Megan Konar is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prof Konar's research focuses on the intersection of water, food, and trade. Her research is interdisciplinary and draws from hydrology, statistics, and economics. Her research group is passionate about creating new data that can help researchers, decision-makers, and the general public better understand their food and water systems.
It is also great to work with the Illinois Data Bank because they understand and work with the peer review process. They will provide a draft mode for use during peer review, but will wait to publish the data until the paper has been accepted. It is also helpful to have a DOI for the data so that other researchers can easily find and build upon it.