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Faculty
Professor
Atmospheric dynamics and diagnoses, climate dynamics, synoptic meteorology
Endeavour Hall 101
Professor
ATM Division Head
Extreme weather, coastal meteorology, weather forecasting, regional climate change
Endeavour Hall 125
Associate Professor
supercell and tornado dynamics; Doppler weather radar applications; mesoscale meteorology
Endeavour Hall 111
Research Professor
Atmosphere dynamics, stratosphere/mesosphere, climate
Assistant Professor
science communication, health communication, and crisis and risk communication
Professor
artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), physics-based simulations, high-performance
computing, geoinformatics
Assistant Professor
data science, AI, remote sensing, atmospheric environment, and climate
Professor
Climate modeling, high-resolution cloud modeling, cloud microphysics and parameterization
Endeavour Hall 121
Professor
Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, cloud microphysics, field and laboratory measurements
Dana Hall 151
SUNY Empire Innovation Professor
Cloud Microphysics and Dynamics, Environmental Remote Sensing, Radar Meteorology and
Technology
Endeavour Hall 131
Lecturer
Climate change, dynamics and modeling;
Endeavour Hall 199
Research Professor
pollutant atmospheric transport and turbulent mixing, emissions quantification, air
quality and toxic exposure
Professor
Trace gas isotopic composition for the reconstruction of atmospheric chemistry in
the paleo atmosphere; trace gas emissions from the biosphere; development of instrumentation
platforms for research aircraft.
Dana Hall 115A
Research Professor
radar polarimetry, mixed-phase clouds microphysics, radar simulators
Assistant Professor
Air quality; Climate change impacts; Climate change and health; Energy and climate
policy evaluations
Discovery Hall 125
Professor
Climate Modeling; Climate Change Attribution, Tropical Cyclones; Climate Extremes;
Atmospheric Dynamics, Science Policy
Endeavour Hall 109
Distinguished Professor
Dean
Atmospheric Chemistry and climate change; Aviation; Arctic and coastal halogen chemistry;
greenhouse gas source and sink measurements; atmospheric aerosols; climate change
communications
Endeavour Hall 145
Professor
Empire Innovation Scholar
Cloud physics, atmospheric remote sesning, multi-sensor remote sesning, global aerosol
and cloud distributions, Airborne Raman lidars
Endeavour Hall 119
Associate Professor
Climate change impacts; Remote Sensing; Andes; Mountain Societies, and Sustainability
Studies
Discovery Hall 157
Distinguished Professor
Climate modelling, atmospheric dynamics
Endeavour Hall 195
Marinetics Endowed Professor in Marine Sciences
Marine invertebrate physiology and health, Shellfish Genomics, Aquaculture
Dana Hall 149
Professor
Marine benthic ecology, invertebrate zoology, marine microbiology, biogeochemistry
Dana Hall 101
Distinguished Professor
Marine biogeochemistry, marine animal-sediment relations
Challenger Hall 101
Associate Professor
Marine Biogeochemistry, Chemical kinetics of natural organic matter, radiocarbon analyses
Challenger Hall 123
Associate Professor
Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, deep-sea sediments, marine micropaleontology
Discovery Hall 117
Distinguished Service Professor
Near shore transport processes, coastal groundwater hydrology, coastal sedimentation,
marine geophysics
Endeavour Hall 211
Advanced Senior Lecturer
Marine and Environmental Science Education, Coastal Community Ecology
Natural Sciences 123
Toll Professor
Benthic ecology, population and community dynamics.
Dana Hall 121
Professor
Fisheries ecology, stock assessment, population and ecosystem dynamics, monitoring
program design and optimization, climate change, fisheries management, international
fisheries
Dana Hall 111
Professor
Phytoplankton physiological ecology, Biocomplexity and microbial diversity, Planktonic
ecosystem processes in marine estuarine and freshwater systems
Discovery Hall 145
Lecturer
Elasmobranch Ecology, Field Research Methods, Environmental Education
Natural Sciences 119
Associate Professor
Nearshore hydrodynamics, sediment transport, wave-current-sediment-structure interaction,
resilient coastal protection systems, coastal flooding.
