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Jan Newton is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Oceanography as a subfield. Their work spans closely related areas such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's research topics are centered on marine and environmental studies, including Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Marine and fisheries research, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, and Marine and coastal plant biology.

Newton has published multiple papers in notable venues, with recent work including:

  • Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Acidification in Large Estuaries, 2020, Annual Review of Marine Science
  • Advancing best practices for assessing trends of ocean acidification time series, 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Coastal processes modify projections of some climate-driven stressors in the California Current System, 2021, Biogeosciences
  • Seasonality and Life History Complexity Determine Vulnerability of Dungeness Crab to Multiple Climate Stressors, 2021, AGU Advances
  • Severe biological effects under present-day estuarine acidification in the seasonally variable Salish Sea, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

The venues where Newton frequently publishes include Oceanography, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Frontiers in Marine Science, Biogeosciences, and the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering.

Collaborations are an important aspect of Newton's work. Frequent co-authors are:

  • Simone R. Alin
  • Samantha Siedlecki
  • Richard A. Feely
  • Emily Norton
  • Terrie Klinger

Jan Newton's body of work reflects a sustained engagement with the study of ocean conditions, marine species, and environmental shifts, contributing to understanding ocean acidification and its ecological ramifications.

Best Publications

  • The combined effects of ocean acidification, mixing, and respiration on pH and carbonate saturation in an urbanized estuary

    Richard A. Feely;Simone R. Alin;Jan Newton;Christopher L. Sabine

  • Primary productivity and its regulation in the equatorial Pacific during and following the 1991–1992 El Niño

    Richard T. Barber;Marta P. Sanderson;Steven T. Lindley;Fei Chai

  • Impacts of Coastal Acidification on the Pacific Northwest Shellfish Industry and Adaptation Strategies Implemented in Response

    Alan Barton;George G. Waldbusser;Richard A. Feely;Stephen B. Weisberg

  • Export flux of particulate organic carbon from the central equatorial Pacific determined using a combined drifting trap-234Th approach

    James W. Murray;Jennifer Young;Jan Newton;John Dunne

  • Phytoplankton variability in the central and eastern tropical Pacific

    Francisco P. Chavez;Kurt R. Buck;Jan Newton

  • Geographic signatures of North American West Coast estuaries

    Robert Emmett;Roberto Llansó;Jan Newton;Ron Thom

  • Dynamics of Willapa Bay, Washington: A Highly Unsteady, Partially Mixed Estuary

    N. S. Banas;B. M. Hickey;P. MacCready;J. A. Newton

  • Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Acidification in Large Estuaries.

    Wei-Jun Cai;Richard A Feely;Jeremy M Testa;Ming Li

  • Spring bloom development, genetic variation, and population succession in the planktonic diatom Ditylum brightwellii

    T. A. Rynearson;J. A. Newton;E. V. Armbrust

  • Scientific summary of ocean acidification in Washington State marine waters

    Richard A. Feely;Terrie Klinger;J. A. Newton;Meg. Chadsey

  • On the chlorophyll a retention properties of glass-fiber GF/F filters

    Francisco P. Chavez;Kurt R. Buck;Robert R. Bidigare;David M. Karl

  • Global Observational Needs and Resources for Marine Biodiversity

    Gabrielle Canonico;Pier Luigi Buttigieg;Enrique Montes;Frank E. Muller-Karger

  • Scaling Up From Regional Case Studies to a Global Harmful Algal Bloom Observing System

    Clarissa R. Anderson;Elisa Berdalet;Raphael M. Kudela;Caroline K. Cusack

  • Tidal exchange, bivalve grazing, and patterns of primary production in Willapa Bay, Washington, USA

    N. S. Banas;B. M. Hickey;J. A. Newton;J. A. Newton;J. L. Ruesink

  • Autonomous seawater p CO 2 and pH time series from 40 surface buoys and the emergence of anthropogenic trends

    Adrienne J. Sutton;Richard A. Feely;Stacy Maenner-Jones;Sylvia Musielwicz;Sylvia Musielwicz

  • Seasonal carbonate chemistry covariation with temperature, oxygen, and salinity in a fjord estuary: implications for the design of ocean acidification experiments.

    Jonathan C. P. Reum;Simone R. Alin;Richard A. Feely;Jan Newton

  • FLAVODOXIN EXPRESSION AS AN INDICATOR OF IRON LIMITATION IN MARINE DIATOMS1

    Helen Murray;Mónica Orellana;Jan Newton

  • A descriptive analysis of temporal and spatial patterns of variability in Puget Sound oceanographic properties

    Stephanie K. Moore;Stephanie K. Moore;Nathan J. Mantua;Jan A. Newton;Mitsuhiro Kawase

  • Experiments with Seasonal Forecasts of ocean conditions for the Northern region of the California Current upwelling system

    Samantha A. Siedlecki;Isaac C. Kaplan;Albert J. Hermann;Albert J. Hermann;Thanh Tam Nguyen

  • Fecal pellet flux in Dabob Bay during a diatom bloom: Contribution of microzooplankton

    Kurt R. Buck;Jan Newton

  • Sources, Fate and Effects of Microplastics in the Marine Environment: Part 2 of a Global Assessment

    N. Bednaršek;T. Klinger;C.J. Harvey;S. Weisberg

  • Wind‐induced plume and bloom intrusions into Willapa Bay, Washington

    G. Curtis Roegner;Barbara M. Hickey;Jan A. Newton;Alan L. Shanks

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard A. Feely
Richard A. Feely University of Washington
Simone R. Alin
Simone R. Alin National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Allan H. Devol
Allan H. Devol University of Washington
Adrienne Sutton
Adrienne Sutton Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Burke Hales
Burke Hales Oregon State University
Stephen B. Weisberg
Stephen B. Weisberg Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
Francisco P. Chavez
Francisco P. Chavez Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Christopher L. Sabine
Christopher L. Sabine University of Hawaii at Manoa
Parker MacCready
Parker MacCready University of Washington
Albert J. Hermann
Albert J. Hermann National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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