Jobs at Yard Stick PBC

Our Mission:

Yard Stick provides low-cost, scientifically-rigorous quantification of soil carbon stocks. Our mission is to enable gigaton-scale soil carbon removal and storage via scalable, trustworthy measurement solutions. We are the measurement backbone of soil carbon.

Scientists and land managers alike have known for decades that climate-friendly agricultural and forestry practices have the potential to remove atmospheric CO2 at gigaton/year scale. But significant measurement challenges have held soil carbon back - until now. By reducing the cost of soil carbon measurement by 90%+, Yard Stick will dramatically expand the opportunities for evidence-based regenerative farming, ranching, and forestry practices to simultaneously improve ecosystem health, increase land manager livelihoods, and combat climate change.

Our Technology:

Powered by technologies from the world’s top soil scientists and supported by leading grant funders and venture investors, Yard Stick brings soil carbon measurement into the 21st century. Our solution spans an integrated suite of software and hardware offerings which solves key soil carbon measurement challenges.

Our flagship hardware is an instant, in situ soil carbon measurement probe for field evaluation of soil carbon stocks and changes at up to one meter depth. This handheld device, based on two decades of soil spectroscopy research, eliminates laborious and costly conventional soil sampling and labs, thereby profoundly reducing the cost of soil carbon measurement.

Yard Stick’s broader software offering combines technologies that standardize and economize sample plan creation, field work, and soil carbon data management in an integrated web-based platform. These features help establish a single soil carbon data authority with total audit-ability, transparency, and interoperability.

Yard Stick is funded by significant USDA Climate Smart Commodities awards, additional grants from ARPA-E, NSF, and CDFA, as well as by leading climate investors including Toyota Ventures Climate Fund, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, Lowercarbon Capital, Extantia, The Nature Conservancy, Breakthrough Energy Ventures (Bill Gates’ climate fund), Pillar, MCJ Collective and others. Additionally, Yard Stick’s scientific advisory team features some of the most highly-regarded soil scientists in the world, including Dr. Cristine Morgan, Chief Scientific Officer of the Soil Health Instituteand Editor-In-Chief of Geoderma, the world’s preeminent soil science journal.