Stony Brook Students Wield Science on Behalf of Sustainability
Photo above: Algae-scrubber team includes, from left, Christina Giordanella, Elisabeth Van Roijen, Shauna Wright and Associate Professor Kate Aubrecht. From Stony Brook Students Wield Science on Behalf of Sustainability by Glenn Jochum on SBU Happenings, April 16,...
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 Professor Analyzes Storm Damage on North Shore
Photo above by R. Lawrence Swanson: An eroding bluff at Long Beach has been stabilized by constructing a stone seawall at the bluff’s base. The bluff has been terraced to capture material that rolls down from the top and can be planted with vegetation that will help...
SoMAS joint faculty member leads team that discovered “Supercolony” of Adélie Penguins in Antarctica
From “Supercolony” of Adélie Penguins Discovered in Antarctica on the Stony Brook Newsroom by Gregory Filiano Additional coverage of this story is featured on CBS News, Futurity, Drone DJ, Geek.com, Newsday, BBC and the New York Times STONY BROOK, N.Y.,...
Old Inlet Breach Flyover 2018-02-27
Dr. Charles Flagg took another flight over the Breach at Old Inlet on Fire Island on February 27, 2018. The flyover mosaic is available below. Dr. Flagg provided the following report: This is a quick update on the status of the breach prior to the nor’easter that’s...
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...
Old Inlet Breach Flyover 2018-01-27
Dr. Charles Flagg took another flight over the Breach at Old Inlet on Fire Island on January 27, 2018. The flyover mosaic is available below. In case you missed it, Dr. Charles Flagg’s research on the breach was featured on an episode of PBS’s SciTech...
SoMAS Research featured as EOS Research Spotlight
The recent publication by SoMAS alum Shaily Rahman (PhD, 2016) and her advisors, Robert Aller and J. Kirk Cochran: “The Missing Silica Sink: Revisiting the Marine Sedimentary Si Cycle Using Cosmogenic 32Si” published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles 31,...
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...
Happy Holidays 2017!
Welcome to SoMAS! Many opportunities await you here. This is an exciting time to enter a career in marine and atmospheric sciences! Read More from the Dean
Old Inlet Breach Flyover 2017-11-28
Dr. Charles Flagg took another flight over the Breach at Old Inlet on Fire Island on November 28, 2017. The flyover mosaic is available below. Mark Lang has assembled all the geo-referenced photo mosaics into a kml file that can be viewed using Google Earth. By...
SoMAS Faculty Wins Marsden Fund to Investigate How Microbiomes Shape Fish Parasite Phenotypes
Photo above: Assistant Professor Nolwenn M Dheilly in her laboratory The microbiome revolution is rapidly changing how we study ecology and evolution, as researchers increasingly realize that much of an organism’s phenotype can be attributed to its metagenome...
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...Subscribe by Email
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