TRIENNIAL REPORT 2018-2019
Making Scientific Research Count at Stony Brook University!
Bassem Allam
Endowed Professor of Marinetics
Marine invertebrate physiology and health, Shellfish Genomics, Aquaculture
Grants
$154,048.00 1-Feb-2014 through 31-Jan-2018 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: New York Sea Grant’s Omnibus 2014 – 2018
$326,963.00 1-Sep-2016 through 31-Aug-2019 USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture: Validation of Markers and Marker-Assisted Selection of Hard Clam for Resistance to QPX Disease (PI Bassem Allam, Co-PI
$289,198.00 1-Aug-2019 through 30-Jun-2020 Rutgers University: From Sequence to Consequence: Genomic Selection to Expand and Improve Selective Breeding for the Eastern Oyster (PI Bassem Allam, Co-PI
Publications
Josephine Aller
Professor
Marine benthic ecology, invertebrate zoology,marine microbiology, biogeochemistry
Robert Aller
Distinguished Professor
Marine biogeochemistry, marine animal-sediment relations.
Grants
$863,043.00 15-Aug-2017 through 31-Jul-2020 National Science Foundation: Coupling of Carbonate Cycling and Redox Reactions in the Bioturbated Zone of Marine Sediments (PI Robert Aller, Co-PI )
Publications
Katherine Aubrecht
Division Head, Sustainability Studies / Associate Professor / Faculty Director, Coastal Environmental Studies
Phone: 631-632-5360
Fax: 631-632-5375
chemical education, sustainable and green chemistry
Grants
Publications
Stephen Baines
Associate Professor
Aquatic ecosystem ecology, ecological stoichiometry
Grants
Publications
Steven Beaupré
Associate Professor
Marine Biogeochemistry, Chemical kinetics of natural organic matter, radiocarbon analyses
Grants
Publications
David Black
Associate Professor
Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, deep-sea sediments, marine micropaleontology
Henry Bokuniewicz
Distinguished Service Professor
Near shore transport processes, coastal groundwater hydrology, coastal sedimentation, marine geophysics
Malcolm Bowman
Distinguished Service Professor
Coastal ocean and estuarine dynamics
Grants
Publications
Bruce Brownawell
Associate Professor
Biogeochemistry of organic pollutants in seawater and groundwater.
Grants
Publications
Robert Cerrato
Professor
Benthic ecology, population and community dynamics.
Grants
Publications
Edmund Chang
Professor
Atmospheric dynamics and diagnoses, climate dynamics, synoptic meteorology
Grants
$365,613.00 11-Mar-2016 through 10-Mar-2020 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: Extratropical Cyclone Activity as a Climate Indicator for National Climate Assessment (PI Edmund Chang, Co-PI )
$394,329.00 1-Jul-2016 through 30-Jun-2020 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Understanding the Sources of Subseasonal Predictability of Extratropical Cyclone Activity and Improving Their Representation in Forecast Systems (PI Edmund Chang, Co-PI )
$199,843.00 1-Sep-2019 through 31-Aug-2021 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Understanding and Quantifying Uncertainties Related to Counteracting Influence of Projected Reduction in Temperature Gradient and Increase in Atmospheric Moisture on Winter Storms and Flooding (PI Edmund Chang, Co-PI )
Publications
J. Kirk Cochran
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Marine geo-chemistry, use of radionuclides as geochemical tracers; diagenesis of marine sediments.
Grants
$197,748.00 1-Feb-2014 through 31-Jan-2018 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: New York Sea Grant’s Omnibus 2014 – 2018
$85,000.00 1-May-2016 through 31-Dec-2018 Suffolk County Department of Economic Development: Coastal Resiliency via Integrated Wetland Management Sample Collection and Analysis (PI Kirk Cochran, Co-PI )
$539,701.00 15-Sep-2017 through 31-Aug-2020 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Lead-210 and Polonium-210 as Tracers for Scavenging and Export: GEOTRACES Pacific Meridonial Section (PI Kirk Cochran, Co-PI )
Publications
Brian Colle
Professor / Director, ITPA
Extreme weather, coastal meteorology, weather forecasting, regional climate change
Grants
$112,239.00 19-Aug-2013 through 15-Aug-2018 USDA Forest Service: Employing Ensemble Data Assimilation, Parameter Estimation, and Field Data to Improve Fire Weather Predictions in Mesoscale Models
$420,671.00 1-Jul-2017 through 30-Jun-2020 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Better Use of Ensembles in the Forecast Process: Scenario-Based Tools for Predictability Studies and Hazardous Weather Communication (PI Brian Colle, Co-PI )
$478,362.00 1-Sep-2013 through 31-Jul-2019 University of Delaware: Hazards SEES Type 2: Dynamic Integration of Natural, Human, and Infrastructure Systems for Hurricane Evacuation and Sheltering (PI Brian Colle, Co-PI )
$350,466.00 1-Feb-2014 through 31-Jan-2019 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Observations and Modeling of Mesoscale Precipitation Banding in Cool-season Storms (PI Brian Colle, Co-PI )
