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Current Lab Members

Alumni (Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows) listed in order of departure  

Guillaume Zuffinetti (Visiting Student 2023)
Gang Zhao (Postdoctoral Researcher 2020 - 2022)
Now: Staff Scientist in the Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes Laboratory at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tristan Ballard (Ph.D. 2022)
"Past and future changes in river temperatures and nitrogen export"
Now: Climate Data Science, Sust Global
Nina Randazzo (Ph.D. 2021)   
"North American biospheric carbon exchange variability explained by climatological and meteorological regimes"
Now: Postdoctoral Researcher, Environmental Defense Fund
Eva Sinha (Ph.D. 2018, AGU Outstanding Student Paper Awardee)   
"Understanding the impact of climate change, land use, and land management on riverine nitrogen loading"
Now: Earth Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jeff Ho  (Ph.D. 2018, Woods Institute Rising Environmental LeaderNSERC Postgraduate Scholar (PhD) )
"Understanding climatic and terrestrial drivers of lake phytoplankton blooms using high resolution satellite imagery"
Now: Data Product Manager at  Indeed.com 
Yoichi Shiga (Ph.D. 2018, AGU Outstanding Student Paper Awardee)
"Characterizing natural and anthropogenic carbon flux spatiotemporal variability at regional scales using a dense network of atmospheric CO2 observations over North America" 
Now: ‎Climate-Aligned Finance Analyst at Wells Fargo
Yuanyuan Fang (Postdoctoral researcher 2012-2014, Senior Research Associate 2014-2018)
Now: Statistician, Bay Area Air Quality Management District
Dario Del Giudice (Postdoctoral Researcher 2015-2018)
Now: Visiting Scholar, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental EngineeringNorth Carolina State University
 
Scot Miller (Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow 2015-2017)
Now: Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health and EngineeringJohns Hopkins University
Friedemann Reum (Visiting Researcher 2016)
"Methane emissions from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf"
Now: Ph.D. student, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Jovan Tadic (Postdoctoral Researcher 2013-2015, Research Associate 2015-2016)
Now: Project Scientist, Climate & Ecosystems DivisionEarth & Environmental Sciences AreaLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Chao Li (Postdoctoral Researcher 2013-2016, Barbara McClintock Fellow 2015)
Now: Professor, School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University
Nils Hase (Visiting Researcher 2015)
"Sparse reconstruction for large scale atmospheric inverse problems"
Now: Ph.D. student, Center for Industrial Mathematics, University of Bremen
Yuntao Zhou (Ph.D. 2013, Postdoctoral Researcher 2013-2015)
"Improved Estimates of the Spatial Distribution and Temporal Trends of Water Quality Parameters Using Geostatistical Data Fusion Methods"
Now: ‎Associate Professor, School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Vineet Yadav (Postdoctoral Researcher 2008-2011, Senior Research Associate 2011-2014)
Now: ‎Data Scientist, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jakob Zscheischler (Visiting Researcher 2013)
"Impact of Large-Scale Climate Extremes on Biospheric Carbon Fluxes"
Now: Group Leader, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Dan Obenour (Ph.D. 2013, EPA STAR FellowUM Water Center Research Fellow)
"Assessing the Causes and Severity of Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Using Geostatistical and Mechanistic Modeling" 
Now: Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, & Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University
Abhishek Chatterjee (Ph.D. 2012, NASA Earth & Space Science FellowNOAA Climate & Global Change Fellow)
"Data Assimilation for Atmospheric CO2: Towards Improved Estimates of CO2 Concentrations and Fluxes"
Now: Project Scientist, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dorit Hammerling (Ph.D. 2012, SAMSI Postdoctoral Fellow)
"Global Atmospheric CO2 Distributions from Satellite Observations"
Now: Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics and StatisticsColorado School of Mine
Sharon Gourdji (Ph.D. 2011,NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow,  NEXUS Fullbright Scholar)
"Improved Estimates of Regional-scale Land-Atmosphere CO2 Exchange Using Geostatistical Atmospheric Inverse Models" 
Now: Lead Agricultural Modeler at RMS
Deborah Huntzinger (Postdoctoral Researcher 2008-2011)
Now: Associate professor of climate sciences, Northern Arizona University
Kim Mueller (Ph.D. 2011, NSF IGERT FellowAMS/UCAR Congressional Science Fellow)
"A Data-Driven Multi-Scale Statistical Investigation of Regional Sources and Sinks to Improve Knowledge of Terrestrial Carbon Cycling" 
Now: Environmental Engineer, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Greenhouse Gas and Climate Science Measurements Program
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: Data Architect, Peregrine
Meng-Ying Li (Ph.D. 2008)
"The M-Scale Model: A Multi-Scale Model for Decision Support of On-Site Remediation"
Now: Senior system analyst, Taiwan GIS Center

Alumni (Undergraduate and masters students) listed in order of departure

Frank Sedlar (Research Assistant, 2011-2012)
B.S. (2013), Civil Engineering, U. Michigan

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)
B.S. (2011), Computer Science, U. Michigan

Miranda (Katie) Malkin (Research Assistant, 2005)
B.S. (2008), Political Science and Government, U. Michigan

Charles Humphriss (Research Assistant, 2005)
B.S. (2006), Civil and Environmental Engineering, U. Michigan