Message from the Dean

The School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) is the State University of New York's center for marine and atmospheric research, education, and public service. More than 200 graduate and undergraduate students from 16 different nations currently work and study at SoMAS. The Center's students study coastal oceanographic processes and atmospheric sciences in a natural and academic setting that offers abundant opportunities for conducting field work, solving real problems in both local and distant environments, and learning to express their opinions in the weekly seminars.

The SoMAS faculty are internationally known for their leadership in research in both the atmospheric sciences and all the major disciplines of oceanography-biological, chemical, geological, and physical, and also atmospheric sciences.

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The expertise of SoMAS faculty places them in the forefront in addressing and answering questions about immediate regional problems, as well as long-term problems relating to the global oceans and atmosphere. The primary focus of the SoMAS faculty and students is on fundamental research designed to increase understanding of the processes that characterize the coastal ocean and the atmosphere. But the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences is also committed to the applying research to solve problems that result from society's uses and misuses of the environment.

Page last modified on Friday, January 25, 2008 by George E. Carroll