主要從事海洋環境監測技術研究和傳感器研發。近年來主持國家級項目1項，院級項目1項，參與省級項目1項。在Soil Biology & Biochemistry等國內外雜志上發表論文十余篇，申請專利十余項。

國家自然科學基金，“土壤C/N對蚯蚓氮礦化效應的調控機制研究（31700447）”，主持，2018-2020

山東省科學院青年基金，“基于環節動物的底泥污染修復技術（2017QN0013）”，主持，2016-2018

山東省自然科學基金，“基于可見-近紅外光譜的沉積物磷速測機理研究”（ZR2018LD007）”，參與，2018-2020

呂美蓉, 任國興, 李雪瑩, 范萍萍, 孫中梁, 侯廣利, 劉巖. 基于可見-近紅外光譜的潮間帶沉積物有機碳含量的幾種模型預測方法. 光譜學與光譜分析, 錄用

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, 李雪瑩, 呂美蓉, 吳寧, 劉巖. 2018. 不同土壤間的全氮光譜模型傳遞研究. 光譜學與光譜分析, 38, 3210-3214

范萍萍, 呂美蓉, 李雪瑩, 石小梅, 呂婧. 2018. 中國溫帶和亞熱帶 8 個樹種葉和吸收根協同分解. 38(7), 2395-2404

李雪瑩, 范萍萍, 侯廣利, 呂美蓉, 王茜, 劉巖. 2017. 可見－ 近紅外光譜的土壤養分快速檢測. 光譜學與光譜分析, 37, 3562-3566