Happy New Year and here’s to a great start of the Spring 2022 Semester! Hopefully your recovery from the snow event over the weekend was successful. Atmospheric Science researchers spent most of the weekend collecting data at South P Lot and elsewhere as part of the NASA IMPACTS Project.
SoMAS is happy to welcome Assistant Professor Jack McSweeney to our Marine Sciences Division. Jack is a physical oceanographer coming from Oregon State University with a research specialty in estuarine dynamics, coastal sediment transport, shoaling internal waves, and coastal connectivity.
Dr. Joe Warren and Dr. Lesley Thorne have received a new award from Sunrise Wind in support of the project “Assessing Environmental and Biological Drivers of North Atlantic Right Whale Abundance and Distribution in New York and the Southern New England Shelf”, for the period 1/15/2022 – 1/14/2024 in the amount $1,232,617.
Abstract:
This project will assess and quantify spatio-temporal dynamics of zooplankton in waters of the New York Bight and Southern New England Shelf, with a focus on the Sunrise Wind Farm area, and will integrate zooplankton data into habitat models for North Atlantic Right Whales (NARW; Eubalaena glacialis) to improve our predictive capacity for NARW in wind energy areas in both space and time. This work will improve our understanding of drivers of right whale habitat, and will allow predictions of right whale density under different environmental conditions in order to identify times and regions of high risk for anthropogenic impacts on right whales. This information is critical to dynamic management efforts in the Northeast US in order to decrease lethal and sub-lethal impacts from human activities such as vessel traffic and offshore construction. This project will leverage previous and ongoing sampling and analysis efforts in order to provide a comprehensive analysis of changes to copepod prey species in the study area before, during and after wind farm construction in the Sunrise Wind area. This long-term focus will allow us to differentiate between impacts of wind farms and other climate, environmental and anthropogenic stressors in assessing changes in copepod prey species. The approach we present for New York waters is one that can be extended to other regions of interest, and fosters collaborations with other scientists in the Northeast US studying right whales and their prey, including collaborators at Rutgers University, the New England Aquarium, the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, and Syracuse University.
January Press Highlights
Newsday: Plan to remove ‘ghost’ lobster traps that kill sea life from Nassau waters in Long Island Sound
- Carl Safina, professor of marine science at Stony Brook University said all kinds of commercial fishing create problems when lines, nets or traps get lost. “The idea of ghost gear — lost fishing gear that still catches — is actually an enormous worldwide problem,” he said. “A lot of lost gear has the potential to continue to catch.”
Hakai Magazine: China’s Surprisingly Robust System of Marine Protection
- Ellen Pikitch, who studies ocean conservation at Stony Brook University in New York, first started looking into China’s marine protected areas (MPAs) after she learned of their existence at a fisheries workshop in China in 2014. “I was surprised because I have worked on ocean conservation for a long time but had never heard of them,” she says.
RT Magazine: Dry Heat Disinfecting of N95 Mask Works, Preserves Fit
- A study led by Stony Brook University researchers discovered that a readily available method using dry ovens can be used to disinfect N95s for reuse, in settings where new masks may not be available, according to findings published in Plos One. Also posted by Brookhaven Lab.
Times of News: Dry Heat Disinfecting of N95 Mask Works, Preserves Fit (press release)
- A study led by Stony Brook University researchers discovered that a readily available method using dry ovens can be used to disinfect N95s for reuse, in settings where new masks may not be available. Their findings are published in PLOS ONE. Also ran in Medical X-Press.
Futurity: Dry oven heat can disinfect N95 COVID masks
- “Our study shows that treatment of N95 face masks with dry heat is sufficient to inactivate COVID-19 and filter aerosolized particles for potentially exposed workers. It has been shown to maintain the capabilities of these masks.” Also ran in Jio for Me and Scibd.
