Highlights

The page features research highlights at SoMAS.

 

 

SoMAS Doctoral Student Working to Restore Shellfish Population

Stephen Tomasetti at the Marine Sciences Center at Stony Brook Southampton. Photo above by John Griffin From Doctoral Student Working to Restore Shellfish Population by Glenn Jochum on Stony Brook University News, March 23, 2021. Shellfish couldn’t have a better...

SBU’s Pavlos Kollias Part of BNL Team Studying ‘Secondary’ Ice

Photo above: Stony Brook’s Pavlos Kollias (far right) with fellow Brookhaven Lab atmospheric scientists Andrew Vogelmann, Edward Luke and Fan Yang From SBU’s Pavlos Kollias Part of BNL Team Studying ‘Secondary’ Ice on Stony Brook University News, March 24, 2021 Where...

Latest Student and Faculty News

Spring is starting to reveal itself and that means we are approaching award season! Congratulations to the two winners of the 2021 JR Schubel Fellowship! Naomi Miller, advised by Dr. Kevin Reed and Dr. Donovan Finn Farinaz Motlagh, advised by Dr. Sara Hamideh  ...

Latest Technology Helping SoMAS Student Identify Harmful Algae

Photo above: Graduate student Rebecca Rogers with the Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB) at the Marine Sciences Center in Southampton. From Latest Technology Helping Student Identify Harmful by Glenn Jochum on Stony Brook University News, March 18, 2021 Rebecca Rogers has...

Old Inlet Breach Flyover 2021-03-09

Dr. Charles Flagg took another flight over the Breach at Old Inlet on Fire Island on March 9, 2021.  The flyover mosaic is available below.  Dr. Flagg noted that there is a lot of sand building in the breach and it would appear that the breach is on the verge of...

Winter Updates from SoMAS Faculty

Check out the latest updates from our faculty! Dr. Kevin Reed is one of the 2021 Discovery Prize Finalists for his project, "Attribution of the human influence on the 2020 and 2021 hurricane seasons." Kevin Reed is an associate professor in Stony Brook University’s...

Chris Gobler’s LI Sound Research Receives Federal Funding

Photo above: An eelgrass bed off of Fishers Island, NY. Credit: CCE Suffolk County Marine Program From Chris Gobler’s LI Sound Research Receives Federal Funding by on Stony Brook University News, February 22, 2021 A study of ocean acidification led by Christopher...

Old Inlet Breach Flyover 2021-01-08

Dr. Charles Flagg is in the air early in 2021! He was able to take a flight over the Breach at Old Inlet on Fire Island on January 8, 2021.  The flyover mosaic is available below. Dr. Flagg provided the latest report (PDF): At long last we have another aerial...

Pavlos Kollias Receives AGU Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award

From Pavlos Kollias Receives AGU Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award by Kelly Zegers on the BNL Newsroom, December 22, 2020 Brookhaven Lab/Stony Brook University atmospheric scientist recognized for advances in the field of cloud and precipitation physics through novel...