Climate Change Seed Grant Program Winners

Supported by the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost, the Office of the Executive Vice President of Health Sciences, the Office of the Vice President for Research

Below are the winners of the Climate Change Seed Grant Program, created to fund collaborative efforts between climate change researchers at Stony Brook University seeking to apply to externally funded research and training initiatives.

Fei Chen, Department of Pathology, Xinwei Mao, Department of Civil Engineering: Climate change exacerbates environmental 1,4-dioxane contamination and its adverse impact on public health

Brian Colle, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Christine Gilbert, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and School of Communication and Journalism, Susan Brennan, Department of Psychology, Arie Kaufman, Department of Computer Science: Integrating Visualization and a Novel Stakeholder Interaction Approach to Better Protect Our Communities from Climate Change

Manisha Desai, Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Christopher Sellers, Department of History, Kathleen Fallon, Department of Sociology, Linda O'Keeffe, Department of Art: Climate justice through community and arts based research: Building collaborative solutions for marginalized communities on Long Island

Klaus Mueller, Department of Computer Science, Reuben Kline, Department of Political Science, Wenbo Li, School of Communication and Journalism: Adaptive LLM-Driven Communication for Climate Change Mitigation: Targeting Causal Beliefs for Action

Alexander Orlov, Department of  Materials Science and Chemical  Engineering, Rigoberto Burgueno and Marija Krstic, Department of Civil Engineering: New approaches to decarbonizing the US construction and cement industries

Oliver Shipley and Yong Chen, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Gregory Henkes, Department of Geosciences: Assessing ecosystem responses of the Hudson River Estuary, New York, to historical climate change through compound-specific isotope analysis and archival collections accessibility.

Fusheng Wang, Departments of  Biomedical Informatics and Computer Science, Richard Rosenthal, Department of Psychiatry, Jaymie Meliker, Department of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine, Kevin Reed and Minghao Qiu, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences: Building a Comprehensive Repository of Health and Climate Databases to Study the Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health with a Pilot Study on Opioid Overdose