Times Beacon Record: Stony Brook University researchers say dry heat disinfecting of N95 masks works, preserves fit
- Entering a third year of the COVID-19 pandemic and the latest infection surge nationwide comes with many challenges. One of those is for a continued adequate supply of masks, including the often used N95 respirator masks for healthcare and other settings. A study led by Stony Brook University researchers discovered that a readily available method using dry ovens can be used to disinfect N95s for reuse, in settings where new masks may not be available. Their findings are published in PLOS ONE.
Long Island Business News: SBU researchers say dry-heat disinfects N95 masks
- N95 masks can be disinfected via dry heat ovens without compromising the fit. That’s according to researchers at Stony Brook University who recently published their findings in PLOS ONE. Their findings could serve as a guide to practical safe reuse of N95s, combatting any shortages, the researchers say.
Jio for Me: Dry heat can disinfect N95 masks for reuse, studies find
- In a new study at Stony Brook University, researchers discover that N95 can be disinfected and reused using readily available methods using a dry oven in environments where new masks may not be available. Did. Also ran in Knowridge,
Three Village Patch: Dry Heat Disinfecting Of N95 Masks Works, Preserves Fit (press release)
- A study led by Stony Brook University researchers discovered that a readily available method using dry ovens can be used to disinfect N95s for reuse, in settings where new masks may not be available. Their findings are published in PLOS ONE.
Biz News Post: China’s Surprisingly Robust System of Marine Protection | Hakai Magazine
- Ellen Pikitch, who studies ocean conservation at Stony Brook University in New York, first started looking into China’s marine protected areas (MPAs) after she learned of their existence at a fisheries workshop in China in 2014. “I was surprised because I have worked on ocean conservation for a long time but had never heard of them,” she says.
Times Beacon Record: Stony Brook University named finalist for historic Governors Island Center for Climate Solutions (Also in Three Village Patch)
- Stony Brook University is the leading public research university in the greater NYC area, and a proud member of the SUNY system. Its areas of foremost academic distinction include its School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, and the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. Alongside Stony Brook University, the New York Climate Exchange’s founding partners include Brookhaven National Laboratory, University of Oxford, and University of Washington. Additional academic partners include Columbia University, Stanford University, Yale University, University of Tokyo, SUNY Maritime College, and Rochester Institute of Technology.
Newsday: Breach near Smith Point created during 2012 storm continues to close
- In an interview last week, Stony Brook University research professor Charles Flagg of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences said the influx of sand into and around the breach has sharply reduced the depth of the major channel through the waterway. At its deepest during the past decade, it had been 15 to 20 feet. Now, he said, the water channel is just over 6 feet.
Times Beacon Record: Postponed: Vanderbilt Museum kicks off 2022 lecture series Jan. 13
- (Update: This event has been postponed to April 14.) As part of its Ecology and Climate Change lecture series, the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, 180 Little Neck Road, Centerport will welcome Stony Brook University’s Heather Lynch for a presentation titled Mapping Penguins with Satellites, Drones and Other Technologies in the Charles and Helen Reichert Planetarium on Jan. 13 at 7 p.m.
Newsday: A mixed-use complex nearing completion is among ongoing plan to revitalize Upper Port area
- Rich Murdocco, a Stony Brook University adjunct planning professor, questioned adding new development around the train stop, noting proposals to eventually move the station west.
Southampton Press: $3.3 Million Grant Aids In Westhampton Beach Sewer Project
- CPF came into play because the project, while providing a direct economic benefit to the village in terms or greater housing and business opportunities in the business district, is also expected to provide a direct environmental benefit to the Monibogue Canal and Monibogue Bay, according to an environmental report conducted by Dr. Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University in 2017. The expected environmental benefits also helped secure the state and county grants.
Phoenix Magazine: Pandemic Tech: Local COVID-19 Health Innovations
- An early study by the Department of Pathology at Stony Brook University experimented with dry-heat ovens and N95 masks in an attempt to disinfect them so they could be used again for health-care workers.
