Kateri partners with Quanterra to bring Innovation to Ranch Partners

Flux Tower hardware is designed to measure and monitor real-time fluxes of CO2, water, and energy

Kateri has partnered with Quanterra to deploy Flux Towers with our ranch partners across the American West. Our first towers are now up in New Mexico and they will measure and monitor real-time fluxes of CO2, water, and energy. This data, coupled with rigorous soil carbon stock sampling down to a meter deep, virtual fencing, ongoing biodiversity and vegetative monitoring, and, most importantly, rancher observations and decision-making, will inform the regenerative, precision grazing of the future. 

Kateri firmly believes in the importance of soil sampling and will invest more than a million dollars per year over the next five years into soil samples. However, soil sampling is only commercially feasible every few years on a given ranch and satellite-based monitoring techniques alone are not enough. Low-cost flux towers fill a gap that will allow us to provide:

(1) Critical feedback data for our Ranch Partners to improve their soil health

(2) Rigorous insights into carbon sequestration impacts of grazing mgmt. for reporting and verification

Rebecca Mitchell, Chief Executive Officer of Quanterra, highlighted, “Grasslands are an integral part of the US landscape, with large variations in plant species, soil type, rainfall and temperature meaning they can’t all be treated alike. We’re excited to work with Kateri to expand use of ranch-specific flux monitoring to help inform rancher decision-making to regenerate and preserve these ecosystems for generations to come.” 

Ben Veres, Chief Executive Officer of Kateri, added, “We're grateful to Quanterra and Shell for the ability to deploy this cutting-edge technology and are excited to advance the state of soil carbon storage science on rangelands. We believe the soil carbon market needs to establish itself through deep and targeted investments in data and research. We’re excited to expand our Quanterra program and build on this great research.”