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PLACES-FMV (CONUS) is a set of parcel-level estimates of the **fair market value (FMV) of vacant lands** in the contiguous United States (CONUS). The estimates are derived statistically from data on 1.3 million vacant land sales (2000-2021) using an ensemble of simple and scalable predictive models.


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Boston University
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PLACES Lab, Department of Earth and Environment:

* Christoph Nolte (PI), assistant professor, `chrnolte@bu.edu <mailto:chrnolte@bu.edu>`_
* Payal Shah, visiting researcher, `pshah2@bu.edu <mailto:pshah2@bu.edu>`_
* Emily French, graduate researcher
* Gahyun Kim, graduate researcher
* Cece Lagomarsino, undergraduate researcher
* Ella Hinkelman, undergraduate researcher
* Julianne Vaughan, undergraduate researcher
* Katherine Anne, undergraduate researcher
* Samantha Moroz, undergraduate researcher


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Collaborator panel
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The collaborator panel advises the research team in the development of the research. It includes experts in national-scale conservation planning and land value estimation from seven organizations (sorted by last name):

* `Paul Armsworth <https://eeb.utk.edu/people/paul-armsworth/>`_, Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
* `Wesley Burnett <https://www.ers.usda.gov/authors/ers-staff-directory/j-wesley-burnett/>`_, Agricultural Economist, Economic Research Services, U.S. Department of Agriculture
* `Joe Fargione <https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/who-we-are/our-people/our-scientists-joe-fargione/>`_, Science Director, North America Region, The Nature Conservancy
* `Linda Hwang <https://www.tpl.org/about/linda-hwang>`_, Senior Director, Strategy and Innovation, The Trust for Public Land
* `Walter Jetz <https://jetzlab.yale.edu/people/walter-jetz>`_, Professor and Director, and `Alexander Killion <https://bgc.yale.edu/people/alexander-killion>`_, Managing Director, Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University.
* `Andy Krause <https://www.andykrause.com/>`_, Senior Manager, Research & Development for Zestimate, Zillow
* `Andrew Plantinga <https://bren.ucsb.edu/people/andrew-plantinga>`_, Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California - Santa Barbara


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Code contributors
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PLACES-FMV would not exist without the support of the following students at Boston University:

* `Adam Pollack <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mnigw6AAAAAJ>`_, former BU PhD student, *now: postdoc, Dartmouth College*
* Yuhe Chang, former BU MSc student, *now: PhD student, Boston University*
* Shelby Sundquist, former BU undergraduate, *now: PhD student,  Northern Arizona University*
* Ido Kushner, former BU undergraduate, Boston University