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David Lobell is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University in Environmental Earth System Science, and a Center Fellow in Stanford's Program on Food Security and the Environment. His research focuses on identifying opportunities to raise crop yields in major agricultural regions, with a particular emphasis on adaptation to climate change. His current projects span Africa, South Asia, Mexico, and the United States, and involve a range of tools including remote sensing, GIS, and crop and climate models.

Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Lobell was a Senior Research Scholar at FSE from 2008-2009 and a Lawrence Post-doctoral Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 2005-2007. He received a PhD in Geological and Environmental Sciences from Stanford University in 2005, and a Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude from Brown University in 2000.

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Study: African wars brought on by global warming
Researchers led by Marshall Burke at the University of California, Berkeley, and David Lobell of Stanford University say that rising temperatures that come ...
November 24, 2009 in DigitalJournal.com

Will Global Warming Lead To War?
A research team led by Stanford University's David Lobell and Marshall Burke at the University of California, Berkeley, has uncovered a possible link ...
November 24, 2009 in io9

Death Toll in Philippines Massacre Rises to 46, Including 12 Journalists
David Lobell, assistant professor at the Woods Institute at Stanford: ?What we found was, surprisingly, is that there is not only a clear effect but a very ...
November 24, 2009 in Democracy Now

Climate Change Could Boost Incidence of Civil War in Africa
... rising temperatures in coming decades, said David Lobell, study co-author and an assistant professor of environmental earth systems science at Stanford.
November 24, 2009 in Science Daily (press release)

Global warming will increase likelihood of civil war in Africa by 55 percent
... Celsius by 2030," explained David Lobell, study co-author and assistant professor of environmental earth systems science at Stanford, to UC Berkley.
November 23, 2009 in Mongabay.com