David B. Lobell is an agricultural ecologist. He is currently the Gloria and Richard Kushel Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment and Professor of Earth System Science at

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. He is additionally a William Wrigley Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and a Senior Fellow at Stanford's

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. Lobell was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in 2013 for "unearthing richly informative, but often underutilized, sources of data to investigate the impact of climate change on crop production and global food security."

Education

Lobell earned a Bachelor of Science in

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from

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in 2000. He received his Ph.D. in 2005 from Stanford University's Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences. From 2005 to 2008, he was a Lawrence Fellow at

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Work

Lobell's work deals primarily with food security. He also investigates the impact of climate change on crop yields.

Honors and awards

* MacArthur Fellow, 2013 * Honorary Doctor of Science,

, 2021 * NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences (2022)

References

External links

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