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Marshall Burke is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and specializes primarily in Environmental Science. Their research focuses on multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Atmospheric Science, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist has contributed to topics such as Air Quality and Health Impacts, Energy and Environment Impacts, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Fire effects on ecosystems, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Impact of Light on Environment and Health, and Remote-Sensing Image Classification.

Marshall Burke has published numerous scientific articles, including the following notable papers:

  • The changing risk and burden of wildfire in the United States, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Using satellite imagery to understand and promote sustainable development, 2021, Science
  • The contribution of wildfire to PM2.5 trends in the USA, 2023, Nature

Frequent publication venues for this scientist include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Marshall Burke has worked with multiple co-authors extensively. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Sam Heft-Neal
  • David B. Lobell
  • Stefano Ermon
  • Carlos Gould
  • Solomon Hsiang

The scientist has authored books published by Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks, including:

  • Dynamic, High-Resolution Wealth Measurement in Data-Scarce Environments, 2025
  • Eyes in the Sky, Boots on the Ground: Assessing Satellite, and Ground-Based Approaches to Crop Yield Measurement and Analysis, 2022

Best Publications

  • Prioritizing Climate Change Adaptation Needs for Food Security in 2030

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

  • Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production

    Marshall Burke;Solomon M. Hsiang;Solomon M. Hsiang;Edward Miguel;Edward Miguel

  • Quantifying the influence of climate on human conflict

    Solomon M. Hsiang;Solomon M. Hsiang;Marshall Burke;Edward Miguel;Edward Miguel

  • Combining satellite imagery and machine learning to predict poverty

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

  • Warming increases the risk of civil war in Africa

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

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

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

  • Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from US Agriculture†

    Marshall Burke;Kyle Emerick

  • Global warming has increased global economic inequality.

    Noah S. Diffenbaugh;Marshall Burke

  • Climate and Conflict

    Marshall Burke;Marshall Burke;Solomon M. Hsiang;Solomon M. Hsiang;Edward Miguel;Edward Miguel

  • The poverty implications of climate-induced crop yield changes by 2030

    Thomas W. Hertel;Thomas W. Hertel;Marshall B. Burke;David B. Lobell

  • The changing risk and burden of wildfire in the United States.

    Marshall Burke;Anne Driscoll;Sam Heft-Neal;Jiani Xue

  • Climate as a risk factor for armed conflict

    Katharine J. Mach;Caroline M. Kraan;W. Neil Adger;Halvard Buhaug;Halvard Buhaug

  • Higher temperatures increase suicide rates in the United States and Mexico

    Marshall Burke;Marshall Burke;Felipe González;Patrick Baylis;Sam Heft-Neal

  • Why are agricultural impacts of climate change so uncertain? The importance of temperature relative to precipitation

    David B Lobell;Marshall B Burke

  • Assessing risks of climate variability and climate change for Indonesian rice agriculture.

    Rosamond L. Naylor;David S. Battisti;Daniel J. Vimont;Walter P. Falcon

  • The ripple effect biofuels, food security, and the environment.

    Rosamond L. Naylor;Adam J. Liska;Marshall B. Burke;Walter P. Falcon

  • Transfer learning from deep features for remote sensing and poverty mapping

    Michael Xie;Neal Jean;Marshall Burke;David Lobell

  • AQUACULTURE AND OCEAN RESOURCES: Raising Tigers of the Sea

    Rosamond L. Naylor;Marshall Burke

  • Climate, conflict, and social stability: what does the evidence say?

    Solomon M. Hsiang;Solomon M. Hsiang;Solomon M. Hsiang;Marshall Burke

  • Satellite-based assessment of yield variation and its determinants in smallholder African systems.

    Marshall Burke;Marshall Burke;David B. Lobell

  • Shifts in African crop climates by 2050, and the implications for crop improvement and genetic resources conservation

    Marshall B. Burke;David B. Lobell;Luigi Guarino

Frequent Co-Authors

David B. Lobell
David B. Lobell Stanford University
Solomon Hsiang
Solomon Hsiang University of California, Berkeley
Noah S. Diffenbaugh
Noah S. Diffenbaugh Stanford University
Halvard Buhaug
Halvard Buhaug Peace Research Institute
Mark A. Cane
Mark A. Cane Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Katharine J. Mach
Katharine J. Mach University of Miami
David S. Battisti
David S. Battisti University of Washington
Jürgen Scheffran
Jürgen Scheffran Universität Hamburg
James N. Galloway
James N. Galloway University of Virginia

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