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$2.1 Million Awarded for Sea Grant Research on NY’s Coastal Environment

Dec 8, 2020

From $2.1 Million Awarded for Sea Grant Research on NY’s Coastal Environment on Stony Brook University News, October 16, 2020. New York Sea Grant (NYSG) has awarded more than $2.1 million to support six coastal science research projects —three of which are being led...

Stephen Schwartz Receives International Aerosol Fellow Award

Nov 4, 2020

From Stephen Schwartz Receives International Aerosol Fellow Award by Joe Gettler in the Brookhaven National Lab Newsroom, November 4, 2020. Stephen Schwartz, a senior scientist emeritus at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and...

Eight Years after Sandy, Little Has Been Done to Prevent a Repeat Tragedy

Oct 28, 2020

Trump’s Advice: “Sorry, you’ll just have to get your mops & buckets ready!” This Thursday, October 29, marks the 8th anniversary of Hurricane Sandy’s devastating flooding that killed 96 residents of the New York – New Jersey Metropolitan region, caused more...

SoMAS Climate Projection Research May Help to Battle “Snail Fever” Worldwide

Oct 13, 2020

Photo above: Kamazima Lwiza, PhD, collecting data in Lake Victoria in East Africa, a location that also has a high incidence of schistosomiasis. STONY BROOK, NY, October 8, 2020 – Projections of temperatures and precipitation amounts in climate change scenarios may be...

SoMAS Takes Flight to Measure Air Quality in the Arctic and NYC

Sep 22, 2020

Photo above: The ALAR aircraft, operated by Paul Shepson, is one plane that will be flown in Alaska during CHACHA research. Photo credit: The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research From SoMAS Takes Flight to Measure Air Quality in the Arctic and NYC on Stony...

SBU receives NSF grant to study, engage others on regional air pollution

Sep 11, 2020

Photo above: The C-130 aircraft in flight. Nearly 100 feet (30 meters) long with a 132-foot (30-meter) wingspan, the C-130 carries a variety of instruments providing measurements important to atmospheric chemistry, dynamics, radiation, cloud physics and oceanography....

SoMAS Expertise On Display During Shark Week

Aug 18, 2020

Lisa Crawford and members of the Frisk Lab join Oyster Bay Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino at Tobay Beach. Photos by Meredith Whitten. The Lab of Dr. Michael Frisk attended a press conference in front of media on Wednesday August 12 in light of recent shark sightings...

SoMAS Faculty Unfolding the Secrets of Ice Formation to Better Understand Climate

Aug 7, 2020

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 Study Projects More Intense Rain During Future Hurricanes

Jun 15, 2020

Photo Above: A visible image of Tropical Storm Cristobal on June 5 over the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding areas. New research suggests future storms that make landfall over eastern U.S. coasts may carry more intense rain totals per hour (credit: NASA Worldview) From...

SoMAS Research part of 180 Covid-19 Studies Launched at SBU Since Start of Pandemic

Jun 3, 2020

From More than 180 Covid-19 Studies Launched at Stony Brook Since Start of Pandemic on Stony Brook University News, May 28, 2020 Investigations involve faculty from 45 academic departments and eight schools STONY BROOK, NY, May 28, 2020 – In just the two plus months...

SoMAS Researchers: Dissolved Oxygen and pH Policy Leave Fisheries at Risk

Apr 23, 2020

Photo above: Stony Brook’s Christopher Gobler is one of Long Island’s leading experts on water conservation. From Researchers: Dissolved Oxygen and pH Policy Leave Fisheries at Risk on Stony Brook University News, April 23, 2020 Stony Brook University’s Christopher J....

SBU Researchers Collaborate on Genetic Tool Development in Marine Protists

Apr 8, 2020

Photo above: A set of Microscopic images of Aurantiochytrium cells. The top images show a wild-type Aurantiochytrium cell and the bottom images show a genetically engineered Aurantiochytrium cell that now expresses green fluorescent protein (GFP). The scale bar...

Experts call for immediate action to save the world’s most resilient corals

Mar 4, 2020

Photo Above: Corals in the Gulf of Aqaba (credit Ove Hoegh-Guldberg) Despite political tensions between countries along the Red Sea, researchers band together to call upon UNESCO to declare the Red Sea’s entire coral reef as a Marine World Heritage Site while...

Substantial Natural History Collection Gifted to SoMAS

Dec 6, 2019

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...

NY Sea Grant Contributes to Marine Aquaculture Research Projects

Nov 20, 2019

Photo above: SBU’s Bassem Allam is the lead PI on a study of hard clams (photo by Bassem Allam); Inset photo: A worker at Norm Bloom & Son Oysters offloads shellfish harvested from the company’s beds in Norwalk, CT (photo by Judy Benson, Connecticut Sea Grant)....