Michelle Platz

Michelle Platz, PhD, joined LimnoTech in September 2022 as an Environmental Engineer. Michelle specializes in designing and applying nature-based solutions for coastal and riverine systems to enhance the resilience of waterfront spaces to challenges associated with rapidly changing environmental conditions and water levels. She leverages a community-engaged project approach and Ecological Engineering principles to develop projects that both build community capacity and restore aquatic ecosystems and associated functions. Michelle has a broad background in both marine and freshwater aquatic ecosystem restoration and has expertise in developing recovery monitoring frameworks to evaluate impacts of restoration interventions on both project site and regional scales. Michelle leads the biological sciences, ecosystem services, and fisheries service area and has extensive experience working within transdisciplinary teams, including academic, non-profit, municipal, and federal groups.

Michelle completed a Master’s and a PhD in Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida, where she studied coral restoration in the Florida Reef Tract and tested in-situ monitoring methods to evaluate post-restoration shifts in ecosystem metabolism. Before joining LimnoTech, Michelle was a subcontractor to the NOAA Restoration Center, where she helped develop and implement a ridge-to-reef monitoring and evaluation framework for land-based sources of pollution management on the Island of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

Michelle works at LimnoTech’s Corporate Headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Tel: 734-332-1200