Mariah Suzanne Carbone is an American geophysicist who is a professor of Geosciences at the Center for ecosystem science and society, Northern Arizona University.

[4] She moved to the University of California, Irvine for doctoral research, supervised by Susan Trumbore.

[citation needed] Carbon is formed during photosynthesis and contributes to growth, metabolism, and above- and below-ground structures.

Bomb pulse refers to the rapid rise, sharp peak and exponential decline of Carbon-14 that occurred during the 1950s/1960s due to above ground nuclear weapons testing.

Until Carbone's work, it was difficult to measure this respiration at high frequencies, or to understand how flux impacts biotic and abiotic processes.