David Fleisher is currently a lead scientist and research agricultural engineer with the U.S. Department of Agriculture —Agricultural Research Service Adaptive Cropping Systems Laboratory. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in bioresource engineering from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary plant biology and mechanical engineering from Rutgers University. His current research interests include climate change, plant stress physiology, crop modeling, plant biology, evapotranspiration, photosynthesis, and geospatial modeling.