Anna Michalak

Deputy Principal Investigator – Science

Carnegie Institution for Science / Stanford
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Anna Michalak is the Director of the Climate and Resilience Hub at the Carnegie Institution for Science and Professor (by courtesy) of Earth System Science at Stanford. She works on characterizing the global carbon cycle and on climate impacts on coastal and inland water quality.

Education

  • PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering | Stanford University | 2003
  • MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering | Stanford University | 1998
  • BSc(Eng) in Environmental Engineering | University of Guelph, Canada | 1997

Professional Experience

  • 2011-present: Faculty member and Director, Carnegie Institution for Science
  • 2011-present: Professor (2016 - ) and Associate Professor (2011-2016), Stanford
  • 2004-2011: Associate Professor (2010-2011) and Assistant Professor (2004-2010), University of Michigan
  • 2003- 2004: NOAA Climate & Global Change (C&GC) Fellow, NOAA\

References

Cui, Erqian, Kun Huang, Muhammad Altaf Arain, Joshua B. Fisher, Deborah N. Huntzinger, Akihiko Ito, Yiqi Luo, et al. 2019. “Vegetation Functional Properties Determine Uncertainty of Simulated Ecosystem Productivity: A Traceability Analysis in the East Asian Monsoon Region.” GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES 33 (6): 668–89. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GB005909.
El Masri, Bassil, Christopher Schwalm, Deborah N. Huntzinger, Jiafu Mao, Xiaoying Shi, Changhui Peng, Joshua B. Fisher, et al. 2019. “Carbon and Water Use Efficiencies: A Comparative Analysis of Ten Terrestrial Ecosystem Models Under Changing Climate.” SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50808-7.
Famiglietti, Caroline A., Anna M. Michalak, and Alexandra G. Konings. 2021. “Extreme Wet Events as Important as Extreme Dry Events in Controlling Spatial Patterns of Vegetation Greenness Anomalies.” ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS 16 (7). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abfc78.
Hu, Lei, Arlyn E. Andrews, Kirk W. Thoning, Colm Sweeney, John B. Miller, Anna M. Michalak, Ed Dlugokencky, et al. 2019. “Enhanced North American Carbon Uptake Associated with El Nino.” SCIENCE ADVANCES 5 (6). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaw0076.
Huang, Kun, Jianyang Xia, Yingping Wang, Anders Ahlstrom, Jiquan Chen, Robert B. Cook, Erqilan Cui, et al. 2018. “Enhanced Peak Growth of Global Vegetation and Its Key Mechanisms.” NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 2 (12): 1897–1905. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0714-0.
Huntzinger, D. N., K. Schaefer, C. Schwalm, J. B. Fisher, D. Hayes, E. Stofferahn, J. Carey, et al. 2020. “Evaluation of Simulated Soil Carbon Dynamics in Arctic-Boreal Ecosystems.” ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS 15 (2). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6784.
Jeong, Su-Jong, A. Anthony Bloom, David Schimel, Colm Sweeney, Nicholas C. Parazoo, David Medvigy, Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, et al. 2018. “Accelerating Rates of Arctic Carbon Cycling Revealed by Long-Term Atmospheric CO<sub>2</Sub> Measurements.” SCIENCE ADVANCES 4 (7). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aao1167.
Kolus, Hannah R., Deborah N. Huntzinger, Christopher R. Schwalm, Joshua B. Fisher, Nicholas McKay, Yuanyuan Fang, Anna M. Michalak, et al. 2019. “Land Carbon Models Underestimate the Severity and Duration of Drought’s Impact on Plant Productivity.” SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39373-1.
Liu, Yongwen, Shilong Piao, Thomas Gasser, Philippe Ciais, Hui Yang, Han Wang, Trevor F. Keenan, et al. 2019. “Field-Experiment Constraints on the Enhancement of the Terrestrial Carbon Sink by CO<sub>2 </Sub>fertilization.” NATURE GEOSCIENCE 12 (10): 809+. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0436-1.
Miller, Scot M., and Anna M. Michalak. 2020. “The Impact of Improved Satellite Retrievals on Estimates of Biospheric Carbon Balance.” ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 20 (1): 323–31. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-323-2020.
Miller, Scot M., Anna M. Michalak, Robert G. Detmers, Otto P. Hasekamp, Lori M. P. Bruhwiler, and Stefan Schwietzke. 2019. “China’s Coal Mine Methane Regulations Have Not Curbed Growing Emissions.” NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07891-7.
