Photo above: New endowed faculty members; Back row (from left to right): Thomas Diacovo, MD, Styliani-Anna E. Tsirka, PhD, Loredana Polezzi, PhD, Eden Figueroa, PhD, William A. Wertheim, MD, MBA, James A. Vosswinkel, MD, FACS, Kathleen McGarry, PhD; Front row (from left to right): Olga Aroniadis, MD, MSc, FACG, Sandhya Sundaresan, PhD, Lilianne Mujica-Parodi, PhD, Thomas Manuel, DMA, Karena Chapman, PhD, Leonardo Rastelli, PhD, Ellen K. Pikitch, PhD (Photo courtesy of Juliana Thomas)
Congratulations to Donovan Finn, who will serve as the Sustainability Studies Division Head at SoMAS. Many thanks to Katherine Aubrecht for her service in the role.
Congratulations to Kevin Reed, who played a key role for Stony Brook in the development of the New York Climate Exchange proposal, who will serve as Associate Provost for Climate and Sustainability Programming.
Tom Wilson stands with his plaque commemorating his service to RVTEC and UNOLS at the annual meeting of RVTEC at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.
Tom Wilson and Lucas Merlo attended the annual meeting of the Research Vessel Technical Enhancement Committee of UNOLS, held October 23 – 27 at University of Hawaii in Honolulu. Tom is the last active founding member in this community of technical support professionals for the US academic research vessel fleet, which has grown from 24 people in 1992 to more than 900 today, with 114 in-person and 67 virtual attendees at this year’s meeting. The week included a reunion with SoMAS alumnus and former ESHOP student assistant Trevor Young, who is now a senior marine technician at UH. Tom was presented with a plaque and received a standing ovation commemorating his service to RVTEC and UNOLS. More than half of the conference attendees stayed an extra day to attend Tom’s presentations on Serial Communications and Introduction to Electronic Design, recordings of which will be permanently archived on the UNOLS technical resources website.
Dr. Kevin Reed and co-PIs Dr. Christopher Wolfe and Dr. Levi Silvers have received a new award from NSF CLD, in support of the project “Collaborative Research: Understanding the Links between Tropical Cyclones and Tropical Circulation under Climate Change through Idealized Coupled Climate Modeling” for the period 11/15/23- 10/31/26, in the amount $677,761
Tropical cyclones (TCs), including the hurricanes of the Atlantic and Caribbean, derive their destructive power from the heat of the ocean beneath them. The fueling of TCs by warm sea surface temperatures (SSTs) thus suggests that the warming of the oceans by greenhouse gas emissions should bring more frequent and more damaging TCs. One part of this expectation holds true: the strongest TCs have become even stronger in recent decades, in agreement with model simulations and theoretical arguments. But there is no satisfactory theory for how TC frequency will change in a warming world and model-based studies have shown mixed results. The recent study of Chand et al. (2022) shows a decline in TC numbers which the authors attribute to a reduction in the strength of the the north-south oriented Hadley cell and the east-west oriented Walker cell. The former features rising air over the warm SSTs of the deep tropics and subsidence over the cooler subtropics, while the latter features convection over the “warm pool” of the tropical western Pacific and subsidence over eastern Pacific “cold tongue”. But other studies suggests that reductions in overturning strength should result in an increase in the number of TCs rather than a decrease.
Research under this award considers the role of the overturning cells in setting TC frequency and other aggregate properties and the consequences for TC behavior of changes in overturning due to greenhouse warming. The work is conducted using two idealized configurations of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) which are designed to isolate the mechanisms of interest and study them in their simplest form. The first configuration is an “aquaplanet”, with an atmosphere coupled to a dynamic ocean model but no land surface. In this configuration there is no equivalent of the Pacific warm pool and cold tongue and hence no analog for the Walker cell, although the SST contrast between lower and higher latitudes still produces a Hadley cell. The second is a “ridge” configuration, in which a narrow oceanic ridge stands in for the American landmass that separates the tropical Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The ocean dynamics created by the imposition of a north-south ridge creates a contrast between cooler surface water to the west of the ridge and warmer SST to the east, which in turn induces a Walker circulation. These configurations are augmented by simulations at higher resolution (0.25 degree grid spacing) which are better able to capture TC behavior. For reasons of computational cost the high-resolution simulations use a motionless “slab” ocean in which the SST contrasts generated by the aquaplanet and ridge configurations are imposed indirectly so as not to compromise heat transfer from the ocean to the TCs.
