Long Island Has Become a Hub for Novel Solutions to Mitigate Water-quality Impairment and Climate Change Christopher Gobler, endowed chair of coastal ecology and conservation in the School of Marine and Atmospheric...
New York Sea Grant (NYSG), along with Connecticut Sea Grant (CTSG) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Long Island Sound Study (LISS) Research Grant Program, has awarded more than $6.3 million in total funds...
Long Island elected officials and solid waste experts will gather on March 15 at Stony Brook University to address the future of how Long Island will address its waste
Study Reveals Summer Heatwaves and Low Dissolved Oxygen Contributed to Fishery Collapse A new study by Stony Brook University researchers published in Global Change Biology demonstrates that warming waters and heat...
The storm now known as Hurricane Sandy developed in the western Caribbean Sea on October 22, 2012, and quickly intensified. After wreaking havoc on Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas, Hispaniola and Bermuda, it moved north in...
Marine Scientists’ Letter in Science Journal Urges Preservation of One of the Last Coral Refuges An international group of marine scientists led by Karine Kleinhaus from Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and...
The Experimental Findings Enhance the Understanding of Cloud Formation and Effects on Climate Sea spray aerosols (SSAs) are recognized as a significant source of ice-nucleating particles (INPs). But what SSAs are...
Three members of the Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) faculty and staff are featured in WNBC-TV New York’s digital four-part series on climate change, “Chasing Our...
The energy consumption of 21st century societies is causing the Earth’s climate to warm at an alarming rate, but our way of life is heavily reliant on fossil fuels. Knowing how we came to this moment in time...
Scientists Document Increase in Hard Clam Abundances, Regrowth of Seagrass, End of Brown Tides Scientists from Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) announced the culmination of a...
Students participating in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) Introduction to Oceanography course (MAR 104) recently went on an in-depth exploration of Shinnecock Bay aboard the RV Peconic. The class...
Lisa Crawford and Noah Khalsa have been chosen as finalists in the program, which matches graduate students with “hosts” at associations/institutions located in the Washington, DC area.
Every season for more than 40 years, the Hudson River Biological Monitoring Program collected millions of marine samples up and down the 150-mile stretch of the Hudson River from the Troy Dam in upstate New York to...
The workshop marked the beginning of an exciting collaboration between the university and the offshore wind development teams at leading companies Ørsted and Eversource.