People | School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences

Staff

Stephen Abrams | stephen.abram@stonybrook.edu
Facility Manager, Flax Pond Marine Laboratory

Maha Alnajjar | maha.alnajjar@stonybrook.edu
Technician

Caitlin Asato | caitlin.asato@stonybrook.edu
Research Scientist

Dominique Barone | dominique.barone@stonybrook.edu
Assistant Director for Administration and Grants

Betsy Barrows | elisabeth.barrows@stonybrook.edu
MOU Administrator

Nancy Black | Nancy.Black@stonybrook.edu
Undergraduate Advisor

Jade Blennau | jade.blennau@stonybrook.edu
Program Support Specialist, PEP

David Bowman | david.bowman@stonybrook.edu
Fleet Captain

Hilary Brooks | hilary.brooks@stonybrook.edu
Center Administrator, CCWT

Sara Cernadas-Martin | sara.cernadas@stonybrook.edu
Water Quality Program Manager, PEP

Ginny Clancy | ginny.clancy@stonybrook.edu
Educational Programs Coordinator

Scott Convery | scott.convery@stonybrook.edu
Fleet Captain

Michael Doall | michael.doall@stonybrook.edu
Associate Director for Bivalve Restoration

Courtney Ferland | courtney.ferland@stonybrook.edu
Staff Assistant, Southampton

Christina Fink | christina.fink@stonybrook.edu
Education Programs Assistant

Michael Fogg | michael.fogg@stonybrook.edu
Technician

Brian Gagliardi | brian.gagliardi@stonybrook.edu
Vessels Captain and Fleet Manager

Kaitlin Giglio | kaitlin.giglio@stonybrook.edu
Assistant Director, Marine Conservation and Policy Program

Chris Harter | christian.harter@stonybrook.edu
Port Captain

Christina Heilbrun | christina.heilbrun@stonybrook.edu
Research Scientist

John Holden | john.holden@stonybrook.edu
Deckhand and Small Vessel Captain

John Juntunen | john.juntunen@stonybrook.edu
Deckhand and Small Vessel Captain

Kim Knoll | kim.knoll@stonybrook.edu
Staff Assistant, Marine Resources Advisory Council

Mark Lang | mark.lang@stonybrook.edu
Senior Systems Engineer

Maria Mann | maria.mann@stonybrook.edu
Grants Coordinator

Stefanie Massucci | stefanie.massucci@stonybrook.edu
Senior Assistant Dean

Kathryn Marino | kathryn.marino@stonybrook.edu
Marine Laboratory Technician

Michael Mason | michael.j.mason@stonybrook.edu
Fleet Captain

Tyler Menz | tyler.menz@stonybrook.edu
Technician

Lucas Merlo | lucas.merlo@stonybrook.edu
Instrument Technician

Maureen Murphy | maureen.m.murphy@stonybrook.edu
Project Coordinator, CIDER

Joyce Novak | joyce.novak@stonybrook.edu
Executive Director, PEP

Chris Paparo | christopher.paparo@stonybrook.edu
Facility Manager, Southampton Marine Sciences Center

Steve Ortega | steve.ortega@stonybrook.edu
Staff Assistant to the Dean

Frank Russo | frank.russo.3@stonybrook.edu
Program Manager, CCWT

Christine Santora | christine.santora@stonybrook.edu
Assistant Director for Policy and Outreach, IOCS

Willa Schultz | willa.schultz@stonybrook.edu
Facility Manager, South Campus

Jason Schweitzer | jason.schweitzer@stonybrook.edu
Deckhand and Small Vessel Captain

Erica Shannon | erica.shannon@stonybrook.edu
Accounts Assistant

Levi Silvers | levi.silvers@stonybrook.edu
Research Scientist

Arjun Venkatesan | Arjun.Venkatesan@stonybrook.edu
Associate Director for Drinking Water Initiatives, CCWT

Barry Volson | barry.volson@stonybrook.edu
Natural Resources Program Manager, PEP

Valerie Virgona | Valerie.virgona@stonybrook.edu
Outreach Coordinator, PEP

Trish Volz | patricia.volz@stonybrook.edu
Staff Assistant, Atmospheric Sciences Division

