Owen Doherty, president of the SoMAS Graduate Student Club
On Friday January 22nd, the SoMAS Graduate Student Club and the Graduate Student Association presented the first annual SoMAS Proceedings in Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Student Symposium. The event gave students from SoMAS and the Departments of Geosciences, and Ecology and Evolution an opportunity to share their research with the Stony Brook community. The fifteen student talks and the afternoon poster session showcased the breadth and quality of SBU research on important issues in the marine and atmospheric sciences.
SoMAS Dean David Conover
“I felt very proud to see so many of our students doing really interesting research and able to give such good presentations,” said Dr. Anne McElroy, Graduate Program Director and moderator of several of the day’s sessions.
SoMAS alumnus Dr. Aaron Beck was the symposium’s keynote speaker. His talk was entitled Phototrophic biofilms and diel trace metal cycles in the environment (or, How post-doc research taught me that biology matters.)
The symposium was envisioned and organized by the officers of the SoMAS Graduate Student Club: Keith Dunton, Konstantine Rountos, Anna Webb, Jen Hertzberg, and Owen Doherty. The club is advised by Dr. Steve Munch.
Graduate student Jindong Wang. Photo courtesy of Barbara Branca.
“I’m very grateful to the SoMAS Graduate Student Club for their leadership in organizing this symposium,” said SoMAS Dean David Conover. “It’s wonderful that the club stepped forward to establish an event at which graduate students can get experience presenting the results of their research. The ability to communicate science is such an important skill and is a big part of what we teach at SoMAS. I certainly hope that Friday’s symposium marks the beginning of a new tradition.”
Oral Presentations
- Xiadong Jiang, Every coin has two sides: A lesson from local harmful algal blooms
- Zofia Turek, What if worms eat metal contaminated sediment?
- Konstantine Rountos, Negative effects of coastal fish farms on adjacent seagrass meadows: A study in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
- Xi Chen, Low Fe in food makes unhappy copepods
- Jindong Wang, Simulation of storm-induced transport within the East River tidal strait
- Agnieszka Podlaska, Microbial Community Structure and Chemoautotrophic Activity in the Oxygen Minimum of the Eastern Tropical North Pacific
- Jesse Hornstein, No longer happy as clams: the impact of suboptimal summer temperatures on recruitment success and filtration rate in the Atlantic surfclam Spisula solidissima
- Yanjuan Guo, How strong are the Southern Hemisphere storm tracks?
- Jin Gao, Parental Contributions to Larval Growth in Atlantic Silversides: a Heritability Study
- Kestrel Perez, Bigger is better, but only for a little while
- Tsvi Pick, Future Trends in Coastal Groundwater Discharge
- Morgan Gelinas, Ship-Induced Small Scale Tsunami in the Venice Lagoon
- Masatoshi Sugeno, Semiparametric estimation of the maximum reproductive rate
- Sarah Winnicki, Investigating the Effects of the Pallial Mucus from the Oyster,Crassostrea virginica, on its Parasite, Perkinsus marinus
- Bingbing Wang, Heterogeneous ice nucleation on surrogates of humic-like substances under consideration of photochemical oxidation by O3
Poster Presentations
- Sheryl Bell, Molecular analysis of plankton community structure in Long Island embayments under brown tide bloom and non-bloom conditions
- Anne C. Ellefson, The Persistence of a Phthalate Ester Metabolite in Sewage and Receiving Waters
- Yuan Liu, Temporal change of eukaryotic microbial community in a coastal lagoon, Great South Bay, Long Island, NY, USA
- Anna R. Webb, Identifying and evaluating under-represented species in the Northeast fishery management region
- Xiaoming Xia, Understanding GCM Predicted Storm Track Changes Under Global Warming
Graduate student Sheryl Bell and Dr. Jackie Collier. Photo courtesy of Barbara Branca.
Lane Smith, Research Program Coordinator for NY Sea Grant; and keynote speaker Dr. Aaron Beck, Virgnia Institute of Marine Science. Photo courtesy of Barbara Branca.
Photos from the Graduate Student Symposium
