Dr Rob Newton
- Job title: Associate Professor of Earth Surface Geochemistry
- Email: r.j.newton@leeds.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 113 343 7981/7062
- Faculty: Faculty of Environment
- School: School of Earth and Environment
- Location: SEE 9.146
- Areas of expertise: sedimentary geochemistry; stable isotopes; sulfur isotopes; mass extinctions; biogeochemical cycles; environmental chemistry; seawater chemistry through time; epeiric seas
- Faculty profile link: https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/see/staff/1450/dr-robert-newton
Four main themes of research:
- CHanges in marine and atmosphere chemistry during biological events such as mass extinctions
- The long-term evolution of ocean chemistry
- Chemical and isotopic gradients in epeiric seas
- The oxygen isotope composition of oxyanions and cellulose