Faculty
Participant | Department | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Ulrike Passe | Architecture; Director of ISU Center for Building Energy Research (CBER) | Sustainable Cities Team Lead; Urban Energy modeling |
| Kris De Brabanter | Statistics/Computer Science | Data Models |
| Michael Dorneich | Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering; Human-Computer Interaction | Human factors; decision support |
| Caroline Krejci | Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering | Agent-based modeling; human factors |
| Alenka Poplin | Community & Regional Planning | Geographic Information Systems (GIS); geogames |
| Linda Shenk | English | Lead Community Engagement |
| Laura Graham | Sustainability Director, City of Des Moines | City of Des Moines community partner, Assistant to City Manager / Sustainability Coordinator |
| Kristen Cetin | Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering | Energy Data Modeling, high-efficiency building research |
| Janette Thompson | Natural Resource Ecology and Management | Characterizing landscape characteristics of the near-building environments, examining elements of urban agriculture, urban forestry, and stormwater flows |
| Soumik Sarkar | Mechanical Engineering | Advanced data analytics and machine learning, integration of intelligent autonomous decision-making, augment first principle driven models and enhance human decision-making abilities in a complex environment. Lab Info |
Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences | Urban microclimate integration into building energy modeling, urban landscape design in future energy and emissions mitigation | |
Mechanical Engineering | Computational fluid dynamics for microclimate environments | |
| Matt Liebman | Agronomy | Sustainable Urban Agriculture |
| Katherine Richardson-Bruna | School of Education | Collaborator for NSF, NRT, INFEWS proposals |
| Youngme Seo | Community and Regional Planning | Real Estate Development |
| Eugene Takle | Agronomy, Climate Science Program | Climate Models |
| Yu Wang | Political Science | Energy Policy, National energy modeling |
| Christoph Reinhart | MIT Sustainable Design Lab / Architecture | Urban Energy Modeling |
| Caitlin Szymanski | Iowa State University Extension | Support of Community Growers Program |
Students
Participant | Department | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Charvi Jagani | Architecture and Urban Design | Charvi works on research related to Urban Energy Modeling and Simulation with Prof. Ulrike Passe. |
| Breanna Marmur | Natural Resource Ecology and Management | Breannna researches elements of urban forestry and stormwater flows to provide landscape characteristics of near-building environments |
| Evan Harrison | Architecture | Evan creates graphics and presentation material for various activities and programs being carried out by the team. He also maintains the web page. |
| Farzad Hashemi | Architecture | Farzad's research is in modeling 3D urban fabrics and testing building energy simulations. |
| Kate Fjelstad | Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering | Kate works on research in accessing and working with marginalized populations. |
| Jacklin Stonewall | Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering; Human Computer Interaction | Jacklin works on implementing user-centered design toward creating visualizations for community members and policymakers. |
| Samantha Gosgrove | English | Qualitative data analysis |
| Carlee Tope | Community & Regional Planning / GIS | GIS support for youth programs |
| Kara Harmet | Community & Regional Planning / GIS | GIS support for youth programs |
| Braden Cervetti | Community & Regional Planning / GIS | GIS support for youth programs |
Collaberators and Community Partners
| Yoann Gorostiaga | INSA Lyon France | Urban Energy Modeling Templates |
| Santhi Buddabathini | Data Management Systems | Game Programming |
| Kaylinn Taggart | Architecture | Data transfer and coding of energy use surveys |
| Vinviana Tabard | INSA Lyon France | Urban energy modeling occupancy simulation |
| Mallory Reisberg | Boys and Girls Club | Collaberator and facilitator of Community Growers project |
| Malai Amfahr | Community Housing Initiatives | Collaberator and co-presentor of high school youth program, East High Cares |
| Amber Lynch & Steering Committee | Viva East Bank | Data sharing, goal collaberators, share insight at team meetings |
| Melissa Boyer-Sunga | Des Moines Public Schools | Collaborator for Community Growers program, attends garden and youth related meetings |
| Brytani Cavil | CY Concepts | Coordinating effort with East High Cares program |
| Brian Bonono | Community Housing Initiatives | Shared data and research efforts with youth programs; Community Growers and Viva East Bank development meetings |
| Citzens Sustainabiility Task Force | City of Des Moines, City Council- organization | Community activists and advocates |
| Kelsey Gillion | Boys and Girls Club | Youth Program Outreach |
| Chris Frantsvog | Polk County | Public health and overheating topic specialist for NSF and S&CC Proposal |
| David Jahn | Urban Forestry, City of Des Moines | City authorization for data collection and urban forestry study, grant writer |
| Shane McQuillan | Urban Forestry, City of Des Moines | Collaberator within City of Des Moines office, baseline city tree inventory data for all study areas |
| Kent Newman | City of Des Moines Energy Manager | Collaberator with research efforts and data sharing |
| Mary Losch | University of Northern Iowa | Evaluator nd Human Data Collection Methodology |
| Nick Schwab | University of Northern Iowa | Data Collection Methodology |
| Silvia Secchi | University of Iowa | Research Collaborator INFEWS |