Teravent's Science Advisory Board is the independent scientific body that approves all methodologies, sets MRV standards, and provides the scientific authority underpinning every credit the registry issues. Members are selected for expertise and independence — never for commercial alignment.
Professor Diallo leads the African Climate Research Consortium at the University of Dakar and has contributed to four successive IPCC assessment reports, most recently as a lead author in Working Group III of AR6. His work focuses on carbon budget accounting, land-use emissions, and the equity dimensions of carbon markets in sub-Saharan Africa.
As Chair of Teravent's Science Advisory Board, Professor Diallo sets the scientific agenda for methodology review, presides over Board votes, and is the final arbiter of scientific disputes within the registry's governance structure. He was recruited specifically for his willingness to resist commercial pressure — a quality he has demonstrated in declining to approve two commercially high-value methodologies that he judged insufficiently robust.
He holds a PhD in Atmospheric Science from the University of Paris-Saclay and was awarded the African Union Commission's Prize for Scientific Innovation in 2019.
Dr. Rahimah is the foremost authority on tropical peatland and mangrove carbon accounting in Southeast Asia. She developed the biomass allometric equations now used in Indonesian national forest inventories and has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers on blue carbon science — more than any other researcher active in the field.
Her long-term research programme across Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines has produced the most comprehensive dataset of mangrove and peatland carbon stocks in the tropics. This data underpins Teravent's blue carbon methodology TM-001 and informed several provisions of the IPCC Wetlands Supplement.
She serves on the editorial boards of Global Change Biology and Carbon Balance and Management, and advises the Indonesian Ministry of Environment on peatland restoration policy. She holds a PhD from Wageningen University and is based in Bogor, Indonesia.
Dr. Mendes has spent 20 years studying soil organic carbon dynamics in tropical agricultural systems across Latin America, with field programmes in Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Mexico. He chairs the International Biochar Initiative's technical standards committee and has developed widely-adopted biochar MRV protocols that are referenced in registries across three continents.
At Teravent, Dr. Mendes oversees all soil carbon and biochar methodology review. He was instrumental in establishing the H:Corg ratio and OxBC test thresholds used in Teravent's biochar permanence assessment — thresholds that are now considered the gold standard for permanence verification in the biochar market.
He holds a PhD in Soil Science from the University of São Paulo and is an Associate Professor at EMBRAPA's National Centre for Soil Research. He received the Brazilian Academy of Sciences' Young Scientist Award in 2017.
Professor Khumalo is Africa's leading expert on enhanced rock weathering as a carbon dioxide removal pathway. Her field trials across South African and East African agricultural soils — the largest such dataset from the Global South — have provided foundational data for weathering rate models now used by research groups worldwide.
Her work on the cation depletion method for quantifying in-situ weathering rates is considered among the most rigorous in the field and directly informed the measurement approach in Teravent's enhanced weathering methodology TM-007. She was one of the first researchers to systematically characterise the co-benefits of EW for soil fertility in sub-Saharan agricultural contexts.
She holds a PhD in Geochemistry from the University of Cape Town and was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg. She sits on the scientific advisory committee of the Enhanced Weathering Initiative and has authored 45 peer-reviewed publications.
Dr. Lima is a tropical forest ecologist specialising in biomass estimation and remote sensing-based forest carbon monitoring. She leads the Amazon carbon monitoring programme at INPA and serves on the technical advisory panel for Brazil's national REDD+ strategy.
Her research programme uses high-resolution airborne LiDAR and Sentinel satellite data to produce wall-to-wall forest carbon maps of the Brazilian Amazon — the most spatially precise such mapping ever produced for the region. The methodology she developed for combining remote sensing with permanent sample plot data is the basis for Teravent's MRP-01 and MRP-02 protocols.
She holds a PhD from the Universidade de São Paulo and completed post-doctoral research at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. She is co-chair of the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) Methods and Guidance Working Group.
Professor Otieno's research focuses on ocean alkalinity enhancement, seagrass carbon flux, and coral reef biogeochemistry in the Western Indian Ocean. He directs the Indian Ocean Carbon Programme, a multi-institution monitoring network tracking blue carbon stocks and ocean chemistry across East Africa's coast.
He is one of a small number of researchers worldwide who have conducted field trials of ocean alkalinity enhancement in tropical coastal environments, generating data that is critical for quantifying OAE carbon removal potential in conditions that differ substantially from the temperate Northern European settings where most OAE research has been conducted.
He holds a PhD in Oceanography from the University of Southampton and is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. He advises the IAEA's Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre and has published 38 papers on marine biogeochemistry.
Teravent periodically opens applications for Science Advisory Board membership. We are particularly interested in experts in ocean biogeochemistry, enhanced weathering, and direct air capture with strong publication records and zero conflicts of interest in carbon markets.