Melissa Iverson

Melissa is a soil scientist, with interests in urban agriculture advocacy and capacity-building, soils education, and soil mapping. She attended the University of British Columbia, where she earned an honours degree (B.Sc.) from the faculty of Land and Food Systems (Global Resource Systems program) and a Master’s degree (M.Sc.) in Soil Science. Her Master’s degree research examined site and soil assessment methods for urban brownfields being reclaimed into food-producing community gardens.

Over the past five years Melissa has worked in both the private and the public sectors on many soils-related studies and has also collaborated on local and nation-wide soil mapping projects. She is a co-creator of the first and only soil map for the city of Vancouver, B.C. and has been working with geomatic specialists at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to assess and update Canada’s national soil map, The Soil Landscapes of Canada. She is currently working as a Soil Scientist with the Integral Ecology Group.