Allison Goodwell is an associate research scientist at Illinois State Water Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on understanding causal interactions, dependencies, and predictions in complex ecohydrologic systems based on models and data. She received her PhD from University of Illinois in 2017 in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and was an assistant professor in Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver from 2018-2023. She has received funding for her research from NSF (CZ Cluster: Critical Interface Network in Intensively Managed Landscapes) and NASA (New Investigator Program).