Research Team

Kimberly Zarecor, Principal Investigator (also PI from 2017-2019)
Iowa State University
Professor of Architecture
zarecor@iastate.edu

David Peters, Co-Principal Investigator (also PI from 2017-2019) 
Iowa State University
Associate Professor of Sociology and Extension Rural Sociologist
dpeters@iastate.edu

Biswa Das, Co-Principal Investigator
Iowa State University
Associate Professor of Community and Regional Planning and Extension Planner
bdas@iastate.edu

Susan Vanderplas, Co-Principal Investigator
(formerly of Iowa State)
University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Assistant Professor of Statistics and Extension Statistician 
susan.vanderplas@unl.edu

Zhengyuan Zhu, Co-Principal Investigator
Iowa State University
Professor of Statistics
zhuz@iastate.edu

 

Research Team (2017-2019)

Marwan Ghandour
Louisiana State University (formerly of Iowa State University)
Professor & Director, School of Architecture
ghandour1@lsu.edu

Sara Hamideh
Stony Brook University (formerly of Iowa State University)
Assistant Professor of Coastal Resilience
sara.hamideh@stonybrook.edu

Eric Davis
Industry (formerly of Iowa State University)
ewd@dataengineering.org

Graduate Research Assistant:
Ahmed Elsherif (Sustainable Environments, 2017-2018)

Undergraduate Research Assistants:
Anna Busch (Community & Regional Planning, 2018-2019)
Hannah Fisher (Agriculture & Society, 2017-2018)
Matthew Lechowicz (Architecture, 2017-2018)
James Weatherly (Community & Regional Planning, 2017-2019)