Seris Forest Analytics · Forest reporting interoperability
U.S. forest data, translated into the evidence international regulators, carbon markets and reporting frameworks accept.
Coordinating lead author of USDA's forest-sector greenhouse gas methods. Lead analyst for the United States' submission to FAO's Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025.
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Highlights
Quantifying greenhouse gas sources and sinks in managed forest systems, adopted federally for NEPA analyses and grant monitoring. U.S. Forest Service Chief's Award, 2024.
USDA Technical Bulletin 1939, Ch. 5 · 2024
The United States' submission to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's global forest reporting.
USDA Forest Service · 2024
The 2020 U.S. national report on more than 50 indicators under the Montreal Process.
USDA Forest Service FS-1217
The supply-base risk assessment that lets U.S. exporters of certified wood pellets demonstrate EU RED III compliance.
Sustainable Biomass Program · 2025
Appointed to review national greenhouse gas reporting under the UN climate convention.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Forestry Analytics for Carbon Tracking, a USDA-sponsored platform built with the USDA Forest Service, NCASI and industry.
U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities
The principal
Lara Murray founded Seris Forest Analytics in 2025 after five years with USDA Forest Service Research and Development, where she was national lead on forest carbon and sustainability reporting, coordinating lead author of the federal forest-sector greenhouse gas methods, and lead analyst for the United States' submission to FAO's Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025.
Before that, at Winrock International, she developed greenhouse gas accounting tools and supported national forest monitoring and REDD+ programs in Guyana, Ghana and Malawi. She holds an MSc from the EU Erasmus Mundus Sustainable Tropical Forestry program at the University of Copenhagen and TU Dresden, and works in English, Portuguese and Italian.
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Practice
Supply-base risk assessments, compliance procedures and regional evidence built on national forest inventory data, for the EU Deforestation Regulation, EU RED III and certification standards such as SBP.
Built on · Author of SBP's RED III Level B LULUCF Guidance; analysis of FAO monitoring standards and what U.S. FAO reporting means for EUDR benchmarking.
Greenhouse gas accounting methods, carbon stock estimation, methodology review and carbon project feasibility, held to the methods that inventories are judged against.
Built on · Coordinating lead author of USDA's forest-sector GHG quantification methods; creator of the USAID AFOLU Carbon Calculator.
Delivered as technical reports, methodology reviews, briefings for decision-makers, training and data tools. Scientific evidence advisory, not legal advice; Seris works alongside your counsel.
Engagements
Authored the RED III Level B LULUCF Guidance for U.S. biomass producers, a step-by-step supply-base risk assessment built on USDA FIA data, and assessed forest carbon stock compliance for feedstock from Estonia and Latvia.
Technical consultant on the development and launch of FACT, which quantifies carbon in forests and harvested wood products across the value chain.
Translated forest and climate data into defensible policy positions, including FAO monitoring standards, FIA alignment and EUDR benchmarking.
Assessed carbon project potential using national forest datasets, first-order carbon accumulation modeling and methodology review, built into evaluation procedures and mapping tools.
Record
Publications
Complete list on Google Scholar.
Correspondence
Engagements are scoped individually, against the decision the work has to support.
Request a proposalOr write directly: lara@serisforestanalytics.com
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