Colin Averill
Applied human-microbiome-project methods and large-scale sequencing to map the forest microbiome and link fungal biodiversity to tree growth and carbon capture, then built a company to restore it.
The record
- Standing
- active practice
- Based
- Funga PBC (founder/CEO); ETH Zurich (affiliated scientist) · United States
- Focus area
- Machine Learning
- Works on
- forest microbiome, soil microbiome restoration, mycorrhizal inoculation, carbon removal, reforestation.
Standing is this studio’s placement of the work, not a ranking of the person, and it is the one line here that is a judgement rather than a cited fact.
The work
Microbial and ecosystem ecologist who led a forest microbiome team in the Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich before founding Funga PBC, which reintroduces native mycorrhizal fungal communities into reforestation and working forests to accelerate carbon removal. Co-founder of SPUN. Now an affiliated scientist at ETH while running Funga full time.
The company and the science are the same argument here, which is worth knowing when reading either: Funga is a commercial venture built on the fungal-biodiversity findings, and it sells the restoration it advocates.
Where to read them
- Colin Averill — lab or personal site
- Funga PBC — the organisation
- Averill et al. (2022) Defending Earth’s terrestrial microbiome, Nature Microbiology
- Funga PBC
- SPUN (co-founder)
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