Seamus Murphy

REDD+ Consultant | Registered Forester

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My name is Seamus Murphy and I’m a forester specializing in stand mensuration and carbon verification. I completed my PhD at SOAS, University of London in 2015 and an MSc in Environmental Forestry at Bangor University in 2019. Currently, I work with Winrock International as a REDD+ Consultant, supporting jurisdictional and project-level carbon offset programs. Previously, I operated as a Verification Forester auditing programs under ACR, ARB, and Verra Standards.

Over the years, I’ve observed brilliant methodologies fail because they were too complex or poorly documented. This sparked my commitment to open source tools and reproducible data science. I document and test workflows and training materials for implementing industry-standard protocols in forest analysis and environmental monitoring (2025a, 2025b, 2025c, 2022c).

Workflows cover applications in LiDAR, RADAR, and multispectral imagery for forest health monitoring, biomass estimation, and carbon verification, implemented through R and Python environments (2023a, 2024a). Field methodologies include protocols for in-situ data scaling, GPS accuracy assessments, and open-source survey deployment systems (2019, 2021a, 2021b, 2022a, 2022b).