Jennifer Soong, Ph.D.
I am a Senior Environmental Scientist & Product Manager with 15+ years of experience in data-model integration and product development. I thrive in leading cross-disciplinary teams, managing strategic partnerships, and translating complex science into user-friendly digital solutions for climate and agriculture.
I most recently led the development of a remote-sensing based, globally accessible, AFOLU greenhouse gas calculator for USAID at Mathematica. Before that I led one of the largest agricultural soil carbon programs at Corteva Agriscience, was a Carbon Scientist at Granular, the Director of Product at Soil Metrics and received my Ph.D. in Ecology from Colorado State University.
About
Product development and business strategy: Translating user-end needs into technical requirements; Systems architecture and pipeline design; Project scope and budget negotiation; Market development valuation research; Program evaluation
Scientific expertise: Fundamental science and quantification of soil organic matter formation, decomposition, and persistence from nano-to-global scales; Experimental design and execution of research to inform model parameterization, validation, and verification of plant-soil-atmospheric carbon and nutrient cycling under various climate and land use change scenarios.
Leadership: Enjoy leading cross-disciplinary teams with empathy and a vision for success
Experience: Academia, start-ups, the agricultural industry, global policies, remote sensing and digital soil mapping, experimental design, proximal sensing technology, data analytics, statistics, education, business strategy, digital product design and development, systems architecture, agile development team lead, user discovery, and farmer-facing commercial programs, with over 35 scientific peer-reviewed publications and active scientific engagement.