


Tanzania Study Abroad Program Sends Students to Africa
Photo above: Stony Brook group on safari in Tanzania, 2017 From Tanzania Study Abroad Program Sends Students to Africa by Suzanne Mobyed on SBU Happenings, March 30, 2018. Stony Brook University’s Tanzania Study Abroad program recently won the SUNY Chancellor’s Award...
New SENCER Models Engage Students in Fieldwork and Research
From New SENCER Models Engage Students in Fieldwork and Research at the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement on August 8, 2017 The 2017 additions to the SENCER Model Series actively involve students in designing and carrying out projects as they master...
Summer Oceanography Course 2017
For two weeks during the summer session, Dr. Kurt Bretsch teaches our Summer MAR 104 – Oceanography course at the Marine Sciences Center located at the Stony Brook University Southampton Campus. This undergraduate course provides an examination of the World...
SoMAS MVB Student Accepts Jeffrey Eng Memorial Scholarship in Environmental Studies
Above: Alfredo Esposito ’18, left, with Professor Jeffrey Levinton From Alfredo Esposito ’18 Accepts Eng Scholarship in Environmental Studies by Glenn Jochum on SBU Happenings, April 24, 2017 Bringing together the festive atmosphere of Stony Brook’s annual Earthstock...
Semester by the Sea Students Participate in the Great East End Clean Up
From Stony Brook Southampton Joins Great East End Clean Up on SBU Happening April 25, 2017 Sixteen people from the Stony Brook Southampton Office of Student Life and Semester by the Sea program took part in the annual Great East End Clean Up on Sunday, April 23. The...
SoMAS Undergraduates Participate in URECA Festival
The UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH & CREATIVE ACTIVITIES (URECA) program, founded in 1987, awards research funding and travel grants to undergraduates, and is a central point of contact for students and faculty engaged in research and creative endeavors. URECA helps bring...
Marine Vertebrate Biology major selected as URECA Researcher of the Month
From Undergraduate Research and Creative Actitivites (URECA) Researcher of the Month, January 2017 Michelle Barbosa Marine Vertebrate Biology major, University Scholars program, Class of 2017 Research Mentor: Dr. Bassem Allam, Marine Animal Disease Laboratory, School...
SoMAS secures NSF Grant to Bolster Geosciences Education Support for Underrepresented Students
From “NSF Grant Bolsters Geosciences Education Support for Underrepresented Students” on SBU Happenings, December 21, 2016 with contributions by Brian Colle Stony Brook University was recently awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation...
SoMAS Students Participate in SEA Semester Journey
Alexandra Bonecutter, a student in the Environmental Studies program with a Marine Science minor, and Ruthann Monsees, a student in the Coastal Environmental Studies program Sustainability Studies program, were part of a SEA Semester voyage that was recently featured...
R/V Seawolf Cruises With University of West Indies Students
For several years now, SUNY has had a partnership with the University of the West Indies (UWI) to further collaborative research and instruction by teams of faculty members from both institutions. As part of that collaboration Dr. Brad Peterson (SUNY) and Dayne Buddo...
The Sustainability Studies Program joins SoMAS!
The Sustainability Studies Program (SUS) has now merged with the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. Sustainability Studies was a standalone academic unit within the university that was initially developed at the Southampton campus. Over the years, SUS...