[2] She received the Thomas Hilker Early Career Award in Biogeosciences from American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2019.
[3] In 2002, Novick earned her bachelor's degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Duke University.
[5] In 2002, Novick was also presented with the William Brewster Snow Award, which is given to students who have not only shown academic success, but also a strong passion for environmental engineering.
Her research included working in the Duke Forest on "Assessing the Effects of Elevated Atmospheric CO2 and LAI Perturbations on Southeastern Grassland Water Vapor and CO2 Fluxes.
Novick conducted research at the Coweeta Hydrological Laboratory in North Carolina, where she studied CO2 and evapotranspiration in the ecosystem.