Michalak Lab People

Last Updated 5/6/13

Michalak Lab Members
Yuanyuan Fang yyfang@stanford.edu	Postdoctoral Researcher	Climate and air pollution Biospheric carbon exchange
Jeff Ho jeffho@stanford.edu	Ph.D. Pre-candidate Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholar (MS) NSERC Postgraduate Scholar (PhD)	Water sustainability and climate Eutrophication and toxic algal blooms
Dan Obenour obenour@umich.edu	Ph.D. Candidate EPA STAR Fellow	Ecology of the Gulf of Mexico Biophysical and geostatistical prediction of hypoxia
Xuemei (Mae) Qiu maeq@stanford.edu	Scientific Programmer
Yoichi Shiga yshiga@stanford.edu	Ph.D. Pre-candidate AGU Outstanding Student Paper Awardee	Atmospheric monitoring network design Fossil fuel emissions estimation
Jovan Tadic jtadic@stanford.edu	Postdoctoral Researcher	Satellite remote sensing of CH₄ and CO₂ Airborne measurements and instrument designs Urban outflow quantification
Vineet Yadav vineety@stanford.edu	Senior Research Associate	Estimation using massive data Data assimilation for carbon cycle science
Yuntao Zhou ytzhou@stanford.edu	Ph.D. 2013; Postdoctoral Researcher	Hypoxia in lakes and estuaries Contamination of water sediments

Alumni (Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows)

"Data Assimilation for Atmospheric CO2: Towards Improved Estimates of CO2 Concentrations and Fluxes"

Now: Postdoctoral fellow, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

Dorit Hammerling

Ph.D. 2012
SAMSI Postdoctoral Fellow

"Global Atmospheric CO2 Distributions from Satellite Observations"

Now: Postdoctoral fellow, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI)

Sharon Gourdji

"Improved Estimates of Regional-scale Land-Atmosphere CO2 Exchange Using Geostatistical Atmospheric Inverse Models"

Now: Postdoctoral researcher, Stanford University

Deborah Huntzinger

Postdoctoral Researcher, 2008-2011

Now: Assistant professor of climate sciences, Northern Arizona University

Kim Mueller

"A Data-Driven Multi-Scale Statistical Investigation of Regional Sources and Sinks to Improve Knowledge of Terrestrial Carbon Cycling"

Alanood Alkhaled

Ph.D. 2009

"Remote Sensing of CO₂: Geostatistical Tools for Assessing Spatial Variability, Quantifying Representation Errors, and Gap-Filling"

Now: Assistant professor, Kuwait University

Shahar Shlomi

Ph.D. 2009

"Combining Geostatistical Analysis and Flow-and-Transport Models to Improve Groundwater Contaminant Plume Estimation"

Now: Senior modeling engineer,Gas Technology Institute

Meng-Ying Li

Ph.D. 2008

"The M-Scale Model: A Multi-Scale Model for Decision Support of On-Site Remediation"

Alumni (Undergraduate and masters students)
Frank Sedlar		Research Assistant, 2011-2012
Sophie Christian		Research Assistant, 2008-2011 B.S. (2011) Industrial and Operations Engineering, U. Michigan
Jill Ostrowski		Research Assistant, 2007-2010 B.S. (2007), M.S. (2010), Civil and Environmental Engineering, U. Michigan.
David Sena		Research Assistant, 2009-2010 M.S. (2010) School of Natural Resources and Environmental, U. Michigan
Christopher Baik		Research Assistant, 2008-2009 B.S. (2012) Computer Science and Engineering, U. Michigan
Landon Smith		Research Assistant, 2008-2009
Miranda (Katie) Malkin		Research Assistant, 2005 B.S. (2008) U. Michigan
Charles Humphriss		Research Assistant, 2005 B.S. (2006) Civil and Environmental Engineering, U. Michigan