


SoMAS Scientists Take a Multi-Faceted Approach to Restoring Shinnecock Bay
Photo above: Ellen Pikitch (top) and Christine Santora near the Ponquogue Bridge. Photo by John Griffin From SBU Scientists Take a Multi-Faceted Approach to Restoring Shinnecock Bay by Glenn Jochum on Stony Brook University News, May 3, 2021 Shinnecock Bay bears the...
Gobler Lab Joins the Battle Against Algal Blooms
Photo above: Blue-green algal blooms, like this one at Roth Pond in 2015, have greatly affected Lake Agawam in Southampton over the past decade. From Gobler Lab Joins the Battle Against Algal Blooms on Stony Brook University News, April 26, 2021. Lake Agawam in...
Stony Brook University Receives $5M to Support Offshore Wind Research
Photo above: Stony Brook’s Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center From: Stony Brook University Receives $5M to Support Offshore Wind Research on Stony Brook University News, April 26, 2021. Joint venture partners Ørsted and Eversource — developers of New...
Latest Press and Research News
Here’s the latest news from SoMAS Faculty and Staff Dr. Kamazima Lwiza, and co-PIs Dr. Edmund Chang, Dr. Brian Colle, Dr. Hyemi Kim, and Dr. Weisen Shen, have received a new award from NSF in support of the project “GP-IN: Discovering Pathways into the...
SoMAS Doctoral Student Working to Restore Shellfish Population
Stephen Tomasetti at the Marine Sciences Center at Stony Brook Southampton. Photo above by John Griffin From Doctoral Student Working to Restore Shellfish Population by Glenn Jochum on Stony Brook University News, March 23, 2021. Shellfish couldn’t have a better...
SBU’s Pavlos Kollias Part of BNL Team Studying ‘Secondary’ Ice
Photo above: Stony Brook’s Pavlos Kollias (far right) with fellow Brookhaven Lab atmospheric scientists Andrew Vogelmann, Edward Luke and Fan Yang From SBU’s Pavlos Kollias Part of BNL Team Studying ‘Secondary’ Ice on Stony Brook University News, March 24, 2021 Where...
Latest Student and Faculty News
Spring is starting to reveal itself and that means we are approaching award season! Congratulations to the two winners of the 2021 JR Schubel Fellowship! Naomi Miller, advised by Dr. Kevin Reed and Dr. Donovan Finn Farinaz Motlagh, advised by Dr. Sara Hamideh ...
Latest Technology Helping SoMAS Student Identify Harmful Algae
Photo above: Graduate student Rebecca Rogers with the Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB) at the Marine Sciences Center in Southampton. From Latest Technology Helping Student Identify Harmful by Glenn Jochum on Stony Brook University News, March 18, 2021 Rebecca Rogers has...
Old Inlet Breach Flyover 2021-03-09
Dr. Charles Flagg took another flight over the Breach at Old Inlet on Fire Island on March 9, 2021. The flyover mosaic is available below. Dr. Flagg noted that there is a lot of sand building in the breach and it would appear that the breach is on the verge of...Winter Updates from SoMAS Faculty
Check out the latest updates from our faculty! Dr. Kevin Reed is one of the 2021 Discovery Prize Finalists for his project, “Attribution of the human influence on the 2020 and 2021 hurricane seasons.” Kevin Reed is an associate professor in Stony Brook...
CCWT Research Finds Likely Source of 1,4-dioxane in Wastewater and Novel Approach for Removal
From Twin University Studies Reveal Contamination of Public Water Supplies by Household Products Containing Likely Human Carcinogen and the Creation of a New Septic System to Remove This, Nitrogen, and Other Contaminants from the New York State Center for Clean Water...
Chris Gobler’s LI Sound Research Receives Federal Funding
Photo above: An eelgrass bed off of Fishers Island, NY. Credit: CCE Suffolk County Marine Program From Chris Gobler’s LI Sound Research Receives Federal Funding by on Stony Brook University News, February 22, 2021 A study of ocean acidification led by Christopher...
Old Inlet Breach Flyover 2021-01-08
Dr. Charles Flagg is in the air early in 2021! He was able to take a flight over the Breach at Old Inlet on Fire Island on January 8, 2021. The flyover mosaic is available below. Dr. Flagg provided the latest report (PDF): At long last we have another aerial...