Dr. Anna Michalak

Biography

Anna M. Michalak is the Founding Director of the Carnegie Climate Resilience Hub and a Professor at Stanford University, holding professorships in the Department of Earth System Science and the Department of Biology in the Doerr School of Sustainability. Her research primarily focuses on understanding the cycling and emissions of greenhouse gases at the Earth's surface, particularly at urban and global scales that are directly relevant to informing climate policy. She utilizes atmospheric observations to provide the clearest constraints on critical scales. Additionally, she is interested in the impacts of climate change on freshwater coastal water quality and how these influences affect nutrient delivery conditions in water bodies. Her approach is highly data-driven, with a common methodological thread of developing and applying spatiotemporal statistical data fusion methods that optimize the use of limited situ and remote sensing environmental data.

Research Interests