Student Profiles
SoMAS PhD Student Receives National Marine Fisheries Service-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship
Sarah Weisberg, a PhD student in Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS), has been selected as a 2022 National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship recipient. The focus of her project, “Advancing climate-informed, ecosystem-based fisheries management through food web modeling, indicator development and risk analysis in the rapidly warming Gulf of Maine,” is to understand how human-caused climate change can alter fish distribution and abundance.
Eight Finalists to Compete in Three Minute Thesis Competition
For several weeks, 25 Stony Brook PhD and DMA students have been working on talks about their dissertation research for Three Minute Thesis (3MT), a spoken-word competition held annually at Stony Brook. These short talks are designed to share the excitement of their work with anyone, regardless of area of expertise. SoMAS PhD student Alyssa Stansfield is one of the finalists.
Two from SoMAS Chosen as ESA Graduate Student Policy Award Recipients
Latest Technology Helping SoMAS Student Identify Harmful Algae
Photo above: Graduate student Rebecca Rogers with the Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB) at
the Marine Sciences Center in Southampton. From Latest Technology Helping Student
Identify Harmful by Glenn Jochum on Stony Brook University News, March 18, 2021 Rebecca
Rogers has... 
Jonathon Gaare (MA, 2020)
Jonathon Gaare interned as a seasonal Park Ranger Interpreter for the National Park Service at the nearby Fire Island National Seashore and focused his project on science communication during a pandemic. The role of the Interpreter is to use their diverse wealth of...
Christine Suter (MA, 2020)
Christine Suter conducted her internship with the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society
(AMSEAS) based in Hampton Bays, New York, where she analyzed data on sea turtle strandings
in the coastal waters of New York for the years 2010, 2012 and 2016. Her goals were
to... 
Kayla Clauson (MA, 2020)
Kayla Clauson interned as an educator and research assistant with Narragansett Bay
National Estuarine Research Reserve (NBNERR) through the Rhode Island Department of
Environmental Management on Prudence Island. Prudence Island is a remote island in
the geographical... 
Nolan Slattery (MA, 2020)
Nolan’s capstone study, a New York State Marine Aquaculture 2020 Prospectus, included a comprehensive review of both the history of shellfish and aquaculture in New York and recent policy events that have direct implications on commercial aquaculture in New...
Fun Fact Fridays with SBU Weather
Home Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres People Students Undergraduate
Program Graduate Program Combined Degree Program Research Opportunities, Internships
& Financial Aid Petra M. Udelhofen Memorial Scholarship Timothy Magnussen Memorial...
SBU Weather Student Showcase in Seawolves Storm or Not
For the past two years, Stony Brook University Students in the School of Marine and
Atmospheric Science and students in the School of Journalism have worked together
to produce a short news segment called “Seawolves Storm or Not.” The news program
focuses... 
Student Blogger Shares Health and Fitness Wisdom with College Peers
From Student Blogger Shares Health and Fitness Wisdom with College Peers by Glenn
Jochum on Stony Brook University News, October 19, 2020. Staying fit, trim and healthy
can be challenging for college students, and gaining the notorious “Freshman 15” is
all the more... 
Students Collaborate on Study of Earthworms and Herbicides
From Students Collaborate on Study of Earthworms and Herbicides on Stony Brook University
News, October 16, 2020. Stony Brook’s Earthworm Ecotoxicology Lab, associated with
the Sustainability Studies program, will soon publish a paper on the effect of Roundup...
Student Activists Tackle Climate Change
Photo above: Emily Schalkham ’21 From Student Activists Tackle Climate Change by Glenn
Jochum on Stony Brook University News, October 5, 2020. Two Stony Brook students have
taken the lead on an influential issue that has significant ramifications for Long
Island and... 
Geospatial Science Aficionado Alina Lance Follows 2013 AE Champ Olivia Mintun’s Path
From Geospatial Science Aficionado Alina Lance Follows 2013 AE Champ Olivia Mintun’s
Path by Adam Rubin on Stony Brook Athletics STONY BROOK, N.Y. — Olivia Mintun led
the Stony Brook softball team in batting average during the 2013 America East Tournament
as the... 
Fall Updates from SoMAS Faculty
The Fall Semester is off and running, and while classes are back in session, SoMAS
faculty are bringing in research awards! Dr. Paul Shepson has received a new award
from NSF’s Office of Polar Programs, in support of the project: “Collaborative Research:...
Anne Green ’22 Takes Civic Engagement to a New Level
From Anne Green ’22 Takes Civic Engagement to a New Level by Glenn Jochum on Stony
Brook University News, September 16, 2020 An invitation to take part in a panel discussion
by global health advocate Chelsea Clinton is just one of the many distinctions that
Anne Green... 
Tackling a Microbial Mystery During Pandemic Times
Photo above: Sharon Pochron (upper left) meets with URECA research team via Zoom.
From Tackling a Microbial Mystery During Pandemic Times on Stony Brook University
News by Glenn Jochum on August 24, 2020. When Sharon Pochron assembled a group of
students and faculty... 
SoMAS Student Athlete Champions Environment throughout Campus
STONY BROOK, N.Y. — From a young age, Jessica Salmon attended family reunions in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. And a passion for marine biology was born. “I just fell in love with the water,” Salmon said. “And I know it sounds cliché, but that...