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| David Lobell, PhD |
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Postdoctoral Fellow in remote sensing/GIS, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories
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lobell2@llnl.gov
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
P.O. Box 808 L-103
7000 East Avenue
Livermore, CA 94550 |
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David Lobell is currently a Lawrence Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He received a Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 2000, and PhD in Geological and Environmental Sciences from Stanford University in 2005. David's research attempts to use modern observational and computer capabilities (remote sensing, GIS, climate and crop models) to improve food security and reduce environmental impacts of food production. Each of these technologies can potentially reduce uncertainties that greatly affect decisions from field to global scales; decisions which in turn affect food security and the environment.
His current remote sensing projects include studies of soil salinization (SW US, NW Mexico, and Northern Great Plains), adoption of conservation tillage practices (central Mexico), and precision crop management with grain protein diagnostics (Yaqui Valley, Mexico). Modeling projects include assessments of climate change impacts on agriculture (California, US, and global) and the use of climate forecasts for field management decisions (Mexico). He is also interested in the environmental tradeoffs associated with different scenarios of food security and land use, as a way to inform agricultural and conservation investment decisions. For example, he is studying the consequences of cropland expansion, reduced tillage, and increased irrigation on climate using general circulation models and statistical analysis of climate records.
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