Miller, Scot M., Anna M. Michalak, Vineet Yadav, and Jovan M. Tadic. 2018. “Characterizing Biospheric Carbon Balance Using CO<sub>2</Sub> Observations from the OCO-2 Satellite.” ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 18 (9): 6785–99. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-6785-2018.
Murray-Tortarolo, Guillermo, Benjamin Poulter, Rodrigo Vargas, Daniel Hayes, Anna M. Michalak, Christopher Williams, Lisamarie Windham-Myers, et al. 2022. “A Process-Model Perspective on Recent Changes in the Carbon Cycle of North America.” JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-BIOGEOSCIENCES 127 (9). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG006904.
Randazzo, Nina A., Anna M. Michalak, and Ankur R. Desai. 2020. “Synoptic Meteorology Explains Temperate Forest Carbon Uptake.” JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-BIOGEOSCIENCES 125 (2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005476.
Randazzo, Nina A., Anna M. Michalak, Charles E. Miller, Scot M. Miller, Yoichi P. Shiga, and Yuanyuan Fang. 2021. “Higher Autumn Temperatures Lead to Contrasting CO<sub>2</Sub> Flux Responses in Boreal Forests Versus Tundra and Shrubland.” GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 48 (18). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093843.
Rayner, Peter J., Anna M. Michalak, and Frederic Chevallier. 2019. “Fundamentals of Data Assimilation Applied to Biogeochemistry.” ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 19 (22): 13911–32. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-13911-2019.
Ryoo, Ju-Mee, Laura T. Iraci, Tomoaki Tanaka, Josette E. Marrero, Emma L. Yates, Inez Fung, Anna M. Michalak, et al. 2019. “Quantification of CO<sub>2</Sub> and CH<sub>4</Sub> Emissions over Sacramento, California, Based on Divergence Theorem Using Aircraft Measurements.” ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES 12 (5): 2949–66. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-2949-2019.
Schwalm, Christopher R., Deborah N. Huntinzger, Anna M. Michalak, Kevin Schaefer, Joshua B. Fisher, Yuanyuan Fang, and Yaxing Wei. 2020. “Modeling Suggests Fossil Fuel Emissions Have Been Driving Increased Land Carbon Uptake Since the Turn of the 20th Century.” SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 10 (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66103-9.
Schwalm, Christopher R., Kevin Schaefer, Joshua B. Fisher, Deborah Huntzinger, Yasin Elshorbany, Yuanyuan Fang, Daniel Hayes, et al. 2019. “Divergence in Land Surface Modeling: Linking Spread to Structure.” ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS 1 (11). https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ab4a8a.
Shiga, Yoichi P., Anna M. Michalak, Yuanyuan Fang, Kevin Schaefer, Arlyn E. Andrews, Deborah H. Huntzinger, Christopher R. Schwalm, Kirk Thoning, and Yaxing Wei. 2018. “Forests Dominate the Interannual Variability of the North American Carbon Sink.” ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS 13 (8). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aad505.
Shiga, Yoichi P., Jovan M. Tadic, Xuemei Qiu, Vineet Yadav, Arlyn E. Andrews, Joseph A. Berry, and Anna M. Michalak. 2018. “Atmospheric CO<sub>2</Sub> Observations Reveal Strong Correlation Between Regional Net Biospheric Carbon Uptake and Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence.” GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 45 (2): 1122–32. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL076630.
Sun, Wu, Yuanyuan Fang, Xiangzhong Luo, Yoichi P. Shiga, Yao Zhang, Arlyn E. Andrews, Kirk W. Thoning, Joshua B. Fisher, Trevor F. Keenan, and Anna M. Michalak. 2021. “Midwest US Croplands Determine Model Divergence in North American Carbon Fluxes.” AGU ADVANCES 2 (2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020AV000310.
Sun, Wu, Xiangzhong Luo, Yuanyuan Fang, Yoichi P. Shiga, Yao Zhang, Joshua B. Fisher, Trevor F. Keenan, and Anna M. Michalak. 2023. “Biome-Scale Temperature Sensitivity of Ecosystem Respiration Revealed by Atmospheric CO<sub>2</Sub> Observations.” NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 7 (8): 1199+. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02093-x.
Zhang, Yao, Pierre Gentine, Xiangzhong Luo, Xu Lian, Yanlan Liu, Sha Zhou, Anna M. Michalak, et al. 2022. “Increasing Sensitivity of Dryland Vegetation Greenness to Precipitation Due to Rising Atmospheric CO<sub>2</Sub>.” NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 13 (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32631-3.