$235,223.00 1-Feb-2016 through 31-Jan-2020 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: Using OLYMPEX Field Data, Satellite Simulators, and Unique Surface Instrumentation to Improve Cloud Microphysical Parameterizations (PI Brian Colle, Co-PI )
$409,289.00 15-Sep-2016 through 31-Aug-2020 National Science Foundation: GP-IMPACT: Increasing Geosciences Enrollment through Research Experiences, Mentoring, and Curriculum Interactions with Community Colleges and High Schools (PI Brian Colle, Co-PI )
$117,096.00 1-Oct-2017 through 30-Sep-2020 Consolidated Edison Company of New York Incorporated: Enhanced Tools for Ensemble Weather Prediction (PI Brian Colle, Co-PI )
$80,416.00 11-Jun-2018 through 6-Dec-2019 Research Foundation of CUNY: Town + Gown: Task Order for Citywide Stormwater Resiliency Study (PI Brian Colle, Co-PI )
$52,648.00 1-Aug-2018 through 28-May-2020 Creare Incorporated: Manuel and Automated Marine Weather Observations Using Smartphones (PI Brian Colle, Co-PI )
$366,769.00 1-Sep-2018 through 31-Aug-2020 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Using Process-Oriented Diagnostics with Feature-based Verification Software to Improve Models (PI Brian Colle, Co-PI )
$1,309,320.00 1-Jan-2019 through 31-Dec-2020 NASA Ames Research Center: IMPACTS: Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (PI Brian Colle, Co-PI )
$405,812.00 1-Aug-2019 through 31-Jul-2020 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Extensive Field Observations and Modeling to Understand Multi-Band Precipitation Processes Within Winter Storms (PI Brian Colle, Co-PI )
Publications
Jackie Collier
Associate Professor
Phytoplankton physiological ecology; Biocomplexity and microbial diversity; Planktonic ecosystem processes in marine, estuarine, and freshwater systems
Grants
$335,343.00 12-Oct-2018 through 14-Oct-2020 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation: Tools and Methods for the Consistent, Efficient Genetic Manipulation of Auranthiochytrium (PI Jackie Collier, Co-PI )
Publications
Ali Farhadzadeh
Assistant Professor
Nearshore hydrodynamics, sediment transport, wave-current-sediment-structure interaction, resilient coastal protection systems, coastal flooding
Grants
$265,696.00 1-Aug-2017 through 31-Oct-2020 NYS Energy Research and Development Authority: Coastal Resiliency and Morphodynamic Responses to Storm Surge and Seiche in Eastern Lake Erie (PI Ali Farhadzadeh, Co-PI )
Publications
Donovan Finn
Assistant Professor / Faculty Director, Environmental Design, Policy, and Planning
community-based planning, disaster recovery, resilience policy, urban design and placemaking
Grants
$57,350.00 22-Aug-2019 through 30-Sep-2020 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research: A User-Driven Framework for Harnessing Atmospheric Research to Inform Planning and Policy for Coastal Resilience (PI Donovan Finn, Co-PI )
Publications
Nicholas Fisher
Distinguished Professor / Director, CIDER
Marine phytoplankton physiology and ecology, biogeo-chemistry of metals, marine pollution
Grants
$361,802.00 1-Sep-2016 through 31-Dec-2019 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research:Transformations and Mercury Isotopic Fractionation of Methylmercury by Marine Phytoplankton (PI Nicholas Fisher, Co-PI )
$72,391.45 1-Apr-2018 through 31-Mar-2019 Dartmouth College: Sources and Protracted Effects of Early Life Exposure to Arsenic and Mercury (PI Nicholas Fisher, Co-PI )
Publications
Charles Flagg
Research Professor
Continental Shelf Dynamics, Bio-Physical Interactions in Shelf Systems, Climate Change Effects on Coastal Systems, Shipboard ADCPs on Volunteer Observing Ships
Grants
$915,431.00 15-Sep-2015 through 31-Aug-2020 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: The Oleander Project: High-resolution Observation of the Dynamic Ocean Between New Jersey and Bermuda (PI Charles Flagg, Co-PI )
$138,495.00 15-May-2017 through 30-Apr-2020 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: The Norrona Project: An International Collaboration for Sustained Studies of the Meridional Overturning Circulation Between Denmark, The Faroes and Iceland (PI Charles Flagg, Co-PI )
$9,635.00 13-Aug-2018 through 30-Apr-2020 National Park Service: Continuation of Post Hurricane Sandy Physical Monitoring of the Old Inlet Breach Fire Island National Seashore (PI Charles Flagg, Co-PI )
Publications
Roger Flood
Research Professor
Marine geology, sediment dynamics, continental margin sedimentation
Grants
$445,849.00 1-Aug-2017 through 31-Dec-2019 Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York: Long Island Sound Mapping – Phase 2 (PI Roger Flood, Co-PI )
Publications
Michael French
Associate Professor
supercell and tornado dynamics; Doppler weather radar applications; mesoscale meteorology
Grants
