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Dr Missy Motew

Carbon Ratings Scientist, Soil Carbon and Agriculture Lead

Dr Missy Motew's interests

  • Water

  • Soil Carbon & Agriculture

  • Biomass-Based Carbon Removals

  • Agricultural & Organic Waste

  • Other Agricultural Practices

  • Soil-Related Agricultural Practices

  • Carbon markets

  • Climate science

  • Conservation science

  • Earth science

  • Nature-based solutions

  • Process models

  • Soil science

Dr Missy Motew is an ecosystem ecologist whose research background is in climate change, biogeochemistry, and sustainable land use. She studies how land stewardship influences carbon, water, and nutrient dynamics, with an emphasis on agricultural practices as a climate solution.

Before joining BeZero, she was a Staff Scientist at Indigo Ag, where she helped lead the design and implementation of monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) systems for agricultural carbon crediting and scope 3 programs. Her work included the development of modelling standards, primary data collection, environmental impact modelling, and reporting.

Selected publications

Education

  • USDA Agricultural Research Service, Post-Doctoral Research Agriculturalist

  • The Nature Conservancy, Ecosystem Services Fellow

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison, PhD in Environment and Resources

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison, MS in Environment and Resources

Research association

  • Technical Contributor to the Climate Action Reserve Soil Enrichment Protocol v1.0

  • Technical Contributor to the Verra VM0042 Methodology for Improved Agricultural Land Management v1.0

  • Member of the Technical Task Force for the Climate Action Reserve Soil Enrichment Protocol v2.0

  • Member of the Croplands Technical Working Group for the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Land Sector and Removals Guidance

Learn more about Missy's academic history and publications

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