{{Short description|American landscape ecologist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} '''Lisa Schulte Moore''' is an American landscape ecologist. Schulte Moore is a professor of natural resource ecology and management at Iowa State University.<ref name="FacPage">{{cite web |title=Dr. Lisa Schulte Moore |url=https://www.nrem.iastate.edu/people/lisa-schulte-moore |website=Natural Resource Ecology and Management |language=en}}</ref> In 2020 she received a $10 million USD grant to study anerobic digestion and its application to turning manure into usable energy.<ref name="gazette">{{cite web |title=Iowa State University professor working to turn manure into fuel with $10 million grant |url=https://www.thegazette.com/news/iowa-state-university-professor-working-to-turn-manure-into-fuel-with-10-million-grant/ |website=www.thegazette.com}}</ref> In 2021, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.<ref name="AMESTRIB">{{cite web |last1=Sitter |first1=Phillip |title=Iowa State ecology professor named first MacArthur Fellowship recipient from the university |url=https://www.amestrib.com/story/news/education/2021/09/28/professor-lisa-schulte-moore-is-isu-first-genius-grant-winner-iowa-state-macarthur-fellowship-2021/5898017001/ |website=The Ames Tribune}}</ref><ref name="IPR">{{cite web |title=Iowan, landscape ecologist, and MacArthur genius says she'll keep looking for small changes with big impacts |url=https://www.iowapublicradio.org/environment/2021-10-06/iowan-landscape-ecologist-and-macarthur-genius-says-shell-keep-looking-for-small-changes-that-have-big-impacts |website=Iowa Public Radio |language=en |date=6 October 2021}}</ref>
== Early life and education == Schulte Moore grew up in Eau-Claire, WI and comes from a farming family, with both of her maternal grandparents growing up on dairy farms. Her family maintained a farm in the Eau-Claire area until the 1980s, when they lost the farm during the 1980s farm crisis. After graduating from Eau Claire North High School, Schulte Moore earned a bachelor's degree in biology at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She earned a master's degree in biology at the University of Minnesota Duluth, and a doctorate in forestry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2024-10-03 |title=Two Iowa State faculty named global Top Agri-food Pioneers for work to fight hunger, make agriculture more resilient |url=https://www.cals.iastate.edu/news/2024/two-iowa-state-faculty-named-global-top-agri-food-pioneers-work-fight-hunger-make |access-date=2025-02-08 |website=College of Agriculture and Life Sciences |publisher=Iowa State University |language=en}}</ref>
==Work== Schulte Moore has worked with farmers to develop resilient and sustainable agricultural practices and systems that take into consideration climate change, water quality and loss of biodiversity.<ref name="AT" />
Schulte Moore has written on various ecological topics, including the ecological effects of fire on landscapes; soil carbon storage, biodiversity improvement, the effects of wind and fire on forests, among others.<ref name="GS">{{cite web |title=Lisa Schulte Moore |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-6bpfYUAAAAJ&hl=en |publisher=Google Scholar |access-date=14 February 2022}}</ref>
Schulte Moore currently serves as the director of the Consortium for Cultivating Human And Naturally reGenerative Enterprises (C-CHANGE) at Iowa State University. She also serves as co-director of the university's Bioeconomy Institute. <ref name=":0" /> She also works in large transdisciplinary teams, consisting of a variety of scientists, engineers, farmers, farmland owners, and representatives of government, industry, and NGOs in order to foster continuous living cover on agricultural landscapes. <ref name="FacPage" /> Schulte Moore has also been recognized as a Charles F. Curtiss distinguished professor in agricultural and life sciences by Iowa State University<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr. Lisa Schulte Moore |url=https://www.nrem.iastate.edu/people/lisa-schulte-moore |access-date=2025-09-29 |website=Natural Resource Ecology and Management |language=en}}</ref>
==Awards and honors== * John D. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2021)<ref>{{cite web |title=Lisa Schulte Moore: Landscape Ecologist |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2021/lisa-schulte-moore |publisher=MacArthur Foundation |access-date=14 February 2022}}</ref><ref name="AT">{{cite news |last1=Sitter |first1=Phillip |title=Iowa State ecology professor named first MacArthur Fellowship recipient from the university |url=https://www.amestrib.com/story/news/education/2021/09/28/professor-lisa-schulte-moore-is-isu-first-genius-grant-winner-iowa-state-macarthur-fellowship-2021/5898017001/ |access-date=14 February 2022 |publisher=Ames Tribune |date=28 September 2021}}</ref> * Citation for Leadership and Achievement, Council for Scientific Society Presidents (2022)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sciencepresidents.org/leadership-citation | title=Leadership Citation }}</ref> * AAAS Fellow in the section on Agriculture, Food & Renewable Resources (2024)<ref>{{Cite web |title=2024 AAAS Fellows |website=American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |url=https://www.aaas.org/programs/fellows/2024-aaas-fellows |access-date=2025-04-20 |language=en}}</ref> * Top Agri-food Pioneer, World Food Prize Foundation (2024)<ref name=":0" />
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