American Geophysical Union (AGU) has announced that Susan Trumbore has been selected as the Editor in Chief of the new journal, AGU Advances. In her new role, Trumbore will lead AGU Advances in publishing select and timely full-length research articles from across the Earth and space sciences in a fully open access online journal. This journal will focus on publishing papers that have immediate implications and are of interest to researchers across the Earth and space science disciplines, the broader scientific community, policy makers, and the public. In partnership with Wiley publishing, the journal will be available online and will produce approximately 150 to 200 articles per year.
Trumbore is Director of the Department of Biogeochemical Processes at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany. She also holds a part-time appointment as Professor of Earth System Science at the University of California, Irvine, and is Professor in the Faculty of Geosciences and Chemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. Trumbore is an AGU Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and the 2018 recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Earth and Environmental Science.
Before taking on this role at AGU Advances, Trumbore was Editor in Chief of AGU’s journal, Global Biogeochemical Cycles (GBC) from 2014 through 2017. While overseeing GBC, she endeavoured to publish more studies addressing humanity’s influence on biogeochemical cycles and oversaw special issues on the Amazon’s changing role in the global carbon cycle, and regional to global implications of changes in land use. Trumbore’s research focuses on tracing radiocarbon produced during nuclear tests in the 1950s and 60s through vegetation and soils to better understand the role of land in the global carbon cycle. This research also sheds light on basic ecological questions, including how long carbon can be stabilised in soils and the age and growth rates of tropical trees.
In addition to full-length research articles, AGU Advances will publish plain-language summaries and commentaries to interest more general audiences and scientists working across disciplines. Submissions to AGU Advances will be distributed to experts for rapid peer review, resulting in fast publication times and prompt access to high-quality research.
The first issue of AGU Advances is scheduled to be published in the fall of 2019.
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