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      Activate your climate strategy through carbon footprints.

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      Build equitable practices into your climate action plan.

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Christian Braneon, PhD

Head of Climate Justice

Environmental Science & Policy + Geospatial Analysis

Claudia Herbert, PhD

Science Advisor

Forest Management + Geospatial Analysis

Jared Stapp

Science Analyst

Forest Management + Geospatial Analysis

Van Butsic, PhD

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Forest Management + Geospatial Analysis

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Christian Braneon, PhD

Head of Climate Justice

Environmental Science & Policy + Geospatial Analysis + Climate Justice

Dr. Christian Braneon is Head of Climate Justice at Carbon Direct.

Dr. Braneon leads the integration of climate justice into Carbon Direct’s culture, operations, and services across the carbon management industry.

Background & Bio

Dr. Braneon brings a broad range of experience in climate science and civil engineering as well as environmental and climate justice to Carbon Direct. He co-leads the Environmental Justice and Climate Just Cities Network at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, serves as Co-Chair of the New York City Panel on Climate Change, and sits on the newly formed Center for Climate Solutions’ Advisory Committee, which was established to further New York City’s efforts to respond to the climate crisis.

Prior to joining Carbon Direct, Dr. Braneon served as a climate scientist in the Climate Impacts Group of NASA GISS and as Co-Director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s inaugural Environmental Justice Academy for community leaders.

Education

PhD, Civil Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

MS, Civil Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

BS, Civil Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

BS, Applied Physics

Morehouse College

Awards

Quantification of Historic and Future Changes in Atlantic Coastal Marshes and Implications for Global Modeling

NASA

Robert H. Goddard Award

AXA Award for Climate Science

Climate Action Plan Award

White House

Publications and Features

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Oct 25, 2022

Climate Justice at Carbon Direct: Embedding Equity Into Our Company’s End-to-End Carbon Management Solutions

Jonathan Goldberg

Christian Braneon, PhD

Environmental Science & Policy

Claudia Herbert, PhD

Science Advisor

Forest Management + Geospatial Analysis

Dr. Claudia Herbert is a Science Advisor at the intersection of climate science and software.

Background & Bio

Dr. Herbert received her PhD in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from UC Berkeley. Her doctoral work focused on applications of geospatial analysis and remote sensing in the context of North American fire and forest carbon management. She now focuses on software innovation in the fight against climate change.

Education

PhD, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

UC Berkeley

BS, Conservation and Resource Studies

UC Berkeley

Awards

Honorable Mention, Earth Observation Dashboard Hackathon

NASA

Department Citation, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

UC Berkeley

Jared Stapp

Science Analyst

Forest Management + Geospatial Analysis

Jared is applying his forest management and software development expertise to building the Carbon Direct platform.

Background & Bio

Jared is in the final semester of his PhD in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley, where his dissertation work has focused primarily on examining forest carbon offsets within California's cap-and-trade program.

He is interested in the intersection of environmental policy and land use, and uses various tools and frameworks such as remote sensing, cloud-based tools, causal inference, machine learning, and spatial and econometric modeling. He received his BS in Environmental Studies from Utah State University and his MS in Ecology and Environmental Sciences from the University of Maine.

Education

PhD Candidate, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

UC Berkeley

MS, Ecology and Environmental Sciences

University of Maine

BS, Environmental Studies

Utah State University

Van Butsic, PhD

Principal Scientist

Forest Management + Geospatial Analysis

Dr. Van Butsic employs geospatial analysis and statistical modeling to improve nature-based carbon removal.

He leverages his expertise in forest science to help clients understand the principles for high-quality carbon removal in the forestry sector. He works closely with Carbon Direct's tech team to integrate science with software.

Background & Bio

Before joining Carbon Direct, Dr. Butsic was an Associate Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialists at UC Berkeley where he combined novel econometric methods with geospatial analysis to understand the causes and consequences of land use policy.

Dr. Butsic has developed methods to look at diverse drivers of land use change including carbon offsets, protected areas, wildfires, agricultural subsidies, war, and the regulation of illicit drugs.

Education

PhD, Forestry

University of Wisconsin

MS, Applied Economics

University of Wisconsin

BS, Economics

Reed College

Awards

Humboldt Research Award

Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation

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Feb 3, 2023

Advances in Nature-based Carbon Removal Solutions

Van Butsic, PhD

Forest Management

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