How to Choose a Soil Model: Evaluating Accuracy, Policy Alignment, and Market Readiness

Join Bill Salas, Regrow Co-Founder, co-developer of the DNDC model and one of the industry’s preeminent minds in soil modeling, for a one-hour session designed to help you navigate the complex soil modeling landscape. This educational discussion will break down what soil models are, how they’re developed and how they connect to sampling and data quality, with a practical focus on market applications and policy alignment under CRCF.

Bill will be joined by Lucia von Reusner, Director of Carbon Protocols and Policy at Regrow, and Valeria Forlin, Deputy Head of Unit at the European Commission (DG CLIMA).

‍The session will be moderated by Marie Marion, Customer Success Lead at Regrow. 

You’ll learn how to:

• Understand what soil models are and why they matter for carbon certification
• Evaluate core features of different soil models and how they support regenerative programs
• Interpret when to use different data Tiers, and what to look for in Tier 3 modeling options
• Identify key questions to ask your partners when selecting a model
• Understand what current CRCF guidance says about soil models and what remains undefined

This session will equip participants with a clear framework for evaluating soil modeling systems and a practical checklist to take back to their teams and partners.