Stony Brook-led study reveals summer heatwaves and low dissolved oxygen prove deadly for northern bay scallops as fishery collapses in New York. STONY BROOK, NY, January 19, 2023 – A new study by Stony Brook University researchers published in Global Change Biology demonstrates that warming waters and heat waves have contributed to the loss of an economically and culturally important fishery, the production of bay scallops. As climate change intensifies, heat waves are becoming more and more common across the globe. In the face of such repeated events, animals will acclimate, migrate, or perish. Since 2019, consecutive summer mass die-offs of bay scallops in the Peconic Estuary on Long Island, New York, have led to the collapse of the bay scallop fishery in New York and the declaration of a federal fishery disaster, with landings down more than 99 percent. This study led by Stony Brook School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) graduate, Stephen Tomasetti, PhD, currently
Stony Brook-led Study Reveals Summer Heatwaves and Low Dissolved Oxygen Contributed to Fishery Collapse A new study by Stony Brook University researchers published in Global Change Biology demonstrates that warming waters and heat waves have contributed to the loss of an economically and culturally important fishery, the production of bay scallops. As climate change intensifies, heat waves are becoming more and more common across the globe. In the face of such repeated events, animals will acclimate, migrate or perish. Since 2019, consecutive summer mass die-offs of bay scallops in the Peconic Estuary on Long Island, New York, have led to the collapse of the bay scallop fishery in New York and the declaration of a federal fishery disaster, with landings down more than 99 percent. This study led by Stony Brook School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) graduate, Stephen Tomasetti, currently visiting assistant professor of environmental studies at Hamilton College, and Stony
Marine scientists' letter in the journal Science urges preservation of one of the last coral refuges from climate change STONY BROOK, NY, November 10, 2022 – An international group of marine scientists led by Karine Kleinhaus, of Stony Brook University's School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS), has published a letter in Science that is a call to action for policy makers, government agencies and ocean conservation groups to take major steps to preserve Egypt's 1800 km of coral reefs – a massive section of the Red Sea's reef system. Egypt's reefs generate billions of dollars annually from tourism and tourism-related commerce. The reefs of the northern Red Sea are especially valuable as they constitute one of the world's few marine refuges from climate change. Almost the entire western coastline of this refuge lies within Egypt. Although these reefs can tolerate the rising sea temperatures that are decimating reefs elsewhere, they
Three members of the Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences are featured in WNBC New York's digital four-part series on climate change