Anna M. Michalak, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor, Atmospheric Oceanic and Space Sciences Office:    183 EWRE Phone:   (734) 763-9664 Fax:        (734) 763-2275 Email:     Anna.Michalak@umich.edu Visit my homepage at: Anna M. Michalak Mailing Address: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 183 EWRE Bldg., 1351 Beal Ave. Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2125

Program Area: Environmental and Water Resources Engineering

Education
Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2003
M.S., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1998
B.Sc.(Eng.), University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 1997

Honors (since 2000)
- NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2007).
- Elizabeth Crosby Research Award, University of Michigan (2005).
- NOAA Postdoctoral Program in Climate and Global Change Fellowship, University
  Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) (2003-2004).
- Roe Fellowship, Political Economy Research Center (2002).
- PERC Summer Fellowship, Political Economy Research Center (2001).

Technical Interests:

Dr. Michalak’s research interests focus on characterizing complexity and quantifying uncertainty in environmental systems with the goal of improving our understanding of these systems and our ability to forecast their variability. Her current research interests focus on water quality monitoring and contaminant source identification, use of remote sensing data for earth system characterization, and atmospheric greenhouse gas emission and sequestration estimation. The common theme of her research is the development and application of statistical and geostatistical data fusion methods for optimizing the use of limited in situ and remote sensing environmental data. Dr. Michalak is also interested in the environmental policy, economic and legal impact and applicability of environmental research.

Selected Publications:

Shlomi, S. and A.M. Michalak (2007)
“A Geostatistical Framework for Incorporating Transport Information in Estimating the Distribution of a Groundwater Contaminant Plume,”
Water Resources Research, 43, W03412, doi:10.1029/2006WR005121.

Michalak, A.M., A. Hirsch, L. Bruhwiler, K.R. Gurney, W. Peters, and P.P. Tans. (2005)
"Maximum likelihood estimation of covariance parameters for Bayesian atmospheric trace gas surface flux inversions,”
Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, D24107, doi: 10.1029/ 2005JD005970.

Michalak, A.M., L. Bruhwiler, and P.P. Tans (2004)
"A geostatistical approach to surface flux estimation of atmospheric trace gases,"
Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D14109, doi:10.1029/2003JD004422.

Michalak, A.M., and P.K. Kitanidis (2004)
“Estimation of historical groundwater contaminant distribution using the adjoint state method applied to geostatistical inverse modeling,”
Water Resources Research, 40, W08302, doi:10.1029/2004WR003214.

Michalak, A.M.. (2004)
“Feasibility of Contaminant Source Identification for Property Rights Enforcement,”
in Incentives and Conservation, The Next Generation of Environmentalists, pp. 81-106, edited by Daniel K. Benjamin, PERC, Bozeman, Montana.