Dr. David Fleisher is a Co-Director of the USDA Northeast Climate Hub and provides expertise on understanding and responding to the influence of climate on crop production and resiliency.
He serves as Lead Scientist of a research project focused on measuring effects of environment, including extreme weather, genetic, and management factors on plant responses, and transforming this information into mathematical models and decision support tools. His areas of expertise include agricultural engineering, agronomy, climatology, and plant physiology. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Bioresource Engineering and received an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Engineering and Plant Physiology in 2001 from Rutgers University.
Selected Publications
Li S, D Fleisher, J Barnaby. (2024) Quantifying the impact of climate change and extreme heat on rice in the United States. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 355: 110145. PDF
Timlin D, D Fleisher, M Tokay, K Paff, W Sun, S Beegum, S Li, Z Wang, V Reddy. (2023) CLASSIM: A relational database driven crop model interface. Smart Agricultural Technology, 5: 100281 PDF
Sun W, D Fleisher, D Timlin, C Ray, Z Wang, S Beegum, V Reddy. (2023) Projected long-term climate trends reveal the critical role of vapor pressure deficit for soybean production in the U.S. Midwest. Science of the Total Environment, 878:162960 PDF
Fleisher DH, , S Li, D Timlin. (2022) Response of a U.S. rice hybrid variety to extreme heat and varying CO2 concentration during grain filling. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 323:4002154 PDF
Mutiibwa D, DH Fleisher, JP Resop, DJ Timlin, VR Reddy. (2018) Regional food production and land redistribution as adaptation to climate change in the U.S. Northeast seaboard. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 154:54-70 PDF
Resop JP, DH Fleisher, D Mutiibwa, DJ Timlin, VR Reddy. (2016) Climate, water management, and land use: estimating potential potato and corn production in the U.S. northeastern seaboard region. Transactions of the ASABE, 59(6):1539-1553. PDF
Fleisher DH, A Dathe, DJ Timlin, VR Reddy. (2015) Improving potato drought simulations: Assessing water stress factors using a coupled model. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 200:144-155 PDF
Fleisher DH, DJ Timlin, VR Reddy. (2008) Elevated carbon dioxide and water stress effects on potato canopy gas exchange, water use, and productivity. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 148(6-7):1109-1122 PDF