Optimist Daily: Study: Dry heat can be used to disinfect N95 masks
- “Our study demonstrated that treatment of N95 face masks using dry heat was sufficient to inactivate COVID-19, while preserving the ability of these masks to filter aerosolized particles for potentially exposed workers,” says lead author Kenneth Shroyer, professor at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University.
Newsday: The state signs contracts for two previously awarded offshore wind farms
- Stony Brook University and Farmingdale State College, which partner with the state in the Department of Education, have already or will soon have a certificate or degree in offshore wind training. And Suffolk County Community College is planning programs with a $ 10 million grant from Ørsted. Also ran MCU Times
New York State Department of Transportation: Governor Hochul Announces Key Offshore Wind Milestone as Contracts for Empire Wind 2 and Beacon Wind Projects Are Finalized
- Through a partnership between the State University of New York’s Farmingdale State College and Stony Brook University on Long Island, the training institute aims to advance offshore wind training programs and the educational infrastructure needed to establish a skilled workforce that can support the emerging national offshore wind industry.
The Independent: Climate crisis leads to discovery of new penguin colonies in Antarctic
- Dr Heather J. Lynch, professor of ecology & evolution at New York’s Stony Brook University, and an expedition lead, explained that the trip had involved surveying on foot, for the first time, parts of the peninsula where penguin colonies had been spotted from satellites. Also Yahoo! News, Phoneweek
D1Softball News: “New sanctuaries soon or they will not survive” – Corriere.it
- Today, in the Penguin Awareness Day, the day dedicated to the international awareness of the risks that penguins run, perhaps the most iconic animals of the Antarctic territory, a team of scientists from the Stony Brook University he’s back in the field, aboard the ship “Arctic Sunrise”, for a new census and to study closely the consequences of climate change on populations.
WBUR-FM/NPR: Reducing trash may reduce the need for incinerators in Mass.
- “When we look at what the impact of those two gasses just happens to be with respect to, say, climate change and greenhouse gasses, clearly the methane gas is significantly more detrimental to our environment than the [carbon dioxide],” said Frank Roethel, research professor and director of the Waste Reduction and Environmental Management Institute at Stony Brook University.
Techno Trendz: As a result of climate change, penguins are expanding their range in Antarctica.
- Scientists from New York’s Stony Brook University are also onboard.’’
Yahoo News/The Independent: Climate crisis leads to discovery of new penguin colonies in Antarctic
- Heather Lynch, professor of ecology and evolution at New York’s Stony Brook University, and an expedition lead, explained that the trip had involved surveying on foot, for the first time, parts of the peninsula where penguin colonies had been spotted from satellites.
Green Queen: Thanks, Climate Change? New Penguin Colonies Discovered As Birds Move South Due to Rising Temperatures
- “Mapping out these remote archipelagos will give us a better understanding of how the region’s penguins are responding to rapid climate change,” Heather Lynch, the expedition lead and professor of ecology and evolution at New York’s Stony Brook University, said in a statement. Also ran in Good Word News.
KGO-TV: Discovery of penguin colony in Antarctic appears to be another sign of climate crisis
- Greenpeace campaigners and scientists from Stony Brook University are in the Antarctic, on this Penguin Awareness Day, and they’re seeing firsthand what the climate crisis has done. Also ran on ABC7 News,
Greenpeace: Scientists discover new penguin colonies that reveal impacts of the climate crisis in the Antarctic
- New penguin colonies not previously known to science have been found in the Antarctic by researchers from Stony Brook University
Bethpage Newsgram: Farm to fairway: Town to use natural fertilizer
- The Town has expanded its kelp operations in partnership with Adelphi, SUNY Stony Brook, and Cornell Cooperative Extension, now growing over 3,000 feet of kelp – the equivalent of 10 football fields – in Harry Tappan Marina, Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park Marina, TOBAY Beach Marina, Oyster Bay Harbor and Cold Spring Harbor Conservation Management Areas.
