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...
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!...
Shipley, O. N., Dabrowski, A. J., Bowen, G. J., Hayden, B., Pauli, J. N., Jordan, C., … & Newsome, S. D. (2024). Design, development, and implementation of IsoBank: a centralized repository for isotopic data. PloS one, 19(9), e0295662.
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...
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...
Shipley, O. N., McMeans, B. C., Harrod, C., Graham, B. S., & Newsome, S. D. Celebrating recent innovations in the application of stable isotopes to fish biology. Journal of Fish Biology.
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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 )...
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...