$444,234.00 1-Sep-2015 through 31-Aug-2019 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: Nowcasting Severe Storm Evolution and Tracking Storm Life Cycles in the Northeast United States Using GOES-R (PI Michael French, Co-PI )
$359,465.00 1-Apr-2018 through 31-Mar-2021 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: A Polarimetric Radar Climatology of Supercell Thunderstorms in the United States (PI Michael French, Co-PI )
Publications
Michael Frisk
Professor
Fish ecology, population modeling and life history theory
Grants
$668,624.00 1-Apr-2014 31-Mar-2018 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Assessing blue crab abundance and life history characteristics and predicting future population trends on Long Island (PI Robert Cerrato, Co-PIs Janet Nye, Michael Frisk)
$399,768.00 25-Apr-2016 through 30-Apr-2019 Bureau of Ocean Energy Management: Monitoring Endangered Atlantic Sturgeon and Commercial Finfish Habitat Use Offshore New York Dated 1/28/16 and Revised 4/06/16 (PI Michael Frisk, Co-PI )
$16,000.00 1-Jul-2018 through 30-Jun-2019 Hudson River Foundation: Gradute Support for Evan Corey Ingram: Movement Ecology of Juvenile and Sub-Adult Atlantic Sturgeon in the Husdon River and New York Bight (PI Michael Frisk, Co-PI )
$45,980.00 1-Sep-2018 through 29-Feb-2020 Florida International University: Fellowship for Diego Cardenosa: DNA Toolkit for CITES Listing of Sharks (PI Michael Frisk, Co-PI )
Publications
Christopher Gobler
Endowed Chair
Coastal ecosystem ecology, climate change, harmful algal blooms, phytoplankton, ocean acidification, effects of multiple stressors on coastal marine resources, aquatic biogeochemistry
Grants
$203,308.00 1-Feb-2014 through 31-Jan-2018 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: New York Sea Grant’s Omnibus 2014 – 2018
$6,704,682.96 1-Sep-2016 through 31-Aug-2020 NYS Department of Environmental Conservation: NYS Center for Clean Water Technology (PI Christopher Gobler, Co-PI )
$1,500,000.00 1-Apr-2017 through 30-Jun-2020 NYS Environmental Facilities Corporation: Programming to Address Emerging Contaminants in Drinking Water (PI Christopher Gobler, Co-PI )
$2,560,000.00 1-Jan-2010 through 31-Dec-2020 Renaissance Charitable Foundation Incorporated: Southampton Coastal and Estuarine Research Program (SCERP) (PI Christopher Gobler, Co-PI )
$394,512.00 4-Apr-2013 through 30-Apr-2020 East Hampton Town Trustees: Assessing Harmful Algae and Pathogens in East Hampton Town Trustee Waters (PI Christopher Gobler, Co-PI )
$361,411.00 1-Sep-2015 through 31-Aug-2020 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: ECOHAB: Resolving the Effects of Resource Availability, Predation and Competition on Brown Tide Dynamics Using Metatranscriptomics (PI Christopher Gobler, Co-PI )
$21,375.00 1-Apr-2017 through 1-Feb-2018 State of Maryland Department of Natural Resources: Coastal Bays Brown Tide Assessment Project (PI Christopher Gobler, Co-PI )
$193,980.00 1-Sep-2017 through 31-Aug-2020 Virginia Institute of Marine Science: ECOHAB 2017: Cross-regional Comparison of Dinophysis Bloom Dynamics, Drivers and Toxicity (PI Christopher Gobler, Co-PI )
$32,000.00 1-Feb-2018 through 31-Jan-2020 Trustees of Boston University: Rhode Island Sea Grant 2018 – 2022 (PI Christopher Gobler, Co-PI )
$99,928.00 1-Oct-2018 through 30-Sep-2019 New York Farm Viability Institute Incorporated: Diversifying New York’s Marine Aquaculture Industry: Integrating Sugar Kelp Into Oyster Farms (PI Christopher Gobler, Co-PI )
$3,000,000.00 1-Aug-2019 through 31-Jul-2020 NYS Department of Health: Programming to Address Emerging Contaminants Drinking Water (PI Christopher Gobler, Co-PI )
$914,237.00 1-Sep-2019 through 31-Aug-2020 Virginia Institute of Marine Science: ECOHAB19: Multidisciplinary Approach to a Cross-Regional Problem: Dinophysis and DSP Toxicity (PI Christopher Gobler, Co-PI )
$905,300.00 1-Sep-2019 through 31-Aug-2021 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Microcystins in Marine Bivalves: Optimizing of Monitoring for and Minimizing Risk from an Emerging Human Health Threat (PI Christopher Gobler, Co-PI )
Publications
Sultan Hameed
Professor
Climate change: analysis, impacts, and predictability
Grants
Publications
Sara Hamideh
Assistant Professor
Endeavour Hall 167a
disaster recovery and community resilience
Grants
$100,000.00 1-Oct-2019 through 30-Sep-2021 National Science Foundation: CoPe EAGER: Collaborative Research: Evaluating Coastal Community Resilience Bonds to Facilitate Community Recovery (PI Sara Hamideh, Co-PI )
Publications
Sung-Gheel (Gil) Jang
Assistant Professor / Faculty Director, Geospatial Center
Geospatial Sciences and geographic information systems
Grants
Publications
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Roxanne Karimi
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dana Hall 167 Ecological stoichiometry of metals, aquatic environmental health, and physiological ecology.
