Category: Blog Post

Dan TerAvest recently joined Ashley Hammac and Rita Abi-Ghanem for a webinar dedicated to exploring the vital topic of soil health and the power of soil health data!

Feature Photo by Marie-Soleil Turmel Background When we started Our Sci in 2017, one of the first tools we built was a low-cost, handheld Reflectometer. The Reflectometer was used by the Quick Carbon project at Yale University to map soil organic carbon (SOC) at the landscape scale, by the Bionutrient Institute to predict nutrients in […]

Feature Photo by Roman Synkevych on Unsplash Why we built it Soil respiration (aka soil mineralizable carbon) is a measurement that consists of rewetting air-dried soil, a short-term incubation (1-3 days), and then measuring the CO2 emitted by soil microorganisms during the incubation period. Soil respiration is considered a strong indicator of soil health, affecting […]

SoilStack users can now push fields and sampling locations into SoilStack via API, make stratification requests and receive sampling locations back within 1-2 business days.

Icons of cooperative construction  – Photo by Shelby Cohron on Unsplash It’s been nearly a year since we first posted about the Common Profile. Since then, we’ve gotten so much excellent, experienced feedback from our partners & community members that we wanted to bring you an update. Thank you for working with us to build […]

Updates based on Fellows feedback Happy spring! Here are some recent developments we’ve made at Our-Sci, based directly on feedback from the OpenTEAM fellows. The fellows program began in 2022, with a goal of  “embedding systems of support to connect land stewards to the OpenTEAM technology ecosystem, simultaneously refining tools.”  Genna Fudin, the fellow working […]

SurveyStack & farmOS Convention Schemas If you missed the most recent farmOS community call, you can catch the recording here: farmOS Conventions Schema Discussion Greg and Octavio from the Our-Sci team presented the recent work they’ve been doing with systematizing conventions for farmOS using json schemas. If you’re interested in documentation, interoperability, or the nuts […]

New Market Module & Hylo Updates We’re pleased to announce some new survey options developed through community input:  When we originally designed our interoperable survey tools like the Common Profile and Hylo Onboarding, we were focused primarily on the needs of farms and farmers. As our community has expanded and worked with these tools locally, […]