Michelle Miro

Michelle is a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UCLA. Her current work utilizes observations from NASA’s GRACE satellite system to develop methods to better estimate local-scale groundwater availability and inform regional water management decisions in California's Central Valley. Overall, she seeks to link water resources policy and planning with interdisciplinary and hydrologic research, particularly for water-stressed and developing regions. Michelle also holds an M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and a former U.S. Borlaug Fellow in Global Food Security.