Susan Trumbore

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Susan Trumbore
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Born
Susan E. Trumbore
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Carbon cycle
Biogeochemistry [1]
Institutions
Thesis Carbon cycling and gas exchange in soils  (1989)
Doctoral students Mariah Carbone [2]
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Susan E. Trumbore is an earth systems scientist focusing on the carbon cycle and its effects on climate. [1] She is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and a Professor of Earth System Science at University of California, Irvine. She is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences [3] and recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal.

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Education

Trumbore earned her bachelor of science in geology at the University of Delaware in 1981 and doctoral degree in geochemistry from Columbia University in 1989. [4]

Career and research

She held postdoctoral fellowships with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and Lawrence 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 the Max 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 the European Research Council and the Tanguro Flux Project in collaboration with IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) and the Woods Hole Research Centre. [11] [12] [13] Her former doctoral students include Mariah Carbone. [2]

Recognition and awards

Trumbore was elected as a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American 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 the Benjamin 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 future climate change." [6] In 2020 she received the Balzan Prize for Earth System Dynamics. [16] In 2015 she became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. [17]

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References

  1. 1 2 Susan Trumbore publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. 1 2 Carbone, Mariah Suzanne (2007). Partitioning sources of ecosystem respiration: tracking the allocation and residence time of the products of photosynthesis (PhD thesis). OCLC   220925737. ProQuest   304877576.
  3. 1 2 "Susan E. Trumbore". nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
  4. ↑ Trumbore, Susan (1989). Carbon cycling and gas exchange in soils (PhD thesis). Columbia University. OCLC   508116616. ProQuest   303697509.
  5. 1 2 "About Susan Trumbore". UD. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
  6. 1 2 "Susan Trumbore". The Franklin Institute. 2017-11-02. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
  7. ↑ Messmore, Teresa (December 2013). "Carbon researcher is in her element". University of Delaware Messenger. 21 (4).
  8. ↑ "Speakers of the CRC AquaDiva". aq­iva.uni-jena.de. Retrieved 2019-01-23.
  9. ↑ "Members". German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv). 2015-05-13. Retrieved 2019-01-23.
  10. ↑ "Contact". ATTO - Amazon Tall Tower Observatory. Retrieved 2019-01-23.
  11. ↑ Michael W I Schmidt; Margaret S Torn; Samuel Abiven; et al. (5 October 2011). "Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property". Nature . 478 (7367): 49–56. doi:10.1038/NATURE10386. ISSN   1476-4687. PMID   21979045. Wikidata   Q34042303.
  12. ↑ Daniel C. Nepstad; Claudio R. de Carvalho; Eric A. Davidson; et al. (December 1994). "The role of deep roots in the hydrological and carbon cycles of Amazonian forests and pastures". Nature . 372 (6507): 666–669. Bibcode:1994Natur.372..666N. doi:10.1038/372666A0. ISSN   1476-4687. Wikidata   Q59082715.
  13. ↑ Torn, Margaret S.; Trumbore, Susan E.; Chadwick, Oliver A.; Vitousek, Peter M.; Hendricks, David M. (1997). "Mineral control of soil organic carbon storage and turnover". Nature. 389 (6647): 170–173. Bibcode:1997Natur.389..170T. doi:10.1038/38260. S2CID   4408395.
  14. ↑ Anonymous (2005). "New AGU fellows". Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 86 (5): 49. Bibcode:2005EOSTr..86Q..49.. doi: 10.1029/2005eo050007 . ISSN   0096-3941.
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  16. ↑ Balzan Prize 2020
  17. ↑ "Susan Trumbore". leopoldina.org. German Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 26 May 2021.


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