{"id":643,"date":"2016-01-12T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/profile\/kaleita\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T20:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T01:02:50","slug":"kaleita","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/profile\/kaleita\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaleita, Amy"},"author":308,"template":"","affiliation":[4],"department":[1072,10],"group":[1246,1251],"interest":[571,573,570,572,575,574],"class_list":["post-643","profile","type-profile","status-publish","hentry","affiliation-faculty","department-abe-faculty","department-abe","group-abs-research-groups","group-land-water-engr","interest-environmental-monitoring","interest-hydrology","interest-precision-conservation","interest-sensors","interest-soils","interest-spatial-variability"],"firstname":"Amy","key_research_area":["Resilient Infrastructures"],"netid":"kaleita","isu_title":"Department Chair [A&BE]","email":"kaleita@iastate.edu","external_link":"","hide_isu_title":"1","nickname":"","info":"<div>\r\n<h3>Calendar<\/h3>\r\nSchedule: <a href=\"https:\/\/outlook.office365.com\/calendar\/published\/20d5413783a74ecca556508dbc3f1d6b@iastate.edu\/e12ca8e901604e20a26228b91b0fab5e8617027790707142531\/calendar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outlook calendar link<\/a> (switch to Week view in the upper right)\r\nBook a meeting: <a href=\"https:\/\/calendly.com\/kaleita\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/calendly.com\/kaleita<\/a>\r\n<h3>Appointment<\/h3>\r\nAdministration, Teaching\/Research\r\n<h3>Expertise<\/h3>\r\nSoil and Water Conservation Engineering &amp; Management.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<h3 id=\"interest-header&quot;\" class=\"dir-header\">Interest Areas<\/h3>\r\n<div>Dr. Kaleita's research focuses on information technology for precision conservation. 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Farrall Young Educator Award, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2008<\/div>\r\n<div>Award for Early Achievement in Teaching, Iowa State University, 2006<\/div>","middle_name":"","isu_office":"1340b Elings Hall $ 605 Bissell Rd. # Ames, IA 500111098","uid":[],"hide_isu_office":"1","lastname":"Kaleita","publications":"<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\"><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=DxeqIhYAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Google Scholar Profile<\/a><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\"><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/dr.lib.iastate.edu\/browse\/author?scope=66a66903-7075-4145-a925-791d3ca3f7a4&amp;value=Kaleita,%20Amy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Repository Publications<\/a><\/span><\/p>","user_image":{"ID":"5777","post_author":"2106","post_date":"2022-01-21 14:39:22","post_date_gmt":"2022-01-21 20:39:22","post_content":"","post_title":"Kaleita_Amy273","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"inherit","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"kaleita_amy273","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-01-21 14:39:23","post_modified_gmt":"2022-01-21 20:39:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"643","guid":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/files\/2022\/01\/Kaleita_Amy273.jpg","menu_order":"0","post_type":"attachment","post_mime_type":"image\/jpeg","comment_count":"0","pod_item_id":"5777"},"user_title":"Larry and Bunita Buss Department Chair\r\nProfessor","phone_number":"515-294-5167","fax":"","office":"1340B Elings\r\n605 Bissell Rd.\r\nAmes, IA 50011-1098","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18147,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/643\/revisions\/18147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"affiliation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliation?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/group?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"interest","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interest?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}