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Arts & Entertainment Awards and Honors News Highlights Sustainability

Sustainability Film Wins Telly Awards

David Taylor, an assistant professor in the Sustainability Studies Program, produced an award-winning documentary, Cuban Earth, in collaboration with Melinda Levin, University of North Texas.

June 16, 2020

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Alumni Hottest Stories Medicine and Research News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

Scientists Predict More Rain, Fewer Landfalling Hurricanes

The study by a team of researchers at SoMAS uses global climate modeling to suggest that while rain intensity is likely to increase, the number of storms that make landfall will decrease.

June 16, 2020

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News Highlights Sustainability

Protect Red Sea’s Coral Reefs, Scientists Urge

An international group of researchers led by SoMAS' Karine Kleinhaus says UNESCO should declare the Red Sea’s 4,000 km of coral reef a Marine World Heritage Site.

March 5, 2020

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Advancement News Highlights Research Sustainability

Extraordinary Collection of Marine Specimens and Data Donated to University

An extraordinary scientific collection of fish specimens, as well archived fish and water quality data taken from the Hudson River over more than five decades, has been donated to Stony Brook’s School of Marine...

December 6, 2019

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Alumni Spotlight Story Research Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

Pioneering Study Maps Ocean Areas in Need of Preservation

A first-of-its-kind global marine mapping study provides a roadmap on where to place Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in accordance with United Nations goals for environmental preservation. The study, conducted by a...

October 25, 2019

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Alumni Hottest Stories Faculty/Staff Medicine and Research Research Stony Brook Matters

Study: Breaking Waves Propel Ancient Molecules Into the Air

A discovery that helps explain how organic matter produced by life thousands of years ago is ultimately removed from the sea has been published in Science Advances by Steven Beaupré of Stony Brook University’s School of...

October 23, 2019

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Alumni Spotlight Story Faculty/Student Spotlights Featured Story Recent Grads Research Stony Brook Matters Student Student Spotlight

Student Researcher Mary Bertschi ’19 is at Home in the World

“I feel like if I had been in a different school or a larger department I wouldn’t have had the connections I have had, or found out about the internships and experiences I have enjoyed,” said Mary Bertschi ’19...

October 15, 2019

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Long Island Sustainability

SoMAS Students Honor A Long Island Legend in Documentary

Koppelman’s life and work is being celebrated in a short documentary Koppelman, the work of two students enrolled in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University.

September 17, 2019

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Alumni News Alumni Spotlight Story Faculty Faculty/Student Spotlights Giving Back Main University Medicine and Research Stony Brook Matters

Bassem Allam Invested as Inaugural Marinetics Endowed Professor

Laurie Landeau and Robert Maze continue to support vital research at Stony Brook What does it mean to be an endowed professor? For Bassem Allam, formally invested on April 26 as the Marinetics Endowed Professor in Stony...

August 6, 2019

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