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CTrees is a nonprofit organization on a mission to track carbon in every tree on the planet and to deliver science-based geospatial data for enabling natural climate solutions at all scales.

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Who we are

We are scientists and engineers with over 20 years of experience in building global carbon monitoring systems and solutions that have informed climate change policies.

We have convened a group of leading experts, public and private partners to launch CTrees with philanthropic support. Our mission is to serve a larger community of project developers, investors, supplier countries, and decision makers with sustained and operational science-driven data.

Leadership
Sassan Saatchi

Forest Carbon Systems

Senior Research Scientist

Principal Scientist, JPL/CALTECH, Professor, UCLA/IOES, USA

Philippe Ciais

Climate and Carbon

Research Director at Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL), France

Martin Brandt

Data Science and Analytics

Professor, Geography, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Phil Decola

GHG Inventory

Co-chair of WMO Integrated Global GHG Information System, USA

Rasmus Fensholt

Data Science and Analytics Professor, Geography, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Jean-Pierre Wigneron

Remote Sensing Science

Head of the INRAE Remote Sensing Lab, Bordeaux, France

Staff
Aleena Ashary

Product Manager

Ian Bergland

Director of Finance and Operations

Arthur Calvi

Data Analyst

Griffin Carter

Data Analyst

Ricardo Dalagnol da Silva

Research Scientist

Ibrahim Fayad

Research Scientist

Yu Feng

Research Scientist

Stephanie George

Research Scientist

Dimitri Gominski

Research Scientist

Sami Jouaber

Research Scientist

Sizhuo Li

Research Scientist

Siyu Liu

Research Scientist

Daniel Melling

Head of Marketing

Maurice Mugabowindekwe

Research Scientist

Adugna Mullissa

Research Scientist

Fiona Osborn

Data Analyst

Agnès Pellissier-Tanon

Research Scientist

Florian Reiner

Research Scientist

François Ritter

Research Scientist

Sophia Roberts

Data Analyst

Le Bienfaiteur Sagang

Research Scientist

Martin Schwartz

Data Analyst

Celso H.L. Silva Junior

Research Scientist

Fabien Wagner

Research Scientist

Yidi Xu

Research Scientist

Board of Directors
Dee Lawrence

Director and co-founder of High Tide Foundation

A private and charitable foundation committed to fighting climate change

USA

William Boyd

Professor of Law at UCLA Project Lead for the Governors' Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF)

USA

Thelma Krug

Vice Chair of IPCC Former Co-chair of the IPCC Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories

Brazil

Lee White

Minister for Forests, Sea, the Environment and Climate Change

Gabon

Caroline Lester

Neglected Climate Opportunities Grantham Foundation

USA

Antoine Rostand

President and Founder Kayross A leading Advanced Data Analytics Company in Energy and Environment Sectors,

France

Scientific Advisors
Liana Anderson

Research Scientist

National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN)

Brazil

Luiz Aragão

Senior Research Scientist

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais INPE

Brazil

Susan Cook-Patton

Senior Scientist

Forest Restoration & Natural Climate Solutions

The Nature Conservancy

USA

Jerome Chave

Laboratoire Évolution & Diversité Biologique

Université Toulouse Paul Sabatier

France

KC Cushman

Postdoctoral Fellow

NASA JPL

USA

Alexandre d'Aspremont

Professor of Computer Science

Department at Ecole Normale Superieure

France

Grant Domke

Forest Carbon Scientist

US Forest Service

USA

Samuel Favrichon

Remote Sensing Scientist

Caltech/NASA JPL

USA

Giacomo Grassi

Scientific officer, project leader

Sustainable Resources - Bio-Economy Unit

European Commission, Joint Research Centre

Italy

Ron McRoberts

Forest Statistician

Raspberry Ridge Analytics

USA

Gert-Jan Nabuurs

Lead scientist

European Forest Institute

European Forests at Alterra European Forest

Institute Wageningen University

The Netherlands

Herman Shugart

Professor Emeritus of Forest Ecology

University of Virginia

USA

Miles Silman

Prof. of Biology

Director of Center for Energy, Environment & Sustainability Wake Forest University

USA

Compton Tucker

Senior Scientist

NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center

USA

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