Highlights
The page features research highlights at SoMAS.
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. Schumer, Sen....
Old Inlet Breach Flyover 2019-06-26
Dr. Charles Flagg took another flight over the Breach at Old Inlet on Fire Island on June 26, 2019. The flyover mosaic is available below. This is the 77th geo-referenced photo mosaic in the series. Mark Lang has assembled all the geo-referenced photo mosaics into a...
Saving the Sharks by way of Biological Research
From Saving the Sharks by way of Biological Research on Stony Brook News on June 3, 2019. Global shark populations have experienced exponential declines for decades due to marine pollution, fisheries exploitation and coastal development. Oliver Shipley, a PhD student...
Lucy DiBenedetto (BS, 2019)
From WISE Student Is an Activist for Local Water Quality on Stony Brook News by Glenn Jochum on May 29, 2019. If you ever want to start a conversation with Lucy DiBenedetto ’19, just ask her about her backpack. It’s festooned with lanyards, pins and hand-stitched...
Old Inlet Breach Flyover 2019-05-27
Dr. Charles Flagg took another flight over the Breach at Old Inlet on Fire Island on May 27, 2019. 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 Awarded NCAR Early Career Faculty Innovator Award
From Interdisciplinary Program to Examine Potential Coastal Impacts of Climate Change, Natural Hazards by David Hosansky on NCAR & UCAR News, May 16, 2019 The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is launching a significant new program this summer,...
Supercomputer Cloud Modeling Could Help to Predict Climate Change
From Supercomputer Cloud Modeling Could Help to Predict Climate Change by Glenn Jochum on Stony Brook News, May 13, 2019. One of Stony Brook University’s Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS) core faculty members from SoMAS (The School of Marine and...
Old Inlet Breach Flyover 2019-04-29
Dr. Charles Flagg took another flight over the Breach at Old Inlet on Fire Island on April 29, 2019. The flyover mosaic is available below. The water was very clear during the flight! Mark Lang has assembled all the geo-referenced photo mosaics into a kml file that...
Study Points to Kelp Farming Opportunities on Long Island
Photo above: Stony Brook University scientist Mike Doall, left, and oyster farmer Paul McCormick with kelp grown on the Great Gunn oyster farm this spring. From Study Points to Kelp Farming Opportunities on Long Island on Stony Brook News, April 25, 2019. Pioneering...
NSF Supports Marine Science Educational Research Programs
Photo above: Professor Gordon Taylor in his lab. From NSF Supports Marine Science and Chemistry Educational Research Programs on Stony Brook News on April 12, 2019 by Greg Filiano STONY BROOK, NY, April 12, 2019 – The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the...