Lobell joins FSE as Senior Research Scholar

FSE is very pleased to announce that David Lobell will be joining the program full time as a Senior Research Scholar, effective January 1 2008. Lobell is a world expert on the interactions between climate and agriculture, and his research attempts to use modern observational and computing capabilities (remote sensing, GIS, climate and crop models) to improve food security and reduce environmental impacts of food production. He is currently a post-doc at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and received his PhD in Geological and Environmental Sciences from Stanford in 2005.