Roger Newell
Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland
Bio
Roger Newell has expertise in a number of areas, including: adaptive physiology and energetics of marine and estuarine invertebrates; the role of suspension feeding organisms in benthic-pelagic coupling; the influence of nutritive and anthropogenic stress on the reproductive success and recruitment of bivalve molluscs; the importance of both phytoplankton and non-phytoplankton food sources in the nutrition of bivalve molluscs; and the host/parasite response and defense mechanisms of bivalve molluscs.
He received a B. Sc. in Zoology and Comparative Physiology at Queen Mary College, University of London in 1973 and a Ph.D. in Marine Biology from the University of London in 1978. He has served as a Professor at Horn Point Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science since 1980.