Dr. Gyami Shrestha established Carboneers LLC in 2023 as a woman-owned consulting firm dedicated to fostering cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral partnerships and advancing opportunities in earth and environmental systems. Through expert guidance and strategic intelligence, Dr. Shrestha and her team help funders, public agencies and stakeholders translate complex data and 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
Leadership
Dr. Gyami Shrestha is the Founder & CEO of Carboneers LLC, advising individuals, organizations and partnerships grounded in science, society, innovation and systems thinking. She is a globally recognized Earth System Leader and cross-disciplinary scientist whose work sits at the convergence of science, policy, and systems transformation. With over two decades of impact spanning government, academia, the private sector, and international arenas, she advises organizations navigating the most consequential challenges of our time, from climate and carbon systems to artificial intelligence, food security, and sustainable innovation. Previously, Dr. Shrestha led the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program Office, coordinating and advising multi-agency earth system science groups and efforts. She also served as a National Program Leader at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA), where she successfully directed an $8M+ extramural funding program focused on data science and artificial intelligence, while also co-leading or advising over $40M in USDA and interagency investments across key areas such as biomanufacturing, nanotechnology, precision agriculture engineering, climate change, and the social implications of cutting-edge agricultural technologies. With a portfolio spanning academia, non-profit, and private sectors, she has led, advised, and co-authored over 100 impactful products (including the U.S. National Climate Assessment), strategic plans, projects, and public engagement opportunities with both U.S. and international partners. Her professional journey commenced in Nepal, where she assessed the feasibility and impacts of renewable energy and water technologies while launching national and regional women’s rural technology initiatives. Her early academic research focusing on renewable resources, rainwater harvesting, soil carbon sequestration, biochar, prescribed forest fires, air quality, energy technology, and STEM immigrants.
Resume/CV (web version, not detailed)
(Note: Dr. Shrestha’s resume/bio with KPIs is available upon request.)
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 included full chapter PDFs 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 across North America. The USGCRP’s globalchange.gov, where each SOCCR2 chapter and associated metadata were hosted and published, is no longer operational since January 2025. For that reason, an attempt has been made here, on carboneers.org, to maintain public access to this US Government funded decadal assessment of North American carbon cycle research and findings which was designated as a Highly Influential Scientific Assessment per White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidelines.
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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