Lisa A. Schulte Moore

Lisa Schulte Moore is an American landscape ecologist. Schulte Moore is a professor of natural resource ecology and management at Iowa State University. In 2020 she received a US$10 million grant to study anerobic digestion and its application to turning manure into usable energy. In 2021, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.

Early life and education Schulte Moore grew up in Eau-Claire, WI and comes from a farming family, with both of her maternal grandparents growing up on dairy farms. Her family maintained a farm in the Eau-Claire area until the 1980s, when they lost the farm during the 1980s farm crisis. After graduating from Eau Claire North High School, Schulte Moore earned a bachelor's degree in biology at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She earned a master's degree in biology at the University of Minnesota Duluth, and a doctorate in forestry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Work Schulte Moore has worked with farmers to develop resilient and sustainable agricultural practices and systems that take into consideration climate change, water quality and loss of biodiversity.

Schulte Moore currently serves as the director of the Consortium for Cultivating Human And Naturally reGenerative Enterprises (C-CHANGE) at Iowa State University. She also serves as co-director of the university's Bioeconomy Institute.

Awards and honors John D. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2021) Citation for Leadership and Achievement, Council for Scientific Society Presidents (2022) AAAS Fellow in the section on Agriculture, Food & Renewable Resources (2024) Top Agri-food Pioneer, World Food Prize Foundation (2024)