David Schurman
David is a computational scientist, information designer, and entrepreneur specializing in Earth and planetary sciences applications. He is the co-founder and Chief Innovation officer of Cloud Agronomics, a remote sensing and climate-tech company developing a global measurement platform for soil-based carbon credits. Prior to Cloud Agronomics, David was a software lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he led incubation for a data science and UI toolset currently being used to search for life on Mars by the Perseverance Rover science team.
Talks
Quantifying agricultural soil carbon stocks at continent scale using a modern Python big data and ML framework
We have developed a Python-based modeling and spatial prediction framework to accurately estimate soil carbon content at large geographic scales. These methods can provide cost-effective carbon accounting for regenerative farming operations.