Grants
$51,615.00 17-Aug-2018 through 31-May-2019 United Nations Environmental Programme: Development of the Guidelines for Rapid Environmental Assessment of Mercury in ASGM (PI Roxanne Karimi, Co-PI )
Publications
Marat Khairoutdinov
Professor
Climate modeling, high-resolution cloud modeling, cloud microphysics, super-parameterization, massively parallel super-computing, cloud parameterization
Grants
$295,250.20 15-Aug-2014 through 14-Aug-2018 US Department of Energy: Expanding the Computational Frontier of Multi-Scale Atmospheric Simulation to Advance Understanding of Low Cloud / Climate Feedbacks (PI Marat Khairoutdinov, Co-PI )
$334,645.00 15-Dec-2014 through 31-May-2020 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Self-Aggregation of Moist Convection, Radiative-Convective Instability, and the Regulation of Tropical Climate (PI Marat Khairoutdinov, Co-PI )
$32,763.00 1-Feb-2019 through 31-May-2020 University of Washington: Collaborative Research: Using SOCRATES Datasets to Improve Simulations of Clouds, Aerosols and Their Climate Impacts (PI Marat Khairoutdinov, Co-PI )
$365,309.00 1-Jun-2019 through 31-May-2022 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Physics of and Climate Regulation by Convective Aggregation (PI Marat Khairoutdinov, Co-PI )
$23,212.00 1-Aug-2019 through 31-Jul-2020 Brookhaven Science Associates LLC: Integrating High Resolution Models and Observations for Urban Science Applications (PI Marat Khairoutdinov, Co-PI )
Publications
Hyemi Kim
Associate Professor
low frequency climate variability, tropical meteorology, ocean-atmosphere interaction, prediction and predictability, tropical cyclone activity, extreme events
Grants
$749,232.00 1-Jun-2017 through 31-May-2020 National Science Foundation: CAREER: Understanding the Source of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Predictability and its Impact on the Mid-latitudes (PI Hyemi Kim, Co-PI )
$45,704.00 1-Jan-2019 through 31-Dec-2019 Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology: Impact of the Coupled Initialization on Subseasonal Forecast (PI Hyemi Kim, Co-PI )
Publications
Daniel Knopf
Professor
Atmospheric Chemistry, Microphysics and Chemistry of Atmospheric Aerosols, Heterogeneous Atmospheric Chemistry and Kinetics
Grants
$321,512.00 1-Jul-2015 through 31-Dec-2019 National Science Foundation: The Effect of Particle Phase State on Multiphase Hydroxyl Radical OH Oxidation Kinetics and Products of Biomass Burning Aerosol (PI Daniel Knopf, Co-PI )
$547,831.00 17-May-2016 through 14-Aug-2020 US Department of Energy: Experimental Investigation of the Governing Parameters of Atmospheric Ice Nucleation Using Field-Collected and Laboratory Generated Aerosol (PI Daniel Knopf, Co-PI )
$70,066.00 24-Mar-2017 through 23-Mar-2020 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: Multi-scale Observational Analysis and Modeling to Improve GCM Simulation of Global Shallow Cloud Processes and Feedbacks (PI Daniel Knopf, Co-PI )
$357,055.00 1-Aug-2019 through 14-Aug-2020 US Department of Energy: Small Field Campaign: Aerosol-Ice Formation Closure Pilot Study (PI Daniel Knopf, Co-PI )
Publications
Pavlos Kollias
Professor
Cloud Microphysics and Dynamics, Environmental Remote Sensing, Radar Meteorology and Technology
Grants
$824,241.00 15-Feb-2015 through 14-Feb-2020 University of Washington: Microphysical-Macrophysical Interactions in Low Cloud Systems Over the Eastern North Atlantic (PI Pavlos Kollias, Co-PI )
$226,394.00 1-Aug-2016 through 31-Jul-2019 Regents of the University of California: Bayesian Cloud Property Retrievals from ARM Active and Passive Measurements (PI Pavlos Kollias, Co-PI )
$69,528.00 24-Apr-2018 through 30-Sep-2019 Brookhaven Science Associates LLC: Cloud and Precipitation Studies Using ARM Radar Observations (PI Pavlos Kollias, Co-PI )
$22,000.00 11-Jun-2018 through 30-Sep-2018 Brookhaven Science Associates LLC: Integrating High Resolution Models and ARM Radar Observations (PI Pavlos Kollias, Co-PI )
$330,359.00 1-Apr-2019 through 31-Mar-2022 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Studies of the Microphysical Processes in Ice and Mixed-Phase Clouds and Precipitation Using Multiparameter Radar Observations Combined with Cloud Modeling (PI Pavlos Kollias, Co-PI )
$78,998.00 19-Apr-2019 through 18-Apr-2020 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: Aerosols and Cloud-Convection Precipitation (A-CCP) Study (PI Pavlos Kollias, Co-PI )
Publications
Jeffrey Levinton
Distinguished Professor
Conservation biology, developmental evolution
Grants
Publications
Ping Liu
Research Associate Professor
Climate change, dynamics and modeling;
Grants
$150,893.00 1-May-2016 through 30-Apr-2018 University of Miami: Calibration and Evaluation of GEFS Ensemble Forecasts at Weeks 3-4 (PI Ping Liu, Co-PI )
Publications
Darcy Lonsdale
Professor
Ecology and physiology of marine zooplankton; food web dynamics of estuarine plankton and the impacts of harmful algal blooms.
