Highlights
The page features research highlights at SoMAS.
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 Climate...
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 Mark Lang has...
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, 1559 - 1578, is...
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...
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...