Amy Swan is a Project Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University. She has worked on a variety of research projects that evaluate the impacts of agricultural management and land use change on greenhouse gas cycling in ecosystems. She leads development of COMET-Planner, a web-based tool that evaluates carbon and greenhouse gas impacts of agricultural conservation adoption. Amy also supports development of web-based tools to estimate greenhouse gas emissions from farms and ranches in the U.S. (COMET-Farm), and sustainable land management projects in the developing world (Carbon Benefits Project). Amy’s experience in soil carbon and greenhouse gas research ranges from extensive on-farm/ranch soil sampling and analysis, simulating agricultural ecosystems in the DayCent ecosystem model, and applying US and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) greenhouse gas inventory methods from local to global scales. She was raised on a sheep ranch in western South Dakota and received a BSc in Environmental Management from South Dakota State University and MSc in Ecology at Colorado State University.

Dr. Chelsea Carey is the Working Lands Research Director and Principal Soil Ecologist with Point Blue Conservation Science, a California-based non-profit focused on climate-smart conservation. Through this role, Chelsea develops and leads priority research projects and partnerships that will help inform rangeland management across the state. Notably, she works with TomKat Ranch and Point Blue’s Rangeland Monitoring Network to conduct and share science that will support rangeland managers in sustainably promoting desired on-site and public services across the state. Her research focuses on characterizing soil properties that are relevant to soil health and climate mitigation, determining how management influences these properties across space and time, and identifying ways that explicit consideration of the soil can improve success of conservation practices like riparian restoration. Before joining Point Blue, Chelsea received her Ph.D. from UC Merced and spent time as a postdoctoral scholar at UC Riverside. You can find out more about Chelsea’s work here.

Christophe Jospe is the chief development officer and co-founder of Nori. Nori is a start-up building a private-sector ecosystem service marketplace to help US farmers get paid for the carbon removal outcome of regenerative practices through issuing Nori Carbon Removal Tonnes (NRTs). At Nori, Christophe leads the effort to build the supply of NRTs and develop the underlying croplands methodology to create them. He loves learning, strategizing, and getting things done. He was dubbed once a “used carbon salesman” for his obsession for pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and aligning climate solutions where they provide value. When he’s not wearing his used carbon salesman hat, he’s cooking, taking care of plants, in nature, or playing music.

Dr. Dorn Cox serves as project lead for OpenTEAM (Open Technology Ecosystem for Agricultural Management) and research director for Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment, a nonprofit research and education center, and a working organic farm on 600 acres of conserved land on the coast of Maine.

Dorn also lives and works on his family’s 300-acre certified organic farm in New Hampshire. As a co-founder of the FarmOS software platform, the GOAT (Gathering for Open Ag Tech) and Farm Hack community, he is passionate about sharing open source agricultural tools, ideas information and inspiration to accelerate innovation and quantify environmental services from regenerative agriculture. In 2018 his work as a NACD Soil Health Champion was recognized with the inaugural Hugh Hammond Bennett award for excellence in conservation given by the National Association of Conservation Districts, and in 2019, Dorn was awarded the Food Shot Global Ground Breaker prize. He has a PhD from the University of New Hampshire in Natural Resources and Earth Systems Science.

Elise Suronen is an Environmental Consultant with ten years of experience in natural resources restoration.  She is contracted to help organizations promote and scale the implementation of carbon farming practices.  For eight years, Elise has been the Conservation Program Manager of the Marin Resource Conservation District.  She managed the District’s multi-million dollar restoration project, Pine Gulch Creek Enhancement Project, and secured a couple million dollars to sustain the District’s oldest landowner assistance program.  Elise has helped over 40 farmers, dairy owners and ranchers with the planning, permitting and implementation of over 100 conservation practices to improve water quality, enhance soil health, protect wildlife habitat and increase carbon-sequestration on farms.  She is a member of the Marin Carbon Project’s Implementation Task Force and is the Coordinator for the Marin Carbon Project’s Steering Committee.  Elise’s work with ranchers, state and federal agencies began in Idaho, when she was evaluating fire as a restoration tool.  She holds a MSc in Natural Resources with a focus on restoration ecology from the University of Idaho.

My main role at Regen Network is to lead the integration process between the Ecological State Protocols for monitoring regenerative practices implementation and their outcomes, and the current state of satellite remote sensing. Part of my work has been focused  on defining key indicators and methodologies for monitoring the changes in the ecological outcomes across diverse biomes, production systems and climates.

I am a biologist , with a pHD in biological sciences oriented to Landscape Ecology. Prior to Regen network, I worked as consultant for several international conservation projects and worked as an associate professor in the University of Mar del Plata teaching GIS to agronomists. The mother of two little girls, I live in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Jeff Borum was born in Ventura County, but went to school and worked in a few different regions of the U.S. He then obtained a B.S. in Environmental Science with a minor in Physics from Humboldt State, and now his work as a Soil Health Coordinator for East Stanislaus Resource Conservation District takes him across the extremely diverse ag lands of California.

As Jeff travels throughout the state in his pop-up camper, he engages interested communities desiring assistance on the implementation of conservation-based practices, as well as designs, implements, and coordinates statewide field trials focusing on specific practices such as composting and cover cropping, as well as more comprehensive trials involving entire soil health management systems. Through his work, he has gained many varied perspectives due to the heterogeneity of California’s ag lands and the heterogeneous nature of the humans who work with those lands. His travels have given him new insight into soil and human health, along with their interconnection—insight that he was not seeking but has come to know and love.

Jeff Mitchell is a Cooperative Extension Cropping Systems Specialist in the Department of Plant Sciences Science at the University of California, Davis.  He came through UC Davis for both his Master’s and PhD degrees.  He has had the good fortune to work with California’s Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation Center which currently has over 2,200 university, farmer, Natural Resource Conservation Service, public agency, and private industry members and affiliates.

Before beginning his graduate studies, he was a teacher and served as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in Botswana, in Southern Africa. He also teaches courses on agronomic and vegetable crop systems at the University of California, Davis.

Jessica Chiartas is a PhD candidate in Soils & Biogeochemistry at the University of California, Davis.  Her research focuses on the long-term impacts of agriculture on soil carbon and overall soil health with a unique focus on carbon at depth.  She is interested in better understanding soil health/regenerative ag practices on a soil type, cropping system, climate specific basis, as well as the standardization of metrics and methodologies for use in policy initiatives, economic markets, and other incentive programs.

She serves on the Soil Science Society of America Science Policy Committee, the North Coast Soil Health Hub Advisory Board, and the ROC Soil Health Advisory Committee. She is a partner member of the California Farm Demonstration Network, which brings together California Department of Food and Ag, UC Davis, UC Cooperative Extension, UC Ag and Natural Resources, Natural Resource Conservation Service, Resource Conservation Districts, and Farm Bureau to create a farmer-to-farmer network of discovery, support, and knowledge/information sharing.  She is also currently working in collaboration with NRCS to develop a website, a series of short videos and educational resources that highlight the connection between soil and life.