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Stony Brook University
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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
Research Professors
Baoshan Chen | baoshan.chen@stonybrook.edu
Carbon cycling in diverse marine ecosystems; Ocean acidification; Climate change effects;
Sensor development;
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
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
Oliver Shipley | oliver.shipley@stonybrook.edu
Bulk and compound specific stable isotope systems, food-webs, ecological niches, community
dynamics, ecosystem ecology, energy flow
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
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
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
Sara Hamideh | sara.hamideh@stonybrook.edu
disaster recovery and community resilience
Kamazima Lwiza | Kamazima.Lwiza@stonybrook.edu
Structure and dynamics of shelf-seas and remote sensing oceanography
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.
Brad Peterson | Bradley.Peterson@stonybrook.edu
Community ecology of seagrass dominated ecosystems
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
Chris Gobler | Christopher.Gobler@stonybrook.edu
Coastal ecosystem ecology, climate change, harmful algal blooms, phytoplankton, ocean
acidification
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
Endowed Professors
Bassem Allam | bassem.allam@stonybrook.edu
Marinetics Endowed Professorship in Marine Science
Chris Gobler | Christopher.Gobler@stonybrook.edu
Endowed Chair of Coastal Ecology and Conservation
Ellen Pikitch | Ellen.Pikitch@stonybrook.edu
Endowed Professorship of Ocean Conservation Science
Carl Safina | Csafina@safinacenter.org
Carl Safina Endowed Research Chair for Nature and Humanity
Emeritus Faculty
Robert Armstrong, Associate Professor Emeritus
Malcolm Bowman, Professor Emeritus
Bruce Brownawell, Associate Professor Emeritus
Edward Carpenter, Professor Emeritus
J. Kirk Cochran, Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Roger Flood, Professor Emeritus
Jane Fox, Professor Emeritus
Marvin Geller, Professor Emeritus
Cindy Lee, Distinguished 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
Charles Wurster, Associate Professor Emeritus
Adjunct Lecturers
Mirza Beg | mirza.beg@stonybrook.edu
Kimberly Durham | kdurham@amseas.org
Steve Englebright
James Gilmore | james.gilmore@stonybrook.edu
Arthur Kopelman | president@cresli.org
Maxine Montello | mmontello@nymarinerescue.org
Richard Murdocco | richard.j.murdocco@stonybrook.edu
Michael White | mwhite@wintersbros.com
Adjunct Faculty
James Ammerman | james.ammerman@stonybrook.edu
M. Hamish Bowman | Michael.Bowman@stonybrook.edu
Michael Cahill | mjc@germanocahill.com
Nolwenn Dheilly | nolwenn.dheilly@stonybrook.edu
Anthony Dvarskas | anthony.dvarskas@stonybrook.edu
Huan Feng | fengh@mail.montclair.edu
William Golden | william.golden@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
Stephan Munch | steve.munch@noaa.gov
Joyce Novak | joyce.novak@stonybrook.edu
Janet Nye | janet.nye@stonybrook.edu
Christine O’Connell | christine.oconnell@stonybrook.edu
Nicole Riemer | nriemer@uiuc.edu
Keith Roberts | keith.roberts@stonybrook.edu
Frank Roethel | frank.roethel@stonybrook.edu
Stephen Schwartz | stephen.schwartz@stonybrook.edu
Matthew Sclafani | matthew.sclafani@stonybrook.edu
Arjun Venkatesan | Arjun.Venkatesan@stonybrook.edu
Andrew Vogelman | vogelmann@bnl.gov
Robert Yaro | robert.yaro@stonybrook.edu