Stony Brook Researchers Use Satellites to Track What Penguins Eat from Space
Stony Brook University researchers are using satellite images of Adélie penguin colonies and their guano to determine what they eat and how changes in sea ice are affecting the Antarctic’s...Read More
Tara Smiley Named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow for Early-Career Research
Tara Smiley, an assistant professor in Stony Brook University’s Department of Ecology and Evolution in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow. The...Read More
Could Extinct Species Save Today’s Forests? Scientist Makes the Case for Darwin Day
Darwin Day at The State University of New York at Stony Brook serves as a reminder that “evolutionary thinking is the bedrock of our understanding of the living world.” This...Read More
How the Incredible Shrinking Shrew Adapts to Winter
Some mammals hibernate to survive in winter, but the Eurasian common shrew (Sorex araneus) employs Dehnel’s phenomenon to get through it. This is a metabolic process that enables shrews to...Read More
International Team Reports Large Human Impacts from Extreme Weather Events in the Amazon
Researchers call for action on reporting, mitigation and adaptation A new study published in Environmental Research Letters and conducted by an international team supported in part by the Fulbright Amazonia Program reveals thousands of disasters...Read More
Tara Smiley Wins NSF CAREER Award to Unlock Small-Mammal Fossil Record
Tara Smiley, assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Ecology and Evolution, has received the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for her project, “Unlocking the small-mammal...Read More