The work is of societal as well as scientific interest given the tremendous destructive power of TCs and the need to assess changes in TC risk due to greenhouse warming. The work also has scientific broader impacts through the addition of new configurations to the CESM model hierarchy. The model versions developed in this project will be made available to the research community through the Simpler Models web portal and will be supported with documentation and reference simulations. In addition, the project provides support and training to two graduate students, thereby providing for the future scientific workforce in this research area.
This award reflects NSF’s statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation’s intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
Congratulations to Dr. Chris Gobler, who was one of the Stony Brook University professors formally honored as SUNY Distinguished Faculty, at a special awards dinner on November 16, 2023 at Sunwood Estate. Chris serves as the Endowed Chair of Coastal Ecology and Conservation, Director of the Center for Clean Water Technology and now Distinguished Professor at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.
Dr. Zhien Wang has received a new award from in support of his project “Mid-Scale R1-1 (M1:1P): The Next Generation Wyoming King Air Atmospheric Research Aircraft”, in the amount $227,723 for the project period 8/15/23 – 9/30-24. An abstract is provided below.
This is an NSF Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 project led by the University of Wyoming and started in 2019. The University of Wyoming King Air (UWKA) research aircraft is one of three airborne facilities for the research and education community of atmospheric sciences supported by the National Science Foundation. Because of its agile maneuverability and relatively inexpensive operational cost, UWKA is the most frequently requested airborne facility for cloud, precipitation, atmospheric chemistry, wildfires, and boundary layer meteorology research and education. This Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 Implementation project aims to modernize the aging UWKA by building a state-of-art airborne atmospheric research and education laboratory (UWKA-2) on a new King Air aircraft that has the same agility and cost-effectiveness. These technologies will become an integral part of the NSFs Lower Atmospheric Observing Facility. The advanced airborne in-situ and remote sensing measurement capabilities are critical for validation and refinement of algorithms used in space-borne measurements and providing observational constraints on numerical models for weather, climate, air quality, and wildfire predictions, and supporting many federal agencies’ missions.
There are five components in this NSF Mid-scale Research Infrastructure Implantation project. Our Stony Brook team builds airborne lidar capabilities based on Raman and Doppler lidar technologies for remote sensing of temperature, humidity, aerosols, and 3-dimensional wind profiles, which will transform our capability for atmospheric boundary layer measurements. Multi-function Airborne Raman Lidar- Generation 2 (MARLi-2) and five-beam Airborne Doppler Lidar (ADL) were successfully demonstrated on the ground. The project will focus on MARLi-2 and ADL airborne testing and data processing software development in the next two years.
Dr. Yong Chen has received a new award from Normandeau Associates, in support of the project “Hudson River Fall Juvenile Survey”, in the amount of $362,962, for the period 4/15/23 – 1/31/2025.
This contract is awarded to Dr. Yong Chen for the completion of the following tasks.
Task 1: Establish and provide Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) plan for field, laboratory, and data processing and storage; Task 2: Establish Sampling Plan including sampling dates and locations; Task 3: Conduct Bi-Weekly Fish and Water Quality Sampling Among 13 River Regions; Task 4: Preserve Fish Specimens from sampling week 3 in 2023 and weeks 1 through 3 in 2024 and identify, measure and enumerate specimens; Task 5: Complete and Provide Weekly Sampling Summaries (Weekly Summaries); Task 6: Complete and Provide Preliminary Annual Summary by December 1st of the Sampling Year; and Task 7: Complete and Provide Final Annual Report by February 1st of the Year After Data Collection (Final Annual Report)
Dr. Roger Flood has received a new award from ECOncrete Tech. LTD, in support of his project “Evaluation of Ecological Scour Protection Units”, in the amount $129,179, for the period 10/15/2023 to 11/30/2025.
