Principle Investigators
Craig Allen
Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and Director of the Center for Resilience in Agricultural Working Landscapes. He serves on the Executive Board for the Resilience Alliance, and is a Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Tala Awada
Associate Dean and Director in the Agricultural Research Division at the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, a Professor of Plant Ecophysiology in the School of Natural Resources, and a Fellow of the Robert B. Daugherty Global Water for Food Institute, UNL. She co-leads the Nebraska High Plains: Platte River Aquifer Long-term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) network site (ARS/USDA and UNL partnership) and is also the Executive Team Leader of the LTAR network (2021-2022).
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Elena Bennett
Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Sustainability Science at McGill University, Director of NSERC ResNet and member of the Resilience Alliance Executive Board.
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Anna Pacheco
Senior National Coordinator of the Living Laboratories Division, in Science and Technology Branch at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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Shana Sundstrom
Resilience/complex systems ecologist, post-doctoral associate and project manager of NIARR
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Brandon Bestelmeyer
Research Head of the USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range in New Mexico and Director of the Jornada LTAR site, co-PI of the Jornada Basin LTER program at New Mexico State University (NMSU)
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Sheri Spiegal
Range Management Specialist with the USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range, and Affiliated Faculty for the Department of Animal and Range Sciences at NMSU.
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Jennifer Hodbod
Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University and member of the Resilience Alliance Executive Board.
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Edward Ayres
Lead Scientist for soil sensor data products and Megapit Soil Archive manager for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Battelle Memorial Institute).
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François Chrétien
Director, Living Laboratories Initiative (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada).
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Ali Fares
Professor of Water Security and first endowed chair of Water Security/Water-Food-Energy Nexus at Prairie View A&M University, Co-PI, NSF-funded: NRTINFEWS: Graduate Student Education: Reducing Energy Barriers for Novel Water Supply Use in Sustainable Agriculture.
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Evan Fraser
Professor and Director of the Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security, Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society, and author of Empires of Food: Feast, Famine and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations (2010).
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