Highlights
The page features research highlights at SoMAS.
Old Inlet Breach Flyover 2015-02-28
Dr. Charles Flagg took a flight over the Breach at Old Inlet on February 28, 2015 and had the following to report: After nearly two months of snow, high winds, frozen hanger doors and recalcitrant engines, I finally got a chance for another over flight Saturday...
SBU camera captures snowflakes
Photo above: The Multi-Angle Snowflake Camera (foreground) and vertically pointing radar (dish in background) will help researchers at SBU gather better data on snowstorms for better forecast models. PHOTO CREDIT: BRIAN COLLE From SBU camera captures snowflakes on...
Study Reveals Industrial Aerosol Emissions Has Changed the Relationship Between Temperature and Precipitation in the Northern Tropics
Findings published in Nature Geoscience also indicate a way to make more accurate predictions about future climate trends Stony Brook, NY, February 9, 2015 – An international team of scientists, including Minghua Zhang, Dean and Director of Stony Brook...
SoMAS Professors Featured in NSF Research Highlight – Monitoring hydrogen sulfide in salt marshes
As part of their research program in sedimentary biogeochemistry, Profs. Qingzhi Zhu, Robert C. Aller, and their students develop and utilize a range of sensors that allow high resolution 2-D imaging of dissolved constituents in marine sediments. 3-D reconstructions...
Great South Bay Buoy #1 2014 Reassembly
After suffering destruction from the 2013-2014 winter freeze in Great South Bay, the buoy has been restored by the Instrument Laboratory. It was reassembled on 8/27/2014. Pictures by Larry Swanson and Mark Lang
Seeds of Hope for Shinnecock Bay
SOUTHAMPTON, NY, June 18, 2014 – On Saturday, June 14, East End volunteers worked side-by-side with members of the Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, (SoMAS) to help revitalize Shinnecock Bay. More than 40 residents, friends and...
SBU Scientist Blogs from Bahamian Shark Expedition
Demian Chapman, an assistant professor in Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, and SBU graduate student Mark Bond are leading a scientific research expedition in the Bahamian Shark Sanctuary. The team is conducting groundbreaking...
Ambitle Island (Papua New Guinea)
Principle Investigator: Roy Price See these publications: Distribution, speciation and bioavailability of arsenic in a shallow-water submarine hydrothermal system, Tutum Bay, Ambitle Island, PNG Shallow-water hydrothermal vent systems can introduce large amounts of...
The Strytan Hydrothermal Field (SHF), Eyjafjord, Iceland
Principle Investigator: Roy Price The Strytan Hydrothermal Field (SHF) is located in Eyjafjord, northern Iceland, exhibits off-axis, alkaline (pH ~ 10), hot (up to 78°C), submarine hydrothermal venting, building a 55 meter high saponite tower. In the context of...
Milos Island, Greece
Principle Investigator: Roy Price Arsenic (As) is naturally enriched in most terrestrial and marine hydrothermal systems. Its discharge from shallow-sea hydrothermal vents into coastal marine environments can dramatically affect the surrounding ecosystems....