Newsha is an internationally recognized leader in urban water strategy, innovation, and financing, climate adaptation strategies, sustainable resource management, environmental resiliency, sustainable infrastructure, and the water-energy-food nexus. Her research throughout the years has been interdisciplinary and impact driven, focusing on the improvement of the science-policy-stakeholder interface by incorporating social and economic measures, and through relevant and effective communication. She has published many highly cited peer-reviewed papers in predominant journals and was the recipient of the 2010 William R. Gianelli Water Leaders scholarship, 2005 NSF funding for AMS Science and Policy Colloquium, and ICSC-World Laboratory Hydrologic Science and Water Resources Fellowship from 2000-2003.