About Anna Raffeld

Anna Raffeld

Senior Research Analyst, Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

Work

Areas of expertise:

Cropland greenhouse gas mitigation, soil carbon sequestration, nitrous oxide emissions, agricultural practice adoption and biochar.

Anna is a senior research analyst on EDF’s Science and Innovation team, focused on cropland greenhouse gas mitigation. She works on a variety of research related to soil carbon sequestration, nitrous oxide emissions, agricultural practice adoption, and biochar. More recently she has begun to support other emerging projects related to FireSat, a new fire detection satellite, and biofuels.

Background

Anna received a BS from Brown University in 2018 and a Masters of Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment in 2021, where she studied the intersection of agriculture and nature-based climate solutions. Anna also holds a graduate certificate in Geospatial Information Sciences from the University of Maryland. She joined EDF immediately after graduating from her master’s program. 

Publications

Raffeld, A.M., Bradford, M.A., Jackson, R.D., Rath, D., Sanford, G.R., Tautges, N., Oldfield, E.E. 2024. The importance of accounting method and sampling depth to estimate changes in soil carbon stocks. Carbon Balance and Management, 19(2). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13021-024-00249-1

Buma, B., Gordon, D.R., Kleisner, K.M., Bartuska, A., Bidlack, A., DeFries, R., Ellis, P., Friedlingstein, P., Metzger, S., Morgan, G., Novick, K., Sanchirico, J.N., Collins, J.R., Eagle, A.J., Fujita, R., Holst, E., Lavallee, J.M., Lubowski, R.N., Melikov, C., Moore, L.A., Oldfield, E.E., Paltseva, J., Raffeld, A.M., Randazzo, N.A., Schneider, C., Uludere Aragon, N., Hamburg, S.P. 2024. Expert review of the science underlying nature-based climate solutions. Nature Climate Change, 21:1-5. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-01960-0

Oldfield, E.E., Lavallee, J.M., Blesh, J., Bradford, M.A., Cameron-Harp, M., Cotrufo, M.F., Eagle, A.J., Eash, L., Even, R.J., Kuebbing, S.E., Kort, E.A., Lark, T.J., Latka, C., Lin, Y., Machmuller, M.B., O’Neill, B., Raffeld, A.M., RoyChowdhury, T., Rudek, J., Sanderman, J., Sprunger, C.D., Toombs, T.P., Uludere Aragon, N., Vidal, M., Woolf, D., Zelikova, T.J., Gordon, D.R. 2024. Greenhouse gas mitigation on croplands: clarifying the debate on knowns, unknowns and risks to move forward with effective management intervention. Carbon Management, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/17583004.2024.2365896

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