About Carboneers LLC
Carboneers LLC is a woman-owned consulting firm dedicated to fostering cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral solutions to advance opportunities in earth and environmental systems. Through strategic partnerships and expert guidance, we help funders, public agencies and stakeholders translate complex science into actionable decisions. With over 20 years of experience, we empower change-makers to turn innovative ideas into impactful realities.
20+
Years of Leadership Experience
Government, Interagency, Academia, Non-Profit, Private Sector, Funder, Grantee, Researcher, Manager
100+
Publications, Products, Events, Digital Platforms Produced
in collaboration with 1000s of collaborators
10,000+
Global Stakeholders Reached
Via in-person, print and virtual public engagements
Our team represents 20+ years of leadership in government, academia, private and non-profit sectors.
Leadership
Dr. Gyami Shrestha is the Founder, CEO and Principal Consultant of carboneers.org by Carboneers LLC, which advances cross-disciplinary science, data, technology and ethics-based knowledge, investments and narratives. She recently served as National Program Leader at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA), where she led an $8M+ extramural funding program on data science and artificial intelligence while co-leading or advising $40M+ in USDA and interagency investments across biomanufacturing, nanotechnology, precision agriculture engineering, climate change and social impacts of emerging agricultural technologies.
Previously, Dr. Shrestha spearheaded the multiagency U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program Office at the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) under White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) auspices for 11 years. She supported the work of 13+ government agencies representing $100M+ in annual federal science funding for greenhouse gas, carbon and climate research. In collaboration with thousands of program leaders, scientists and stakeholders across all sectors, she catalyzed interagency and community science products, digital knowledge platforms and partnerships, including the first Interagency Carbon Dioxide Removal Coordination (I-CDR-C) Strategy Group, the first federal multiagency CDR database, the decadal USGCRP State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2) with Mexico and Canada, and the first U.S. Carbon Program and North American Carbon Program Leadership Award Program.
With roles spanning academia, non-profit and private sectors, she has led, advised and co-authored over 100 influential products (including the U.S. National Climate Assessment), strategic plans, projects and public engagement opportunities with U.S. and international partners. She began her professional journey in Nepal, assessing the feasibility and impacts of renewable energy and water technologies while helping to launch national and regional women’s rural technology initiatives. Her early academic research focused on renewable resources, rainwater harvesting, soil carbon sequestration, biochar, prescribed forest fires, air quality, energy technology and STEM immigrants. She began her U.S. science policy career as a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in 2009.
Dr. Shrestha volunteers as a Journal Editor for the American Meteorological Society and advises various committees, boards and organizations.
100+
Technical Products, Digital Platforms and Public Events Completed
40+
Organizations, Agencies and Departments successfully partnered or worked with
400+
Collaborators and Team Members Managed
Excerpts of Portfolio, Affiliations and Partners (Current and Past)
See Publications and Public Engagements for additional examples. The catalog below concludes with full chapters from the last U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Assessment on carbon, the Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2), which Dr. Gyami Shrestha co-led with 200+ scientists and practitioners. Since the USGCRP’s globalchange.gov, where each chapter and associated metadata were hosted and published, is no longer operational since early 2025, an attempt has been made here to maintain public access to this federally funded decadal assessment of North American carbon.
Some project highlights
(North American Carbon Program and US Carbon Cycle Science Program-led and US Department of Energy Sponsored)
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Williams, CA, A Andrews, M Brown, KJ Davis, F Hoffman, L Larson, B Poulter, G Shrestha, ET Sundquist, Y Wei, et al. 2023. 2022 North American Carbon Program Science Implementation Plan, Report of the North American Carbon Program. Washington, DC: US Carbon Cycle Science Program, http://dx.doi.org/10.5065/kwe1-w815.
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Report-in-Brief: Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2)
USGCRP, 2018: Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2): A Sustained Assessment Report [Cavallaro, N., G. Shrestha, R. Birdsey, M. A. Mayes, R. G. Najjar, S. C. Reed, P. Romero-Lankao, and Z. Zhu (eds.)]. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, 878 pp., https://doi.org/10.7930/SOCCR2.2018.
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Shrestha, G., 2018: Appendix A. Report development process. In Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2): A Sustained Assessment Report [Cavallaro, N., G. Shrestha, R. Birdsey, M. A. Mayes, R. G. Najjar, S. C. Reed, P. Romero-Lankao, and Z. Zhu (eds.)]. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 810-817, https://doi.org/10.7930/SOCCR2.2018.AppA.
