Susan E. Trumbore is an earth systems scientist focusing on the carbon cycle and its effects on climate.

[1] She is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and a Professor of Earth System Science at University of California, Irvine.

[4] She held postdoctoral 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.

Keck Carbon Cycle Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility, and director of the UCI branch of the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics.

[3] 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.