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Jessica Gurevitch, co-leader of the Climate Interventional Biology working group. Credit: Julia Postol

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Should We Use Technology to Slow Global Warming?

Ecologist Jessica Gurevitch leads a team that is examining the consequences of using stratospheric aerosol intervention to help cool the Earth as fossil fuel emissions are reduced.

April 6, 2021

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Climate Research May Help Reduce “Snail Fever” Worldwide

Projections of temperatures and precipitation amounts in climate change scenarios may be a key component in a large research initiative with the goal to reduce schistosomiasis.

October 8, 2020

3 min read

Faculty/Staff News Highlights Sustainability

Christopher Sellers Acts to Safeguard Environmental Data

He joined together with a dozen volunteers to help form a new non-profit, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, to scrutinize the EPA following the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.

February 14, 2020

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Fotis Sotiropoulos, Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Faculty/Staff Leadership Sustainability

Sotiropoulos Op-Ed: Invest in Climate Change

A planned engineering facility at Stony Brook University will fuel the pipeline for the requisite human talent and innovation to combat climate change.

February 10, 2020

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CBS News Covers SBU Scientists Studying Climate Change in Antarctica

The work of Stony Brook researchers in Antarctica has been highlighted by a CBS News article, Global warming cited as Antarctica’s chinstrap penguin population drops by half, which details live coverage by a CBS News...

January 17, 2020

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Study Uses New Forecasting Tools to Show How Climate Change Affected Hurricane Florence

Change in extreme weather is one of the most serious ways that we experience the impact of climate change. A study led by Kevin Reed, Assistant Professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook...

January 2, 2020

3 min read

Academics Alumni Hottest Stories Awards and Honors Faculty Faculty/Staff Faculty/Student Spotlights SoMAS Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

Donovan Finn Receives Early Career Faculty Innovator Award

Donovan Finn, an assistant professor of Environmental Design, Policy and Planning in the Sustainability Studies Program at Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, is one of nine early...

June 5, 2019

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NSF-Funded Research Probes Intersection of Tectonics and Biology

How does landscape history affect the diversity of mammals over time? Why are there more species in the Andes than there are in the Amazon? Over the next three years, a team of geophysicists, geochemists and biologists...

April 23, 2019

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Events On Campus Sustainability

Climatologist Michael Mann Targets Climate Change Denial in Upcoming Lecture

In celebration of Earthstock, prominent climate scientist and geophysicist Michael Mann offers a somewhat lighthearted take on a very serious issue — the threat of human-caused climate change and what to do about it...

February 27, 2019

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Academics Faculty/Staff Research SoMAS

Two SBU Teams Awarded Ocean Research Grants to Study Waters off NY

Nearly $570,000 in ocean research grants have been awarded to three investigative teams, two of which are from Stony Brook University. Through New York State’s 10-year Ocean Action Plan (OAP) — supported by the...

February 6, 2019

3 min read

Community Events Global

International Student STEM Competition at SBU to Focus on Climate Change

As part of STEM awareness, the Spellman Clean Tech Competition focuses on the need to solve global environmental challenges through scientific methodology and innovative thinking among high school students. Culled from...

June 27, 2018

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