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West Marin County, farm and ranch land, comes with sweeping views of the sea. But in recent years, water usually remains in the distance, with less actually hitting the ground in the form of rain.
The voluntary market isn’t the sole lift Back in 2012 and 2015, the Marin Carbon Project looked into how to fund the development and implementation of carbon farming, specifically voluntary markets and carbon credit development. The conclusion at the time and five years later, today, is […]
Launched in 2008, the Marin Carbon Project is celebrating it’s 10-year anniversary in 2018. Over the course of a decade, the Project has discovered new information regarding the potential for rangeland soils to be a significant global climate change solution, pioneered ground-“making” science and worked with […]
Paper: “A Lifecycle Model to Evaluate Carbon Sequestration Potential and Greenhouse Gas Dynamics of Managed Grasslands,” Ecosystems 16 (2013): 962–979 Research Team:: Marcia S. DeLonge, Rebecca Ryals and Whendee L. Silver (Ecosystem Science Division, Department of Environment Science, Policy, and Management, University of California at Berkeley) […]
Paper: “Grassland Compost Amendments Increase Plant Production without Changing Plant Communities,” Ecosphere 7, no. 3: e01270. 10.1002/ecs2.1270 Research Team: Rebecca Ryals, Valerie T. Eviner, Claudia Stein, Katharine N. Suding and Whendee L. Silver (Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California atBerkeley, and Department […]
Paper: “Long-Term Impacts of Manure Amendments on Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Dynamics of Rangelands,” Global Change Biology (2015), doi: 10.1111/gcb.13044 Research Team:  Justine J. Owen, Whendee L. Silver, William J. Parton (Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California at Berkeley, and Natural Resource […]
Paper: “Long-Term Climate Change Mitigation Potential with Organic Matter Management on Grasslands,” Ecological Applications 25, no. 2 (2015): 531–545, 2015 by the Ecological Society of America Research Team: Melanie D. Hartman, William J. Parton, Marcia S. DeLonge and Whendee L. Silver (Department of Environmental Science, Policy, […]
Paper: “Impacts of Organic Matter Amendments on Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in Grassland Soils,” Soil Biology & Biochemistry 68 (2014): 52e61 Research Team: Rebecca Ryals, Michael Kaiser, Margaret S. Torn, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, and Whendee L. Silver, (Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of […]
Paper: “Effects of Organic Matter Amendments on Net Primary Productivity and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Annual Grasslands,” Ecological Applications 23, no. 1 (2013): 46–59 Research Team: Rebecca Ryals and Whendee L. Silver (Ecosystem Science Division, Department of Environment Science, Policy, and Management, University of California at […]
Paper: “Soil Carbon Pools in California Annual Grassland Ecosystems,” Rangeland Ecology and Management 63 (January 2010):128–136; doi: 10.2111/REM-D-09-00106.1 Research Team: Whendee L. Silver, Rebecca Ryals and Valerie Eviner (Ecosystem Science Division, Department of Environment Science, Policy, and Management, University of California at Berkeley, and Department of […]

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