Bianca Moebius-Clune, PhD

Bianca leads AFT’s national Climate and Soil Health efforts to catalyze a new conventional agriculture in which resilient, economically viable soil health management systems become the norm across America's diverse farms and ranches. Her work focuses on accelerating adoption through applied research, producer and trials networks, technical guidance, training, decision-support tools, and strategic partnerships that connect research, implementation, and producer success. She leads AFT's national biochar portfolio and partnerships to reduce barriers to sustainable biochar integration. She also provides leadership for Advanced Soil Health Training, the Beef Grazing Network’s Producer Economic Resilience Initiative, and other efforts that link soil health, climate resilience, producer profitability, and market opportunities. Her program works across producers, researchers, industry, nonprofit organizations, policymakers, and government agencies to advance practical solutions that help producers build healthy, high-functioning soils, increase resilience, sequester carbon, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions while scaling environmental, economic, and social benefits.

Before joining AFT, Bianca served as the founding Director of the USDA-NRCS Soil Health Division from 2014 to 2021, where she led national development and deployment of soil health strategy, certification and stakeholder training, in-field and laboratory assessment, resource concerns, management planning, outreach to millions of customers, and integration of soil health across conservation programs and practice standards, including development of Soil Carbon Amendment CPS 336. Prior to NRCS, Bianca served on the faculty of Cornell University as a Senior Extension Associate and Lecturer, where her research and extension work focused on agricultural management impacts on soil health and nitrogen dynamics. She also taught Sustainable Soil Management. She has authored numerous scientific, technical, agency policy, and extension publications, and provided trainings nationally and internationally. She holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Cornell University and a B.S. from the University of New Hampshire, all in soil science.