SoMAS Convocation 2022

Photo above: Dean Paul Shepson Congratulates the SoMAS Class of 2022

Congratulations to our graduates!  The annual SoMAS Convocation returned to an IN PERSON event on Friday, May 20, 202 at the Bauman Center for Leadership and Service. Students gathered with their friends and family and SoMAS faculty and staff to celebrate the completion of their journey at Stony Brook University.

Dean Paul Shepson provided opening remarks after the processional and Dr. Marci Bortman gave a keynote address. Dr. Bortman is a SoMAS alum and Director of Conservation and Science at The Nature Conservancy.

Stony Brook University celebrated the 62nd Annual Commencement earlier that day, with 4,670 bachelor’s degrees conferred — among the 7,610 degrees presented overall, breaking the record of 4,645, set last year. There were also 2,095 master’s degrees, 585 doctoral and professional degrees and 260 certificates conferred at the ceremony. Graduates represented 45 states and 68 countries, and ranged in age from 19 to 71. Several graduates were highlighted for their distinguished academic careers.

SoMAS Convocation Program 2022 (PDF)

 

Awarding of Undergraduate Certificates

B.S. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Presented by Dr. Brian A. Colle

• Miles Litzmann, Marlon Quinteros, Deshaun Robinson, Julia Tetrault

B.A. in Environmental Studies Presented by Dr. Darcy Lonsdale

• Samuel Bauer, Chloe Chen, Haoze Chen, Douglas Clare, Mira Curti, Barbara Delaney, Christina Devito, Christopher Eagler, Brooke Ferreira, Eliot Fisher, Richard Guteres, Alexia Huang, Kristen Hutz, Tatum Kauka, Matthew Lauer, Jessica Liew, Kenny Lin, Jinxi Liu, Tongyu Liu, Peter Martin, Daniel McCoy, Olivia McGranaghan, Angela Miles, Katherine Miller, Sara Moore, James Pizaro, Quinn Plunkett, Tyler Potter, Hailey Rangel, Sarah Tabibzada, Yurika Tomita, Caitlan Vultaggio, Willow Wilcenski

B.S. in Marine Sciences Presented by Dr. Darcy Lonsdale

• Alexander Anthony, Jesse Atamanuk, Zoe Brown, Davis Bush, Lucas Chen, Margot Eckstein, Anna Kolanovic, Corinn Kraemer, Lang Ming, Jessica Semp

B.S. in Marine Vertebrate Biology Presented by Dr. Darcy Lonsdale

• Grace Ahn, Samantha Aplin, Kirstin Brown, Travis Cutter, Sierra Drury, Thaliyah Fraser, Carina Lara, Justin Norona, Tulin Ortalan, Stephanie Reiter, Valerie Reiter, Jessica Salmon, Sarah Spencer, Hossain Uchchal

B.S. in Coastal Environmental Studies Presented by Dr. Donovan Finn

• Ansel Huang, Shweta Karmakar, Sarah Kelly, Nicholas Ring, Illusion Rivera, Elena Sudano, Amanda Thomas, Emily Watson

B.A. in Ecosystems and Human Impact Presented by Dr. Donovan Finn

• Myra Arshad, Jessica Esposito, Emily Farrell, David Lopue, Johanna Mitra, Francesca Paduano, Joshua Yu

B.A. in Environmental Design, Policy and Planning Presented by Dr. Donovan Finn

• Leah Carpenter, Anne Green, Mark Henke, Ibrahim Jobe, Alexander Kutsupis, Linus Levey, Tsai-Hsien Lin, Alec Miranda, Victoria Rakhmanskiy, Sebastian Ramos, Sally Zhu

B.A. in Environmental Humanities Presented by Dr. Donovan Finn

• Amber Pavek, Kimberly Rivera, George Saketos, Katherine Summerson, Andrew Wong, Sophia Zhukovsky

B.A. in Sustainability Studies Presented by Dr. Donovan Finn

• Alec Miranda, Laura Monges-Velázquez, Kenneth Rothwell, Andrew Standridge, Mei-Lyn Stout, Elizabeth Suarez Ortega

