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Post Graduation Struggles and Surprises : A short essay on finding a real job...

  Cory Tiger graduated in May 2015 with a degree in environmental humanities and anthropology. I’ve been out of school for a little over a year now. After graduating I endured a journey of liminality,...

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Coffee with Hx2: Eban Goodstein

Join Heidi Hutner in this interview with Eban Goodstein; Economist, author, and public educator who directs both the Center for Environmental Policy and the MBA in Sustainability at Bard College. He...

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Coffee with Hx2: Antonia Juhasz

Join Heidi Hutner in this interview with Antonia Juhasz; leading energy analyst, author, and investigative journalist specializing in oil. An award-winning writer, her articles appear in Newsweek,...

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Coffee with Hx2: Colin Beavan

Join us in this interview with Colin Beavan; the world’s best known spokespeople on environmental issues, consumerism and human quality of life. He was called “one of the ten most influential men” by...

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Coffee with Hx2: Wahleah Johns

Join Heidi Hutner in this interview with Wahleah Jones; employee of Black Mesa Water Coalition, a nonprofit organization working toward building healthy and sustainable communities on Navajo Nation...

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Coffee with Hx2: Dr. John Warner

Join Heidi Hutner in this interview with Dr.John Warner; Green Chemist, about the need for “safe” and non-toxic green chemistry, and safe products. He calls for the re-education of chemistry students...

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Coffee with Hx2: Courtney Williams

Join Heidi Hutner in this interview with Courtney Williams; cancer researcher who brings over a decade of experience and the molecular mechanisms of disease to parse the emerging data on the health...

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Coffee with Hx2: Ellen Weininger

Join us in this interview with Ellen Weininger; Director Educational Outreach at Grassroots Environmental Education.

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Coffee with Hx2: Kristen Iversen

Join Heidi Hutner in this interview with Kristen Iversen; author of the acclaimed book, Full Body Burden. They discuss Full Body Burden, a nonfiction investigative memoir about Rocky Flats, a...

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Sustainability Studies Alum Presents Undergraduate GIS Project at ESRI...

From Justin Fehntrich, Coastal Environmental Studies, 2016 alum Last fall while taking an introductory GIS course here at Stony Brook I produced a final research project that I was pretty happy with....

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EDP Student Examines the 2016 Election

In Dr. Jim Quigley‘s SBC 308 – American Environmental Politics course, students are tasked to compose a 500 word Op-Ed.  Soo Hyun Ahn, a Junior Environmental Design, Policy and Planning student in the...

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SoMAS 2016 Retrospective Banquet

Many thanks for those that joined us on December 14, 2016 for our Holiday Retrospective with great food and people. The highlight was when Santa arrived and the little ones all got a ride with him. A...

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SBU Mentors 21 Regeneron Finalists

Photo above: Regeneron Science Talent Search finalist Caitlin Gormley from Sayville Highschool standing with her GIS project Long Island as a region produced a total of 58 first-round prizewinners in...

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Worm Lab Research Discovers Crumb Rubber Contains Heavy Metals

Chemosphere, a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on environmental contaminants, has published a paper from the Sustainability Studies Earthworm Ecotoxicology Lab: Pochron, S., Fiorenza, A., Sperl, C.,...

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SoMAS Undergraduates Participate in URECA Festival

The UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH & CREATIVE ACTIVITIES (URECA) program, founded in 1987, awards research funding and travel grants to undergraduates, and is a central point of contact for students and...

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Update from Sustainability Studies Students in Graduate School

Kathryn Norman and Shannon Grogan attended the 46th annual Benthic Ecology Conference in Myrtle Beach, SC on the weekend of April 14th where they both presented posters on their research. They were so...

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SoMAS Celebrates Earthstock 2017

Earthstock, the Stony Brook University annual celebration of Earth Day, has been an annual tradition for years.  This year, in honor of our 50th Anniversary, SoMAS had a very significant presence at...

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Coffee with Hx2: Eban Goodstein

Join Heidi Hutner in this interview with Eban Goodstein; Economist, author, and public educator who directs both the Center for Environmental Policy and the MBA in Sustainability at Bard College. He...

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Worm Lab Students Bring Their Research to Miller Place High School

After four semesters of research, students from the Sustainability Studies Earthworm Ecotoxicology Lab under the mentorship of Sharon Pochron were ready to discuss their findings with the public. The...

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The Risk of Saying Nothing

“The Risk of Saying Nothing” Environmental Media Conference On Friday October 13th, join us to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences as...

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