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Email: newman@vims.edu
Office: Chesapeake Bay Hall, S110
Phone: (804) 684-7725

 

Michael C. Newman

  • A. Marshall Acuff, Jr.  Professor of Marine Science
  • Professor of Marine Science
  • B.A., M.S., University of Connecticut
  • M.S., Ph.D. Rutgers University

 

Research Interests

Dr. Newman has diverse research interests which include ecotoxicology, general and applied aquatic ecology, contaminant effects on populations, bioaccumulation, factors modifying inorganic contaminant toxicity, fate of inorganic contaminants in aquatic systems, quantitative methods for ecological risk assessment, toxicity models, and water quality.

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Current Projects

  • Population genetics of PAH-exposed fish
  • Stochastic modeling of contaminant exposure from fish consumption
  • Improving prediction of lethal effects with time-to-death methods
  • Assessing pesticide effects to nontarget avian species
  • Models predicting mortality with pulsed exposure to toxicants
  • Mercury bioaccumulation in aquatic biota
  • Predicting lethal effects of oil spill-associated PAHs
  • Human risk associated with mercury exposure during seafood consumption

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Selected Publications

For a complete list of publications, click here.

  • Di Giulio, R.T. and M.C. Newman, Chapter 29. Ecotoxicology, in Casarett & Doull's Toxicology. The Basic Science of Poisons. C.D. Klaassen, Editor, McGraw-Hill Co., New York, NY, 2008, pp. 1157-1187.
  • Evans, D.A., M.C. Newman, M. Lavine, J.S. Jaworska, J. Toll, B. Brooks, and T.C.M. Brook. (In Press). The Bayesian vantage for dealing with uncertainty. In: A. Hart (Ed.) Uncertainty in Environmental Risk Assessment, SETAC Press, Pensacola, FL.
  • Newman, M.C. 1996. Ecotoxicology as a science. In: Newman, M.C. and C.H. Jagoe (Eds.), Ecotoxicology: A Hierarchical Treatment. CRC/Lewis Publishers, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, pp. 1-9. 

 

Books

  • Newman, M.C. and W. Clements. 2008. Ecotoxicology. A Comprehensive Treatment. Taylor and Francis / CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. 
  • Newman, M.C. and M.A. Unger with contributions and translation by Yuan Zhao and Taiping Wang. 2007. Fundamentals of Ecotoxicology. Second Edition, Taylor & Francis/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, Chinese translation with Chemical Industrial Press, Beijing, China.
  • Newman, M.C. and M.A. Unger. 2003. Fundamentals of Ecotoxicology, Second Ed.  CRC/Lewis Press, Boca Raton, FL
  • Clements, W. and  M.C. Newman. 2002. Community Ecotoxicology. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK.
  • Newman, M.C., M. Roberts and R. Hale (Eds). 2002. Coastal and Estuarine Risk Assessment. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
  • Crane, M., M.C. Newman and P. Chapman (Eds.) 2002. Risk Assessment with Time-to-Event Models. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.  
  • Newman, M.C. 2001. Population Ecotoxicology. Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK. p. 228.
  • Newman, M.C. and C. Strojan (Eds.) 1998.  Environmental Risk Assessment:  Concepts and Measurement.  Ann Arbor Press, Chelsea, MI.
  • Newman, M.C.  1998. Fundamentals of Ecotoxicology.  Ann Arbor Press, Chelsea, MI.
  • Newman, M.C. and C. Jagoe (Eds.). 1996.  Ecotoxicology:  A Hierarchical Treatment. Lewis/CRC Publishers, Boca Raton, FL.
  • Newman, M.C.  1995.  Quantitative Methods in Aquatic Ecotoxicology.  Lewis Publishers,  Chelsea, MI.
  • Newman, M.C. and A.W. McIntosh (Eds.). 1991. Metal Ecotoxicology: Concepts and Applications. Lewis Publishers, Chelsea, MI.

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Current Students

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Former Students

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Courses Taught / Teaching

  • MS560 Fundamentals of Ecotoxicology (SPRING, 3 credit). Prerequisite Basic Ecology. This course is an introduction to ecotoxicology, the science of contaminants in the biosphere and their effects on constituents of the biosphere, including humans. The course provides a general survey of environmental toxicology and risk assessment from an ecological vantage.
  • EHS863 Quantitative Ecological Toxicology (SUMMER, ODD YEARS, 4 credits). University of Georgia Interdisciplinary Toxicology Program.  
  • MS640: Quantitative Ecotoxicology (SPRING, 4 credits). Essential ecotoxicological principles and quantitative methods for the analysis of ecotoxicological data.  Laboratory exercises will include method applications with PC-based software.  Emphasis will be placed on the scientific and statistical soundness of techniques.
     
  • MS641: Environmental Risk Assessment (FALL, 3 credits). The NAS risk assessment paradigm will be developed and applied to both human and ecological risk assessments.  Basic concepts and techniques will be presented for risk assessment.
  • MS642: Practical Environmental Statistics (SPRING, 3 credits). This course explores practical statistics for sampling, measuring, and making sound inferences from environmental data. The course is intentionally a broad survey of methods applicable to physical, chemical and biological studies, drawing examples from each of these areas.

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Faculty / Student Awards

  • 2003 Founder's Award of The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC). "Given annually to a person with an outstanding career who has made clearly identifiable contributions in the environmental sciences consistent with the goals of SETAC".
  • 2002, Special Recognition by VIMS Advisory Council for exceptional service as Dean of Graduate Studies.

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Professional Memberships

  • Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

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Collaborative / Interdisciplinary Efforts

  • Under contract with CRC/Lewis Press, editing Environmental and Ecological Risk Assessment book series.  First book in the series is Coastal and Estuarine Risk Assessment.
  • Probabilistic risk assessment of mercury exposure for Great Dismal Swamp biota, a collaborative study with the US Fish and wildlife Service. 
  • Trophic movement of mercury in South River biota. A collaborative study with Dupont and College of William & Mary faculty. 
  • EPA Science Advisory Board EPEC Committee. 
  • NAS Committee reviewing OMB proposed changes to US federal government risk assessments. 

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