Advancing quality in forest carbon

Josh joins Greenline Climate with nearly 15 years of experience across the institutional timberland investment and natural capital sectors. Prior to Greenline Climate, Josh served as Vice President of Corporate Development for Kimmeridge, where he was responsible for the corporate development of Chestnut Carbon, LLC. Prior to Kimmeridge, Josh served as Investment Forester for the International Woodland Company (IWC) in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he was responsible for the assessment and advisory of a U.S. timberland portfolio (USD >$4B).

Previously, Josh held various roles at Resource Management Service (RMS) – timberland acquisition and disposition analytics, forest inventory analysis, harvest scheduling and linear optimization, and retail land sale valuations. Josh began his career as a Forest Manager with Molpus Woodlands Group where he oversaw the timberland asset management function in the Western Gulf region. Josh holds a B.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Policy and a Master of Forest Business Economics, both from Clemson University.

Jeff Cole is a seasoned advisor and leader with extensive experiences in carbon finance, sustainability and climate performance management. Over his career he has played a pivotal role in delivering enterprise scale ESG solutions to Fortune 500 firms. As the General Manager of Shell’s North America Nature Based Solutions business he led the strategic effort to grow Shell’s NBS portfolio in the US and Canada through high-quality conservation and restoration projects.

Ethel is an environmental scientist by training who has over 15 years experience working with diverse stakeholders on natural resource and sustainability projects. Her expertise includes climate change mitigation and adaptation, stream ecology and watershed management, and ecosystem service markets. She has served as the program manager for studies on carbon offsets, forestry and watershed management, recreation management, and fisheries restoration and diversification. Ethel is based in Maine, where she serves as President of her community’s land trust and a Girl Scout leader. She has a Master of Environmental Science and Master of Public Affairs (MSES/MPA) from Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

Dr. Santosh Subedi leads development and maintenance of US forest carbon offset projects, ensuring compliance with standards, methods, and protocols adopted by American Carbon Registry and California Air Resources Board. Santosh is a forest biometrician with expertise in growth and yield modeling, forest optimization, inventory data processing, model developments, forest soils, and ecophysiology of southern pine stands. Santosh has spent the past ten years working with TIMOs, REITs, and private landowners to solve environmental and financial issues. Santosh has a B.S. in forest science from Institute of Forestry at Tribhuvan University, an M.S. in silviculture and biometrics from the University of Georgia, and a Ph.D. in tree ecophysiology and forest modeling from Virginia Tech.

Sean works on the development and maintenance of U.S. forest carbon offset projects for Greenline Climate’s quantitative carbon team. Sean has worked in all major US forest areas during his over 20 years in global forest inventory and biometrics. Sean’s areas of expertise include forest inventory design, management, and compilation; growth and yield model development, validation, application, and comparison; statistical analysis; data management, processing, summarization, and reporting, and forest inventory support. He received a B.S. in Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University, an M.S. in Forest Biometrics from Michigan State University, an M.S. in Statistics from Oregon State University, and a Ph.D. in Forest Modeling from Oregon State University.

James Cwiklik is responsible for the development, coordination and completion of forest carbon offset projects. He has six years of experience in forest carbon and has been involved in the audit of more than 50 projects across the voluntary and compliance carbon markets. He previously served as lead verification forester and technical manager at SCS Global Services, before which he spent several years as a field forester. James is a California Air Resources Board Lead Verifier. James holds a B.A. in Environment Studies from University of Pittsburgh and a M.S. in Forestry from Michigan Technological University.

Mike Milnar supports Greenline Climate’s project managers and technical staff in the development, coordination and completion of forest carbon projects. Prior to joining Greenline Climate, Mike was a research specialist at Princeton University, where he developed methods to assess the emissions impacts of land use change. He also served as an environmental specialist in the Peace Corps. Mike has a MS in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy from the University of Minnesota and a BS in Forest Management from Colorado State University.

Keith is responsible for developing and managing forest carbon offset projects at Greenline Climate. Keith has over twelve years managing conservation forestry projects and programs. For the past seven years he has developed and implemented a wide variety of forest restoration and wildfire mitigation projects across the Colorado Front Range. Keith has additional expertise in forest management planning and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification system. Keith is a Certified Forester and holds a Masters of Environmental Science from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He hails from northern New Mexico and is based in Boulder, Colorado.