• Benjamin Bacon
  A Microphysical Analysis of the January 4, 2018 Blizzard
  Drs. Brian A.Colle & Pavlos Kollias, Co-Advisors
• Brandon Beltz
  Investigating the Ecosystem Impacts of Warming-driven Migration Shifts of Top Predators in the Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB) Using Novel Migration Forcing in Rpath
  Dr. Janet Nye, Advisor
• Kristen Burk
  Iron and Nitrogen Cycling in Nitrogen Removing Biofilters
  Drs. Roy E. Price & Laura Wehrmann, Co-Advisors
• Rachel Carlowicz
  Variability in Lipid Content of Calanus finmarchicus and Other Copepods in the New York Bight
  Dr. Joseph D. Warren, Advisor
• Nathaniel Chester
  Effects of Environmental Variability on Ribbed Mussel Ecophysiology Informed by High-frequency Non-invasive (HFNI) Sensors
  Dr. Nils Volkenborn, Advisor
• Walter Dawydiak
  Transcriptional Response of Aureococcus anophagefferens to the Protozoan Grazer, Oxyrrhis marina
  Dr. Christopher J. Gobler, Advisor
• Jacob Flanzenbaum
  Nitrogen Limitation of Intense and Toxic Cyanobacteria Blooms in New York City’s Largest Parks: The Lake in Central Park and Prospect Park Lake
  Dr. Christopher J. Gobler, Advisor
• Keenan Fryer
  Impact of Mesoscale Data Assimilation on the Primary Snowband Within the Cyclone Comma Head
  Dr. Brian A. Colle, Advisor
• Maria Grima
  Using Traditional and Novel Techniques to Monitor Shinnecock Bay’s Crab Community
  Dr. Ellen K. Pikitch, Advisor
• Noah Khalsa
  Evaluating the Performance of Minimum Legal Size as a Conservation Measure for the Gulf of Maine American Lobster Fishery Under Climate-Driven Changes to Maturity and Growth
  Dr. Yong Chen, Advisor
• Julia Marcantonio
  Indoor Measurement of Volatile Organic Compounds at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  Dr. John E. Mak, Advisor
• Elizabeth Salzman
  Bringing Elasmobranchs into Modeling and Management of Shinnecock Bay, New York Through eDNA Analysis
  Dr. Ellen K. Pikitch, Advisor
• Arlaine Sanchez
  Assessing the Geochemistry & Habitability of Eridania Basin, Mars: An Icelandic Analogue Study
  Dr. Roy E. Price, Advisor

Doctor of Philosophy in Marine & Atmospheric Sciences

• Yicheng Huang
  Impacts of Nonlinear Tides and Waves on Tidally Averaged Sediment Movement at a Nascent Breach: Old Inlet Breach, Fire Island, NY
  Dr. Robert E. Wilson, Advisor
• Evan Ingram
  Movement Ecology of Juvenile and Sub-adult Atlantic Sturgeon in the Hudson River and New York Bight
  Dr. Michael G. Frisk, Advisor
• Benjamin Kramer
  The Effects of Climate Change Processes on Nostocales: a N2-fixing, Bloom-forming, Toxin-producing Cyanobacterial Order
  Dr. Christopher J. Gobler, Advisor
• Luis Medina
  Do Microplastics Contaminants Distort our Understanding of the Ocean´s Carbon Cycle?
  Dr. Gordon T. Taylor, Advisor
• Adelle Molina
  From Individuals to Populations: The Impact of Climate Change on the Physiology and Ecology of Northern Blue Crabs (Callinectes sapidus)
  Dr. Janet Nye, Advisor
• Alyssa Stansfield
  An Exploration of Tropical Cyclone Precipitation Under Climate Change Forcings
  Dr. Kevin A. Reed, Advisor
• Han Sun
  Connectivity Within a Large Partially Mixed Estuary
  Dr. Robert E. Wilson, Advisor
• Stephen Tomasetti
  Vulnerabilities of North Atlantic Shellfish to Perturbations in Coastal Temperature, Oxygen, and pH
  Dr. Christopher J. Gobler, Advisor
• Jia Wang
  Development of the Constrained Data Assimilation System and its Applications to the Convective Events
  Dr. Minghua Zhang, Advisor
• Wenda Zhang
  Role of Coherent Ocean Vortices in Mesoscale Eddy Mixing
  Dr. Christopher Wolfe, Advisor
• Zeen Zhu
  A Remote sensing-based Investigation of Microphysics and Dynamics of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds
  Dr. Pavlos Kollias, Advisor