A Conference on Coastal Storms

A Conference on Coastal Storms November 12-13, 2008 The State University of New York announces a conference on coastal storms as its Conversation-in-the-Disciplines event at the Stony Brook University from November 12-13, 2008.  The objective of the conference is to...

SoMAS Oktoberfest Raises Over $1000 for Petra M. Udelhofen Scholarships

Friday October 17th, the SoMAS community gathered in the boathouse to celebrate at the seventh annual Oktoberfest Fundraiser. SoMAS students, faculty, staff, and their family and friends socialized, listened to live music, and raised money by buying food, beverages,...

Oktoberfest 2008

Udelhofen Memorial Scholarship Fundraising Events  

Timing is everything: How vulnerable to flooding is New York City?

SBU researchers show how advances in high-resolution modeling will help improve storm surge forecasts AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY A report just released in the most recent issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society offers hope that a new...

Marvin Geller Awarded COSPAR International Cooperation Medal

The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) presented SoMAS professor Marivn Geller with the prestigious International Cooperation Medal during the 37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly held in Montreal, Canada on July 13-20. The medal is awarded to a scientist who thas made...

E-Newsletter Vol. 14 – 2008

E-Newsletter Vol. 14 No. 1, Jan 27- Feb 2, 2008 Information, Talks, and Publications about Atmospheres Welcome Back ! The Spring 2008 semester officially begins on Monday, January 27th. This week’s “Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences” speaker...

Robert L. de Zafra 5th ITPA Student Symposium

    Robert L. de Zafra 5th ITPA Student Symposium May 9, 2008, 9am – 4pm Endeavour Hall , Room 120 Agenda 9:00 am Welcome Professor Minghua Zhang, Director Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres (ITPA) 9:10 am Tom DiLiberto Verification of...

Robert D. Cess Distinguished TAOS Seminar 2008

To honor our Distinguished Professor Emeritus Robert D. Cess, ITPA established the distinguished TAOS seminar speaker program by naming a speaker after him each year. We are pleased to announce that this year’s Robert. D. Cess Distinguished TAOS seminar speaker...

Undergraduate Research and Creativity URECA 2007-2008

John Gondek, Bingqi Cheng and Anne McElroy, Aquatic Toxicology Lab, School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences — Using in-ovo EROD Activity in the Embryos of Japanese Medaka (Oryzias latipes) as a Sensitive Measure of Organic Contaminants in Sediment The study...

Stony Brook University Honors SoMAS Nobel Prize Winners

As part of Earthstock, Stony Brook University’s celebration of Earth Day, a special awards ceremony was held to honor the four SoMAS professors who, as members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al...