Michalak Lab
Last Updated: 5/6/2013
Contact Information
Department of Global Ecology
Carnegie Institution for Science
email: michalak@carnegiescience.edu
Our Focus
Our 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. Our current research interests focus on
atmospheric greenhouse gas emission and sequestration estimation,
water quality monitoring and contaminant source identification, and
use of remote sensing data for earth system characterization. The
common theme of our research is the development and application of
spatiotemporal statistical data fusion methods for optimizing the use
of limited in situ and remote sensing environmental data. We are also
interested in the environmental policy, economic and legal impact and
applicability of environmental research.
Recent publications
- 25 February 2013: Atmospheric carbon dioxide monitoring network design (Shiga et al., Journal of Geophysical Research)
- 12 February 2013: Model selection in spatio-temporal regression models (Yadav et al., Environmental Modelling & Software)
- 28 January 2013: Overview of the use of atmospheric observations for identifying carbon emissions and uptake (Michalak, Land Use and the Carbon Cycle: Advances in Integrated Science, Management, and Policy)
- 13 December 2012: History of hypoxia in Lake Erie (Zhou et al., Environmental Science & Technology)
- 18 November 2012: Ensemble Kalman filter estimates of carbon dioxide fluxes (Chatterjee et al., Journal of Geophysical Research)
- 15 May 2012: State of knowledge about North American carbon balance (Huntzinger et al., Ecological Modelling)
- 21 April 2012: First global maps of CO2 from the GOSAT satellite (Hammerling et al., Geophysical Research Letters)
- 16 April 2012: Effect of nutrient loading and stratification on hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico (Obenour et al., Environmental Science & Technology)
