Margaret Torn's Current Grants

Current Grants, Principal Investigator

  • Carbon Cycle Measurements and Analysis for the DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program. DOE BER.  FY 2003-2009. 
  • Quantifying the Importance of Belowground Plant Allocation for Sequestration of Carbon in Soils. DOE BER. FY 2000-2009. Co-PI Todd Dawson, UCB.
  • Characterizing Organic Carbon Flux from Litter Sources to Mineral-Soil Sinks. Enriched Background Isotope Study (EBIS)-AmeriFlux. DOE BER  FY2007-2010.
  • DOE Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, DOE BER FY2005-2009

Current Grants, Co-Investigator

  • Life-cycle Environmental and Economic Decision-Making for Alternative Biofuels. An Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) Program. PIs Arpad Horvath and Tom McKone. 2007-2010.
  • An Annual Grassland Mesocosm Exploration of Scaling From Genomes to Ecosystem Function, DOE BER FY2005-2009. PI Mary Firestone, LBL/UCB.
  • An Integrated Terrestrial Carbon Model (ITCM) for North America: Constraining Process Models with Experiments and Measurements for Analysis and Projection. DOE BER FY08-11. PI Mac Post, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
  • Subalpine and alpine species range shifts with climate change: temperature and soil moisture manipulations to test species and population responses. DOE BER 2007-2011. PI Lara Kueppers, UC Merced.

Past Grants

  • DOE BER. Characterizing Organic Carbon Flux from Litter Sources to Mineral-Soil Sinks, FY2007.
  • DOE BER Climate-Ecosystem Feedbacks: Observational Needs and Opportunities, FY 2004-2006
  • USFS Soil Carbon Decomposition Along Paired Pine and Hardwood Climosequences, FY07.
  • LLNL. Carbon Flux in a California Grassland Soil Sequence FY2004-2006
  • USDA. Dynamics of buried soil organic carbon along a depositional toposequence, 2003-06. PI Harte
  • DOE BER Enriched Background Isotope Study (EBIS), FY 2001-2006
  • NSF Controls on the Storage and Loss of Soil Organic Carbon with Reforestation of Abandoned Pastures, FY 2001-2005. PI Whendee Silver
  • California Energy Commission, non-CO2 greenhouse gases. FY2003-2004. PI Farrell.
  • University of Martin Luther, Germany, fluoride reactivity of minerals, FY 2003-2005
  • Laboratory Director Long-Term Development, LBNL 2001-2003
  • Laboratory Director Long-Term Development, LBNL 1999-2001
  • DOE Water Cycle Pilot
  • DOE Terrestrial Carbon Program, 1999-2000
  • National Science Foundation, 1996-1998
  • University-wide Energy Research Group Grant, 1990
  • California Policy Seminar Grant, 1987-1989
  • California Sea Grant Trainee (Scripps Oceanographic Institute), 1989
  • Climatic Change Effects Research Program Grant, US EPA, 1988
  • Council on Educational Development, Course Improvement Grant, 1987