People Faculty Experts Areas of expertise for selected SoMAS faculty members. For additional experts at Stony Brook University, please visit the Experts page. Atmospheric Sciences Brian Colle, Ph.D., Professor in Atmospheric Sciences. Dr. Colle’s research focuses on...
If you’ve lived on Long Island for at least one winter then you’ll know from experience that the precipitation type associated with some storms can be quite mixed up. Take the February Blizzard of 2013, for example. Most of the Island saw rain to start...
A Day of Introductionsby Emily MarkowitzToday was a series of introductions between us, the students, and the series of water bodies, jetties, and canals leading from Old Fort Pond through the Shinnecock inlet, to the Ponquogue Bridge. I suspect that by the end...
The DREAMS Project started off the month of July with a mission. Mission #9 took place on July 1st and a lot earlier in the day then the organizers had anticipated. Strong-to-severe thunderstorms developed early in the morning and propagated northeastward over Long...
The islands of the Bahamas lie within a mosaic of marine habitats where the subtropical open ocean washes over vibrant coral reefs connected to shallow seagrass beds fringed by rich mangrove forests. Divers still see sharks there on a regular basis, which is...
Allam, Bassem Allam B. , Carden WE, Ward JE, Ralph G, Winnicki S, Pales Espinosa E. (2013). Early host-pathogen interactions in marine bivalves: Evidence that the alveolate parasite Perkinsus marinus infects through the oyster mantle during rejection of pseudofeces....
E-Newsletter Vol. 23 No. 1, August 26 – September 1, 2012 Information, Talks, and Publications about Atmospheres Welcome! The Fall 2012 semester officially begins on Monday, August 27. The first Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar will take...
Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 01/29/03 11:30am, Wednesday, Endeavour 120 Title: “Coupling of the Climate’s Energy and Water Cycles by Clouds” Speaker: William B. Rossow Affiliation: Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA ...
Achieving sustanable access to clean water in Tanzania: Impact on human health 1.2 billion people lack access to clean water “Nearly 2 million children die each year for want of a glass of water and adequate sanitation” (Human Development Report 2006). Water borne...
E-Newsletter Vol. 13 No. 1, September 2 – 8, 2007 Information, Talks, and Publications about Atmospheres Welcome Back! The Fall 2007 semester officially begins on Tuesday, September 4th. The first Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar will...
Chairman Wise opened the meeting at 7:10 pm. He indicated that the Board at the present meeting would be discussing a single topic – changes proposed by DEC in the draft Long Island Sound Surfclam Management Plan that derive from the extensive environmental...
E-Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 1, January 22 – 28, 2006 Information, Talks, and Publications about Atmospheres The first Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar will take place on Wednesday, January 25 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. Professor...
ITPA Newsletter Vol. 4 No. 1, January 20 – January 26, 2003 ITPA NEWS Class starts Wednesday this week. We hope everybody enjoyed the holidays. Last week, ITPA graduate students had a retreat with ITPA Director Minghua Zhang. The students made constructive...
Acknowledgements We thank the National Science Foundation Division of OceanSciences, NOAA Office of Global Programs, and NASA Office of EarthScience for financial support for this workshop. We particularlythank Don Rice of the NSF Chemical Oceanography Program...
25 top scientists converge for 25th Anniversary Coastal Ocean Summit Renowned scientists from around the world debated the most pressing threats to the global oceans in December at MSRC’s Coastal Summit The scientists determined that the main threats to the...