Michalak Lab

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.

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Publications List

Recent Publication Summaries

• 20 October 2015: Mapping satellite Earth observations (Tadić et al., Geoscientific Model Development) Summary coming soon

• 19 October 2015: A reflection on 50 years of the journal Water Resources Research (Rajaram et al., Water Resources Research) Summary coming soon

• 8 September 2015: Diagnosing trends in global terrestrial evapotranspiration (Mao et al., Environmental Research Letters) Summary coming soon

• 24 August 2015: Introduction to the 50th anniversary special issue of Water Resources Research (Montanari et al., Water Resources Research)

• 13 July 2015: Introduction to the Daedalus special issue on Water (Michalak and Field, Daedalus Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences)

• 13 July 2015: Water, climate, energy and food are as inseparable as they are indispensable (Field and Michalak, Daedalus Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences)

• 10 June 2015: Integrating ensembles of terrestrial biosphere models (Schwalm et al., Geophysical Research Letters)

• 5 June 2015: Global patterns of soil organic carbon (Tian et al., Global Biogeochemical Cycles) Summary coming soon

• 12 May 2015: Atmospheric observations inform CO₂ flux responses to enviroclimatic drivers (Fang and Michalak, Global Biogeochemical Cycles)

• 29 April 2015: A sparse reconstruction method for atmospheric inversions targeting fossil fuel emissions (Ray et al., Geoscientific Model Development)

• 11 March 2015: Detectability of CO₂ flux signals by a space-based lidar mission (Hammerling et al., Journal of Geophysical Research)

• 1 March 2015: Biophysical controls on Gulf of Mexico hypoxia (Obenour et al., Ecological Applications)

• 31 January 2015: Challenges in tracking harmful algal blooms (Ho & Michalak, Journal of Great Lakes Research)

• 6 January 2015: Record-breaking Lake Erie hypoxia during 2012 drought (Zhou et al., Environmental Science & Technology)

• 11 December 2014: Using atmospheric observations to evaluate models of the terrestrial biosphere (Fang et al., Biogeosciences)

• 5 December 2014: Joint bias correction of temperature and precipitation in climate model simulations (Li et al., Journal of Geophysical Research)

• 5 December 2014: The Multi-Scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project (MsTMIP) driver data (Wei et al., Geoscientific Model Development)

• 3 September 2014: Parameterizing fossil fuel emissions in atmospheric inversions (Ray et al., Geoscientific Model Development)

Example Projects

Global CO2 Maps from GOSAT Satellite
Climate Impacts on Water Quality	A U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan
CO2 Data Assimilation and Anomaly Detection