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Shrestha, G., N. Cavallaro, R. Birdsey, M. A. Mayes, R. G. Najjar, S. C. Reed, P. Romero-Lankao, N. P. Gurwick, P. J. Marcotullio, and J. Field, 2018: Preface. In Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2): A Sustained Assessment Report [Cavallaro, N., G. Shrestha, R. Birdsey, M. A. Mayes, R. G. Najjar, S. C. Reed, P. Romero-Lankao, and Z. Zhu (eds.)]. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 5-20, https://doi.org/10.7930/SOCCR2.2018.Preface.
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Shrestha, G., N. Cavallaro, L. Lorenzoni, A. Seadler, Z. Zhu, N. P. Gurwick, E. Larson, R. Birdsey, M. A. Mayes, R. G. Najjar, S. C. Reed, and P. Romero-Lankao, 2018: Highlights. In Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2): A Sustained Assessment Report [Cavallaro, N., G. Shrestha, R. Birdsey, M. A. Mayes, R. G. Najjar, S. C. Reed, P. Romero- Lankao, and Z. Zhu (eds.)]. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 1-4, https://doi.org/10.7930/SOCCR2.2018.Highlights.
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These chapters introduce the carbon cycle—what it is and why it is important. They assess the present state,
trends, and potential future directions of the North American carbon budget—the balance of carbon fluxes,
stocks, and transformations—and how this budget fits into the carbon cycle at a global scale.
Chapter 1 Overview of the Global Carbon Cycle
Chapter 2 The North American Carbon Budget
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These chapters highlight fluxes and processes in social-ecological systems, including urban areas, energy systems, agricultural enterprises, societal institutions, and lands belonging to Indigenous communities. The carbon cycle in these sectors is inextricably linked to human needs and actions as well as to societal decision-making outcomes.
Chapter 3 Energy Systems
Chapter 4 Understanding Urban Carbon Fluxes
Chapter 5 Agriculture
Chapter 6 Social Science Perspectives on Carbon
Chapter 7 Tribal Lands
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These chapters present carbon cycle fluxes and processes in different physical and ecological domains, including the atmosphere, soils, inland and coastal waters, and the coastal ocean, as well as in terrestrial ecosystems such as forests, grasslands, and those in Arctic regions. Understanding these ecosystems is fundamental to assessing and predicting net carbon sources and sinks, including feedbacks to and from the climate system. These ecosystems also represent key carbon reservoirs with sensitivity to changes in climate and atmospheric composition.
Chapter 8 Observations of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Methane
Chapter 9 Forests
Chapter 10 Grasslands
Chapter 11 Arctic and Boreal Carbon
Chapter 12 Soils
Chapter 13 Terrestrial Wetlands
Chapter 14 Inland Waters
Chapter 15 Tidal Wetlands and Estuaries
Chapter 16 Coastal Ocean and Continental Shelves
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These chapters outline future projections of rising atmospheric carbon and its associated consequences. They detail how science can inform decision making at the federal, provincial, state, tribal, and local levels across North America, and how those decisions could affect the carbon cycle in the future.
Chapter 17 Biogeochemical Effects of Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Chapter 18 Carbon Cycle Science in Support of Decision Making
Chapter 19 Future of the North American Carbon Cycle
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Shrestha, G., 2018: Appendix B. Information quality in the assessment. In Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2): A Sustained Assessment Report [Cavallaro, N., G. Shrestha, R. Birdsey, M. A. Mayes,
R. G. Najjar, S. C. Reed, P. Romero-Lankao, and Z. Zhu (eds.)]. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 818-820, https://doi.org/10.7930/SOCCR2.2018.AppB.
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Birdsey, R., N. P. Gurwick, K. R. Gurney, G. Shrestha, M. A. Mayes, R. G. Najjar, S. C. Reed, and P. Romero-Lankao, 2018: Appendix D. Carbon measurement approaches and accounting frameworks. In Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2): A Sustained Assessment Report [Cavallaro, N., G. Shrestha, R. Birdsey, M. A. Mayes, R. G. Najjar, S. C. Reed, P. Romero-Lankao, and Z. Zhu (eds.)]. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 834-838, doi: https://doi.org/10.7930/SOCCR2.2018.AppD.
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