SoMAS Faculty Unfolding the Secrets of Ice Formation to Better Understand Climate
From Unfolding the Secrets of Ice Formation to Better Understand Climate on Stony Brook University News, August 8, 2020. STONY BROOK, NY, August 7, 2020 – Ice crystal formation plays a crucial role in precipitation formation and alters the radiative properties of...
SoMAS Grad Student Selected for Competitive Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship
From SBU Grad Student Selected for Competitive Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship on Stony Brook News, December 17, 2019. Irvin Huang, a PhD candidate in the Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, has been chosen as a fellow in the John A....
Substantial Natural History Collection Gifted to SoMAS
Photo above: the Research Vessel Seawolf conducting a cruise on the Hudson River. From Extraordinary Collection of Marine Specimens and Data Donated to University on SBU News, December 6, 2019 Gift provides a windfall of unpublished biological and water quality data...
High-Tech Instruments at SoMAS Empower the Search for Microplastics
From High-Tech Instruments Empower the Search for Microplastics by Glenn Jochum on Stony Brook News, November 1, 2019 It’s an invisible problem on a global scale. Drinking straws, shopping bags and other plastic litter contaminating our beaches and oceans are easy to...
New Study Reveals Important yet Unprotected Global Ocean Areas
From New Study Reveals Important yet Unprotected Global Ocean Areas on Stony Brook News, October 25, 2019. The published findings may guide policymakers to increase MPAs STONY BROOK, NY, October 25, 2019 — The largest synthesis of important marine areas conducted to...
Laura Klahre ’97 Defends Long Island’s Native Pollinators
Bee rancher Laura Klahre sits by her mason bee cottages at Blossom Meadow Farm in Southold. Photo by Randee Daddona From Laura Klahre ’97 Defends Long Island’s Native Pollinators on Stony Brook Matters by Kristen Temkin Brennan Laura Klahre ’97 speaks for the bees. As...
Koppelman Documentary Premiere
Photo above: Documentary film creators Anna Smith and Megan Gallagher with Dr. Lee Koppelman SoMAS undergraduate students Megan Gallagher, an Environmental Humanities Major with a Biology Minor, and Anna Smith, an Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Major with...
SoMAS Researcher Investigates New Modeling Technology to Assess Climate Change Impact on Winter Storms
Photo above: Image of a bomb cyclone that brought heavy snow and strong winds to the U.S. East coast during January 2018. Professor Chang’s research will explore how these cyclones and their impact will change in a warming world. Credit: NOAA From Researcher...
Stony Brook Celebrates as Ashley Schiff Preserve Turns 50
From Stony Brook Celebrates as Ashley Schiff Preserve Turns 50 on Stony Brook News on October 3, 2019 by Glenn Jochum Some students know it as a scenic shortcut from the Main Campus to South Campus and back. Others use it as a “living laboratory” to study its...
Stony Brook Know-How Helps to Protect Long Island’s Water Supply
Photo above: Frank Russo delivers a rundown on Stony Brook University’s Wastewater Research and Innovation Facility. From Stony Brook Know-How Helps to Protect Long Island’s Water Supply on Stony Brook News by Rob Emproto on August 30, 2019. There are now about...
Bassem Allam Invested as Inaugural Marinetics Endowed Professor
Photo above: Bassem Allam was formally invested as the Marinetics Endowed Professor of Marine Science in Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) on April 26. From left to right: Bassem Allam, SoMAS Dean’s Council Chair Bob Maze,...
SoMAS Support for Long Beach Water Pollution Control Plant Consolidation Project
Photo Above: A diver prepares to explore the western bays for a study conducted by SoMAS in 2010 The Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) supports Nassau County and the City of Long Beach’s funding proposals for the implementation...
SoMAS Professor Named Interim Provost
From Minghua Zhang Named Interim Provost on Stony Brook News, July 31, 2019 Dr. Minghua Zhang has been appointed Interim Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, effective 1 August 2019, Interim President Designate Michael A. Bernstein has announced....
For SoMAS’s Oliver Shipley, Every Week is Shark Week
Photo above: Shipley prepares to submerge. From For SoMAS’s Oliver Shipley, Every Week is Shark Week on Stony Brook News on July 31, 2019 by Glenn Jochum Oliver Shipley might have one of the best assignments in the world— he gets to scrutinize what is arguably Earth’s...Subscribe by Email
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