Newton started as a graduate student in 2016 with a Bachelor in Geophysics from Berkeley. He worked on the global methane cycle, using a combination of modeling tools as well as satellite and ground-based measurements (Nguyen et al. 2020).
References
Nguyen, Newton H, Alexander J Turner, Yi Yin, Michael J Prather, and Christian Frankenberg. 2020. “Effects of Chemical Feedbacks on Decadal Methane Emissions Estimates.” Geophysical Research Letters 47 (3): e2019GL085706.
