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Atmospheric Division Faculty

Edmund Chang Professor Atmospheric dynamics and diagnoses, climate dynamics, synoptic meteorology	Brian Colle Professor ATM Division Head Extreme weather, coastal meteorology, weather forecasting, regional climate change	Michael French Associate Professor supercell and tornado dynamics; Doppler weather radar applications; mesoscale meteorology	Marvin Geller Research Professor Atmosphere dynamics, stratosphere/mesosphere, climate	Christine Gilbert Assistant Professor science communication, health communication, and crisis and risk communication
Sultan Hameed Professor Climate change: analysis, impacts, and predictability	Marat Khairoutdinov Professor Climate modeling, high-resolution cloud modeling, cloud microphysics and parameterization	Daniel Knopf Professor Climate modelling, atmospheric dynamics	Pavlos Kollias Professor Cloud Microphysics and Dynamics, Environmental Remote Sensing, Radar Meteorology and Technology	Ping Liu Research Professor Climate change, dynamics and modeling;
Israel Lopez-Coto Research Professor pollutant atmospheric transport and turbulent mixing, emissions quantification, air quality and toxic exposure	John Mak 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.	Mariko Oue Research Professor radar polarimetry, mixed-phase clouds microphysics, radar simulators	Minghao Qiu Assistant Professor Air quality; Climate change impacts; Climate change and health; Energy and climate policy evaluations	Kevin Reed Professor Climate Modeling; Climate Change Attribution, Tropical Cyclones; Climate Extremes; Atmospheric Dynamics, Science Policy
Paul Shepson 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	Zhien Wang Professor Empire Innovation Scholar Cloud physics, atmospheric remote sesning, multi-sensor remote sesning, global aerosol and cloud distributions, Airborne Raman lidars	Karina Yager Assistant Professor Climate change impacts; Remote Sensing; Andes; Mountain Societies, and Sustainability Studies	Minghua Zhang Distinguished Professor Climate modelling, atmospheric dynamics

