Highlights
The page features research highlights at SoMAS.
Panarea Island, Italy
Principle Investigator: Roy Price At the shallow-sea vents off Panarea Island (Italy), hydrothermal venting is manifested as abundant gas and fluid discharge. Vent fluids, pore fluids and gases at three sites were sampled and analyzed for major and minor elements,...
Shallow-sea Hydrothermal Vents
Principle Investigator: Roy Price The subsurface geochemical processes controlling the composition of discharging hydrothermal fluids are a function of many factors including fluid-mineral equilibria, phase separation, magmatic inputs, mineral precipitation, and...
Research Highlight – SBU Mentors 22 Intel Finalists
Twenty-two high school students who worked with Stony Brook University faculty were named among the 300 semifinalists in the national 2014 Intel Science Talent Search competition. The School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences mentored 3 of these students.
SoMAS and Superstorm Sandy
Collection of SoMAS created reports, articles, images and video regarding Superstorm Sandy.
Remote Sensing Article Published in Nature Climate Change
In the September 15 Issue of Nature Climate Change, a group of scientists published a review article on the role of satellite remote sensing in climate change studies. SoMAS faculty Minghua Zhang is one of the co-authors who contributed to the review of the role of...
Stony Brook Professor John Mak Flies into New Research Territory
With support from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), John E. Mak and his team of scientists are taking atmospheric research to new heights — literally. Piloting a specialized plane as part of a six- week research campaign, Mak took air samples for a study that...
Stony Brook University Hosts NSF Funded Storm Chasing Project
Photo above: Pictured in front of the Doppler on Wheels 6 from left to right are: Professor Brian Colle, SoMAS at Stony Brook University; Joshua Wurman and Karen Kosiba of the Center for Severe Weather Research; and Kelly Lombardo, SBU Postdoctoral researcher....
Stony Brook University Hosts NSF Funded Storm Chasing Project
STONY BROOK, NY, June 26, 2013 – Stony Brook University in collaboration with the National Weather Service (NWS) and the Center for Severe Weather Research in Boulder, CO, is hosting and participating in the DREAMS (Doppler Radar for Education And Mesoscale Studies)...
SoMAS Scientists Find That Fukushima-Derived Radioactivity in Seafood Poses Minimal Health Risk
In 2012, SoMAS Professor Nicholas Fisher and postdoctoral scholar Zosia Baumann, working with a colleague at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station, reported that they had detected radioactivity in Pacific bluefin tuna swimming off the California coast. The...
Bermuda Rise (BaRFlux)
Principal Investigators: David Black, Cindy Lee, Rob Armstrong and Kirk Cochran Funded by NSF Ocean Sciences Division Students Supported: TBA Project Description:The goal of this work is to achieve a better mechanistic understanding of the ocean’s role in the global...