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    	| Team members and project roles | 
  				 
  	
    	| Pyrolysis Cookstove Modeling, Design and Emissions Testing | 
  				
  	            
  	              |  | Dr. Hayet Bennadji: pyrolysis modeling and stove design. | 
  	            
  	              |  | Yu-Chao Chen: stove modeling, design, and testing. | 
  	            
  	              |  | Professor Rufus Edwards (U.C. Irvine): stove design, emissions testing, and human health impacts of stove use. | 
  	            
    	|  | Professor Betta Fisher: pyrolysis and combustion modeling, experimentation on stove design. | 
  	
    	|  | Professor Fred Gouldin: pyrolysis and combustion modeling, experimentation on stove design. | 
  
    |  | Kara Malhotra: stove modeling, design, and testing. | 
  
    |  | Dr. Shaka Shabangu: modeling of pyrolysis of biomass in cookstoves. | 
  
    |  | Dorisel Torres:  biomass fuel assessment in landscapes and communities, cookstove design and field testing, emissions testing | 
  
    | Biochar-based microbial inoculants and biochar impacts on soil biology and nutrient cycling | 
  
    |  | Akio Enders : characterization of biomass feedstocks and biochar in response to pyrolysis temperatures, lab and equipment design. | 
  
    |  | David Guerena: analyzing soil fertility impacts of biochar application at  field and watershed scale in agricultural landscapes. | 
  
    |  | Kelly Hanley: characterization of biochar, lab support, project administration. | 
  
    |  | Professor Johannes Lehmann: modeling of environmental impacts of adoption , biochar characterization, soil impacts of biochar, and project coordination. | 
  
    |  | Dr. Henry Neufeldt, ICRAF: biochar impacts on greenhouse gas emission from soils. | 
  
    |  | Christian Pulver:  woodland biomass management, soil impacts of biochar. | 
  
    |  | Professor Janice Thies: mechanisms of microbe-char interactions for inoculant production and persistence of inoculant organisms in soils; root/microbe interactions with biochar. | 
  
    |  | Dorisel Torres: feedstock biomass assessment in landscapes and communities, cookstove development, emissions testing, biochar impacts on nitrogen cycling in soils. | 
  
    |  | Dr. Steven Vanek: mechanisms of biochar impact on nutrient cycling at the root-soil scale, project coordination and administration, website. |