Roger Flood at SoMAS, Stony Brook University will conduct high-resolution multibeam bathymetry and backscatter surveys using the Kongsberg EM 2040P MKII multibeam sonar system mounted on the hull of the 28-foot aluminum research vessel the R/V Donald W Pritchard. The multi-beam system measures the depth of the sea floor, and the acoustic backscatter of the bottom materials, and also records the acoustic return in the water column. The system can operate at several different frequencies and PI Flood plans to use the 600 kHz frequency (beam footprint 0.45 m in 40 m of water) to image the structures and the surrounding seafloor. The manufacturer of the multibeam system (Kongsberg) recently informed PI Flood that the 600 kHz frequency may not give good results at a water depth of 40 m so the SoMAS study will also survey the area of interest using the 300 or 400 kHz frequency of the multibeam system. The sonar system will not image the individual blocks and boulders that make up the seabed structures and which have lateral dimensions of about 0.3 m, but the system will image the form, and thus structural integrity, of the deposits, whether any materials have been transported away from their original locations, and the elevation and morphology of the surrounding seabed which may be due to erosion, deposition or sediment transport. The survey practices follow standard NOAA protocols. The data from the multibeam Sonar will be processed by Flood’s lab to create seabed point clouds, seabed elevation grids, and acoustic backscatter grids as GIScompatible depth grids and backscatter images in GeoTIFF format with horizontal resolutions of 1 m or less. The multibeam data will be processed using software packages such as SwathEd (developed at the University of New Brunswick), CARIS HIPS and SIPS, – or QPS Qimera. QA procedures will include calculating metrics such as TPU (Total Propagated Uncertainty) to ensure that only high-confidence depths are reported and comparing bottom depths at crosslines to ensure that the same bottom depth is measured at different times. Bottom depths will also be compared to historical NOAA bathymetric survey depths. Survey results will be reported in GIS-compatible formats with appropriate metadata. The Stony Brook analysis will compare different surveys to detect bottom changes that may be due to sediment movement, structural changes in the materials, or indeed to the growth of organisms on structures. This will also allow the analysis to detect changes in bottom elevation and acoustic backscatter that demonstrate how the seabed features are evolving with time. As bottom stresses related to surface waves can be quite important to lifting sediments above the seafloor, data from NOAA buoys will be used to determine the wind and wave history between surveys to be able to determine if any high-stress events occurred in those time intervals in which could contribute to any observed changes.
SBU News Features
- Fourteen Stony Brook University Endowed Faculty Members were formally installed
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- New Collaborative for the Earth to be Led by Heather Lynch
- University Honors Chancellor’s Award for Excellence Winners
- Professor Kevin Reed Named to Climate Leadership Role
- Gobler, Boffetta Named Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers
Latest Seminar Videos
- Adam Rainear, TAOS 2023-11-01 “Leveraging Physical and Social Sciences in Meteorology for 21st Century Challenges“
- Bofu Zheng, OSAC 2023-11-03 “Dinoflagellate vertical migration fuels an intense red tide“
- Gourihar Kulkarni, TAOS 2023-11-08 “Use of Laboratory, Field Observations, and Modeling Data to Study Cloud Nucleating Particles“
- Mary Collins, OSAC 2023-11-10 “Balancing Industry, Environment, and Employment: Policy Simulation for Sustainable Pollution Management“
- Oliver Bühler, TAOS 2023-11-15 “Spectral transport of internal wave energy by geostrophic eddies“.
- Delphine Farmer, TAOS 2023-11-29 “Wildfire Smoke: Tracking an Atmospheric Villain Through Air, Leaves, and Homes“.
Latest Publications
Schwaner, C., Farhat, S., Boutet, I., Tanguy, A., Barbosa, M., Grouzdev, D., Pales Espinosa, E. & Allam, B. (2023). Combination of RNAseq and RADseq to Identify Physiological and Adaptive Responses to Acidification in the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica). Marine Biotechnology, 1-23.
Adams, E. M., Gulka, J. E., Yang, Y., Burton, M. E., Burns, D. A., Buxton, V., … Fisher, N. S., … & Schoch, N. (2023). Distribution and trends of mercury in aquatic and terrestrial biota of New York, USA: a synthesis of 50 years of research and monitoring. Ecotoxicology, 1-18.
