Sybil P. Seitzinger is an oceanographer and climate scientist at the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions. She is known for her research into climate change and elemental cycling, especially nitrogen biogeochemistry.

Education and career

Seitzinger has a B.S. in biology from the Boston University (1974) and earned a PhD in biological oceanography from the

University of Rhode Island The University of Rhode Island (URI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Kingston, Rhode Island, United States. It is the flagship public research as well as the land-grant university of the state of Rhode Island ...

in 1982 under the advising of Scott Nixon. She also has an honorary PhD from

Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; nl, Universiteit Utrecht, formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2018, it had an enrollm ...

. She has previously served as director of the Rutgers/NOAA Cooperative Marine Education and Research Program, and was a visiting professor at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and wa ...

. From 2006 to 2008, Seitzinger was president of the

Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), formerly known as the Limnological Society of America and the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, is a scientific society established in 1936 with the goal of advan ...

. Following this, Seitzinger was the director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 2008 to 2015. Seitzinger is currently the executive directory at the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions and a professor of Environmental Studies at the

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Awards and honors

* NOAA Administrators Silver Medal (1999) *NOAA Administrators Gold Medal (2005) *Member,

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(2011) *Honorary PhD from

in the Netherlands (2016) *Sverdrup lecture,

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(2018) *Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2019) * Recipient of the A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award from the

(2020)

Selected publications

* Frank Biermann,

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, Ninad Bondre, Wendy Broadgate, Chen-Tung Arthur Chen, Opha Pauline Dube, Jan Willem Erisman,

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Maria Carmen Lemos Maria Carmen de Mello Lemos is Professor of Environment and Sustainability and co-director of the Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments Center at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Senior Policy Scholar at the Udall Center for ...

, 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 * * *

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Seitzinger, Sybil P. Living people American oceanographers American climatologists Women climatologists University of Rhode Island alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the American Geophysical Union Presidents of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography