Summer Presentations by SoMAS Students
SoMAS students and faculty have spent some of their summer preparing for conferences, giving talks and training future scholars. Here are a few updates: Nicholas Leonardo, Ph.D. candidate in Prof. Brian Colle’s group, was awarded Best Student Oral Presentation...
SoMAS Faculty Receive SBU-BNL SEED Grant for Collaborative Research
The SBU-BNL Seed Grant program serves to foster collaborative efforts between scientists at the University and BNL. It is a key opportunity for developing synergistic activities that can grow joint research programs aligned with the strategic plans of both...
Highlights From Our Recent Graduates
Highlights From Our Recent Graduates This Friday, the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences will celebrate our graduating students at Convocation, where 101 undergraduate and 36 graduate students will have their degrees conferred. Profiles for a few of our...
SoMAS Research Aims to improve seasonal storm track forecasts, look to the tropical stratosphere
Image above: Satellite image of a bomb cyclone moving along the North Atlantic storm track on the East Coast as seen from NOAA’s GOES-16 Satellite on January 4, 2018. Credit: NOAA/CIRA From To improve season storm track forecasts, look to the tropical...
SoMAS Faculty Stemming The (Rising) Tide of Climate Change
From Stemming The (Rising) Tide of Climate Change on the Stony Brook Magazine, Winter 2018 by Victoria Cebalo with Illustrations by Anthony Freda Research yields new strategies for protecting the biosphere. There’s no denying that as the Earth is getting warmer, our...
SBU President Stanley Joins International Coalition of Universities to Tackle Climate Change
Photo above: Joy Pawirosetiko, an Honors College student who works with Dr. Sharon Pochron in Sustainability Studies, researched the effects of Roundup fertilizer on earthworms. From “President Stanley Joins International Coalition of Universities to Tackle...
SoMAS Facility Leads the Future of Weather Forecasting: It’s all in the “MRI” of Clouds
Above: Professor Pavlos Kollias, center/back, and colleagues at Stony Brook’s Radar Observatory. From left: Zeen Zhu, SoMAS graduate student; Mariko Oue, postdoctoral research associate, SoMAS; and Alexander Sneddon, SoMAS engineer. Credit: Stony Brook University From...
Celebrating 50 Years With The Risk Of Saying Nothing
Take a virtual tour of the SoMAS 50th Anniversary celebration! Use your mouse to click-and-drag the photosphere around to view the image in 360 degrees, and then click on the arrows to move to the next scene.
SoMAS Researchers Correct Missing Key Elements in Computer Climate Models
From the Stony Brook Newsroom Featured Research Photo, October 27, 2017 A team of SoMAS researchers, led by Professor Minghua Zhang, discovered that computer climate models are missing key elements to forecasting weather – such as this one in the photo above of an...
SoMAS Researchers to use Climate Data to Better Predict Marine Distribution in Northeast
Photo above from left, Hyemi Kim, Janet Nye and Lesley Thorne From Researchers to use Climate Data to Better Predict Marine Distribution in Northeast on SBU Happenings, October 23, 2017 Scientists from Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences...
New Student BBQ 2017
Many thanks to the people who helped with New Student BBQ this past Friday. Interim Dean Larry Swanson noted that “the food, decorations, and weather were great, and we had a very good turnout. This is a wonderful SoMAS tradition and one of the highlights of...
SoMAS 50th Anniversary
Welcome to SoMAS! Many opportunities await you here. 2017 will be an exciting year to enter a career in marine and atmospheric sciences as we celebrate our 50th anniversary! Read More from the Dean
U.S Global Change Research Program Climate Science Special Report
From Read the Draft of the Climate Change Report by the New York Times, August 7, 2017 A final draft report by scientists from 13 federal agencies concludes that Americans are feeling the effects of climate change right now. The report was completed this year and is...
SoMAS alumni create textbook on “Evolution of Meteorology”
Kevin Teague and Nicole Gallicchio were students in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences B.S. Program at Stony Brook University. Kevin graduated in December of 2011, and started working at FleetWeather Inc in Hopewell Junction, NY as a Marine Meteorologist Technician....Subscribe by Email
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