Sybil Putnam Seitzinger

The importance of denitrification and nitrous oxide production in the nitrogen dynamics and ecology of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island (1982)

Scott Nixon

Education and career[edit]

Seitzinger has a B.S. in biology from the Boston University (1974)^[1] and earned a PhD in biological oceanography from the University of Rhode Island in 1982 under the advising of Scott Nixon.^[2] She also has an honorary PhD from Utrecht University.^[3] She has previously served as director of the Rutgers/NOAA Cooperative Marine Education and Research Program, and was a visiting professor at Rutgers University.^[1] From 2006 to 2008, Seitzinger was president of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.^[4] Following this, Seitzinger was the director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 2008 to 2015.^[5] Seitzinger is currently the executive directory at the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions and a professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria.^[6]

NOAA Administrators Silver Medal (1999)

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NOAA Administrators Gold Medal (2005)

Member, (2011)^[8]

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Honorary PhD from in the Netherlands (2016)^[3]

Utrecht University

Sverdrup lecture, (2018)^[9]

American Geophysical Union

Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2019)

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Recipient of the from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (2020)^[11]

A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award

Xuemei Bai, Ninad Bondre, Wendy Broadgate, Chen-Tung Arthur Chen, Opha Pauline Dube, Jan Willem Erisman, Marion Glaser, Sandra van der Hel, Maria Carmen Lemos, Seitzinger, Karen C. Seton (2016). Down to earth: Contextualizing the Anthropocene. Global Environmental Change, 39, 341–350. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.11.004

Frank Biermann

Galloway, J. N.; Townsend, A. R.; Erisman, J. W.; Bekunda, M.; Cai, Z.; Freney, J. R.; Martinelli, L. A.; Seitzinger, S. P.; Sutton, M. A. (2008-05-16). . Science. 320 (5878): 889–892. doi:10.1126/science.1136674. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 18487183. S2CID 16547816.

"Transformation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Recent Trends, Questions, and Potential Solutions"

Seitzinger, Sybil P. (1988). . Limnology and Oceanography. 33 (4part2): 702–724. doi:10.4319/lo.1988.33.4part2.0702. ISSN 1939-5590.

"Denitrification in freshwater and coastal marine ecosystems: Ecological and geochemical significance"

Seitzinger, Sybil P.; Phillips, Leigh (2017-07-28). . Science. 357 (6349): 350–351. doi:10.1126/science.aao0812. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 28751593. S2CID 39405842.