Kim Mueller

Biosphere - Atmosphere Research and Training (BART)
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI



Kim Mueller graduated with her B.S.E. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1998. After college, she was employed as an engineering consultant for 7 years, working on a diverse range of projects that involved flood modeling and mitigation, environmental remediation, GIS application development, and water treatment design both in Washington DC and Melbourne, Australia. During this time, she traveled to India to study community development with Oxfam where many development issues revolved around natural resource problems, e.g. extreme climate events such as drought and water resource management. She returned to Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan in 2005 to pursue a PhD, switching from more traditional environmental engineering to carbon science and global climate change, geostatistics, and inverse modeling. Kim's research interests are focused on using geostatistical techniques to evaluate biospheric and climatic influences on carbon dioxide fluxes to further the general knowledge of the carbon cycle and to assist terrestrial carbon budgeting. She is partly motivated to work in the climate change area because of her experiences in India, understanding that shifts in climate will have the most serious consequences for the world’s poorest communities. Besides school, Kim is an avid soccer fan and frequently can be found on the soccer pitch with her husband Alex. She's excited to be back in school, although she sometime misses the challenges of consulting including business development and project management.

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