Alex Braidwood

Alex Braidwood is a sound artist, designer, and educator who maintains a practice centered around play and experimentation. He has been an artist in residence in an Australian National Park, on an Iowa farm, at a mid-western biological field research station, and most recently on Isle Royale National Park. He is a board of director for the Midwest Society of Acoustic Ecology and the Iowa chapter of AIGA. Alex is currently Associate Professor of Graphic Design and in the Human Computer Interaction Ph.D. programs at Iowa State University. He is also Director of the Artist-in-Residence program at Iowa Lakeside Lab.

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Chaoqun Lu

Chaoqun (Crystal) Lu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology at ISU. Her research addresses how natural and human disturbances have affected and will affect ecosystem processes, agricultural food production, greenhouse gas fluxes, and nutrient movement from land to water bodies, by using a systems approach, ecosystem modeling, and data-model assimilation. Her current water-related work includes modeling the coupled hydro-biogeochemical cycling, estimating land-to-aquatic nitrogen loading in agriculture-dominated watersheds, and predicting the effectiveness of nutrient reduction practices under the changing climate. Her work has led to 77 peer-reviewed articles in top-tier journals such as Nature, Global Change Biology, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, and so on, with an H-index of 39. Crystal lives in Ames with her husband, two daughters, and a dog.

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Kristie Franz

Dr. Kristie Franz is a Professor of Hydrology and Chair of the Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences at Iowa State University.  She teaches courses in surface water hydrology, water resources, and hydrologic modeling and maintains an active research program. Kristie has been investigating streamflow prediction for nearly 20 years with the goal of improving forecasting methods for more accurate and informative hydrologic forecasts. Her work also includes advancing the understanding and modeling of the coupled effects of climate and human impacts on watershed processes, including the development and application of a socio-hydrologic model to explore land and water management under future climate conditions. Other recent work includes an interdisciplinary effort to foster interaction between stakeholders through use of an agent-based model designed to support collaborative action towards improving watershed conditions. She holds a MS in Hydrology and Water Resources from the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. Kristie lives in north Ames with her husband and two kids in a house that sits on one of the highest points above the Skunk River floodplain in the area.

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Linda Shenk

Linda Shenk is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Iowa State University. A humanist by training, she applies her background in storytelling and performance to community engagement and relationship building around issues of land and water conservation. She has worked with and learned alongside urban youth, neighborhood groups, women landowners, hydrologists, climate scientists, engineers, architects, and social scientists. Linda holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Minnesota and a MA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (a place where she lived in a cabin with no running water for 4 years). She lives in Ames with her family and is slowly working to convert more of her yard to water-wise and pollinator-supporting plants. 

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Nicole Hashemi

Nicole Hashemi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University. Her research interests are in the areas of microfluidics and materials. She has been the recipient of the NSF EAPSI Fellowship, NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, NRL Research Publication Award, Big 12 Faculty Fellowship Award, and 2017 ISU Early Career Engineering Faculty Research Award. She has also been selected as both National Academy of Engineering US Frontiers of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences Kavli Frontiers of Science. Professor Hashemi has published over 80 journal and peer-reviewed conference articles, and presented several invited keynote, national, and international lectures.

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Guiping Hu

Dr. Guiping Hu is an Associate Professor in the department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Iowa State University. She received her MS and PhD degrees from University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include mathematical modeling and data analytics with applications in supply chain design, decision support systems, energy systems analysis, and sustainable agriculture. She has published over 60 journal papers and her research has been supported by NSF, DOE, USDA, and DOD.

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John Tyndall

John Tyndall is an associate professor of natural resource economics at Iowa State University where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in resource economics, agroecosystem analysis, and forest management as part of the Department of Natural Resource Ecology & Management and the Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture. John’s research and that of the students in his lab weaves economic and social analysis into trans-disciplinary work examining the capacity of agriculturally dominated landscapes to produce broader arrays of ecosystem and hydrologic services while maintaining economic viability at field, farm, and regional scales. Working with talented students and colleagues, John’s research has been expanding into integrated financial and spatial modeling so as to create innovative decision support tools for conservation planners and farmers alike. John lives in Ames, Iowa with his wife and two kids.

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Kevin Roe

Kevin Roe is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Natural Resource Ecology and Management and Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology at Iowa State University. His research centers around the evolution and conservation genetics of freshwater organisms and has included projects on freshwater mussels, fishes, shrimps, and snails. Through these projects his lab has provided state and federal agencies with critical information to inform the conservation and management of endangered species. Kevin has BS and MS degrees in Zoology from the University of Georgia, and a PhD in Biology from the University of Alabama. Kevin has been a resident of Iowa since 2005 and lives in Ames. 

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