Who we are

Our team is dedicated to move the needle towards an end of global warming - at least at tiny bit!

Our core team, in order of appearance:

Dirk Paessler, born at 323 ppm, has been a software entrepreneur since age 14 until he turned his attention to climate and especially negative emissions in 2019. He is our photographer, programmer, data wrangler and data scientist. His job is also policy and investment work.
Favorite pieces of equipment: MacBook, microcontrollers, the cloud and a hammer
Most used pieces of equipment: GMail, GSheets, data visualization tools

Ralf Steffens, born at 325 ppm, has always been self employed building prototypes and stuff for the processing and car industry. He designs and builds our hardware and runs the whole enterprise in general.
Favorite pieces of equipment: Makita power tools
Most used pieces of equipment: screwdriver and biceps

Ingrid Smet, born at 343 ppm, started out a scientific career in geochemistry and got into active volcanoes before she moved to climate science. Combining her love for the environment and passion for geology, she started her EW career setting up field experiments in Greece. She keeps up with the most recent research and leads our scientific understanding of EW.
Favorite pieces of equipment: Geologic hammer, petrographic microscope, ICP-MS instrument
Most used pieces of equipment: Laptop, Google Docs, Google Sheets

Jens Hammes, born at 363 ppm, has been fascinated by geology since he was a kid. Answered in a poll in the 5th grade that he would like to see less CO₂ in the atmosphere in the future. He covers the science of our experiments from fluids and carbon to the practical and on to the analysis stages.
Favorite pieces of equipment: pepper pretzel while thinking about the experiment
Most used pieces of equipment: water sensors, filters and water pumps

Anna Anke Stöckel, born at 332 ppm, has been collecting (lots of!) rocks since she was a small child. She was self employed until she decided to make soils and rocks her profession. Anna is keeping our experiments and greenhouse alive and fights all sorts of adversities like pests, heat, water problems. She also organizes the required workflows and the sampling events.
Favorite pieces of equipment: Shovel and spade, hydrochloric acid (to detect CaCO₃), R-scripts for environmental data evaluation
Most used pieces of equipment: Obi buckets, grass trimmer, to-do lists