David Lobell

{{Short description|Environmental scientist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox scientist | image = David Lobell Water use efficiency in agriculture 1m7s (cropped).jpg | image_size = | name = David Lobell | birth_place = | birth_date = | nationality = | fields = Agricultural science | workplaces = | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|Brown University|Stanford University}} | known_for = | children = | awards = MacArthur Fellowship (2013) | website = }} '''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 Stanford University. He is additionally a William Wrigley Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. 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."<ref name=":0">{{cite web|date=25 September 2013|title=David Lobell|url=http://www.macfound.org/fellows/896/|publisher=MacArthur Foundation|accessdate=15 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Peterson|first=Nancy|date=2013-09-25|title=Two Stanford professors win MacArthur 'genius' awards|url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/september/macarthur-fellowship-awards-092513.html|access-date=2022-01-19|website=Stanford University|language=en}}</ref>

== Education == Lobell earned a Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics from Brown University 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 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

==Work==

Lobell's work deals primarily with food security.<ref name=":0" /> He also investigates the impact of climate change on crop yields.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Williams |first=Sarah C. P. |date=2025-06-11 |title=QnAs with David B. Lobell |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134970137 |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=122 |issue=24 |doi=10.1073/PNAS.2512213122|doi-access=free }}</ref>

== Honors and awards ==

* MacArthur Fellow, 2013 * Honorary Doctor of Science, Brown University, 2021<ref>{{Cite web|title=Brown to confer six honorary degrees at Commencement 2021|url=https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-04-20/honorary|access-date=2022-01-19|website=Brown University|language=en}}</ref> * NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences<ref>{{cite web|title=David Lobell Awarded the 2022 NAS Prize in Food & Agriculture Sciences|url=https://foundationfar.org/news/david-lobell-awarded-the-2022-nas-prize-in-food-agriculture-sciences/|website=Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research|date=January 25, 2022|access-date=January 25, 2026}}</ref> (2022)

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