Karen Warren | karen.warren@stonybrook.edu
Assistant to the Director, CIDER

Stuart Waugh | stuart.waugh@stonybrook.edu
Research Scientist, CCWT

Thomas Wilson | thomas.wilson@stonybrook.edu
Instrument Engineer

Elena Yakubovskaya | elena.yakubovskaya@stonybrook.edu
Research Scientist

Joshua Zacharias | joshua.zacharias@stonybrook.edu
Technician

Tatiana Zaliznyak | tatiana.zaliznyak@stonybrook.edu
Technician

Shelagh Zegers | shelagh.zegers@stonybrook.edu
Technician

Research Professors

Charles Flagg | Charles.Flagg@stonybrook.edu
Continental Shelf Dynamics, Bio-Physical Interactions in Shelf Systems, Climate Change Effects on Coastal Systems, Shipboard ADCPs on Volunteer Observing Ships

Roger Flood | Roger.Flood@stonybrook.edu
Marine geology, sediment dynamics, continental margin sedimentation

Marvin Geller | marvin.geller@stonybrook.edu
Atmosphere dynamics, stratosphere/mesosphere, climate

Karine Kleinhaus | karine.kleinhaus@stonybrook.edu
Coral reproduction, hormonal signalling, gametogenesis, reef conservation, coral aging and senescence

Ping Liu | ping.liu@stonybrook.edu
Climate change, dynamics and modeling;

Israel Lopez-Coto | israel.lopez-coto@stonybrook.edu
pollutant atmospheric transport and turbulent mixing, emissions quantification, air quality and toxic exposure

Mariko Oue | mariko.oue@stonybrook.edu
Research Scientist

Emmanuelle Pales-Espinosa | emmanuelle.palesespinosa@stonybrook.edu
Shellfish physiology, Particle selection mechanisms in suspension-feeding bivalves, Algology

Roy Price | roy.price@stonybrook.edu
Hydrothermal vents, water-rock reactions, toxic metal & metalloid cycling in coastal environments, arsenic bioaccumulation, vent-biota relationships, and alkaline shallow-sea vents

Arjun Venkatesan | Arjun.Venkatesan@stonybrook.edu
contaminants of emerging concern, water treatment, environmental analytical chemistry, wastewater-based epidemiology

Affiliated Faculty

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

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

Heidi Hutner | heidi.hutner@stonybrook.edu
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
Marine benthic ecology, macroevolution

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

Carrie McDonough | carrie.mcdonough@stonybrook.edu
environmental organic chemistry, environmental engineering, and public health

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

Lecturers

Kurt Bretsch | kurt.bretsch@stonybrook.edu
Marine and Environmental Science Education, Coastal Community Ecology

Adam Charboneau | adam.charboneau@stonybrook.edu
Sustainability Studies

Tara Rider | tara.rider@stonybrook.edu
Maritime and Environmental History, Sustainability

Assistant Professors

Donovan Finn | donovan.finn@stonybrook.edu
community-based planning, disaster recovery, resilience policy, urban design and placemaking

Christine Gilbert | Christine.gilbert.1@stonybrook.edu
science communication, health communication, and crisis and risk communication

Sara Hamideh | sara.hamideh@stonybrook.edu
disaster recovery and community resilience

Sung-Gheel Jang | SungGheel.Jang@stonybrook.edu
Geospatial Sciences and geographic information systems

Jack McSweeney | jack.mcsweeney@stonybrook.edu
estuarine dynamics, coastal sediment transport, shoaling internal waves, coastal connectivity

David Taylor | david.j.taylor@stonybrook.edu
environmental humanities, history of naturalist studies, American Literature, nature writing

Karina Yager | karina.yager@stonybrook.edu
Climate change impacts; Remote Sensing; Andes; Mountain Societies, and Sustainability Studies

Associate Professors of Service

Sharon Pochron | sharon.pochron@stonybrook.edu
ecotoxicology and soil ecology

Associate Professors

Katherine Aubrecht | katherine.aubrecht@stonybrook.edu
chemical education, sustainable and green chemistry

Steven Beaupré | steven.beaupre@stonybrook.edu
Marine Biogeochemistry, Chemical kinetics of natural organic matter, radiocarbon analyses

David Black | David.Black@stonybrook.edu
Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, deep-sea sediments, marine micropaleontology

Jackie Collier | Jackie.Collier@stonybrook.edu
Phytoplankton physiological ecology; Biocomplexity and microbial diversity; Planktonic ecosystem processes in marine, estuarine, and freshwater systems

Mary Collins | mary.collins@stonybrook.edu
Environmental Health Inequality, Environmental Justice, Socio-Environmental Systems, Quantitative Methods, Data Synthesis and Visualization

Ali Farhadzadeh | ali.farhadzadeh@stonybrook.edu
Nearshore hydrodynamics, resilient coastal protection systems, coastal flooding

