October 2024 News and Press from SoMAS

October 2024 News and Press from SoMAS

Photo above: SoMAS Senior Assistant Dean Stefanie Massucci stands next to her now empty whiteboard as she prepares for retirement. Thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate Stefanie Massucci’s retirement! She will be moving to a new home in Georgia and...
September 2024 News and Press from SoMAS

September 2024 News and Press from SoMAS

Photo above: Join us on Saturday October 5, 2024 at LaValle Stadium as the Stony Brook Football team on Villanova. Tickets are free, just stop by our parking lot tailgate between 1-3 to pick them up! If you already have tickets, stop by section 108 and say hello!...
August 2024 News and Press from SoMAS

August 2024 News and Press from SoMAS

Photo above: SoMAS Dean Paul Shepson and his wife Jody take a selfie with Wolfie Dean Paul Shepson welcomes everyone to SoMAS to kick off the Fall 2024 Semester Welcome back students and welcome and congratulations to the Class of 2028! You have chosen your university...

MacPherson, J., Shipley, O. N., Weinrauch, A. M., Busquets-Vass, G., Newsome, S. D., & Anderson, W. G. (2024). Absence of a functional gut microbiome impairs host amino acid metabolism in the Pacific spiny dogfish (Squalus suckleyi). Journal of Experimental Biology, 227(16).

MacPherson, J., Shipley, O. N., Weinrauch, A. M., Busquets-Vass, G., Newsome, S. D., & Anderson, W. G. (2024). Absence of a functional gut microbiome impairs host amino acid metabolism in the Pacific spiny dogfish (Squalus suckleyi). Journal of Experimental...
July 2024 News and Press from SoMAS

July 2024 News and Press from SoMAS

Photo above: Jim Quigley and David Hirshberg cut the cake celebrating their retirement from SoMAS/Stony Brook in 2018 It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of David Hirschberg, who was a part of the SoMAS family for 25 years, starting in the graduate...
June 2024 News and Press from SoMAS

June 2024 News and Press from SoMAS

Photo above: Nikita Agrawal presents her 2023 Simons Scholars project in the Wang Center at Stony Brook University Nikita Agrawal, a high school student from Chicago who was mentored by Dr. Brian Colle in the 2023 Simon’s Summer Research Program, presented her...

Shipley, O. N., Newsome, S. D., Long, T. M., Murasko, S., Jones, R., Kircun, J., … & Ceriani, S. A. (2024). Carbon and nitrogen isotopes of lizardfish provide insight into regional patterns of ocean biogeochemistry across the eastern continental United States. Marine Biology, 171(8), 150.

Shipley, O. N., Newsome, S. D., Long, T. M., Murasko, S., Jones, R., Kircun, J., … & Ceriani, S. A. (2024). Carbon and nitrogen isotopes of lizardfish provide insight into regional patterns of ocean biogeochemistry across the eastern continental United...
May 2024 News and Press from SoMAS

May 2024 News and Press from SoMAS

Photo above: the 2024 Vax to Flax Participants gather at the SoMAS sign outside Endeavour Hall after completing the race around the Stony Brook University campus on April 27, 2024 Congratulations to our graduates!  The 2024 SoMAS Convocation event was held on Friday,...
April 2024 News and Press from SoMAS

April 2024 News and Press from SoMAS

Photo above: 25 miles south of the Canadian border in Vermont, SoMAS Associate Professor David Black captured the Eclipse as it approached and entered totality.  Congratulations to Dr. Joe Warren who has been promoted to Full Professor! Thank you to everyone who...
March 2024 News from SoMAS

March 2024 News from SoMAS

Photo above: Poster session at the SoMAS Graduate Recruitment Event on March 8, 2024 We received news that Dr. Frank Roethel passed away on the morning of March 26 surrounded by his family. Frank was one of the first MSRC (now SoMAS) PhD graduates, earning his PhD in...
February 2024 News and Press from SoMAS

February 2024 News and Press from SoMAS

Photo above: aerial photo of SoMAS buildings on South Campus taken by Arthur Mabaka on November 19. 2023 from a small private plane operated by Dean Shepson. The photo was a finalist in the Atmospheric category of the SoMAS Photo Competition.   Thanks to everyone...
January 2024 News and Press from SoMAS

January 2024 News and Press from SoMAS

Photo above: The plaque dedicating the Larry Swanson Room in Challenger Hall Read about the adventures of 14 undergrad and 5 MCP students (and 2 professors) who took Tropical Marine Ecology this month in Jamaica ! The class blog ( http://you.stonybrook.edu/tropical )...
December 2023 News and Press from SoMAS

December 2023 News and Press from SoMAS

From all of us at the Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, we hope you have a joyous holiday season! Thank you to everyone who joined us at this year’s Okubofest! The event offered a chance for SoMAS students, faculty, and staff to...