One Group Sees Silver Lining in Winter’s Storm Clouds: Meteorologists – NYTimes.com
Brian A. Colle woke up at 1 a.m. on Thursday and headed out into the snow. Using plates of glass he had been storing in a freezer in his garage, he collected snowflakes for analysis with a powerful microscope.
Back-to-back storms have made for a lot of night shifts this year, said Mr. Colle, a professor of marine and atmospheric science at Stony Brook University. But he is not complaining. “We’re always looking for good data sets,” he said, “so we’ve been lucky.”
Research Highlight – SBU Mentors 22 Intel Finalists
Twenty-two high school students who worked with Stony Brook University faculty were named among the 300 semifinalists in the national 2014 Intel Science Talent Search competition. The School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences mentored 3 of these students.
SoMAS in the News Regarding Superstorm Sandy
Members of the SoMAS community in the news regarding Superstorm Sandy