Swenson Perger, D. A., Dwyer, I. P., Aller, R. C., Volkenborn, N., Heilbrun, C., & Wehrmann, L. M. Seasonal iron fluxes and iron cycling in sandy bioirrigated sediments. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, 1293893.
Collier, J. L., Rest, J. S., Gallot-Lavallée, L., Lavington, E., Kuo, A., Jenkins, J., … & Archibald, J. M. (2023). The protist Aurantiochytrium has universal subtelomeric rDNAs and is a host for mirusviruses. Current Biology.
Lynch, H. J. (2023). Satellite Remote Sensing for Wildlife Research in the Polar Regions. Marine Technology Society Journal, 57(3), 43-50.
Pan, X., Ye, Z., Wo, J., Xing, Q., Yang, J., Chen, Y., & Tian, Y. (2024). Interannual variability in otolith biogeochemical signatures of Japanese Spanish mackerel in the Yellow Sea. Journal of Marine Systems, 242, 103933.
Hill, D. T., Alazawi, M. A., Moran, E. J., Bennett, L. J., Bradley, I., Collins, M. B., Gobler, C.J. … & Larsen, D. A. (2023). Wastewater surveillance provides 10-days forecasting of COVID-19 hospitalizations superior to cases and test positivity: A prediction study. Infectious Disease Modelling.
Flynn, C. M., Hart, T., Clucas, G. V., & Lynch, H. J. (2023). Penguins in the anthropause: COVID-19 closures drive gentoo penguin movement among breeding colonies. Biological Conservation, 286, 110318.
Matsui, T., Wolff, D. B., Lang, S., Mohr, K., Zhang, M., Xie, S., … & Loftus, A. M. (2023). Systematic Validation of Ensemble Cloud‐Process Simulations Using Polarimetric Radar Observations and Simulator Over the NASA Wallops Flight Facility. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(16), e2022JD038134.
Dawydiak, W., & Gobler, C. J. Transcription of biochemical defenses by the harmful brown tide pelagophyte, Aureococcus anophagefferens, in response to the protozoan grazer, Oxyrrhis marina. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14, 1295160.
Heck, S. M., Paparo, C. J., Tinoco, A. I., Vlasak, T. J., Cahill, B. V., Milea, S. V., … & Peterson, B. J. (2024). Nonconsumptive effects of black sea bass (Centropristis striata) on a crustacean mesopredator and the indirect effects on bivalve survival. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 570, 151964.
Pochron, S. T., Sasoun, S., Maharjan, S., Pirzada, W. U., Byrne, S. H., Girgis, M., … & Khan, S. (2023). Toxicity of AMPA to the Freshwater Planarian (Girardia tigrina).
Dolan, B., Kollias, P., van den Heever, S. C., Rasmussen, K. L., Oue, M., Luke, E., … & Chandrasekar, V. (2023). Time resolved reflectivity measurements of convective clouds. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(22), e2023GL105723.
Lachlan, K. A., DiCairano, J., & Gilbert, C. (2023). Examining the Links Between Information Sufficiency, News Preferences, and Protective Behavior During Hurricane Ian. Communication Studies, 1-18.
Thorne, L. H., Clay, T. A., Phillips, R. A., Silvers, L. G., & Wakefield, E. D. (2023). Effects of wind on the movement, behavior, energetics, and life history of seabirds. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 723, 73-117.
Xie, J., & Zhang, M. (2023). Explicit representation of orographic anisotropy for all directions improves Nanling mountain rainfall simulation. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(22), e2023GL106353.
Latest Press Headlines
WSHU (NPR): Great South Bay’s new harmful algal blooms are in unsewered communities, study finds
- “All of these occurrences, the blue green algal blooms, the marine toxic algal blooms, are in near shore areas that are getting heavy loads of nutrients — specifically nitrogen, and specifically nitrogen from septic systems,” said Chris Gobler, the report’s author and a coastal ecologist and conservationist at Stony Brook University.
Times Beacon Record: SBU News: Season of discontent in Long Island Waters (press release)
- Scientists at Stony Brook University have completed their assessment of water quality in Long Island’s surface waters for 2023 and the news was not good –the announcement was made today at a press conference on the shores of Great South Bay. During the months of April through September, every major bay and estuary across Long Island was afflicted by harmful algal blooms (HABs), oxygen-starved, dead zones, and fish and turtles kills. Excessive delivery of nitrogen from onsite wastewater has been cited as the root cause of these disturbing events.
