Gabriel Burns, Senior Technical Manager, Forestry, provides technical expertise to support forest carbon offset projects in the California compliance and voluntary markets. He is responsible for reviewing project listing applications, data reporting, verification and the development and approval of new quantification methodologies.

Prior to joining the ACR team, Gabriel worked for over a decade in both the public and private sectors as a forest climate and carbon specialist. Most recently, Gabriel worked for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources – Division of Forestry, where he helped build a DoF climate change program, oversaw timber harvest sales operations, and managed a multi-stakeholder effort to model changes in forest carbon stocks based on a multitude of counterfactual scenarios inputted into the carbon budget model of the Canadian Forest Service (CBM-CFS3). Ahead of joining the DNR, Gabriel worked as a technical consultant for UNIQUE Forestry and Land-Use, based in Freiburg Germany, as part of an MRV task team within the climate division. During his time with UNIQUE, Gabriel helped develop a forestry NAMA in India, implement and monitor an IFM project in China, and author and field-test a water impact and assessment methodology used to quantify the water benefits from sustainable agriculture and land management interventions in Kenya and surrounding African countries. Gabriel Holds a Bachelor of Forestry and Natural Resource Management from the University of Minnesota and a Master’s in Silviculture from the University of Freiburg, Germany.