About Silvia NewellProfessor Newell has a Ph.D. in Geosciences from Princeton University. Her dissertation focused on biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen in low-oxygen marine environments in Chesapeake Bay and the Arabian Sea. For her post-doctoral work, first at Princeton and then at Boston University, she continued her exploration of the nitrogen cycle in the Sargasso Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and Cape Cod. Currently, her work at Wright State focuses on nitrogen as a driver of harmful algal blooms. Her lab is currently funded by NSF, Ohio Sea Grant, and the Eppley Foundation to study nitrogen cycling in hypereutrophic Lake Erie (Ohio), Lake Okeechobee (FL), and Lake Taihu in China, as well as local research on the Great Miami River and small lakes.
Dr. Newell is currently the co-chair of the Great Lakes HABs Collaboratory, chair of the Collaboratory Nitrogen Working Group, and President of the Lake Erie Area Research Network. |
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2018-present Associate Professor of Biogeochemistry, Wright State University
2014-present Assistant Professor of Biogeochemistry, Wright State University 2012-2014 NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Boston University |
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A.B. Smith College 2004
M.A. Princeton University 2007 Ph.D. Princeton University 2010 |
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