Anna M. Michalak - Students

Prof. ANNA M. MICHALAK

University of Michigan
College of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences

	CURRENT MEMBERS OF RESEARCH GROUP


			Alanood Alkhaled Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Research Interests: Geostatistical sampling design to provide optimal spatial and temporal information about the distribution of measured pollutants Developing management frameworks for social-ecological systems that maintain both the services and the sustainability of the managed system Contact: alanood [at] umich [dot] edu Research webpage


			Abhishek Chatterjee Ph.D. Pre-candidate, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Research Interests: Conceptual and analytical modeling related to multiphase subsurface flow, fate and transport of contaminants in groundwater and the role of near surface geophysics in groundwater Cryospheric and atmospheric sciences, mainly ocean-atmosphere dynamics Environmental econometrics Abhishek in the news: 1 2 3 Contact: abhishch [at] umich [dot] edu Research webpage


			Sharon Gourdji Ph.D. Pre-candidate, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Research Interests: Carbon dioxide flux estimation: Using geostatistical inverse modeling to estimate carbon sources and sinks at global and regional (North America) scales. Attributing components of CO₂ flux to various processes (photosynthesis, respiration, biomass burning, fossil fuels, etc.). Climate change policy: How to better integrate scientific knowledge production into the policy-making process, specifically in the field of climate change mitigation and adaptation. Sharon in the news: 1 Contact: sgourdji [at] umich [dot] edu Research webpage


			Deborah Huntzinger Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research interests: Comparison of "bottom-up" and "top-down" estimates of carbon flux in North America, including the examination of the spatial variability and uncertainty in flux estimates obtained from existing biospheric models. Contact: dnhuntzi [at] umich [dot] edu Research webpage


			Kim Mueller Ph.D. Pre-candidate, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Research Interests: Kim's research interests are focused on using geostatistical techniques to evaluate biospheric and climatic influences on carbon dioxide fluxes to further the general knowledge of the carbon cycle and to assist terrestrial carbon budgeting. Geostatistical techniques include kriging with a variable trend using CO₂ eddy flux measurements and inversion that couples atmospheric concentration data with an atmospheric transport model. Both techniques allow for the inclusion of various climatic and/or vegetative variables. As such, it is possible to study relationships between climatic or vegetative variables and carbon dioxide flux at various spatio-temporal scales as seen by the measurement information. As part of NSF’s Biosphere Atmosphere Research & Training (BART) IGERT program, Kim's research uses data from the University of Michigan Biological Station Flux Tower Site in northern lower Michigan. Inverse modeling will be part of a project funded through the NASA North American Carbon Program as well as the BART fellowship. Kim in the news: 1 2 Contact: kimlm [at] umich [dot] edu Research webpage


			Shahar Shlomi Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Research Interests: Groundwater quality monitoring - (i) network design, (ii) sampling well selection, and (iii) contaminant plume estimation, using novel methodologies which combine spatial correlation with flow-and-transport information, in a geostatistical framework Geostatistical inverse modeling - specifically, quantifying the effects of model uncertainty on inversion results Imposing constraints (e.g. nonnegativity) in geostatistical applications Multimedia modeling using geostatistics in environmental compartments and the fugacity approach across compartments Shahar in the news: 1 Contact: shaharsh [at] umich [dot] edu Research webpage


			Vineet Yadav Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Interests: My academic focus lies at the intersection of carbon dynamics, land cover and climate change. Methodologically, I employ remote sensing, GIS and statistical modeling to investigate my research problems. In the past, I have concentrated on research projects on biospheric modeling of historical soil organic carbon transformations and developing a decision support database for "cap and trade" agricultural C market systems. Presently, as a post-doctoral fellow I am involved in a NASA-funded North American Carbon Program project. Under the aegis of this project, I am contributing in improving understanding of the spatial and temporal variations of the North American carbon fluxes at multiple scales. Contact: vineety [at] umich [dot] edu


			Yuntao Zhou Ph.D. Pre-candidate, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Research Interests: Geostatistical approaches to downscaling to uniform spatial or temporal scale levels and assimilating data at different physical scales in the same domain by accounting for mathematical and physical relationships; Merging the satellite data and the in-situ data to provide more accurate estimation of the hypoxia spatial and temporal extent in aquatic ecosystem. Contact: ytzhou [at] umich [dot] edu Research webpage



	RESEARCH GROUP ALUMNI


			Meng-Ying Li Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2008 Dissertation: The M-Scale Model: A Multi-Scale Model for Decision Support of On-Site Remediation Contact: mengyl [at] umich [dot] edu


			Jill Ostrowski B.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2007 Research group member: May 2007 - February 2008 Contact: ojill [at] umich [dot] edu


			Miranda (Katie) Malkin Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan, Class of 2008 Research group member: January - December, 2005 Contact: msmalkin [at] umich [dot] edu


			Charles Humphriss B.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2006 Research group member: Summer 2005 Contact: chumphri [at] umich [dot] edu


	Last modified: 06/22/08 by Anna M. Michalak

CURRENT MEMBERS OF RESEARCH GROUP

RESEARCH GROUP ALUMNI