SoMAS professor Demian Chapman was recently featured in a BBC Earth article regarding the rise of virgin births in many different species. An excerpt is below. On the 14 December 2001, for example, one of three captive adult female bonnethead sharks gave birth to a...
Sunday, September 14th may seem like just another Sunday to some people but not to those in the shark world. Not only are sharks breathing a huge sigh of relief but so are many people in countries around the world. September 14th is the first day a landmark shark...
Demian Chapman, an assistant professor in Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, and SBU graduate student Mark Bond are leading a scientific research expedition in the Bahamian Shark Sanctuary. The team is conducting groundbreaking...
The islands of the Bahamas lie within a mosaic of marine habitats where the subtropical open ocean washes over vibrant coral reefs connected to shallow seagrass beds fringed by rich mangrove forests. Divers still see sharks there on a regular basis, which is...
Two scholarships were offered this year to permit outstanding Stony Brook University Marine Sciences, Marine Vertebrate Biology, Environmental Studies or Atmospheric Sciences majors to spend a semester at the Mote Marine Laboratory, an independent marine research lab...