Susan Trumbore

Susan E. Trumbore
Alma mater	University of Delaware (B.S.) Columbia University (Ph.D.)
Awards	Benjamin Franklin Medal
Scientific career
Fields	biogeochemistry
Institutions	Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry University of California, Irvine

Susan Trumbore is an earth systems scientist known for research to understand the carbon cycle and its impacts on climate. She is director of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and a Professor of Earth System Science at University of California, Irvine. She has been recognized with fellowship in the American Geophysical Union and American Association for the Advancement of Science, membership in the National Academy of Sciences, and award of the Benjamin Franklin Medal.

Education and career

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. She held post-doctoral 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. She is currently 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 the director of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry since 2009.

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. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010. 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."