Matt Wallenstein

Read The Forbidden Garden. Botanists who sacrificed their lives to protect an invaluable seed collection during a siege, ensuring its survival for future generations—even as the Soviet government dismissed their work. A powerful lesson in perseverance for today's scientists. a.co/d/fQevmam

Research Field Scientist Company Description: As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of lan...

Soil science job alert! We are hiring a field-based research scientist for our soil research farm in Colorado. #SoilHealth

Join our amazing team of soil scientists working globally to translate soil science into solutions at Syngenta.

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Soil is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and climate change Abstract. It is unequivocal that human activities have increased emissions of greenhouse gases, that this is causing warming, and that these changes will be irreversible for centuries to millennia. Wh...

According to new original research by Koptikke et al (2024) 'soil is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and climate change'. 🌎👇
#soilscience #climatechange #sustainability #soilmanagement
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Does synthetic nitrogen fertilizer burn up soil organic matter? Multiple sources of evidence suggest not. N fertilizer actually slows loss of old SOM and increases microbial biomass. @jordon_wade and I:
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In a new interdisciplinary Nature Climate Change Perspective paper, led by me, @lisgilmore and Rachael Shwom, we offer a critical perspective on #climate and social “tipping points.” 🎁: rdcu.be/d2gBC 🧵

Your Annual Review Isn’t Just About Accomplishments—Here’s My Formula for Success As 2024 winds down, many of us reflect on the year’s accomplishments—and the goals we didn’t quite hit. It’s tempting to focus on what went unfinished, but this year, I’m flipping the script.

I expanded on this idea here:

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Resulting in this formula:

(What you could have achieved in 2024 with current knowledge) - (Actual 2024 accomplishments) = (Amount of learning and growth)

I asked her to conduct a thought experiment:
Imagine you could rerun 2024 knowing everything you know now. The lessons learned, the hindsight insights, the skills you developed—how would you approach the year differently? What might you have accomplished with that knowledge?

Annual performance review season is upon us. In talking to one of my team members who was fretting about all the things that didn't get done rather than celebrating what did, I encouraged her to flip the script and focus on what was learned–and consider the learnings themselves as achievements.

Isn’t the same thing true of the dollar? In the absence of the gold standard isn’t its value entirely based on trust?

This week I’m at the Phytobiomes conference. One of the best for industry-academia science sharing. I’ve been soaking in all the great high quality talks and posters.

A fantastic book- while narrating a key historic development in ag tech- raises evergreen questions about the role of technology in feeding and sustaining the world. A must read for anyone working in the field.

Welcome! I'm a soil scientist aiming to translate scientific advancements into scalable innovations that address farmer challenges. Chief soil scientist at Syngenta; prof emeritus at Colorado St U. Global perspective, and tech-curious. Always learning.

It will be really interesting to see if this spurs innovation, has intended effect, and any unintended consequences.

Welcome!

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:

Lawn maintenance
Car detailer
Architecture intern
Computer help desk
Geologist
Ski Instructor
Shuttle Bus Driver
Car detailer (again)

The next frontier in agriculture Amid the farms and cattle ranches here in northern Colorado, Syngenta’s soil health team is using digital technologies and data science to better understand one of the most pressing issues facing farm...

Agriculture is changing fast and it must to meet the demands of tomorrow while addressing climate change. We’re tackling this head-on with our soil health research, innovating to give farmers tools they can rely on for resilience and sustainability.

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