Margaret Torn's Current Grants

Current Grants, Principal Investigator

  • Terrestrial Ecosystem Science Scientific Focus Area, DOE BER 2010-2013
  • Atmospheric System Research Scientific Focus Area, DOE BER 2010-2013
  • Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program infrastucture, DOE BER, 2010-2013
  • Biological Carbon Sequestration: Fundamental Research on Biological Carbon Capture and Soil Carbon Stabilization, LBNL LDRD, 2010-2012

Current Grants, Co-Investigator and funded collaborator

  • Subalpine and alpine species range shifts with climate change: temperature and soil moisture manipulations to test species and population responses. Lead PI is Lara Kueppers at University of California, Merced.
  • Investigation of the Magnitudes and Probabilities of Abrupt Climate TransitionS. DOE BER 2008-2012. PI William Collins. 
  • Improving the Representations of Human-Earth System Interactions. DOE BER 2009-2012. LBNL PI: William Collins.
  • Climate Science for a Sustainable  Energy Future. DOE BER 2011-2012. LBNL PI: William Collins.

Past Grants

  • Maragaret grantsDOE 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