Heavy Engineering 112
Toll Professor
Marine phytoplankton physiology and ecology, biogeo-chemistry of metals, marine pollution
Dana Hall 129
Research Professor
Continental Shelf Dynamics, Bio-Physical Interactions in Shelf Systems, Climate Change
Effects on Coastal Systems, Shipboard ADCPs on Volunteer Observing Ships
Endeavour Hall 203
Research Professor
Marine geology, sediment dynamics, continental margin sedimentation
Endeavour Hall 157
Professor
Fish ecology, population modeling and life history theory
Endowed Chair of Coastal Ecology and Conservation
Distinguished Professor
Coastal ecosystem ecology, climate change, harmful algal blooms, phytoplankton, ocean
acidification, effects of multiple stressors on coastal marine resources, aquatic
biogeochemistry
Natural Sciences 125
Denis Gruzdev
Research Associate Professor
microbial molecular biology, genomics and bioinformatics, marine invertebrate genomics
Dana Hall
Associate Professor
seascape ecology, including invertebrate reproduction, larval dispersal, metapopulation
modeling, and the spatial ecology of environmental change
Dana Hall
Assistant Professor
coastal geological processes, erosion, and beach morphology
Dana Hall
Associate Professor
Structure and dynamics of shelf-seas and remote sensing oceanography
Endeavour Hall 169
Research Professor
evolutionary biology and entomological research
Assistant Professor
drivers of coastal change, to track transitions in structure and function of ecosystems
and societies with disturbances such as storms, floods, and climate change
Discovery Hall 121
Assistant Professor
estuarine dynamics, coastal sediment transport, shoaling internal waves, coastal connectivity
Endeavour Hall 197
Assistant Professor
Oceanic distributions of microplastics (MPs) and black carbon (BC) particles, Raman
Microspectroscopy
Discovery Hall 165
Associate Professor
Associate Director of Emerging Contaminants Research
Occurrence, fate, and remediation of PFAS, microplastics, and other emerging contaminants
in natural and built environments
Discovery Hall 131
Research Associate Professor
Shellfish physiology, Particle selection mechanisms in suspension-feeding bivalves,
Algology
Dana Hall 149A
Professor
Community ecology of seagrass dominated ecosystems
Natural Sciences 121
Endowed Professor of Ocean Conservation Science
Ocean conservation, fisheries management, ecosystem-based approaches, marine protected
areas (MPAs), endangered fishes, sharks, sturgeon
Discovery Hall 169
Assistant Professor
Coastal fluxes of carbon and other pollutants, Carbonate Chemistry, Hydrothermal vents,
water-rock reactions, toxic metal and metalloid cycling in coastal environments, bioenergetics,
redox disequilibria and microbial ecology, and alkaline shallow-sea vents as early
Earth analogs
Challenger Hall 151
Senior Lecturer
Maritime and Environmental History, Sustainability
Melville Library E2360
Carl Safina Endowed Research Chair for Nature and Humanity
Endeavour Hall 147
Assistant Professor
Bulk and compound specific stable isotope systems, food-webs, ecological niches, community
dynamics, ecosystem ecology, energy flow
Dana Hall 105
Professor
MAR Division Head
Microbial oceanography, microbial ecology, planktonic food webs, biogeochemistry,
ocean deoxygenation, microplastic contaminants, single cell analysis, novel bioimaging
technology - Raman Microspectroscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy
Endeavour Hall 161
Associate Professor
Marine mammal and seabird ecology and conservation; Habitat use and energetics of
protected species under environmental and anthropogenic change
Challenger Hall 159
Associate Professor
Sediment biogeochemistry, animal-sediment interactions, benthic ecology
Dana Hall 117
Professor
Acoustical oceanography, Zooplankton behavior and ecology
Natural Sciences 101
Associate Professor
Marine Biogeochemistry, Geochemical element cycles, Deep Biosphere
Challenger Hall 145
Associate Professor
Physical oceanography, large-scale circulation: theory and modeling.
Endeavour Hall 167
Associate Professor
Chem-/Bio- Sensors, Marine Biogeochemistry, Trace Elements, Environmental Analytical
Chemistry
Discovery Hall 105
Associate Professor
chemical education, sustainable and green chemistry
Chemistry Building 407
Lecturer
Urban Studies, Local and Global Environmental Histories, Environmental Justice, Human
Geography, Sustainability.
