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  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
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  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2020 - International Balzan Prize
  • 2019 - Marsh Award for Climate Change Research, British Ecological Society
  • 2018 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry
  • 2018 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute
  • 2015 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences
  • 2010 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2005 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Susan E. Trumbore is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science, with significant contributions in the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work covers various main topics, including Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Forest Ecology and Management, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Several recent papers authored by Susan E. Trumbore include:

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO 2, 2020, New Phytologist
  • The age distribution of global soil carbon inferred from radiocarbon measurements, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Agricultural acceleration of soil carbonate weathering, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • An open-source database for the synthesis of soil radiocarbon data: International Soil Radiocarbon Database (ISRaD) version 1.0, 2020, Earth System Science Data
  • Impacts of Degradation on Water, Energy, and Carbon Cycling of the Amazon Tropical Forests, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

The most frequent co-authors working with Susan E. Trumbore are:

  • Alison M. Hoyt
  • Carlos A. Sierra
  • Kirsten Küsel
  • Sebastian Döetterl
  • Marion Schrumpf

The scientist often publishes in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • AGU Advances
  • Biogeosciences
  • Global Change Biology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Awards and honors received by Susan E. Trumbore include:

  • International Balzan Prize, 2020
  • Member of Academia Europaea, 2020
  • Marsh Award for Climate Change Research, British Ecological Society, 2019
  • Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute, 2018
  • Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry, 2018
  • German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2015 (Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2005
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2005

Best Publications

  • Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

    Michael W. I. Schmidt;Margaret S. Torn;Margaret S. Torn;Samuel Abiven;Thorsten Dittmar;Thorsten Dittmar

  • Mineral control of soil organic carbon storage and turnover

    Margaret S. Torn;Susan E. Trumbore;Oliver A. Chadwick;Peter M. Vitousek

  • The role of deep roots in the hydrological and carbon cycles of Amazonian forests and pastures

    Daniel C. Nepstad;Claudio R. de Carvalho;Eric A. Davidson;Peter H. Jipp;Peter H. Jipp

  • Plant diversity increases soil microbial activity and soil carbon storage

    Markus Lange;Nico Eisenhauer;Carlos Sierra;Holger Bessler

  • AGE OF SOIL ORGANIC MATTER AND SOIL RESPIRATION: RADIOCARBON CONSTRAINTS ON BELOWGROUND C DYNAMICS

    Susan E. Trumbore

  • Forest health and global change

    Susan E. Trumbore;P. Brando;Henrik Hartmann

  • Spatial separation of litter decomposition and mycorrhizal nitrogen uptake in a boreal forest

    Björn D. Lindahl;Katarina Ihrmark;Johanna Boberg;Susan E. Trumbore

  • Sensitivity of boreal forest carbon balance to soil thaw

    M. L. Goulden;S. C. Wofsy;J. W. Harden;Susan E. Trumbore

  • Rapid exchange between soil carbon and atmospheric carbon dioxide driven by temperature change

    Susan E. Trumbore;Oliver A. Chadwick;Ronald Amundson

  • The southwest Indian Monsoon over the last 18 000 years

    Jonathan Overpeck;Jonathan Overpeck;David Anderson;Susan Trumbore;Warren Prell

  • Routing of meltwater from the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the Younger Dryas cold episode

    Wallace S. Broecker;James P. Kennett;Benjamin P. Flower;James T. Teller

  • Rapid accumulation and turnover of soil carbon in a re-establishing forest

    Daniel D. Richter;Daniel Markewitz;Susan E. Trumbore;Carol G. Wells

  • Understanding the roles of nonstructural carbohydrates in forest trees – from what we can measure to what we want to know

    Henrik Hartmann;Susan E. Trumbore

  • Soil carbon cycling in a temperate forest: radiocarbon-based estimates of residence times, sequestration rates and partitioning of fluxes

    Julia B. Gaudinski;Susan E. Trumbore;Eric A. Davidson;Shuhui Zheng

  • Controls over carbon storage and turnover in high-latitude soils

    Sarah E. Hobbie;Joshua P. Schimel;Susan E. Trumbore;James R. Randerson

  • Carbon respired by terrestrial ecosystems – recent progress and challenges

    Susan E. Trumbore

  • Radiocarbon and Soil Carbon Dynamics

    Susan E. Trumbore

  • Belowground cycling of carbon in forests and pastures of eastern Amazonia

    Susan E Trumbore;Eric A Davidson;Pli­nio Barbosa de Camargo;Daniel C Nepstad

  • Rapid climate changes in the tropical Atlantic region during the last deglaciation

    Konrad A. Hughen;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Larry C. Peterson;Susan Trumbore

  • Biogeochemistry: Soil warming and organic carbon content

    Eric A. Davidson;Susan E. Trumbore;Ronald Amundson

  • Moss and soil contributions to the annual net carbon flux of a maturing boreal forest

    J. W. Harden;K. P. O'Neill;Susan E. Trumbore;H. Veldhuis

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric A. Davidson
Eric A. Davidson University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Jennifer W. Harden
Jennifer W. Harden United States Geological Survey
Jeffrey Q. Chambers
Jeffrey Q. Chambers Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Margaret S. Torn
Margaret S. Torn Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kirsten Küsel
Kirsten Küsel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Niro Higuchi
Niro Higuchi National Institute of Amazonian Research
Gerd Gleixner
Gerd Gleixner Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Marion Schrumpf
Marion Schrumpf Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Shaun R. Levick
Shaun R. Levick Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Plínio Barbosa de Camargo
Plínio Barbosa de Camargo Universidade de São Paulo

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