Grants
Publications
Glenn Lopez
Professor Emeritus
Marine benthic ecology, animal-sediment interactions
Kamazima Lwiza
Associate Professor
Structure and dynamics of shelf-seas and remote sensing oceanography
Grants
$384,119.00 1-Jul-2015 through 31-Mar-2020 National Environment Research Council (NERC): HyCRISTAL: Integrating Hydro-Climate Science into Policy Decisions for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure and Livelihoods in East Africa (PI Kamazima Lwiza, Co-PI )
Publications
Heather Lynch
Assistant Professor
Development and application of statistics
Grants
Publications
John Mak
Professor
Trace gas isotopic composition for the reconstruction of atmospheric chemistry in the paleo atmosphere; trace gas emissions from the biosphere; development of instrumentation platforms for research aircraft.
Grants
$249,797.00 15-Mar-2015 through 28-Feb-2019 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Using Stable Isotopes to Constrain the Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide Budget Over the Last 20,000 Years (PI John Mak, Co-PI )
$46,048.00 1-May-2018 through 30-Jun-2019 NYS Energy Research and Development Authority: Identifying and Quantifying Select Volatile Organic Compounds during LISTOS 2018 using a HR-PTR-TOFMS (PI John Mak, Co-PI )
$47,075.00 15-May-2018 through 30-May-2020 Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management Inc: Quantification of Anthropogenic Volatile Organic Compounds in the Long Island Sound Region (PI John Mak, Co-PI )
$296,503.00 1-May-2019 through 30-Apr-2021 National Science Foundation: EAGER: The Presence of a Clumped Isotope Signal in Atmospheric Carbon-Dioxide (CO) (PI John Mak, Co-PI )
$51,632.00 1-Jul-2019 through 1-Aug-2021 Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management Inc: Evaluate Wintertime Temporal Trends in VOC Speciation and Concentrations During Different Meteorological Conditions at a Fixed Site (PI John Mak, Co-PI )
Publications
Anne McElroy
Professor
Aquatic Toxicology
Grants
$185,636.00 1-Jun-2017 through 31-May-2020 Hudson River Foundation: Chemical and Biological Characterization of Sewage Treatment Derived Pharmaceuticals to the Hudson River (PI Anne McElroy, Co-PI )
$39,386.00 1-Jul-2019 through 31-Dec-2019 Suffolk County Department of Economic Development: Literature Review and Synthesis of Pesticides in Use By Suffolk County for Vector Control 2019 (PI Anne McElroy, Co-PI )
Publications
Janet Nye
Adjunct Associate Professor
Fish ecology, climate variability, global environmental change, ecosystem-based management, ocean acidification, climate change
Grants
$80,183.00 1-Feb-2014 through 31-Jan-2018 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: New York Sea Grant’s Omnibus 2014 – 2018
$118,219.00 1-Dec-2015 30-Nov-2018 National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Understanding the Effects of Acidification and Hypoxia Within and Across Generations in a Coastal Marine Fish
$668,624.00 1-Apr-2014 31-Mar-2018 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Assessing blue crab abundance and life history characteristics and predicting future population trends on Long Island (PI Robert Cerrato, Co-PIs Janet Nye, Michael Frisk)
$24,898.00 1-Aug-2017 through 31-Jul-2020 National Science Foundation: Developing A Strategic Plan for a Global Change Research and Education at Flax Pond Marine Lab (PI Janet Nye, Co-PI )
$298,749.00 1-Sep-2013 through 31-Aug-2018 National Science Foundation: Coastal SEES (Track 2), Collaborative Research: Resilience and Adaptation of a Coastal Ecological-Economic System in Response to Increasing Temperature (PI Janet Nye, Co-PI )
$132,194.00 1-Dec-2015 through 30-Nov-2019 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Understanding the Effects of Acidification and Hypoxia Within and Across Generations in a Coastal Marine Fish (PI Janet Nye, Co-PI )
$75,645.00 1-Apr-2016 through 15-Jun-2018 Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission: Changes in Availability of Mid-Atlantic Fish Stocks to Fisheries-Independent Surveys (PI Janet Nye, Co-PI )
$66,932.00 1-Sep-2017 through 31-Aug-2020 Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst: Development and Evaluation of a Seasonal-to-Interannual Statistical Forecasting System for Oceanographic Conditions and Living Marine Resources on the Northeast U.S. Shelf (PI Janet Nye, Co-PI )