Melville Library E2360
Associate Professor
Environmental Health Inequality, Environmental Justice, Socio-Environmental Systems,
Quantitative Methods, Data Synthesis and Visualization
Melville Library E2360
Associate Professor
community-based planning, disaster recovery, resilience policy, urban design and placemaking
Melville Library E2360
William and Jane Knapp Endowed Infinity Chair
climate change adaptation and resilience, disaster policy analysis, environmental
and health risk perception and communication and social equity performance evaluation
Endeavour Hall 207
Associate Professor
disaster recovery, community resilience
Endeavour Hall 167A
Lecturer
Geospatial Sciences, geographic information systems
Earth and Space Sciences 104
Lecturer, PRODiG+ Fellow
Agriculture, climate change mitigation, greenhouse gas emissions, natural climate
solutions, soil carbon sequestration, sustainable food systems
Melville Library E2360
Assistant Professor
ecotoxicology, soil ecology
Melville Library E2360
Senior Lecturer
Maritime and Environmental History, Sustainability
Melville Library E2360
Associate Professor
SUS Division Head
environmental humanities, history of naturalist studies, American Literature, nature
writing
Melville Library E2360
Affiliated Faculty Stephen Baines | Stephen.Baines@stonybrook.edu | Affiliated FacultyAquatic ecosystem ecology, ecological stoichiometry
Gregory Henkes | gregory.henkes@stonybrook.edu | Affiliated FacultyStable isotope geochemistry of light elements
Heidi Hutner | heidi.hutner@stonybrook.edu | Affiliated FacultyEnvironmental literature and film; ecofeminism; environmental justice; feminism; race
studies; women’s literature; Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and culture.
Christopher Johnson | chris.johnson@stonybrook.edu | Affiliated FacultyMultiplexing laser spectroscopy and mass spectrometry to address challenges in energy
and the environment
Reuben Kline | reuben.kline@stonybrook.edu | Affiliated Facultysocial dilemmas, climate change mitigation behavior, behavioral ethics, public opinion,
and voting
Jeff Levinton | jeffrey.levinton@stonybrook.edu | Affiliated FacultyMarine benthic ecology, macroevolution
Heather Lynch | heather.lynch@stonybrook.edu | Affiliated FacultyDevelopment and application of statistics
Dianna Padilla | dianna.padilla@stonybrook.edu | Affiliated FacultyAquatic ecology, applied ecology, conservation biology
Andrew Singer | Andrew.C.Singer@stonybrook.edu | Affiliated Facultysignal processing and communication systems, audio and undersea acoustics, and financial
modeling
Elizabeth Watson | elizabeth.b.watson@stonybrook.edu | Affiliated FacultyCoastal wetlands, climate change, ecohydrology, translational ecology
Adjunct Lecturers Mirza Beg | mirza.beg@stonybrook.edu
Kimberly Durham | kdurham@amseas.org
Steve Englebright | scenglebright@gmail.com
James Gilmore | james.gilmore@stonybrook.edu
Maxine Montello | mmontello@nymarinerescue.org
Richard Murdocco | richard.j.murdocco@stonybrook.edu
Michael White | mwhite@wintersbros.com
Emeritus Faculty Robert Armstrong , Associate Professor Emeritus
Malcolm Bowman , Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Edward Carpenter , Professor Emeritus
Robert Cerrato , Professor Emeritus
J. Kirk Cochran , Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Nicholas Fisher , Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Roger Flood , Professor Emeritus
Jane Fox , Professor Emeritus
Marvin Geller , Professor Emeritus
Cindy Lee , Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Darcy Lonsdale , Professor Emeritus
Glenn Lopez , Professor Emeritus
Anne McElroy , Professor Emeritus
J. R. Schubel , Professor Emeritus
Mary Scranton , Professor Emeritus
Dong-Ping Wang , Professor Emeritus
Robert Wilson , Associate Professor Emeritus
Adjunct Faculty James Ammerman | james.ammerman@stonybrook.edu
John Bohorquez john.bohorquez@stonybrook.edu
M. Hamish Bowman Michael.Bowman@stonybrook.edu
Michael Cahill mjc@germanocahill.com
Tobey Curtis Tobey.Curtis@noaa.gov
Kathleen Fallon | Kmf228@cornell.edu
William Golden | william.golden@stonybrook.edu
Julia Hathaway | julia.hathaway@stonybrook.edu
Roxanne Karimi | roxanne.karimi@stonybrook.edu
Hyemi Kim | hyemi.kim@stonybrook.edu
Karine Kleinhaus | karine.kleinhaus@stonybrook.edu
Wuyin Lin wuyin.lin@stonybrook.edu
Yangang Liu lyg@bnl.gov
Joyce Novak joyce.novak@stonybrook.edu
Janet Nye janet.nye@stonybrook.edu
Christine O’Connell | christine.oconnell@stonybrook.edu
Stephen Schwartz | stephen.schwartz@stonybrook.edu
Matthew Sclafani matthew.sclafani@stonybrook.edu
Robert Yaro | robert.yaro@stonybrook.edu
