News Roundup from SoMAS
Did you catch SoMAS in the News? Here’s a few headlines featuring our students, faculty, and staff! Congratulations to Dr. Sara Hamideh, on her NSF CAREER Award, entitled “CAREER: Affordable Versus Vacation Housing Resilience: Mechanisms that Shape Housing...
SoMAS Professor Advocates for Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act on Capitol Hill
From the Office of Government Relations Newsletter, June 27, 2019. On Tuesday, June 18, Professor Nicholas Fisher of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) attended meetings in Washington, DC with staffers of Sen....
SoMAS Convocation 2019
Photo above: Dean Shepson welcomes the Class of 2019 at the SoMAS Convocation. Congratulations to our graduates! The annual SoMAS Convocation occurred on Friday, May 24, 2019 at the Center for Leadership and Service. Students gathered with their friends and family...
Celebrating the Annual Service Awards at Stony Brook University
Photo above: Annual Service Award recipients Paulette Gerber, Nicholas Fisher and Tom Wilson with SoMAS Dean Paul Shepson. On Tuesday March 5, 2019, Stony Brook University President Stanley recognized several SoMAS colleagues at the Annual Service Awards Ceremony in...
Semester by the Sea Students featured as URECA Researchers of the Month
From Researchers of the Month November 2018 at URECA This month, URECA features two students who have been active in research in the School for Marine & Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS). Both currently participate in the Stony Brook Southampton: Semester by the Sea...
SoMAS Shines at Earthstock
SoMAS had great, enthusiastic participation at Earthstock this year. Thank you to everyone at SoMAS who helped with the event in some way: Interim Dean Larry Swanson kicked the week off with his lecture, “Dredging Stony Brook Harbor,” at the Three Village Historical...
SoMAS Announces Battle of the Bands
This is the 2018 April Fool’s gag for the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. While we are not currently planning any concerts, we aren’t ruling anything out! April 1st, 2018. STONY BROOK, NY. – In an effort to raise money and close...
SoMAS Featured in Two Top SBU Stories for 2016
(Above) Interviewed outside the Stony Brook Southampton-based Marine Science Research Center, SoMAS Professor Chris Gobler provides insight on the algae bloom problem. From Stony Brook University’s Top Stories in 2016 on the Stony Brook Newsroom Stony Brook,...
North Atlantic Tuna Less Toxic, SoMAS Study Finds
From “North Atlantic Tuna Less Toxic, Study Finds” on SBU Happenings, 2016-12-07 In a piece of welcome news for seafood lovers, a Stony Brook-led research team has found declining levels of mercury in bluefin tuna caught in the North Atlantic over the past...SoMAS Alumni Reunite at 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans
SoMAS faculty and alumni attending the 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans gathered for an alumni reunion. Professors Gordon Taylor and Mary Scranton organized the event and invited SoMAS alumni present at the conference to reunite. Other SoMAS faculty in...
SoMAS Scientists Find That Fukushima-Derived Radioactivity in Seafood Poses Minimal Health Risk
In 2012, SoMAS Professor Nicholas Fisher and postdoctoral scholar Zosia Baumann, working with a colleague at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station, reported that they had detected radioactivity in Pacific bluefin tuna swimming off the California coast. The...Fukushima-Derived Radioactivity in Seafood Poses Minimal Health Risks, Experts Say
Research results published in June 3 issue of PNAS STONY BROOK, NY, June 3, 2013 – In 2012, Nicholas Fisher a distinguished professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University and postdoctoral scholar Zosia Baumann, working...
Research Highlight: Bluefin Tuna Transport Radioactivity from Fukushima Across the Pacific
For two weeks after Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi powerplants were damaged by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami on 11 March 201l, large quantities of radioactivity leaked directly from the plants into the Pacific Ocean. A new study by scientists from Stanford...Pacific Bluefin Tuna Carry Radioactivity from Japanese Power Plants Accident to California Coast
Study marks the first documented instance of the transport of radioactive materials in the sea through a biological migration STONY BROOK, NY, May 29, 2012 – Bluefin tuna exposed to radioactivity that leaked into the Pacific Ocean after Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi...Subscribe by Email
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