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Anna M. Michalak is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work focuses primarily on global and planetary change, atmospheric science, oceanography, water science and technology, and ecology.

Their research addresses several key topics including atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, climate variability and models, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, marine and coastal ecosystems, hydrology and watershed management studies, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, and aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics.

Recent papers by Anna M. Michalak include:

  • Increasing sensitivity of dryland vegetation greenness to precipitation due to rising atmospheric CO2, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture, 2024, Science
  • The frontiers of water and sanitation, 2023, Nature Water
  • Geographic redistribution of microcystin hotspots in response to climate warming, 2023, Nature Water
  • The impact of improved satellite retrievals on estimates of biospheric carbon balance, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Frequent coauthors in their research include Julian Merder, Wu Sun, Joshua B. Fisher, Gang Zhao, and Yuanyuan Fang.

Anna M. Michalak regularly publishes in venues such as Nature Water, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Geophysical Research Letters, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Record-setting algal bloom in Lake Erie caused by agricultural and meteorological trends consistent with expected future conditions

    Anna M Michalak;Eric J Anderson;Dimitry Beletsky;Steven Boland

  • Widespread global increase in intense lake phytoplankton blooms since the 1980s

    Jeff C. Ho;Jeff C. Ho;Anna M. Michalak;Nima Pahlevan

  • Eutrophication will increase during the 21st century as a result of precipitation changes.

    E. Sinha;E. Sinha;A. M. Michalak;A. M. Michalak;V. Balaji

  • Global patterns of drought recovery

    Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher R. Schwalm;William R. L. Anderegg;Anna M. Michalak;Joshua B. Fisher

  • Assessing and addressing the re-eutrophication of Lake Erie: Central basin hypoxia

    Donald Scavia;J. David Allan;Kristin K. Arend;Steven Bartell

  • Anthropogenic emissions of methane in the United States

    Scot M. Miller;Steven C. Wofsy;Anna M. Michalak;Eric A. Kort

  • The terrestrial biosphere as a net source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere

    Hanqin Tian;Chaoqun Lu;Chaoqun Lu;Philippe Ciais;Anna M. Michalak

  • Precision Requirements for Space-based XCO2 Data

    C. E. Miller;D. Crisp;P. L. DeCola;S. C. Olsen

  • Study role of climate change in extreme threats to water quality

    Anna M. Michalak

  • Global solutions to regional problems: Collecting global expertise to address the problem of harmful cyanobacterial blooms. A Lake Erie case study.

    George S. Bullerjahn;Robert M. McKay;Timothy W. Davis;David B. Baker

  • Increasing sensitivity of dryland vegetation greenness to precipitation due to rising atmospheric CO2

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  • Global patterns and controls of soil organic carbon dynamics as simulated by multiple terrestrial biosphere models: Current status and future directions.

    Hanqin Tian;Chaoqun Lu;Jia Yang;Kamaljit Banger

  • Impact of large‐scale climate extremes on biospheric carbon fluxes: An intercomparison based on MsTMIP data

    Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Anna M. Michalak;Christopher Schwalm;Miguel D. Mahecha

  • Enhanced peak growth of global vegetation and its key mechanisms.

    Kun Huang;Jianyang Xia;Yingping Wang;Yingping Wang;Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström

  • North American Carbon Program (NACP) regional interim synthesis: Terrestrial biospheric model intercomparison

    D. N. Huntzinger;W. M. Post;Y. Wei;A. M. Michalak

  • The North American Carbon Program Multi-Scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 1: Overview and experimental design

    D. N. Huntzinger;C. Schwalm;A. M. Michalak;K. Schaefer

  • Uncertainty in the response of terrestrial carbon sink to environmental drivers undermines carbon-climate feedback predictions.

    D. N. Huntzinger;A. M. Michalak;C. Schwalm;C. Schwalm;P. Ciais

  • The North American Carbon Program Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 2: Environmental driver data

    Y. Wei;S. Liu;D. N. Huntzinger;A. M. Michalak

  • A geostatistical approach to surface flux estimation of atmospheric trace gases

    Anna M. Michalak;Anna M. Michalak;Lori Bruhwiler;Pieter P. Tans

  • China's coal mine methane regulations have not curbed growing emissions.

    Scot M. Miller;Scot M. Miller;Anna M. Michalak;Robert G. Detmers;Otto P. Hasekamp

  • Estimation of historical groundwater contaminant distribution using the adjoint state method applied to geostatistical inverse modeling

    Anna M. Michalak;Anna M. Michalak;Peter K. Kitanidis

  • Inverse modeling estimates of the global nitrous oxide surface flux from 1998-2001

    A. I. Hirsch;A. I. Hirsch;A. M. Michalak;L. M. Bruhwiler;Wouter Peters;Wouter Peters

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher R. Schwalm
Christopher R. Schwalm Woodwell Climate Research Center
Deborah N. Huntzinger
Deborah N. Huntzinger Northern Arizona University
Kevin Schaefer
Kevin Schaefer Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Joshua B. Fisher
Joshua B. Fisher Chapman University
Atul K. Jain
Atul K. Jain University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert B. Cook
Robert B. Cook Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Arlyn E. Andrews
Arlyn E. Andrews National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Colm Sweeney
Colm Sweeney National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Hanqin Tian
Hanqin Tian Auburn University
Xiaoying Shi
Xiaoying Shi Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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