Sybil P. Seitzinger

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

Awards and honors NOAA Administrators Silver Medal (1999) NOAA Administrators Gold Medal (2005) Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011) Honorary PhD from Utrecht University in the Netherlands (2016) Sverdrup lecture, American Geophysical Union (2018) Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2019) Recipient of the A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (2020)

Selected publications

Frank Biermann, 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