
Matt Ross, PhD
Co-founder and CEO
Associate professor of watershed sciences at Colorado State University
Before we started OpenCurrent, we were (and still are!) academics and innovators who have a focus on harmonizing disparate datasets to maximize their use to society. These efforts produced MacroSheds and AquaSat. With these datasets, we built a suite of models and tools to better understand how headwaters function and change, and how to democratize remote sensing of water quality. We started OpenCurrent to bring these innovations to the water resource sector at scale.
Co-founder and CEO
Associate professor of watershed sciences at Colorado State University
Co‑founder & Business Development Lead
Founder and President of RiverBank, a leading environmental mitigation banking firm
Co-founder and Technical Lead
Lead developer of environmental data syntheses MacroSheds, StreamPULSE, and HBWater