Mojtaba Zeraatpisheh

Mojtaba Zeraatpisheh is a Postdoctoral Associate in Digital Soil Mapping at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and a Fellow of the Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont. His work focuses on leveraging geospatial technologies and machine learning to investigate soil organic carbon dynamics in diverse ecosystems.

• Ph.D., Geology-Soil Science (Spatial Modeling), Ghent University
• Ph.D., Soil Science (Pedology), Isfahan University of Technology
• M.S., Soil Science (Soil Genesis and Carbon Sequestration), Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources
• B.S., Soil and Water, Azad University

Zeraatpisheh specializes in integrating open-source data, remote sensing, and legacy soil databases to model environmental controls on soil carbon. His research spans arid/semi-arid regions and the northeastern US, emphasizing climate and land-use impacts on carbon sequestration.

Scientific Awards:

• Gund Institute for Environment Fellow

Prior to joining the University of Vermont, he conducted postdoctoral research at Henan University, China, focused on Machine Learning for Soil Mapping and Land Use Change effects on soil health.