$310,561.00 1-Apr-2019 through 31-Mar-2022 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Understanding the Impact of Warming on the Structure and Function of Marine Communities (PI Janet Nye, Co-PI )
$20,000.00 1-May-2019 through 15-Jul-2020 University of Tasmania: Visiting Fellowships (PI Janet Nye, Co-PI )
$297,168.00 1-Sep-2019 through 31-Aug-2020 Rutgers University: Optimizing Ocean Acidification Observations for Model Parameterization in the Coupled Slope Water System of the U.S Northeast Large Marine Ecosystem (PI Janet Nye, Co-PI )
Publications
Dianna Padilla
Professor
Aquatic ecology, applied ecology, conservation biology
Grants
Publications
Emmanuelle Pales-Espinosa
Adjunct Associate Professor / Project Associate
Shellfish physiology, Particle selection mechanisms in suspension-feeding bivalves, Algology
Grants
$512,041.00 1-May-2017 through 30-Apr-2021 National Science Foundation: Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Food Choice in Bivalves (PI Emmanuelle Pales Espinosa, Co-PI )
Publications
Bradley Peterson
Associate Professor
Community ecology of seagrass dominated ecosystems
Grants
$50,786.00 29-Mar-2016 through 28-Sep-2018 National Park Service: Monitoring Estuarine Condition and Seagrass in NPS Northeast Coastal Barrier Network Parks (PI Bradley Peterson, Co-PI )
$241,396.00 1-May-2016 through 30-Apr-2020 NYS Department of Environmental Conservation: Great South Bay Shellfish Bed Project (PI Bradley Peterson, Co-PI )
$505,658.00 1-May-2016 through 30-Apr-2020 NYS Department of Environmental Conservation: Shinnecock Bay Restoration Project (PI Bradley Peterson, Co-PI )
$82,000.00 1-May-2016 through 31-Oct-2018 Suffolk County Health Services: Environmental Quality/Peconic Estuary Eelgrass Assessment Services (PI Bradley Peterson, Co-PI )
$66,387.00 8-Dec-2017 through 31-May-2019 Nature Conservancy Long Island Chapter: NY Ecosystem Restoration-Eelgrass LI (PI Bradley Peterson, Co-PI )
$136,669.00 28-Jun-2018 through 30-Jun-2021 National Park Service: Monitorin Estuarine Condition at Fire Island National Seashore and Gateway National Recreation Area (PI Bradley Peterson, Co-PI )
Publications
Ellen Pikitch
Endowed Professor of Ocean Conservation Science / Executive Director, IOCS / Faculty Director, MCP Program
Ocean conservation, fisheries management, ecosystem-based approaches, endangered fishes, sharks, sturgeon
Grants
$380,000.00 15-Mar-2017 through 30-Jun-2020 Pew Charitable Trusts: Evaluating Marine Protected Areas in China (PI Ellen Pikitch, Co-PI )
$4,640.00 4-Jun-2018 through 24-Aug-2018 Nature Conservancy Long Island Chapter: Graduate Internship for Tyler Prichett: Road Stream & Tidal Crossing Improvement Project (PI Ellen Pikitch, Co-PI )
Publications
Sharon Pochron
Lecturer / Faculty Director, Ecosystems and Human Impact
ecotoxicology and soil ecology
Grants
Publications
Roy Price
Research Assistant Professor
Hydrothermal vents, water-rock reactions, toxic metal & metalloid cycling in coastal environments, arsenic bioaccumulation, vent-biota relationships, and alkaline shallow-sea vents
Grants
$75,431.00 1-Dec-2016 through 29-Feb-2020 Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York: U.S. Science Support Program Office Associated with the International Ocean Discovery Program (USSSP-IODP) (PI Roy Price, Co-PI )
$106,268.00 28-Aug-2018 through 27-Aug-2021 SETI Institute: In Situ Vent Analysis Divebot for Exobiology Research (InVADER) (PI Roy Price, Co-PI )
$489,221.00 1-Feb-2020 through 31-Jan-2021 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: Habitability of Saponite-rich Hydrothermal Systems of Early Mars (PI Roy Price, Co-PI )
Publications
Kevin Reed
Associate Professor
Climate Modeling; Climate Change Attribution, Tropical Cyclones; Climate Extremes; Atmospheric Dynamics, Science Policy
Grants
$344,352.00 1-Sep-2016 through 31-Aug-2019 University of California at Davis: An Integrated Evaluation of the Simulated Hydroclimate System of the Continental US (PI Kevin Reed, Co-PI )
$300,000.00 1-Jan-2017 through 31-Dec-2020 US Department of Energy: Improving the Representation of Organized Convection and Extreme Precipitation in High-Resolution Climate Models (PI Kevin Reed, Co-PI )
$330,829.00 15-Aug-2017 through 31-Jul-2021 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Understanding the Origins of Hazardous Convective Weather Environments through Reduced-Complexity Climate Modeling Experiments (PI Kevin Reed, Co-PI )
