Our Vision and History

Envisioning a world where farms and food producers thrive, while ensuring clean and healthy waterways for all!

GSR’s origins began at the turn of this century, when its co-founders were developing a new approach to the general systems theory for understanding complex self-organizing adaptive ecological systems that may not be easily modeled.

This work led them from applying their general systems research (GSR) concept for the ecosystem at the foothills of the Himalayas in India to a nutrients-related project at the University of Maryland in 2001, where they worked with leading scientists focused on the elevation of nitrogen and phosphorus in Chesapeake Bay. In the following year, they moved from the Middle Atlantic region to the the Northeastern region with their teaching and research affiliations with the University of Vermont where the nutrient runoff issue in Lake Champlain Basin was difficult to ignore. They worked on building an ecosystem services platform and continued their research efforts to formulate and test concepts of nutrient recovery. After almost a decade of effort in building a novel systems approach, they extended their passion for general systems and firsthand experience with Chesapeake Bay and Lake Champlain health issues into creating value from waste nutrient inflows, and in 2008 created the General Systems Research (GSR) company that led to developing cutting-edge technologies to manage nutrient runoff. Their vision evolved into transforming agricultural, food, and industrial nutrient waste into value in order to serve the nexus of the food, water, and energy markets with the purpose of maintaining pristine complex natural systems. With this vision, they reorganized the company as GSR Solutions LLC in 2014 to:

• Create high-value products from rapidly growing waste streams for rapidly growing market sectors using GSR’s patented technology solutions to provide benefits to waste-generating host site operations
• Capture waste stream nutrients, preferably at the point of production, to improve regional water quality by reducing nutrient runoff forming near eutrophic or dead zones in natural water bodies such as Lake Champlain, Lake Erie, Chesapeake Bay, the Gulf of Mexico, as well as other estuaries, basins, and rivers extending to oceans, thereby threatening freshwater and aquatic food sources, increasing waste treatment costs, reducing property values, and affecting tourism revenues and public health
• Reduce waste treatment costs amid the population increase that is causing food and freshwater scarcity and enable the growth of businesses by addressing waste treatment limitations

Our Historical Milestones

Several years of GSR’s continuous R&D efforts, supported by well-known US regulatory agencies (the EPA, USDA, DOE, and NSF) led to the development of cutting-edge solutions springing from microbiological dynamics for converting excessive nutrients affecting natural water bodies and greatly costing municipalities and industries into high-value products.

GSR has continued to develop technology solutions and expand its collection of proprietary high-performance strains including various types of microalgae and supporting microbes that can efficiently feed on nutrients in industrial and agricultural waste streams for producing products such as fertilizer, soil amendments, nutritional & pharmaceutical products, animal feed (for aquaculture and livestock), and liquid fuel while simultaneously treating wastewaters for water reclamation for meeting the demands of the growing global population.

Since then, GSR has refined its technology by incorporating carbon into its processes, endorsed by its end users, proven its functionality, developed proprietary intellectual property, and readied it for commercial applications. GSR’s go-to-market development was formalized in 2018. GSR has developed and worked with a network of industry-leading partners and stakeholders, agricultural livestock farms, food & beverage industries, and others, with an interest in its technology’s ability to create value from waste, improve business operations, and produce local to global sustainable products.

Who We Are

GSR Solutions LLC (“GSR”), built on the foundation of a prior company, was reorganized in Burlington, Vermont in 2014 with a mission to provide biotechnology-based commercial solutions to turnaround the problem of managing waste nutrients generated by agricultural livestock farms, food & beverage factories, and other large industries processing organic material contributing to water pollution. Nutrients runoff is heavily regulated by the federal and state agencies, including EPA, USDA, and state agricultural agencies. Farms and Food industries have limited solutions. GSR was built on a prior R&D company organized in 2008, called General Systems Research LLC, which aimed to foster innovation in bioenergy and support emerging businesses. GSR’s cutting edge proprietary biotech has found successful commercial application in the dairy industry for converting dairy manure effluent into marketable organic fertilizers. Additional applications are currently under development.

Leadership & Team

GSR Solutions is led and managed by experts in cutting-edge biotechnologies, business, fulfillment, and marketing, dedicated to serving the food, water, and energy markets. Our highly accomplished team brings expertise from various fields, including agriculture, environmental science, engineering, waste-to-energy, bioenergy, nutrient recovery solutions, algal-based bio jet fuel/SAF, anaerobic digestion for CHP and RNG, marketing and sales, supply chain management, and strategic business development.

Below is an introduction to our leadership team and key advisors. We are proud to have several other accomplished members and experts who contribute to our success, not all of whom are listed here.

Our Partners and Stakeholders