Award Ceremony to Director Susan Trumbore

Award ceremony (Copyright Franklin Institute)
For the awardee, this also meant a busy week with a symposium on the global carbon cycle at the University of Delaware, seminars, interviews and filming. The highlight was the festive celebration with the presentation of the medal for her merits in Earth system research.
Susan Trumbore received this special award for her groundbreaking use of radiocarbon measurements in forests and soils to assess the carbon flux between the biosphere and the atmosphere. Her research thus makes an important contribution to understanding climate change.