Phys.org: The unraveling of a protist genome could unlock the mystery of marine viruses
- By unraveling the entire genome of a certain marine protist that may act as a host for many viruses, an international research team led by scientists from Stony Brook University sets the stage for future investigations of marine protist genomes, marine microbial dynamics and the evolutionary interplay between host organisms and their viruses—work that may open doors to a better understanding of the “invisible” world of marine viruses and offers a key to the ecology and health of oceans worldwide. Also ran in Sky News, TechCodex, Eco Magazine and others.
East Hampton Star: A Georgica Pond Leadership Shakeup
Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences has monitored the pond and recommended remediation efforts for several years. The group’s efforts have paid off, with a dramatic reduction in cyanobacteria blooms in recent years.
Riverhead News-Review: East End bald eagles, population rebuild leads to common sightings
- With so many sightings of bald eagles recently, Chris Paparo shares his photos and explains some historical and current facts about America’s national bird. With a degree in marine biology from LIU/Southampton, Mr. Paparo is the manager of Stony Brook University’s Marine Sciences Center. He is an award-winning member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America and the NYS Outdoor Writers Association.
East Hampton Star: Bits and Pieces 11.02.23
- Hamptons Jazz Fest and the South Fork Natural History Museum will present a performance by Carl Safina and Moment’s Notice on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Masonic Temple in Sag Harbor. Mr. Safina, who will serve as drummer and M.C., is better known to East End audiences as a notable ecologist, writer, MacArthur “genius” prize recipient, and endowed professor for nature and humanity at Stony Brook University.
Digital Journal: “Taming the Chaos of Dementia” Explores How Caregivers Can Help Loved Ones (press release)
- Dr. Sharon Pochron is faculty in the Sustainability Studies Program at Stony Brook University. She runs an environmental science laboratory and has published many peer-reviewed articles on topics ranging from caregiving for dementia to primate behavior to the impact of environmental contaminants on the health of invertebrates. Also ran in Lincoln News Reporter, Rockford Register Star and many others.
Newsday: Harmful algal blooms in LI waters hit new high: report (video)
- A Stony Brook University report shows the worst harmful algal blooms in LI waters on record. Newsday TV’s Steve Langford reports. Credit: Newsday/James Carbone, Steve Pfost; Photo Credit: Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.
Newsday: Algae blooms, dead zones hurt Long Island waters in 2023, new report says
- Last summer was the worst on record for harmful algal blooms in Long Island waters, according to a new report by Chris Gobler, a marine and atmospheric sciences professor at Stony Brook University who has monitored local waterways since 2014.
Ivoox: Night Flight
- Carl Safina – ecologist at Stony Brook University, head of the non-profit Safina Center, and author of “Alfie & Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe.”
Shelter Island Reporter: Bald eagle population on the rise: Sightings on East End becoming more common
- With a degree in marine biology from LIU/Southampton, Chris Paparo is manager of Stony Brook University’s Marine Sciences Center. He is also an award-winning member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America and the NYS Outdoor Writers Association. Also ran in Suffolk Times.
Inside Climate News: In the Florida Everglades, a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Hotspot
- One preliminary study concluded that climate change increased Hurricane Ian’s rainfall rates by more than 10 percent, according to researchers at Stony Brook University and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Ian was responsible for $113 billion in damage and 156 deaths, making it the costliest hurricane in state history and third-costliest on record in the United States, after Katrina in 2005 and Harvey in 2017. Also ran in News Leaflets and News es Euro.
Times Beacon Record: Englebright and Figliola compete for Suffolk County’s 5th District
- Englebright rebutted that in the decade of preparation for the clean water bill, the proportion was worked out by Stony Brook University scientists and “field tested” in public hearings. “It’s proportional that it’s about 75% of the problem is in cesspools, not in business districts,” he said.
North Fork Patch: Peconic Bay Scallop Season Off To Slow Start — But Some Are Available
- Meanwhile, in January, a new study indicated what many had long feared: The die-off of the beloved Peconic Bay scallops in local waters was likely caused by warming waters and heat waves. The study, commenced by Stony Brook University researchers and published in Global Change Biology, indicated that global warming has contributed to the loss of bay scallops.
