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For SoMAS’s Oliver Shipley, Every Week is Shark Week

Oliver Shipley might have one of the best assignments in the world — he gets to scrutinize what is arguably Earth’s most fascinating and feared creature in its natural habitat, from the safety of an underwater research...

July 31, 2019

6 min read

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Chris Crosby ‘19 Aims to Leave the Planet Healthier Than He Found It

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...

June 3, 2019

4 min read

Greg Marshall Honorary Degree at 2019 Commencement

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For Greg Marshall ’88, an Emmy-Winning Career Started at SoMAS

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...

May 30, 2019

10 min read

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Supercomputer Cloud Modeling Could Help to Predict Climate Change

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...

May 13, 2019

8 min read

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Study Points to Kelp Farming Opportunities on Long Island

In recent years, seaweeds have been notorious for washing up and fouling beaches on Long Island. Now, a collaborative team of scientists and marine farmers have demonstrated that the seaweed, sugar kelp, can be...

April 25, 2019

5 min read

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Marine Sciences and Chemistry Win NSF Grants

The School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) has been awarded $434,000 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) has to advance research that will help scientists understand the global carbon cycle in the ocean...

April 15, 2019

2 min read

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For Carolyn Hall ’09, Mixing Science and the Arts is a Thrilling Dance

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...

April 15, 2019

12 min read

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Stony Brook’s Student Entrepreneurs are Growing and Glowing

For most students, going to college is a stepping stone to greater things, a means of reaching their professional goals and aspirations. But a growing number of Stony Brook students are getting a head start on...

March 22, 2019

8 min read

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Claire Garfield ’20 Lands Prestigious Fellowship

“Stony Brook University was always on my mind because of the research opportunities,” said Claire Garfield, a junior in the Honors College who is getting a jumpstart on her plans to pursue a PhD in biological...

February 28, 2019

4 min read

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Do Animals Think and Feel?

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...

February 22, 2019

7 min read

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Assessing NYC Flood Risks From Extreme Storms

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...

September 26, 2018

2 min read

Tag: SoMAS

For SoMAS’s Oliver Shipley, Every Week is Shark Week

Chris Crosby ‘19 Aims to Leave the Planet Healthier Than He Found It

Supercomputer Cloud Modeling Could Help to Predict Climate Change

Study Points to Kelp Farming Opportunities on Long Island

Marine Sciences and Chemistry Win NSF Grants

For Carolyn Hall ’09, Mixing Science and the Arts is a Thrilling Dance

Stony Brook’s Student Entrepreneurs are Growing and Glowing

Claire Garfield ’20 Lands Prestigious Fellowship

Do Animals Think and Feel?

Assessing NYC Flood Risks From Extreme Storms

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