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baylisKathy Baylis, Associate Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics

Kathy Baylis uses a mix of remote sensing and survey data to evaluate the effect of agriculture, conservation and trade policy. Her current research explores how policy and market institutions can affect food security and the environment in the context of climate change. She currently has projects studying food access and conservation outcomes in the United States, Mexico, India and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Website: https://works.bepress.com/kathy_baylis/
bullockDavid Bullock, Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics

David Bullock conducts research on the economics fertilization. He works with crop scientists, soil scientists, water quality scientists, and engineers, to design and conduct large-scale, on-farm agronomic experimentation, and collecting and analyzing data from around the world to better understand how crops and water quality are affected by fertilizer management. He is the Principal Investigator of the 4-year, $4 million dollar multidisciplinary USDA-NIFA research project “Using Precision Technology in On-farm Field Trials to Enable Data-intensive Fertilizer Management” (USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant 2016-68004-24769).

Website: http://ace.illinois.edu/directory/dsbulloc
https://publish.illinois.edu/data-intensive-farm-managment/
christensenPeter Christensen, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics

Website: http://www.peterchristensen.net/
crostBen Crost, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/bencrost/
guanKaiyu Guan, Assistant Professor, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences

Dr. Kaiyu Guan uses satellite data, computational models, field work, and machine learning approaches to address how climate and human practices affect crop productivity, water resource availability, and ecosystem functioning. He has keen interests in applying my knowledge and skills in solving real-life problems, such as large-scale crop monitoring and forecasting, water management and sustainability, and global food security.

Website: http://faculty.nres.illinois.edu/~kaiyuguan/
gundersenCraig Gundersen, Soybean Industry Endowed Professor in Agricultural Strategy, Agricultural and Consumer Economics

Craig Gundersen's work concentrates on the causes and consequences of food insecurity and on the evaluation of food assistance programs. As such, his work will help to inform the general questions and approaches being pursued. He is also the lead researcher on Feeding America's Map the Meal Gap project which provides county-level estimates of food insecurity and food prices.

Website: http://ace.illinois.edu/directory/cggunder
konarMegan Konar, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Megan Konar's research group focuses on the intersection of food and water resources. Her research group is interested in how drought shocks reverberate through the global food system. Her team is currently constructing a database of global, gridded shocks to agriculture from 1950-2015 at high spatial, temporal, and crop resolution. This will be used to quantify the impact of climate shocks to trade in agricultural commodities. She is also working to evaluate the implications of trade and crop insurance for water resources.

Website: http://mkonar.cee.illinois.edu/
lebaurDavid LeBauer, Research Scientist, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Dr. LeBauer’s work uses ecosystem modeling as a framework for synthesis of diverse sources of information contained in data and scientific understanding in order to predict and optimize agricultural ecosystems functions such as yield, water use, and carbon storage. I use a formal approach that uses software and informatics to link information across species, environments, and scientific domains. Current projects include: forward and inverse constraint of crop and ecosystem models (pecanproject.org) and development of a high throughput phenotyping system to support the use of remotely sensed data in crop assessment and improvement (terraref.org).

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/dlebauer/
michelsonHope Michelson, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics

Hope Michelson studies household food security, poverty dynamics, and linkages between market failures and household decision-making related to agricultural production and sales. Current research links high-frequency household food security measures with market prices and climate data to analyze the temporal and spatial dynamics of food insecurity and the emergence of crises. Related projects assess the possibilities and limitations of using SMS-based surveys to measure, map, and predict household and regional food security.

Website: http://ace.illinois.edu/directory/hopecm
millerDan Miller, Assistant Professor, Natural Resource and Environmental Science

Dan Miller's research and teaching focus on environmental politics and policy. He is especially interested in understanding the conservation and development impacts of international aid in tropical countries and the political factors that shape those impacts. He works in a variety of settings around the world, but has a strong geographic interest in Africa and on forests more generally.

Website: http://dcmiller.nres.illinois.edu/
Luis F Rodriguez, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, ABE, ; College of Agricultural Consumer and Environmental Sciences, ACES lfr@uiuc.edu office_phone: (217) 333-2694 office_address: 376C AESB 1304 W. Pennsylvania 1304 W Pennsylvania M/C  644 Urbana, IL 61801 title: ASST PROF RES ASST PROF, INFO TRUST INST department: Agricultural & Biological Engr Luis Rodriguez, Associate Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Website: http://abe.illinois.edu/faculty/L_Rodriguez