Stony Brook University graduate students Isabella Betancourt and Abigail J. Costigan, from the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences’ (SoMAS) Marine Conservation and Policy program, have been selected in the...
Data collected from the mission will help scientists better understand and predict the behavior of dangerous tropical storms and address a significant issue of climate change.
According to SoMAS' Lesley Thorne, if climate change decouples relationships between marine mammals and their prey, this could have important implications for marine food web dynamics.
SoMAS’ Ellen Pikitch is part of a team that developed a framework to consistently understand, plan, establish, evaluate and monitor ocean protection in Marine Protected Areas.
According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, Stony Brook University has placed among the top 100 in the world in several subject areas: #19 Mathematics #46...
The study provides a new method to understand the physical causes of future regional precipitation changes, which has an impact on the environment, climate and human activities worldwide.
Anissa Abi-Dargham, J. Kirk Cochran, Maurizio Del Poeta, Yi-Xian Qin and Paul Shepson have received the prestigious honor bestowed by SUNY upon professionals of the highest caliber.
Qingzhi Zhu, an associate professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University, has received a SUNY Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF) award for his research to develop a low-cost...
The annual event — designed like a TED talk — gave Stony Brook’s postdocs the opportunity to present their cutting-edge research to an audience in five minutes.
Maybe it was going hunting and fishing with his grandmother. Or being glued to the Discovery Channel as a kid. Either way, Chris Crosby’s love of nature was too strong to ignore, and led him to enroll at Stony Brook...
Imagine being underwater and seeing a shark swimming nearby. What would go through your mind? Fear? Wonder? When Greg Marshall ’88 saw a shark in the water near him off the coast of Belize in 1986 — while doing research...
One of Stony Brook University’s Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS) core faculty members from SoMAS (The School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences) — Marat Khairoutdinov — has created a global cloud...
Early on in her training as a dancer, Carolyn Hall ’09 had to learn to be able to pivot quickly. Who knew it would have such valuable application as a life skill? Hall, who holds an MS in Marine Science from Stony Brook...
What, if anything, are your pets thinking? Do they value you beyond your reliability as a source of food? What cognitive traits do we share with the elephant, the wolf, primates and other so-called “higher...
After Superstorm Sandy, the need to better understand stormwater flood risks and improve infrastructure in the metro area of New York City became a priority. A new study, co-led by Professor Brian Colle, PhD, head of...