Derek Pierson
Senior Soil Carbon Modeler at Agoro Carbon Alliance
Boise, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Pierson is a Senior Soil Carbon Modeler with two decades of hands-on experience melding environmental science, land management and advanced analytics to inform sustainable natural resource decisions. He builds and leads interdisciplinary field, lab and data-science programs, applying process-based models, ML/AI and robust spatial data pipelines to quantify soil carbon dynamics, carbon accounting/MRV, and biochar impacts. His career spans government research (U.S. Forest Service), academia (Oregon State University, Idaho State University) and industry (Agoro Carbon Alliance), giving him rare operational insight from lab chemistry to landscape-scale modeling. Derek holds a PhD in Soil Sciences and a background in microbiology and forest sciences, which helps him bridge mechanistic understanding with scalable modeling. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, auditable solutions that translate complex earth-system science into actionable business and stewardship outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Forest Sciences, Master's Degree, Forest Sciences at Colorado State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Soil Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Soil Sciences at Oregon State UniversityBachelor's Degree, Microbiology, General, Bachelor's Degree, Microbiology, General at University of Idaho
Github Skills (32)
soil9
synthesis7
som7
grav-plugin7
shiny5
visualization4
doi4
pubmed4
ieee3
research-and-development3
arxiv3
librarian3
saas3
crowd2
pdf2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
piersond/MIMICS_HiRes
Jul 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 96 commits, 2 PRs in 8 months
piersond/SOM-homog-QA
Jul 2018 - Oct 2018
soilHarmonization data check and summary plots
Contributions:19 commits, 15 pushes in 3 months
data-checkplotsvisualization
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