$328,100.00 1-Sep-2018 through 31-Aug-2021 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Climate Feedbacks in Radiative-Convective Equilibrium – The Role of Self-Aggregation of Convection in A Multi-Model Ensemble of Idealized Simulations (PI Kevin Reed, Co-PI )
$297,203.00 1-Sep-2018 through 31-Jan-2020 University of Georgia: Simulating Extreme Precipitation in the United States in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model: Investigating the Importance of Representing Convective Intensity verus Dynamic Structure (PI Kevin Reed, Co-PI )
$448,373.00 1-May-2019 through 30-Apr-2020 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: Quantifying the Link Between Organized Convection and Extreme Precipitation (PI Kevin Reed, Co-PI )
Publications
Tara Rider
Lecturer
Maritime and Environmental History, Sustainability
Grants
Publications
Conference Presentations
Talks and Presentations
Rider, T. The Devil in New York: The Witchcraft Trial of Goody Garlick. West Babylon Public Library, October 30, 2017
Rider, T. Journey of Hope: The Irish in New York. Irish Family History Forum, October 21, 2017
Rider, T. Thar She Blows: Whaling in New York. Greater Patchogue Historical Society / Patchogue-Medford Library, October 19, 2017.
Rider, T. The Devil in New York: The Witchcraft Trial of Goody Garlick. Westhampton Beach Historical Society, October 15, 2017
Rider, T. The Swashbuckling History of Female Pirates. Huntington Library, June 12, 2017
Rider, T. American Heroes. Sachem Public Library, May 7, 2017
Rider, T. The Devil in New York: The Witchcraft Trial of Goody Garlick. Three Village Historical Society Annual Pot Luck Supper, April 24, 2017
Rider, T. The Devil in New York: The Witchcraft Trial of Goody Garlick. King Manor, March 19, 2017
Rider, T. The Devil in New York: The Witchcraft Trial of Goody Garlick. Deer Park Library, October 16, 2016
Rider, T. The Devil in New York: The Witchcraft Trial of Goody Garlick. Huntington Library, October 5, 2016
Rider, T. Journey of Hope: The Irish in New York. Connetquot Public Library, September 21, 2016
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Mary Scranton
Professor Emeritus
Marine geochemistry, biological-chemical interactions in seawater
Grants
$946,351.00 1-Feb-2014 through 31-Jul-2019 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: The Cariaco Basin Oceanographic Time Series Program (PI Mary Scranton, Co-PI )
Publications
Paul Shepson
Dean, SoMAS / Distinguished Professor
Endeavour Hall 145
631-632-8700
Atmospheric Chemistry and climate change; Aviation; Arctic and coastal halogen chemistry; greenhouse gas source and sink measurements; atmospheric aerosols; climate change communications
Grants
$45,000.00 1-Nov-2009 through 31-Oct-2019 Gardener Foundation: Mote Marine Laboratory Internship Program (PI Paul Shepson, Co-PI )
$1,185,941.00 1-Oct-2019 through 30-Sep-2020 National Institute of Standards and Technology: Observations, Analysis, and Modeling Applied to Determination of CO2 and CH4 Emission Rates Along the U.S. East Coast (PI Paul Shepson, Co-PI )
Publications
Larry Swanson
Associate Dean, SoMAS / Director, WRMI
Coastal Oceanography, marine pollution, marine policy, recycling and reuse of waste materials, waste management
Grants
$24,000.00 1-Jun-2017 through 31-May-2018 Village of Laurel Hollow: A Proposal to Investigate Fecal Coliform Contamination and Beach Closures at Laurel Hollow Beach (PI Larry Swanson, Co-PI )
Publications
David Taylor
Assistant Professor / Faculty Director, EHM
environmental humanities, history of naturalist studies, American Literature, nature writing
Grants
Publications
Gordon Taylor
Professor
Marine microbiology, interests in microbial ecology, trophodynamics, anoxia, hypoxia, single-cell analysis, Raman microspectrometry and atomic force microscopy
Grants
$877,030.00 1-Dec-2015 through 31-Dec-2019 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation: Development of Microbiological Oceanographic and Biogeochemical Applications for Raman Microspectrometry and Atomic Force Microscopy (PI Gordon Taylor, Co-PI )
$434,017.00 1-Apr-2019 through 31-Mar-2022 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Transforming Carbon in the Deep Sea (PI Gordon Taylor, Co-PI )
$514,960.00 1-Oct-2019 through 30-Sep-2020 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Key Microbial Processes in Oxygen Minimum Zones: From in Situ Community Rate Measurements to Single Cells (PI Gordon Taylor, Co-PI )
