Climate Change Symposium

Anna Michalak

Anna Michalak is the founding director of the Climate and Resilience Hub at the Carnegie Institution for Science, where she previously served as director of the Department of Global Ecology. She is also a professor (by courtesy) in the Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University. Her research focuses on characterizing both natural and human emissions of greenhouse gases at urban to global scales and on assessing climate change impacts on freshwater and coastal water quality.

She is the lead author of the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan, a visiting faculty researcher at Google, cochair of the National Academies’ committee tasked with conducting a midterm assessment of NASA’s implementation of the decadal survey for Earth observations, and member of the carbon and water advisory boards at Schmidt Sciences.

She is the recipient of the American Geophysical Union’s Simpson Medal, a Leopold Environmental Leadership Fellow, a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She holds a PhD and MS in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University, and a BSc(Eng) in environmental engineering from the University of Guelph, Canada.