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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 2010 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2010 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

David B. Lobell is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions in related subfields such as Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, and Soil Science.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Remote-Sensing Image Classification
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Smart Agriculture and AI

David B. Lobell has authored multiple recent papers notable for their research venues and citation counts. These include:

  • Using publicly available satellite imagery and deep learning to understand economic well-being in Africa, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Using satellite imagery to understand and promote sustainable development, 2021, Science
  • Transfer learning in environmental remote sensing, 2023, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Weakly Supervised Deep Learning for Segmentation of Remote Sensing Imagery, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture, 2024, Science

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, underscoring multidisciplinary teamwork within their research field. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Marshall Burke
  • Stefano Ermon
  • Sherrie Wang
  • Stefania Di Tommaso
  • Jillian M. Deines

David B. Lobell has published extensively in several venues, with a concentration of work in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Remote Sensing of Environment

The scientist's contributions also extend to book publications. These include the titles:

  • Dynamic, High-Resolution Wealth Measurement in Data-Scarce Environments, 2025, published by Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks
  • Higher Levels of No-Till Agriculture Associated with Lower PM2.5 in the Corn Belt, 2022, published by World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks

David B. Lobell has received several awards related to their scientific work, such as:

  • Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, 2013
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2010
  • James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2010

Best Publications

  • Climate Trends and Global Crop Production Since 1980

    David B. Lobell;Wolfram Schlenker;Wolfram Schlenker;Justin Costa-Roberts

  • Prioritizing Climate Change Adaptation Needs for Food Security in 2030

    David B. Lobell;David B. Lobell;Marshall B. Burke;Claudia Tebaldi;Michael D. Mastrandrea

  • Temperature increase reduces global yields of major crops in four independent estimates

    Chuang Zhao;Bing Liu;Shilong Piao;Xuhui Wang

  • Global Scale Climate-Crop Yield Relationships and the Impacts of Recent Warming

    David B Lobell;Christopher B Field

  • A meta-analysis of crop yield under climate change and adaptation

    Andrew J. Challinor;Andrew J. Challinor;J. Watson;David B. Lobell;Howden Sm

  • Rising Temperatures Reduce Global Wheat Production

    S. Asseng;F. Ewert;P. Martre;P. Martre;R. P. Rötter

  • Crop yield gaps: their importance, magnitudes, and causes.

    David B. Lobell;Kenneth G. Cassman;Christopher B. Field

  • Robust negative impacts of climate change on African agriculture

    Wolfram Schlenker;David B Lobell

  • Combining satellite imagery and machine learning to predict poverty

    Neal Jean;Marshall Burke;Marshall Burke;Michael Xie;W. Matthew Davis

  • Food security and food production systems

    John R. Porter;Liyong Xie;Andrew J. Challinor;Kevern Cochrane

  • Nonlinear heat effects on African maize as evidenced by historical yield trials

    David B. Lobell;Marianne Bänziger;Cosmos Magorokosho;Bindiganavile Vivek

  • The Influence of Climate Change on Global Crop Productivity

    David B. Lobell;Sharon M. Gourdji

  • Warming increases the risk of civil war in Africa

    Marshall B. Burke;Edward Miguel;Shanker Satyanath;John A. Dykema

  • Greenhouse gas mitigation by agricultural intensification

    Jennifer A. Burney;Steven J. Davis;David B. Lobell

  • Combined climate and carbon-cycle effects of large-scale deforestation.

    G. Bala;K. Caldeira;M. Wickett;T. J. Phillips

  • Greater sensitivity to drought accompanies maize yield increase in the U.S. Midwest

    David B. Lobell;Michael J. Roberts;Wolfram Schlenker;Noah Braun

  • On the use of statistical models to predict crop yield responses to climate change

    David B. Lobell;Marshall B. Burke;Marshall B. Burke

  • Climate and Management Contributions to Recent Trends in U.S. Agricultural Yields

    David B. Lobell;Gregory P. Asner

  • The critical role of extreme heat for maize production in the United States

    David B. Lobell;Graeme L. Hammer;Greg McLean;Carlos Messina

  • Biomass energy: the scale of the potential resource.

    Christopher B. Field;J. Elliott Campbell;David B. Lobell

  • Radically rethinking agriculture for the 21st century.

    N. V. Fedoroff;D. S. Battisti;R. N. Beachy;P. J. M. Cooper

  • Global scale climate–crop yieldrelationships and the impacts of recentwarming

    David Lobell;Christopher Field

Frequent Co-Authors

Marshall Burke
Marshall Burke Stanford University
Christopher B. Field
Christopher B. Field Stanford University
Stefano Ermon
Stefano Ermon Stanford University
Gregory P. Asner
Gregory P. Asner Arizona State University
Edward Miguel
Edward Miguel University of California, Berkeley
Thomas W. Hertel
Thomas W. Hertel Purdue University West Lafayette
Céline Bonfils
Céline Bonfils Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Kaiyu Guan
Kaiyu Guan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Solomon Hsiang
Solomon Hsiang University of California, Berkeley
Andrew J. Challinor
Andrew J. Challinor University of Leeds

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