Marine Division Faculty

Bassem Allam Marinetics Endowed Professor in Marine Sciences Marine invertebrate physiology and health, Shellfish Genomics, Aquaculture	Josephine Aller Professor Marine benthic ecology, invertebrate zoology, marine microbiology, biogeochemistry	Robert Aller Distinguished Professor Marine biogeochemistry, marine animal-sediment relations	Steven Beaupré Associate Professor Marine Biogeochemistry, Chemical kinetics of natural organic matter, radiocarbon analyses	David Black Associate Professor Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, deep-sea sediments, marine micropaleontology
Henry Bokuniewicz Distinguished Service Professor Near shore transport processes, coastal groundwater hydrology, coastal sedimentation, marine geophysics	Kurt Bretsch Lecturer Marine and Environmental Science Education, Coastal Community Ecology	Robert Cerrato Professor Benthic ecology, population and community dynamics.	Baoshan Chen Research Assistant Professor Carbon cycling in diverse marine ecosystems; Ocean acidification; Climate change effects; Multi-stressor impacts on coastal ecosystems; Marine carbon dioxide removal; Sensor development;	Yong Chen Professor Fisheries ecology, stock assessment, population and ecosystem dynamics, monitoring program design and optimization, climate change, fisheries management, international fisheries
Jackie Collier Associate Professor Phytoplankton physiological ecology, Biocomplexity and microbial diversity, Planktonic ecosystem processes in marine estuarine and freshwater systems	Ali Farhadzadeh Associate Professor Nearshore hydrodynamics, sediment transport, wave-current-sediment-structure interaction, resilient coastal protection systems, coastal flooding.	Nicholas Fisher Distinguished Professor Marine phytoplankton physiology and ecology, biogeo-chemistry of metals, marine pollution	Charles Flagg Research Professor Continental Shelf Dynamics, Bio-Physical Interactions in Shelf Systems, Climate Change Effects on Coastal Systems, Shipboard ADCPs on Volunteer Observing Ships	Roger Flood Research Professor Marine geology, sediment dynamics, continental margin sedimentation
Michael Frisk Professor Fish ecology, population modeling and life history theory	Christopher Gobler 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	Darcy Lonsdale Professor Ecology and physiology of marine zooplankton; food web dynamics of estuarine plankton and the impacts of harmful algal blooms.	Kamazima Lwiza Associate Professor Structure and dynamics of shelf-seas and remote sensing oceanography	Jack McSweeney Assistant Professor estuarine dynamics, coastal sediment transport, shoaling internal waves, coastal connectivity
Luis Medina Lecturer IDEA Fellow Oceanic distributions of microplastics (MPs) and black carbon (BC) particles, Raman Microspectrospectroscopy	Emmanuelle Pales Espinosa Research Associate Professor Shellfish physiology, Particle selection mechanisms in suspension-feeding bivalves, Algology	Bradley Peterson Associate Professor Community ecology of seagrass dominated ecosystems	Ellen Pikitch Endowed Professor of Ocean Conservation Science Ocean conservation, fisheries management, ecosystem-based approaches, marine protected areas (MPAs), endangered fishes, sharks, sturgeon	Roy Price Assistant Professor Hydrothermal vents, water-rock reactions, toxic metal and metalloid cycling in coastal environments, arsenic bioaccumulation, vent-biota relationships, e.g., redox disequilibria and microbial ecology, and alkaline shallow-sea vents as early Earth analogs
Tara Rider Lecturer Maritime and Environmental History, Sustainability	Carl Safina Carl Safina Endowed Research Chair for Nature and Humanity	Oliver Shipley Research Assistant Professor Bulk and compound specific stable isotope systems, food-webs, ecological niches, community dynamics, ecosystem ecology, energy flow	Gordon Taylor Professor MAR Division Head Microbial oceanography, microbial ecology, planktonic food webs, biogeochemistry, ocean deoxygenation, microplastic contaminants, single cell analysis, novel bioimaging technology - Raman Microspectrospectroscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy	Lesley Thorne Associate Professor Bio-physical and trophic interactions in marine ecology, application of spatial analysis, landscape ecology techniques to marine conservation
Nils Volkenborn Associate Professor Sediment biogeochemistry, animal-sediment interactions, benthic ecology	Joe Warren Associate Professor Acoustical oceanography, Zooplankton behavior and ecology	Laura Wehrmann Associate Professor Marine Biogeochemistry, Geochemical element cycles, Deep Biosphere	Christopher Wolfe Associate Professor Physical oceanography, large-scale circulation: theory and modeling.	Qingzhi Zhu Associate Professor Chem-/Bio- Sensors, Marine Biogeochemistry, Trace Elements, Environmental Analytical Chemistry

Sustainability Division Faculty

Katherine Aubrecht Associate Professor SUS Division Head chemical education, sustainable and green chemistry	Adam Charboneau Lecturer Urban Studies, Local and Global Environmental Histories, Environmental Justice, Human Geography, Sustainability.	Mary Collins Associate Professor Environmental Health Inequality, Environmental Justice, Socio-Environmental Systems, Quantitative Methods, Data Synthesis and Visualization	Donovan Finn Associate Professor community-based planning, disaster recovery, resilience policy, urban design and placemaking	Sara Hamideh Associate Professor disaster recovery, community resilience
Gil Jang Assistant Professor Geospatial Sciences, geographic information systems	Sharon Pochron Associate Professor of Practice ecotoxicology, soil ecology	Tara Rider Lecturer Maritime and Environmental History, Sustainability	David Taylor Associate Professor environmental humanities, history of naturalist studies, American Literature, nature writing

Affiliated Faculty

Stephen Baines | Stephen.Baines@stonybrook.edu | Affiliated Faculty
Aquatic ecosystem ecology, ecological stoichiometry

Gregory Henkes | gregory.henkes@stonybrook.edu | Affiliated Faculty
Stable isotope geochemistry of light elements

Heidi Hutner | heidi.hutner@stonybrook.edu | Affiliated Faculty
Environmental literature and film; ecofeminism; environmental justice; feminism; race studies; women’s literature; Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and culture.

Jeff Levinton | jeffrey.levinton@stonybrook.edu | Affiliated Faculty
Marine benthic ecology, macroevolution

Heather Lynch | heather.lynch@stonybrook.edu | Affiliated Faculty
Development and application of statistics

Dianna Padilla | dianna.padilla@stonybrook.edu | Affiliated Faculty
Aquatic ecology, applied ecology, conservation biology

Elizabeth Watson | elizabeth.b.watson@stonybrook.edu | Affiliated Faculty
Coastal wetlands, climate change, ecohydrology, translational ecology