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Projects

What we’re working on now, and the places and people behind our work.

Environmental knowledge is about land and the people who live on it. Our projects start with a question someone actually has, build on what is already known, and end with knowledge people can use in their own place and their own language.

Newest work comes first. Some projects are under non-disclosure agreements, so we describe them only briefly.

Soils in motion
Upcoming
Water
Knowledge
Global

How water, heat and energy move through soil, and how soil organises itself around that flow, across global climates.

Cumulative knowledge
In progress
Knowledge
Southern Africa

Environmental knowledge keeps getting reset. We’re building it up instead.

Soil keys in your language
In progress
Languages
Socio-ecological

Soil classification in Farsi, Kiswahili and the South African system, with more languages to come.

Caribbean pedohydrology
NDA
In progress
Water
Socio-ecological
Caribbean

Soil water retention and runoff for flood modelling on an island without a soil survey, guided by uncertainty.

Soil resilience
Under review
Knowledge
Socio-ecological
Western US
Global

Reading how soils organise themselves, and what that says about resilience and the many functions soils perform.

Our own backyard, Colorado
Homeowners
Water
Western US

Doing it ourselves: gravel, raised beds and drip irrigation, worked out with our own homeowner tools.

World Bank carbon credits
NDA
Carbon
Southern Africa

Baseline soil carbon stock maps for a carbon credit programme in Mpumalanga, South Africa.

Soils4Africa mapping
Under review
Knowledge
Southern Africa

Integrated Soil Profile Mapping (ISPM) reveals regional patterns of soil condition across Southern African agricultural lands.

De-bushing and the soil system
Carbon
Water
Socio-ecological
Partnerships
Southern Africa

Predicted how clearing invasive bush and pesticide use changed soil carbon and water across Namibia, Botswana and South Africa.
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