Highlights
The page features research highlights at SoMAS.
Graduating SoMAS Senior featured in URECA Researchers of the Month
From Researchers of the Month May 2020 on the URECA website, May 2020 Graduating senior and Marine Vertebrate Biology and Applied Math and Statistics double major Delphine Mossman, mentored by Dr. Jeffrey Levinton, has been selected as one of the URECA Researchers of...
Student Research Celebrated at URECA
From URECA’s 2020 Virtual Undergraduate Research Symposium on Stony Brook University News, May 6, 2020. URECA’s Celebration of Undergraduate Research & Creativity is an annual event organized by the URECA Program that showcases undergraduate research and is open...
SoMAS Faculty Wins EPA Advanced Septic System Nitrogen Sensor Challenge
From Long Island Scientist Wins EPA Advanced Septic System Nitrogen Sensor Challenge by Sonia Mohabir on EPA.gov, May 5, 2020. NEW YORK (May 5, 2020) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that a scientist from Stony Brook University in Stony...
SoMAS Researchers: Dissolved Oxygen and pH Policy Leave Fisheries at Risk
Photo above: Stony Brook’s Christopher Gobler is one of Long Island’s leading experts on water conservation. From Researchers: Dissolved Oxygen and pH Policy Leave Fisheries at Risk on Stony Brook University News, April 23, 2020 Stony Brook University’s Christopher J....
2020 Earthstock Festival: A Virtual Celebration of the Earth
From 2020 Earthstock Festival: A Virtual Celebration of the Earth by Glenn Jochum on Stony Brook University News, April 22, 2020. Stony Brook University’s Earthstock celebration, a much anticipated campus tradition since 2002, is taking place in a much different...
Stony Brook Students Join the Frontlines of Climate Change Research
From Stony Brook Students Join the Frontlines of Climate Change Research by Glenn Jochum on Stony Brook University News, April 22, 2020. An acidic ocean that won’t support marine life. Plants and animals that can’t adapt to that acidification. Armed with facts and...
SoMAS Student Among Five SBU Students To Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships
From Five Stony Brook Students Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships on Stony Brook University News, April 9, 2020. A SoMAS Five Stony Brook students have been awarded prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships (NSF GRFP) by the National Science Foundation. Another six...
SBU Researchers Collaborate on Genetic Tool Development in Marine Protists
Photo above: A set of Microscopic images of Aurantiochytrium cells. The top images show a wild-type Aurantiochytrium cell and the bottom images show a genetically engineered Aurantiochytrium cell that now expresses green fluorescent protein (GFP). The scale bar...
Experts call for immediate action to save the world’s most resilient corals
Photo Above: Corals in the Gulf of Aqaba (credit Ove Hoegh-Guldberg) Despite political tensions between countries along the Red Sea, researchers band together to call upon UNESCO to declare the Red Sea’s entire coral reef as a Marine World Heritage Site while...
Winter Faculty Research News
Photo above: Dr. Flagg's latest flight over the breach at Old Inlet Here are the latest updates about our faculty and their research. Dr. Hyemi Kim's recent publication "Insignificant QBO‐MJO prediction skill relationship in the SubX and S2S subseasonal reforecasts"...