Susan Trumbore is an American scientist who uses radiocarbon to trace the timescales associated with the flow of carbon through terrestrial ecosystems, including efforts to understand soil organic matter persistence and plant allocation. She maintains a long-standing interest in biosphere-atmosphere exchange of energy, water and trace gases and the role of disturbance in altering those interactions. Current large collaborative projects in the Amazon include the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) near Manaus and the Tanguro Flux Tower Project in Mato Grosso, Brazil. In addition to leading the Processes Department at the MPI for Biogeochemistry, Trumbore is Professor of Earth System Science at UC Irvine. She is editor-in-chief of the new open access journal AGU Advances.

“The Amazon is living outside the conditions it evolved under, with unknown consequences.”