In The News

MSRC Newsletter (1976-1990) | MSRC Bulletin (1991) | MSRC Soundings (1990-1994) | MSRC In The News (2004-2008)

Campus News Features

The Brook Spring 2009 Stony Brook Alumni Magazine featuring SoMAS

SBU Newsmakers July 22, 1998 featuring Kamazima Lwiza and Glenn Lopez

SBU Newsmakers July 27, 1998 featuring Malcolm Bowman, Robert Wilson and Larry Swanson

SBU Newsmakers Summer 1998 featuring Marvin Geller

NYSG Coastlines Newsletter from 1989 featuring a memorial for Bud Brinkhuis

The Stony Brook Campus Currents March 31, 1986 featuring MSRC Director J.R. Schubel as new SB Provost

Stony Brook People September/October, 1984 featuring MSRC

MSRC Bulletin (1991-1995, 2000)

The MSRC Bulletin was a quarterly newsletter launched in 1990 that focused on discussing timely environmental topics in easily understandable format. The Bulletins are intended to aid high school educators more effectively teach current environmental issues, particularly regional marine issues, in their classroom. They are also intended to inform the general public about important
regional and national environmental issues. 

Volume 1, Number 1 – September, 1990 – The Brown Tide: An Investigation of Why This Unusual Phytoplankton Bloom Occurred
Volume 1, Number 2 – January, 1991 – Floatable Wastes in New York Coastal Waters
Volume 1, Number 3 – June, 1991 – Population Growth and the Coastal Ocean
Volume 1, Number 4 – September, 1991 – Hypoxia in Long Island Sound
Volume 2, Number 1 – May, 1992 – The Magnuson Act and its Effect on the Fisheries of New York
Bulletin Special Edition – January 1992 – Brown Tide Update
Bulletin Volume 2, Number 2 – August 1993 – The Pelagic Food Web in Estuaries
Bulletin Volume 2, Number 3 – February 1994 – Should third-class mail be junked?
Bulletin Volume 9, Number 1 – February 2000 – A History of Ocean Dumping

MSRC News (1994-1998)

The MSRC Newsletter returned in the mid 1990s and was a publication that featured the latest updates from the Marine Sciences Research Center on a variety of topics. The features of each issue are listed below the PDF link.

Volume 2, Number 4 – Winter 1991

• Ashblock Boathouse Dedication
• Celebration and Concerns for the Earth Series: Peter Matthiessen Writing Workshop and Readings
• Testing Hypoxia Hypothesis in New York Bight
• Student Intern Advises on Sound Size Limits

Volume 2, Number 6 – Summer 1991

• Congressional Science Advisor Visits MSRC
• Flax Pond Lab Open House
• Young Scholars and Summer Fellows at MSRC
• Faculty and Students Attend Nova Scotia ASLO Meeting
• Film Crew on the Hudson

Volume 3, Number 1 – Fall 1991

• LILCO – MSRC Workshop for Teachers
• First Student Symposium
• Students Receive Staudte Award and Arno Penzias Award
• URECA Summer Fellow Researches Scallop Mortality

Volume 3, Number 3 – 1992

• MSRC Forms New International Partnerships: Eastern Europe and Italy
• Transferring Technology to Aid the LI Environment
• MSRC Course for LI Teachers: Environmental Myths vs Reality
• First Open House Held
• LI Sound Study Office Opened

Volume 3, Number 4 – 1992

• Environmental author Roger Stone researches 3-Village changes
• Video on the Sound ready for classrooms
• Students learn life lessons aboard the R/V Lord Jim

Volume 4, Number 1 – 1993

• Robert Cess Honored
• Information Center of the Future
• Associates Present Sunday Breakfast Series

Volume 4, Number 2 – 1993

• Long Island Coastal Conference
• Donald Pritchard elected to the NAE
• Research to combat biofouling
• Focus on Dong-Ping Wang

Volume 4, Number 3 – 1993

• Information Center Dedication
• Welcome New Flax Pond Lab Manager
• Faculty and Alumni Notes
• Focus on Chuck Nittrouer

Volume 4, Number 4 – 1993

• First Annual Writer’s Festival and Photo Contest
• Alumnus Greg Marshall’s work with National Geographic
• 2nd Annual Open House
• Focus on Nicholas Fisher

Volume 5, Number 1 – 1994

• MSRC Mentors Women
• New York Sea Grant sends two more MSRC graduates to DC
• New Coastal Marine Scholar, Geoffrey Trager
• Scientists from Italy to work with Waste Management Institute
• Focus on Minghua Zhang

Volume 5, Number 2 – 1994

• First Female Meteorologist Ph.D. Visits MSRC
• New Partnership with W. Meadow Conservation Center
• MSRC’s Romanian Student
• New Faces

Volume 5, Number 3 – 1994

• Sea Grant Institute / MSRC Summer Institute
• Ward Melville Summer Fellows
• Focus on Dr. Robert Cess

Volume 5, Number 3 – September 1994

Volume 6, Number 1 – 1995

• SWAMP
• Alumni News and Notes
• New Faces
• Focus on Kirk Cochran

Volume 6, Number 1 – February 1995

Volume 7, Numbers 1 – June, 1996

• Akira Okubo Memorial
• Camp Seawolf
• West Meadow Creek Conservation Center
• Focus on Vincent Breslin

Volume 8, Number 1 – April 1997

• MSRC Five Year Plan
• WRMI Issues Recycling Reports
• Brown Tide: Why Here?
• Focus on Sergio Sañudo-Wilhelmy
• Faculty and Alumni Notes

Volume 9, Number 1 – September 1998

• Marvin Geller Heads MSRC
• Gordon Taylor Wins Patent for Anti-Biofouling Coating
• A View from the Bottom: MSRC’s New Scanner
• Evan Liblit Memorial Fund Kick Off
• Focus on Andrei Y. Chistoserdov
• Colloquium Explores Environmental Change
• Faculty and Staff News