Steubing died on January 1, 2012, because of a travel accident, in the Augsburg Clinic.
[1][2] In 1958, she had gone to Giessen from stations in Berlin, Greifswald and Potsdam where she had become an assistant at the University's Botanical Institute.
[3] Her research includes articles such as "Mercury in soil and plants from a geological perspective" from January 1991.
[4] Lore Steubing has also been an advocate to an international research group and has carried out many trips to countries.
[5] Steubing has taught ecophysiology courses in native ecosystem plants in Chile.