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Four SoMAS Research Projects Receive Funding from New York Sea Grant

New York Sea Grant (NYSG) has awarded approximately $1.5M to support seven research projects — four of which are based at Stony Brook University — that will directly address multiple high-priority community, economic...

July 16, 2026

7 min read

July URECA Researcher of the Month Explores the Dynamics of Severe Storms

Kenny Gregory — the URECA researcher of the month for July — is a rising senior, majoring in atmospheric and oceanic sciences, who transferred to Stony Brook in Fall 2024 after doing coursework in mathematics and...

July 1, 2026

2 min read

Study Estimates Economic, Social Costs of Wildfire Smoke Pollution

Using future climate scenarios based on wildfire damages in North America, scientists estimate that up to 10,000 or more lives may be saved annually in the United States if society can mitigate climate change by keeping...

March 2, 2026

4 min read

WISE Honors Student Discovers Power of Teamwork in Research

Jenna White — the URECA researcher of the month for December — is a WISE Honors student majoring in marine vertebrate biology with an environmental studies minor. Since January 2024, she has been a member of the Marine...

December 3, 2025

2 min read

SBU Investigators Lead New Long Island Sound Projects in $10.4+M Research Suite

New York Sea Grant (NYSG) has announced a major investment — $6.8M in research funding, leveraging an additional $3.6M in matched dollars — for 13 projects across five institutions in New York and Connecticut — Stony...

May 5, 2025

5 min read

SBU Faculty Members Join Ranks of Elite Scientists as AAAS Fellows

Stony Brook University’s Gordon T. Taylor, Katherine B. Aubrecht and Michael A. Bender have been named 2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows. To receive this lifetime honor, AAAS...

March 27, 2025

4 min read

SoMAS PhD Student in Washington, D.C., for Year-Long Knauss Fellowship

Alyson Lowell, a PhD candidate in Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS), has been awarded a New York Sea Grant (NYSG) John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship (Knauss Fellowship)...

March 13, 2025

3 min read

SoMAS Study Shows Many Small Microplastics in the Ocean Are Undetected

SoMAS-led research centers on the smallest particles Chemicals within microplastics that are found in our world’s oceans and waterways, and in drinking water sources, remain of concern to scientists and public health...

May 22, 2024

5 min read

New Crustacean Discovered in Deep Waters of Bahamas

The finding may help scientists better understand the vast biodiversity of the sea An international team of marine biologists including Oliver Shipley, from the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony...

January 18, 2024

3 min read

The Unraveling of a Protist Genome Could Unlock the Mystery of Marine Viruses

Findings set the stage to better understand the “invisible” ocean ecosystem and its importance Viruses are the most prevalent biological entities in the world’s oceans and play essential roles in its ecological and...

November 1, 2023

4 min read

Scientists Study Ice Formation in the Atmosphere

Proposing New Methods to Better Understand This Atmospheric Phenomenon The formation of ice crystals in the atmosphere impacts cloud formation, weather, and precipitation amounts, and is essential for life on Earth...

April 7, 2023

3 min read

“State of the Bays, 2023: Love Where You Live” Lecture, April 4

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...

March 27, 2023

2 min read

SOCJ’s Allen Wins National Academies Award for Climate Change Podcast

J.D. Allen Was Awarded for His Climate Change Podcast Higher Ground Stony Brook University School of Communication and Journalism (SoCJ) lecturer and WSHU managing editor J.D. Allen received an Eric and Wendy Schmidt...

October 18, 2022

5 min read

SoCJ and SoMAS Faculty Win Federal Grant to Protect Vulnerable Populations from Extreme Weather

The researchers will work with vulnerable populations in New York City to improve outreach to these groups.

September 1, 2022

4 min read

Hard Clam Hub Seeks to Improve Aquaculture Industry on Atlantic Coast

This regional collaborative of scientists focuses on two challenges that have been affecting the industry since the 1990s.

July 21, 2022

3 min read

Three SBU fauclty appointed to task force to study NY ocean acidification

U.S. Must Expand Marine Protection to Meet Ocean Conservation Goals

A new analysis of marine protected areas (MPAs) reveals that many important ocean regions off mainland United States are significantly unprotected.

May 18, 2022

6 min read

Two from SoMAS Chosen as ESA Graduate Student Policy Award Recipients

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...

February 4, 2022

3 min read

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Four SoMAS Research Projects Receive Funding from New York Sea Grant

The research projects will directly address multiple high-priority community, economic and environmental objectives.

February 2, 2022

5 min read

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Four SoMAS Research Projects Receive Funding from New York Sea Grant

July URECA Researcher of the Month Explores the Dynamics of Severe Storms

Study Estimates Economic, Social Costs of Wildfire Smoke Pollution

WISE Honors Student Discovers Power of Teamwork in Research

SBU Investigators Lead New Long Island Sound Projects in $10.4+M Research Suite

SBU Faculty Members Join Ranks of Elite Scientists as AAAS Fellows

SoMAS PhD Student in Washington, D.C., for Year-Long Knauss Fellowship

SoMAS Study Shows Many Small Microplastics in the Ocean Are Undetected

New Crustacean Discovered in Deep Waters of Bahamas

The Unraveling of a Protist Genome Could Unlock the Mystery of Marine Viruses

Scientists Study Ice Formation in the Atmosphere

“State of the Bays, 2023: Love Where You Live” Lecture, April 4

SOCJ’s Allen Wins National Academies Award for Climate Change Podcast

SoCJ and SoMAS Faculty Win Federal Grant to Protect Vulnerable Populations from Extreme Weather

Hard Clam Hub Seeks to Improve Aquaculture Industry on Atlantic Coast

U.S. Must Expand Marine Protection to Meet Ocean Conservation Goals

Two from SoMAS Chosen as ESA Graduate Student Policy Award Recipients

Four SoMAS Research Projects Receive Funding from New York Sea Grant

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