Noah Planavsky is a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences. He earned his PhD at University of California, Riverside and did postdoctoral work at Caltech. He has also held research positions at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, the Rosentiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris. He works on the evolution of carbon and oxygen cycling and carbon management. He has been honored as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, a Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, a Packard Fellow, a Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists finalist, and he received the F.W. Clarke medal (for outstanding contributions to geochemistry by an early-career scientist) from the Geochemical Society. He has been a Web of Science highly cited researcher in Earth Sciences over the past 5 years, a distinction made to less than 0.1% of the world’s scientific researchers. In addition to research, he worked with USDA on the establishment of a climate-smart conservation practice standard for soil pH management and has extensive experience in the voluntary carbon market, including co-founding two companies that have secured over 100 million dollars in committed purchases of carbon removals. He is also a curator at the Yale Peabody Museum, a Senior Contributing Scientist at Environmental Defense Fund, and serves as a formal scientific advisor for multiple organization in the carbon dioxide removal space including carbon removal suppliers (e.g., Crew Carbon, Mati), suppliers of soil amendments for carbon removal (Canadian Wollastonite), and the carbon removal platform Ceezer, and the Carbon Removal Alliance.
Noah Planavsky
Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University