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Educational
History
Mike Cardiff received his B.A. in Geology and Mathematics
(with a Religion minor) from Oberlin College in 2001, where he received High
Honors for his project "Ant-Colony Optimization of Computer Keyboard
Layouts." After graduating, he worked for PPC,
a small environmental/IT consulting firm in the DC-area, where among other
projects he served as database administrator for IPABS, a
central DOE database used to store information about nuclear waste cleanup
efforts. In 2004, he returned to school this time for a M.Sc. degree from
Stanford University in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is currently
pursuing his PhD in the study of Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology
under his advisor, Professor Peter
K. Kitanidis.
Research
Interests
- Delineation of boundaries and
interfaces with indirect data
- Data integration and joint inversion
- Geostatistics and geostatistical
methods
- Applications of optimization
methodologies and heuristics to environmental problems
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Cardiff, M. and P.K.
Kitanidis. 2009 (submitted). Fitting data under omni-directional noise: A
maximum likelihood perspective.
Geophysical Research Letters.
Cardiff, M.
and P.K. Kitanidis. 2009 (submitted). Bayesian inversion for facies
detection: An extensible level set framework. Water Resources Research.
Cardiff, M.,
W. Barrash, P.K. Kitanidis, A. Revil, S. Straface, E. Rizzo, and T. Johnson. 2009.
A potential-based inversion of unconfined steady-state hydraulic
tomography. Ground Water 47 (2) 259-270.
Jardani, A., A. Revil, W. Barrash, A. Crespy, E. Rizzo, S.
Straface, M. Cardiff,
B. Malama, C. Miller, and T. Johnson. 2008-in review. Reconstruction of
the water table from self-potential data: A Bayesian approach. Ground Water.
Cardiff, M., and P.K. Kitanidis. 2008. Efficient
solution of nonlinear, underdetermined inverse problems with a generalized
PDE model. Computers and
Geosciences 34, 1480-1491.
Cardiff, M., G. Hughes and R. Bosch. Maximizing fun in a theme park: The M7TP.
The UMAP Journal
Conference Presentations & Papers
Cardiff,
M.
2009. Mapping interfaces and facies with indirect, noisy data. Invited talk,
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Earth Science Division Meeting, Berkeley, CA,
USA.
Cardiff,
M.
and P.K. Kitanidis. 2008. A Bayesian level-set inversion protocol (BLIP)
for structural zonation. Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet.
Suppl., Abstract H41A-0834.
Liu,
X., M. Cardiff, J. Parker and P.K. Kitanidis. 2008. NAPL
remediation cost optimization under uncertainty using a semi-analytic model. Eos Trans. AGU
89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H31D-0889.
Hughes,
G., M. Cardiff and Steven Wojtal. Application of
Bezier splines to the analysis of folds. Geological
Society of America Joint Meeting 2008. Houston, TX USA.
Cardiff,
M.
2008. Imaging the subsurface with sparse, noisy data: Methods and case
studies in hydrogeology. Invited talk, University of Sheffield Groundwater
Protection and Restoration Group, Sheffield, UK.
Cardiff, M. and P.K.
Kitanidis. 2008. New frontiers in inversion and data integration. Banff
International Research Station Conference on Integrated Hydrogeophysical
Inversion, Banff, Alberta Canada.
Cardiff, M. and P.K.
Kitanidis. 2008. Joint inversion for hydrogeophysical facies zonation
through level set methods. Computational Methods in Water Resources
International Conference 2008,
San Francisco, CA USA.
Cardiff, M. and P.K.
Kitanidis. 2008. Multiphysics models as a platform for environmental
modeling and inverse modeling. Computational Methods in Water Resources
International Conference 2008,
San Francisco, CA USA.
Barrash, W., A. Revil, M. Cardiff, T. Johnson, B.
Malama, E. Rizzo, C. Miller, and S. Straface. 2007. Combined hydraulic
tomography - self potential - electrical resistivity tomography for parameter
estimation in the unconfined aquifer at the Boise Hydrogeophysical Research
Site.
Eos Trans. AGU 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H33M-04.
Cardiff, M. and P.K.
Kitanidis. 2006. Use of COMSOL Multiphysics for efficient, automatic
inverse modeling of PDE-based systems: applications to aquifer
characterization. COMSOL User's Conference 2006 Boston
Conference Proceedings, 247-253.
Cardiff, M. and P.K. Kitanidis. 2005. Semivariogram Estimation Using Ant Colony Optimization and
Ensemble Kriging Accounting for Parameter Uncertainty. EOS Trans. AGU,
86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H13D-1354.
Poster Website
Cardiff, M. A., Y. Shen, and the ICEMELT and HOTSPOT
teams. 1999. Azimuthal dependence of mantle
discontinuities near 220 and 300 km depth beneath Iceland. EOS Trans.
AGU, 80, S218.
Cardiff, M., and G. Hughes. 2000. Maximizing fun at an amusement park: The M7TP.
International Symposium on Mathematical Programming 2000.
Teaching
Experience & Materials
- Graduate Teaching Consultant -
Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning (2008-present)
- Award: Stanford University Centennial
Teaching Assistant Award (2008)
- Teaching Assistant - CEE-268:
Groundwater Flow (2005-2008)
- Prepared and delivered lectures for
33% of classes
- Homework Grading and Solution Sets
for 8 Problem Sets, 12 to 30 students
- Held regular problem sessions and
office hours
- Produced all materials and lectures
for 2-week long mini-course on COMSOL Multiphysics Modeling Environment
Course Materials
- Lecturer - CEE-201D: Mathematics
Laboratory Applications in Civil and Environmental Engineering (2007)
- Prepared and delivered lectures for
20% of classes
Reviewer
Journal, Water Resources Research
Journal, Ground Water
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