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| Born | Susan E. Trumbore |
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| Fields | Carbon cycle Biogeochemistry[1] |
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| Thesis | Carbon cycling and gas exchange in soils (1989) |
| Doctoral students | Mariah Carbone[2] |
| Website | www |
Susan E. Trumbore is anearth systems scientist focusing on thecarbon cycle and its effects on climate.[1] She is a director at theMax Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and a Professor of Earth System Science atUniversity of California, Irvine. She is a fellow of theAmerican Geophysical Union and theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science, aMember of the National Academy of Sciences[3] and recipient of theBenjamin Franklin Medal.
Trumbore earned her bachelor of science in geology at theUniversity of Delaware in 1981 and doctoral degree in geochemistry fromColumbia University in 1989.[4]
She heldpostdoctoralfellowships with theSwiss Federal Institute of Technology andLawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and joined the faculty at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 1991.[5][6] She is currently[when?] a Professor of Earth System Science at UCI, co-director the W.M. Keck Carbon Cycle Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility, and director of the UCI branch of the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics. She has also been a director at theMax Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry since 2009.[5][7]Trumbore is a member of the speaker team for the Collaborative Research Center 'AquaDiva'[8] and a member of the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research 'iDiv'[9] She is a co-coordinator of the joint Brazilian/German'ATTO' project.[10]
Other projects include 14Constraint, funded by an advanced grant from theEuropean Research Council and the Tanguro Flux Project in collaboration with IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) and theWoods Hole Research Centre.[11][12][13] Her former doctoral students includeMariah Carbone.[2]
Trumbore was elected as afellow of theAmerican Geophysical Union and theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science in 2005.[14][15] She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010.[3] Trumbore was recognized with theBenjamin Franklin Medal in 2018 for "her pioneering use of radiocarbon measurements in forests and soils to assess the flow of carbon between the biosphere and atmosphere, with implications for the understanding of futureclimate change."[6] In 2020 she received theBalzan Prize for Earth System Dynamics.[16] In 2015 she became a member of theGerman Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[17]
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