Dr. Jim Best
Landscape change in the world's big rivers

Potential project tasks: Analysis of remote sensing imagery, literature/data search and data analysis/plotting
jimbest@illinois.edu

Dr. Siân Butcher
Housing cooperatives & community land trusts in Southern Africa

Potential project tasks: Building database of housing coops and CLTs; web searches; media clipping; creating bibliographies; literature review
sbutcher@illinois.edu

Dr. Julie Cidell
Society, Mobility, and Infrastructure at Illinois Lab (SMIIL)

Potential project tasks GIS mapping, web searches, literature reviews, surveys of state departments of transportation. Topics: transportation, including railyard redevelopment, freight vehicle electrification in Chicago, and how engineers modify standard traffic calculations for local conditions across the US. jcidell@illinois.edu

Dr. Chunyuan Diao
Mapping crop species distributions across the US using satellite remote sensing and street view imagery

Potential project tasks: Satellite and street imagery collection, crop species label creation, imagery analysis and interpretation. chunyuan@illinois.edu

Dr. Marynia Kolak
Measuring Associations of Historic Racism and Health: Sundown Towns, Racial Sentiment, and Health in Illinois and Indiana Counties

Potential project tasks: Literature Review, Citation Management in Zotero, Exploratory Data Analysis in R, QGIS mapping, CITI certification. mkolak@illinois.edu

Dr. Mark Lara
Measuring forest carbon using UAS LiDAR

Potential project tasks: Field assistance, data processing, data analysis, and interpretation. mjlara@illinois.edu

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