- Dr. Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University returns with your host, Paul Boyce, PE, PG; President & CEO at PWGC, for a lively, fact-filled discussion on an issue that affects all Long Islanders.
North Fork Patch: Peconic Bay Scallop Season Off To Slow Start — But Some Are Available
- The study, commenced by Stony Brook University researchers and published in Global Change Biology, indicated that global warming has contributed to the loss of bay scallops.
Harvard Gazette: Screech owl wisdom
- It took an ailing screech owl to teach a scientist the value of up-close-and-personal study. In a talk Monday at the Science Center, Carl Safina, an ecologist at Stony Brook University and author of several books about humanity’s relationship with nature, recalled that the chick was found on a friend’s lawn as the pandemic was tightening its grip on the world. In the picture Safina received, the bird looked beyond saving.
Times Beacon Record: SBU chooses Lynch as inaugural director of the Collaborative for the Earth
- Heather Lynch is hoping to take a few pages out of the Coke and Pepsi playbook, which is rarely, if ever, used in the fields where she works. A penguin expert who has traveled more than 9,000 miles to Antarctica to monitor populations of these flightless water fowl, Lynch, who is the IACS Endowed Chair of Ecology & Evolution, plans to use her new role as the inaugural director of the Collaborative for the Earth at Stony Brook University to accomplish several tasks, including shaping the way people think about environmental issues like climate change.
Newswise: Stony Brook University’s New Collaborative for the Earth to be Led by Heather Lynch (press release)
- The recently announced Collaborative for the Earth at Stony Brook University will be led by Institute for Advanced Computational Science Chair and Department of Ecology & Evolution Professor Heather Lynch, who uses quantitative ecology to address pressing issues and questions related to wildlife in Antarctica in the face of climate change and human activity.
Healthcare Design: HCD Expo 2023: Barbara Huelat Receives 2023 Changemaker Award, Reflects On Her Career Journey And Dementia Care Work
- During the presentation, Huelat’s daughter Sharon Pochron, associate professor at Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, N.Y.), led a Q+A with her mother about her career path, discovery of evidence-based design, and research and work on designing for dementia patients.
Harvard Crimson: Carl Safina Speaks on the Life-Changing Relationship Behind ‘Alfie and Me’
- Despite a lifetime of experience and education in ecology, nothing could have prepared Carl Safina for the extraordinary revelations that a unique owl named Alfie would bring into his world. On Nov. 7, the award-winning writer and Endowed Professor for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University sat down with Dr. Drew Lanham at the Harvard Science Center to discuss this transformation.
Syracuse University News: Research Shows Wastewater Testing Improves Predictions for COVID-19 Hospital Admissions
- Hill led a project that used wastewater surveillance data in predictive models to improve estimates for new COVID hospital admissions in New York state. The research team’s results were published recently in the peer-reviewed journal Infectious Disease Modeling and were gathered in collaboration with State University of New York at Albany, University at Buffalo, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Stony Brook University and the New York State Department of Health.
Crain’s New York Business: Op-ed: Congestion pricing will create an opportunity for comprehensive planning
- New York must finally accept the need for a true comprehensive plan like almost every other city and town in the United States, writes Stony Brook University’s Donovan Finn.
Ivoox/WPKN Community Radio: Carl Safina Author – Alfie & Me: What owls know, What humans believe (radio).
- Returning for the third time to “Digging in the Dirt” is my guest Dr. Carl Safina the endowed chair for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University and a MacArthur “genius fellowship” award winning ecologist and founder of the Safina Center and now author of a wonderful new book called “Alfie and me” – What owls know, what humans believe.
Futurity: Wastewater tests enhance COVID hospitalization forecasts
- Additional coauthors of the study are from the State University of New York at Albany, University at Buffalo, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Stony Brook University, and the New York State Department of Health.
Eco Magazine: Using Latest Simulation Technologies to Predict Extreme Heat Events
- A team of researchers from Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) has been awarded a three-year $500,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to use its Seamless System for Prediction and Earth System Research (SPEAR)—a next generation computer modeling system for simulating global climate change—to project future extreme heat events, which are major contributors to global warming impacts.
