院级项目1项，参与省级项目1项。在Soil Biology & Biochemistry等国内外杂志上发表论文十余篇，申请专利十余项。

国家自然科学基金，“土壤C/N对蚯蚓氮矿化效应的调控机制研究（31700447）”，主持，2018-2020

山东省科学院青年基金，“基于环节动物的底泥污染修复技术（2017QN0013）”，主持，2016-2018

山东省自然科学基金，“基于可见-近红外光谱的沉积物磷速测机理研究”（ZR2018LD007）”，参与，2018-2020

吕美蓉, 任国兴, 李雪莹, 范萍萍, 孙中梁, 侯广利, 刘岩. 基于可见-近红外光谱的潮间带沉积物有机碳含量的几种模型预测方法. 光谱学与光谱分析, 录用

Meirong Lv, Yuanhu Shao, Yongbiao Lin, Chenfei Liang, Jun Dai, Yan Liu, Pingping Fan, Weixin Zhang, Shenglei Fu. 2016. Plants modify the effects of earthworms on the soil microbial community and its activity in a subtropical ecosystem. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 103, 446-451

Meirong Lv, Zhongpei Li, Yuping Che, F. X. Han, Ming Liu, 2011. Soil organic C, nutrients, microbial biomass, and grain yield of rice (Oryza sativa L.) after 18 years of fertilizer application to an infertile paddy soil,Biology and Fertility of Soils, 47(7): 777~783

Xue-Ying Li, Yan Liu, Mei-Rong Lv, Yan Zou, Ping-Ping Fan. 2018. Calibration Transfer of Soil Total Carbon and Total Nitrogen between Two Different Types of Soils Based on Visible-Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy. Journal of Spectroscopy. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/8513215

X.-Y. Li, P.-P. Fan, Y. Liu, G.-L. Hou, Q. Wang, M.-R. Lv. 2019. Predition results of different modelling methods in soil nutrient concentrations based on spectral technology. Journal of applied spectroscopy86(4)

范萍萍, 李雪莹, 吕美蓉, 吴宁, 刘岩. 2018. 不同土壤间的全氮光谱模型传递研究. 光谱学与光谱分析, 38, 3210-3214

范萍萍, 吕美蓉, 李雪莹, 石小梅, 吕婧. 2018. 中国温带和亚热带 8 个树种叶和吸收根协同分解. 38(7), 2395-2404

李雪莹, 范萍萍, 侯广利, 吕美蓉, 王茜, 刘岩. 2017. 可见－ 近红外光谱的土壤养分快速检测. 光谱学与光谱分析, 37, 3562-3566