Research Interests

Stable isotope biogeochemistry, Nitrogen cycling in aquatic and soil systems, regional air/water pollution, mass-independent isotope effects and their use in paleoclimatology and aerosol chemistry, isotope effects in gas phase reactions, modeling isotopes in atmospheric chemistry

Teaching Interests

Biogeochemistry

Atmospheric Chemistry

Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry

Physical Chemistry

Analytical Chemistry

Awards and Honors

National Science Foundation Dissertation Enhancement award

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University (2005- present).

Post Doctoral Fellow : (2003-2005) Stable Isotope lab, University of California, San Diego

Selected Publications

• Rech, J. A., B. S. Currie, G. Michalski and A. M. Cowan, Neogene climate change and uplift in the Atacama Desert, Chile, Geology, 34(9), 761-764, 2006.

• Michalski, G., J. G. Bockheim, C. Kendall, and M. Thiemens (2005) Isotopic composition of Antarctic Dry Valley nitrate: Implications for NOy sources and cycling in Antarctica , Geophys.Res.Lett., 32

• Michalski, G., J. K. Böhlke, and M. H. Thiemens (2004a) Long Term Atmospheric Deposition as the Source of Nitrate and Other Salts in the Atacama Desert, Chile : New Evidence from Mass-Independent Oxygen Isotopic Compositions, Geochim.Cosmochim.Acta, 68 , 4023-4038

• Michalski, G., T. Meixner, M. Fenn, L. Hernandez, A. Sirulnik, E. Allen, and M. Thiemens (2004c) Tracing atmospheric nitrate deposition in a complex semiarid ecosystem using D 17 O, Envir.Sci.Tech., 38 , 2175-2181

• Michalski, G., R. Jost, D. Sugny, M. Joyeux, and M. Thiemens (2004b) Dissociation energies of six NO 2 isotopologues by laser induced fluorescence and zero point energy of some triatomic molecules, J.Chem.Phys., 121 , 7153-7161

• Jost, R., G. Michalski, and M. Thiemens (2005) Comparison of rovibronic density of asymmetric versus symmetric NO2 isotopologues at dissociation threshold: Broken symmetry effects, J.Chem.Phys., 123

• Michalski, G., Z. Scott, M. Kabiling, and M. Thiemens (2003) First Measurements and Modeling of D 17 O in Atmospheric Nitrate, Geophys.Res.Lett., 30 , (1870).doi:10.1029GL017015

• Michalski, G., J. Savarino, J. K. Böhlke, and M. Thiemens (2002) Determination of the total oxygen isotopic composition of nitrate and the calibration of a D 17 O nitrate reference material, Anal.Chem., 74 , 4989-4993

• Chang, C. C. Y., S. R. Silva, C. Kendall, G. Michalski, S. Wankel, and K. L. Casciotti, (2004) Preparation and analysis of nitrogen-bearing compounds in water for stable isotope ratio measurement, in Handbook of Stable Isotope Analytical Techniques, v 1 , edited by P. A. DeGroot, pp. 305-347, Elsevier, Amsterdam

• Bao, H., G. M. Michalski, and M. H. Thiemens (2001) Sulfate oxygen-17 anomalies in desert varnishes, Geochim.Cosmochim.Acta, 65 , 2029-2036