---
id: engines/methanet
about:
  label: MethaNet
  description: >-
    Ecosphere Blue's planned assessment service for blue-carbon projects, rating
    project performance with methane-risk projections drawn from microbial
    genomic evidence in mangrove sediment.
  tags:
    - blue carbon
    - methane
    - mangrove
    - microbiome
    - carbon credits
tool:
  form: hosted assessment service
  homepage: 'https://www.ecosphereblue.earth/'
  cost: unknown
  licence: unknown
provenance:
  origin: agent
  sources:
    - title: Ecosphere Blue
      url: 'https://www.ecosphereblue.earth/'
    - title: EmergentBiome Molecular Atlas | Blue-carbon methane evidence
      url: 'https://emergentbiome.earth/'
  created: '2026-10-17'
  reviewed: '2026-10-17'
  reviewed_by: 'Claude, from the sources listed'
  status: draft
import:
  source: openai-linkedin-scrape 2026-10-17
  id: DT061
  kind: research_application
  family: knowledge_and_agents
  priority: high
  verified: false
  posts:
    - P024
  posters:
    - 'Jay Gutierrez, Ph.D.'
domains:
  - ecology
  - climate
  - water
relations:
  - predicate: example_of
    target: engines/emergentbiome
    note: >-
      application of (source_claim; exact implementation not independently
      tested)
---
MethaNet is the core offering of Ecosphere Blue, a company that calls itself a molecular-surveillance and intelligence platform for carbon projects. The pitch is to assess how a blue-carbon project is performing, and to project its methane risk, from genomic and geochemical data rather than from vegetation surveys alone, so that credits can be priced against that risk.

It is built on EmergentBiome, the company's molecular evidence atlas, which it says was validated by identifying previously unaccounted-for microbial biomarkers of methane flux in mangrove sediment samples. The atlas itself links genes and genome records to sampling context and review questions, and is explicit that it is not a credit or tonnage estimate.

Pricing, licence and how the service is delivered are not stated. Status: proposed. The Ecosphere Blue page carries a "coming soon" label, and the EmergentBiome page describes its current stage as molecular diligence and measurement planning, with the internal model not yet independently reviewed and a field test as the next step.