Education

• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2003
• M.S., University of California, Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1999
• B.S., University of Notre Dame, Engineering and Environmental Science, 1997

Research Interests and Activities

• Hydrogeophysics
• Joint inversion of geophysical and hydrogeological data
• Data integration approaches
  
• Multiphase flow and transport in porous media
• Geostatistics and stochastic hydrogeology
• Simulation of gas hydrate behavior and geophysical response
  
• Code development for TOUGH family of codes (iTOUGH2, TOUGH+) and coupled simulation of geophysical response (GPR, Seismic, ERT)
  

Experience

• 2006-Present: Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• 2004-2005: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• 2000-2003: Graduate Student Researcher, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
• 1999-2000: Annual Research Grant (DAAD), Dept. of Applied Geology, University of Tübingen, Germany
• 1997-1999: Graduate Student Researcher, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• 1995-1997: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Rock Physics Laboratory, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Notre Dame

Sample publications (Go here for complete list)

Kowalsky, M.B., and G. J. Moridis, 2007. Comparison of kinetic and equilibrium reactions in simulating the behavior of gas hydrates, Energy Conversion and Management, 48, 1850-1863, doi:10.1016/j.enconman.2007.01.017. PDF

Kowalsky, M.B., S. Finsterle, J. Peterson, S. Hubbard, Y. Rubin, E. Majer, A. Ward, and G. Gee, 2005. Estimation of field-scale soil hydraulic and dielectric parameters through joint inversion of GPR and hydrological data, Water Resour. Res., 41, W11425, doi:10.1029/2005WR004237. PDF

Kowalsky, M.B., S. Finsterle, and Y. Rubin, 2004. Estimating flow parameter distributions using ground-penetrating radar and hydrological measurements during transient flow in the vadose zone, Adv. in Water Res., 27(6), 583-599. PDF

Kowalsky, M.B., P. Dietrich, G. Teutsch, and Y. Rubin, 2001. Forward modeling of ground-penetrating radar data using digitized outcrop images and multiple scenarios of water saturation, Water Resour. Res., 37(6), 1615-1625 (2001WR900015). PDF

Geller, J.T., M.B. Kowalsky, P.K. Seifert, and K. Nihei, 2000. Acoustic detection of immiscible liquids in sand, Geophys. Res. Letters. , Vol. 27, No. 3, 417-420 (1999GL010483). PDF

Michael Kowalsky
Scientist

Hydrogeology Department

Phone: 510-486-7314
Fax: 510-486-5686
Email: MBKowalsky@lbl.gov