About

Bhu — earth, soil, ground.

The name is the whole argument. Carbon removal that does not leave the soil better is not a business a farmer has any reason to join, and a soil programme that cannot prove its removal is not one a buyer has any reason to fund. Both have to hold.

Work with us

Three field workers with a farmer at the edge of a young crop. A woman takes notes on a clipboard while a man shows the farmer a handful of soil; a third crouches to fill a sample bag beside an open equipment case, a bucket and a backpack. Logos and labels are obscured.

What we are doing

A long programme, started properly.

Bhu Carbon removes atmospheric CO₂ through enhanced rock weathering on Indian farmland. Finely crushed basalt is spread on cultivated land, where it weathers and converts dissolved CO₂ into bicarbonate — permanently, on a geological timescale — while correcting acidity and returning nutrients to the soil.

We are early. Rather than open with ambition, this site opens with method: what we measure, how the measurement is kept honest, and where the approach is difficult. Those are the things that can be judged today, and they are the things that determine whether anything claimed later is worth believing.

The farmers we work with are smallholders. That shapes every decision — the application has to fit an existing season, the soil card has to arrive in Hindi and in a format already familiar, and the reason to take part has to be visible in the field, not only in a registry.

Our team

The people building Bhu Carbon.

Geochemists and a geologist working on how enhanced rock weathering is measured, and a data scientist who builds the systems those measurements are recorded in.

Shaifullah, PhD
Founder & CEO
More about Shaifullah, PhD
His work bridges fundamental Earth science with the measurement and implementation of scientifically rigorous carbon removal.
Focus
Chemical weathering and carbon cycling
Enhanced rock weathering
Isotope hydrology
Soil–water–rock interactions
Geochemical carbon-removal MRV
Field and laboratory operations, including ICP-MS and ICP-OES
Background
Education
Ph.D., Earth Sciences (Geochemistry) — IIT Kanpur
Previously
Geochemist & Lab Manager, Alt Carbon
Imran Khan, PhD
Scientific Advisor
More about Imran Khan, PhD
A geologist with the Department of Geology, Aligarh Muslim University, who brings field geology, sedimentary processes, geophysical methods and geochronology to Bhu Carbon’s work on scientifically robust carbon removal.
Focus
Quaternary geology
Sedimentology
Geophysical investigations
Sedimentary systems
OSL / luminescence dating
Background
Education
Graduation and post-graduation, Geology — Aligarh Muslim University
M.Tech., Engineering Geoscience — IIT Kanpur
Ph.D., Sedimentology — IIT Kanpur
Previously
Guest Ph.D. Fellow, Aarhus University, Denmark — luminescence dating
Biswajit Panda, PhD
Senior Geochemist
More about Biswajit Panda, PhD
Applies water and isotope chemistry to the question at the centre of enhanced rock weathering: tracing where weathered rock carries carbon, and measuring it rigorously.
Focus
Hydrogeochemistry
Isotope geochemistry
Enhanced rock weathering
Carbon removal
Background
Education
Ph.D., Earth Sciences — Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Previously
Geochemist, Alt Carbon — carbon removal
Juzer Shaikh, PhD
Senior Scientist & Analytical Lead
More about Juzer Shaikh, PhD
An analytical geochemist with hands-on experience of high-end instrumentation, including ICP-MS and MC-ICP-MS. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Minnesota, he has recently moved to Princeton University for a second postdoctoral tenure.
Focus
Analytical geochemistry
Geochemistry
ICP-MS
MC-ICP-MS
Background
Education
Ph.D., Geochemistry — Centre for Earth Sciences, IISc Bengaluru
Previously
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota
Nihal-ud-din, M.Sc.
Tech Lead & Data Scientist
More about Nihal-ud-din, M.Sc.
Leads the software and data systems that turn field and laboratory measurements into a verifiable carbon-removal record.
Focus
Software and data systems
Machine learning
Production AI features
Background
Education
M.Sc., Physics — NIT Srinagar, with thesis research at IIT Kanpur
Previously
CTO, DRCFO — hospital management system
Software engineer

How we work

Science owns the question. Technology owns the record.

Most of what goes wrong in carbon removal software goes wrong at the seam between the people who define a measurement and the people who implement it. So the seam is written down, and both sides are held to it.

Division of ownership between the science and technology functions.
Science owns	Technology owns	Shared
What is measured, and why	Capture, storage, versioning	The data schema — science defines the fields, technology defines types and constraints
Model equations and parameters	Model execution, reproducibility, scale	The model registry, and the discipline of versioning it
Sampling design intent	Sampling logistics and optimisation tooling	Uncertainty quantification
Interpretation of registry protocol	Evidence package generation	Audit readiness

Two rules keep it from eroding. Any change to a field schema requires a written note explaining it, because you cannot go back and re-collect last season's soil sample. And the scientific models live in one place, authored by the scientists, and are executed rather than reimplemented. A model that exists in two copies has one wrong copy and no way to tell which.

Careers

We hire slowly and specifically.

If you work on soil science, geochemistry, MRV, or the kind of data infrastructure that has to survive an audit, write to us and say what you would want to own.

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Bhu — earth, soil, ground.

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