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Director, U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program Office, contact @ gshrestha[at]usgcrp[dot]gov, http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7150-8731
Dr. Gyami Shrestha, has been directing the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program Office activities for the Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group (CCIWG) under U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) auspices since 2011. The Program's mission is to coordinate and facilitate federally funded carbon cycle research, and provide leadership to the USGCRP on carbon cycle science priorities. Distributed among 14 U.S. agencies and departments, the Program's domestic and international portfolio helps to catalyze coordinated scientific advances and U.S. government strategies in collaboration with the science community, including the North American Carbon Program (NACP) and the Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program (OCB). Interfacing with global scientists, funders and stakeholders, Dr. Shrestha supports, leads, conceptualizes and executes, multi-agency coordination activities, interagency funding, partnerships, communication, research, assessments, public engagement, digital information and social media activities on carbon, climate change and pertinent environmental themes across land, air, ocean and societal interfaces. She co-led the Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2), a decadal U.S. government, North America-wide USGCRP special sustained climate assessment report, with over 200 scientists. Prior to joining the Program, she spent a decade on research, management and consulting in academia and non-profit organizations, such as the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), University of California Merced and International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). Gyami holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Systems (incl. Air Quality and Health Training Certificate) from the University of California Merced, a double M.S. in Soil Science & Water Resources with Restoration Ecology Certificate from the University of Wyoming, and a B.Sc. (Honors) in Environmental Sciences (Natural Resources Management focus) from Kathmandu University, in addition to recent professional certificates in senior executive management, leadership and sustainability from Harvard University and Georgetown University.
Selected PUBLICATIONS
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., doi: 10.7930/SOCCR2.2018