About
Before we started OpenCurrent, we were (and still are) academics and innovators focused on harmonizing disparate datasets to maximize their value to society. That work produced MacroSheds and AquaSat. On those foundations we built models and tools to understand how headwaters function and change, and to democratize remote sensing of water quality. We started OpenCurrent to bring these innovations to the water resource sector at scale.
Who we are
Matt and Mike have spent years assembling, cleaning, and publishing the environmental datasets that watershed science runs on, and turning them into models that agencies and researchers use. Adam has spent his career structuring projects in which landowners, conservation interests, and governments all come out ahead.
OpenCurrent puts those two kinds of experience together for the people who manage water: utilities, watershed groups, and agencies that need to see change coming and want to run the tools themselves.
Track record
An open platform integrating stream chemistry, discharge, precipitation, and watershed attributes from hundreds of long-term monitoring sites, drawn from the many agencies and networks that collect them.
The largest inland water-quality matchup dataset ever assembled, pairing in-situ measurements with satellite imagery so agencies and researchers can build remote sensing models at continental scale.
A collaborative platform for continuous stream sensor data and ecosystem metabolism modeling, contributed to by hundreds of researchers.
Public dashboards and internal data-sharing architecture for the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest's long-term precipitation and stream chemistry record, one of the longest continuous watershed datasets in the world. Mike manages the chemistry record.
A new hub connecting scholars and experts interested in saltwater intrusion and sea level rise, where collaborators can find each other and share data, publications, and stories from the field.
The team
Co-founder & CEO
Associate Professor of Watershed Science at Colorado State University and Faculty Director of CSU's Geospatial Centroid. Matt leads the ROSSyndicate lab and is a principal investigator on MacroSheds and AquaSat. His research focuses on improving how we use data and models to make better environmental decisions. PhD in Ecology, Duke University.
Co-founder & Business Development Lead
Founder and President of RiverBank, a leading environmental mitigation and conservation banking firm. Adam leads strategic planning and business development at OpenCurrent. His background spans environmental science, policy, and business, and he has a knack for finding the arrangement in which landowners, conservationists, and governments all win. He serves on the Board of Visitors of the UNC Institute for the Environment.
Co-founder & Technical Lead
Lead developer of MacroSheds and StreamPULSE, and data manager for the Hubbard Brook long-term water chemistry record at HBWatER. Mike builds the pipelines that turn raw, inconsistent environmental records into datasets and models people can trust.
We are glad to discuss pilots, partnerships, and collaborations at any stage.