Publications
Lesley Thorne
Assistant Professor
Bio-physical and trophic interactions in marine ecology; application of spatial analysis and landscape ecology techniques to marine conservation
Grants
$509,573.00 1-Sep-2017 through 31-Aug-2020 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Probabilistic Seasonal Predictions of the Distribution of Fish and Marine Mammals in the Northeast US (PI Lesley Thorne, Co-PI )
$591,180.00 1-Feb-2018 through 31-Jan-2023 National Science Foundation: CAREER: Using Dynamic Energy Landscapes to Understand Drivers of Movement, Foraging and Life History Patterns in Albatrosses (PI Lesley Thorne, Co-PI )
Publications
Andrew Vogelmann
Adjunct Professor
Atmospheric radiative transfer, cloud and aerosol climate interactions, climate and the Earth’s energy balance, remote sensing, cloud and climate modeling
Grants
Publications
Nils Volkenborn
Associate Professor
Sediment biogeochemistry, animal-sediment interactions, benthic ecology
Grants
$8,236.00 1-Feb-2014 31-Jan-2018 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration New York Sea Grant’s Omnibus 2014 – 2018
Publications
Joe Warren
Associate Professor
Acoustical oceanography, Zooplankton behavior and ecology
Grants
$247,787.00 1-Jul-2015 through 31-Dec-2019 North Pacific Research Board: How Many Krill are There in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska? Quantitative Acoustic Assessment of Euphauslid Abundance and Their Role in These Ecosystems (PI Joe Warren, Co-PI )
$516,902.00 19-Sep-2016 through 18-Sep-2020 University of New Hampshire: Atlantic Deepwater Ecosystem Observatory Network: (ADEON)-An Integrated System for Long-Term Monitoring of Ecologic al and Human Factors on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) (PI Joe Warren, Co-PI )
$4,912.00 1-May-2017 through 31-Oct-2017 Seatuck Environmental Association: Seafloor Habitat Characterization Around Montauk Point (PI Joe Warren, Co-PI )
$29,012.00 1-Sep-2017 through 31-Aug-2020 University of Rhode Island: Intergration of Acoustic Echosounding into the Wire Flyer Profiling Vehicle to Investigate Scattering Layer Distribution and Oxygen Coupling (PI Joe Warren, Co-PI )
Publications
Laura Wehrmann
Assistant Professor
Marine Biogeochemistry, Geochemical element cycles, Deep Biosphere
Grants
$574,845.00 1-Apr-2018 through 31-Mar-2021 National Science Foundation: Iron Cycling in Bioturbated Sediments-Fluxes, Diagenetic Redistribution, and Isotopic Signatures (PI Laura Wehrmann, Co-PI )
Publications
Robert Wilson
Associate Professor Emeritus
Estuarine and coastal ocean dynamics
Grants
Publications
Christopher Wolfe
Associate Professor
Physical oceanography, large-scale circulation: theory and modeling.
Grants
$263,864.00 1-Mar-2016 through 29-Feb-2020 National Science Foundation: A Study of the Adiabatic Dynamics of Buoyancy-Driven Eastern Boundary Currents in an Ocean with Eddies (PI Christopher Pitt Wolfe, Co-PI )
$341,654.00 15-Sep-2016 through 31-Aug-2020 National Science Foundation: Interannual Variability of the Gulf Stream Position: The Role of Atmospheric Forcing (PI Christopher Pitt Wolfe, Co-PI )
Publications
Karina Yager
Assistant Professor
Climate change impacts; Remote Sensing; Land-cover and Land-Use Change; Alpine Ecosystems; Andes; Mountain Societies, and Sustainability Studies
Grants
Publications
Minghua Zhang
Professor
Climate modelling, atmospheric dynamics
Grants
$665,671.00 1-Mar-2013 through 28-Feb-2018 National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research EaSM2: Mechanisms, Predictability, Prediction, and Regional and Societal Impacts of Decadal Climate Variability
$250,000.00 1-Oct-2013 through 31-Dec-2019 NYS State Governors Office: NY-RISE: New York Research Institute for Storm Emergencies (PI Minghua Zhang, Co-PI )
$380,676.00 1-Aug-2016 through 31-Jul-2020 US Department of Energy: Developing High-Resolution Constratined Variational Analysis of Vertical Velocity and Advective Tendencies within the Range of ARM Scanning Radars at the SGP (PI Minghua Zhang, Co-PI )
$374,141.00 1-Sep-2016 through 31-Aug-2020 US Department of Energy: Representation of Clouds and Convection Across Scales in Acme (PI Minghua Zhang, Co-PI )
Publications
Qingzhi Zhu
Associate Professor
Chem-/Bio- Sensors, Marine Biogeochemistry, Trace Elements, Environmental Analytical Chemistry
Grants