Ship Technology: Horizon Spirit Container Ship (part of MAGIC campaign)
- The project involved the participation of DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory including collaborators from NASA, Stony Brook University, and several other universities and private consultants.
BBC: Penguin colony found in south Antarctic sign of climate change
- The penguin colonies, which have not previously been studied, were discovered by researchers from Stony Brook University, in New York.
Nature World News: New Penguin Colonies Discovered in the Antarctic Due to Climate Crisis
- In an interview voyage leader and instructor of biology and ecology at Stony Brook College in New York, Heather Lynch, clarified that the journey implicated aerial surveys on foot, for the very first time, critical aspects of the mainland where penguin territories was already sighted from space telescopes.
Mongabay: As climate change melts Antarctic ice, gentoo penguins venture further south
- “It’s may be a cliché at this point, but they’re the canary in the coal mine for climate change because they’re so closely tied to those sea ice conditions,” Heather Lynch, an Antarctic penguin expert at Stony Brook University in New York and the remote leader of the expedition, told Mongabay in a video interview. Also ran in Enviro Link and South Africa Today.
Live Science: Here’s why a new penguin colony in Antarctica is cause for concern
- “Mapping out these remote archipelagos will give us a better understanding of how the region’s penguins are responding to rapid climate change,” expedition co-leader Heather J. Lynch, a professor of ecology and evolution at Stony Brook University in New York, said in the statement. “
East Hampton Patch: Oyster Reefs: A Keystone of Bay Restoration
- Panelists Mike Doall– Associate Director for Bivalve Restoration, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, Bradley Peterson, Associate Professor, school of marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook and Gregg Rivara, Cornell Cooperative Extension Aquaculture Specialist.
Fishing Wire: EPA Approves Permit For Wind Farm Off Martha’s Vineyard
- “This truly demonstrates the reality of offshore wind coming to Long Island and the East Coast,” said Robert B. Catell, Chairman of the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center at Stony Brook University and the National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium.
Sleep Review: Dry Heat Disinfecting of N95 Mask Works, Preserves Fit
- A study led by Stony Brook University researchers discovered that a readily available method using dry ovens can be used to disinfect N95s for reuse, in settings where new masks may not be available, according to findings published in Plos One.
Live Science: Here’s why a new penguin colony in Antarctica is cause for concern
- “Mapping out these remote archipelagos will give us a better understanding of how the region’s penguins are responding to rapid climate change,” expedition co-leader Heather J. Lynch, a professor of ecology and evolution at Stony Brook University in New York, said in the statement. Also ran on MSN.
Mirage News: “It’s like looking through a window” – giant portal to Antarctic appears in London
- Greenpeace International is in the Antarctic working with scientists from Stony Brook University in the US conducting research on the decline of penguin populations in the region.
New York Times: This is how climate change supercharges snowfall.
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How do record-setting high global temperatures fit in with intense, sprawling snowstorms, like the one that froze Texas last year, or the one that is now blanketing the Northeast and bringing unusual chills as far south as Miami? “Very logically,” said Kevin Reed, an associate professor at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University on Long Island.
North Forker: Geek Talks at übergeek Brewing Co. make science (and more) fun for all
- Chris Paparo is a bit of a punk rock scientist. The manager of the Marine Sciences Center at Stony Brook Southampton’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, he shares his wealth of knowledge through lectures at libraries and other places that don’t quite feel like lectures. That’s certainly the case at Geek Talk, the series he hosts at übergeek Brewing Company in Riverhead. The events are attended by about 65 to 100 guests every other Thursday night. Attendees are treated to an interesting lecture about a unique topic while enjoying craft beer and a rotation of food trucks.
CBS 2 New York: Stony Brook University Students Participate In IMPACTS Program
- During the worst of the blizzard, a group of Stony Brook University students and their professors braved the high winds and pummeling snowfall for the greater good – to improve winter storm forecasting.
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