 | Kathy 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/ |
 | David 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/ |
 | Peter Christensen, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics Website: http://www.peterchristensen.net/ |
 | Ben Crost, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics Website: https://sites.google.com/site/bencrost/ |
 | Kaiyu 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/ |
 | Craig 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 |
 | Megan 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/ |
 | David 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/ |
 | Hope 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 |
 | Dan 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 Rodriguez, Associate Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Website: http://abe.illinois.edu/faculty/L_Rodriguez |
