[4] Burba is a leading figure[5][6][7] in micrometeorology, surface-to-atmosphere exchange of greenhouse gasses, water vapor, heat and momentum, and the direct real-time measurements of carbon emission and sequestration, evaporation and transpiration, and turbulent transport within the atmospheric boundary layer.

He is an author of multiple books[8][9][10][11][12][13][14] on these subjects, used by universities and teaching institutions across the globe,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21] as well as numerous other publications.

[42] After his PhD, Burba worked as a graduate faculty at the University of Nebraska and as a scientist at the LI-COR Biosciences.

In 2022, Burba co-founded CarbonDew, a non-profit climate- and carbon-focused international Community of Practice, that united carbon experts from over 200 organizations to jointly address the negative consequences of climate change by promoting fair and equitable solutions based on direct measurements of GHG exchange in and out of the air.

[43] Burba was educated at Lomonosov Moscow State University and at the University of Nebraska where he received a PhD in 2005[44] in Bio-Atmospheric Sciences for the study of GHG, water, light and energy transport in the natural and agricultural systems, supervised by Professor Shashi Verma.