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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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