Sharon Newman, Ph.D., is a physical scientist in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Underground Injection Control (UIC) Program (Drinking Water Infrastructure Development Division/Office of Groundwater and Drinking Water/Office of Water). She joined the agency in 2020 and is a member of the UIC Class VI team at EPA headquarters. In this role, Newman collaborates with her teammates, as well as staff in EPA’s regional offices to help ensure the consistent and effective permitting of geologic sequestration injection wells across the country while ensuring the protection of underground sources of drinking water. Her work also focuses on aquifer storage and recovery and aquifer recharge (Class V) wells. Newman holds a bachelor’s degree in Earth and environmental science from Wesleyan University (2008), a master’s degree in conservation biology from Columbia University (2010), and a Ph.D. in geobiology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2018).