Michael French | michael.m.french@stonybrook.edu
supercell and tornado dynamics; Doppler weather radar applications; mesoscale meteorology

Hyemi Kim | hyemi.kim@stonybrook.edu
low frequency climate variability, tropical meteorology, ocean-atmosphere interaction, prediction and predictability, tropical cyclone activity, extreme events

Kamazima Lwiza | Kamazima.Lwiza@stonybrook.edu
Structure and dynamics of shelf-seas and remote sensing oceanography

Brad Peterson | Bradley.Peterson@stonybrook.edu
Community ecology of seagrass dominated ecosystems

Kevin Reed | kevin.reed@stonybrook.edu
Climate Modeling; Climate Change Attribution, Tropical Cyclones; Climate Extremes; Atmospheric Dynamics, Science Policy

Lesley Thorne | lesley.thorne@stonybrook.edu
Bio-physical and trophic interactions in marine ecology; application of spatial analysis and landscape ecology techniques to marine conservation

Nils Volkenborn | nils.volkenborn@stonybrook.edu
Sediment biogeochemistry, animal-sediment interactions, benthic ecology

Joe Warren | Joe.Warren@stonybrook.edu
Acoustical oceanography, Zooplankton behavior and ecology

Laura Wehrmann | laura.wehrmann@stonybrook.edu
Marine Biogeochemistry, Geochemical element cycles, Deep Biosphere

Christopher Wolfe | christopher.wolfe@stonybrook.edu
Physical oceanography, large-scale circulation: theory and modeling.

Qingzhi Zhu | Qing.Zhu@stonybrook.edu
Chem-/Bio- Sensors, Marine Biogeochemistry, Trace Elements, Environmental Analytical Chemistry

Professors

Josephine Aller | Josephine.Aller@stonybrook.edu
Marine benthic ecology, invertebrate zoology,marine microbiology, biogeochemistry

Robert Cerrato | Robert.Cerrato@stonybrook.edu
Benthic ecology, population and community dynamics.

Edmund Chang | Kar.Chang@stonybrook.edu
Atmospheric dynamics and diagnoses, climate dynamics, synoptic meteorology

Yong Chen | yong.chen.2@stonybrook.edu
Fisheries ecology; stock assessment; population and ecosystem dynamics; monitoring program design and optimization; climate change; fisheries management; international fisheries

Brian Colle | Brian.Colle@stonybrook.edu
Extreme weather, coastal meteorology, weather forecasting, regional climate change

Michael Frisk | Michael.Frisk@stonybrook.edu
Fish ecology, population modeling and life history theory

Sultan Hameed | Sultan.Hameed@stonybrook.edu
Climate change: analysis, impacts, and predictability

Marat Khairoutdinov | Marat.Khairoutdinov@stonybrook.edu
Climate modeling, high-resolution cloud modeling, cloud microphysics and parameterization

Daniel Knopf | daniel.knopf@stonybrook.edu
Atmospheric Chemistry, Microphysics and Chemistry of Atmospheric Aerosols, Heterogeneous Atmospheric Chemistry and Kinetics

Pavlos Kollias | pavlos.kollias@stonybrook.edu
Cloud Microphysics and Dynamics, Environmental Remote Sensing, Radar Meteorology and Technology

Darcy Lonsdale | Darcy.Lonsdale@stonybrook.edu
Ecology and physiology of marine zooplankton; food web dynamics of estuarine plankton and the impacts of harmful algal blooms.

John Mak| John.Mak@stonybrook.edu
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.

Gordon Taylor | Gordon.Taylor@stonybrook.edu
Marine microbiology, interests in microbial ecology, trophodynamics, anoxia, hypoxia, single-cell analysis, Raman microspectrometry and atomic force microscopy

Distinguished Professors

Robert Aller | Robert.Aller@stonybrook.edu
Marine biogeochemistry, marine animal-sediment relations.

Nicholas Fisher | Nicholas.Fisher@stonybrook.edu
Marine phytoplankton physiology and ecology, biogeo-chemistry of metals, marine pollution

Paul Shepson | paul.shepson@stonybrook.edu
Atmospheric Chemistry and climate change; Aviation; Arctic and coastal halogen chemistry; greenhouse gas source and sink measurements; atmospheric aerosols; climate change communications

Minghua Zhang | Minghua.Zhang@stonybrook.edu
Climate modelling, atmospheric dynamics

Distinguished Service Professors

Henry Bokuniewicz | Henry.Bokuniewicz@stonybrook.edu
Near shore transport processes, coastal groundwater hydrology, coastal sedimentation, marine geophysics