Atmospheric and Geological Sciences Department

While the SUNY Oswego family is well aware of what lake-effect snow is, a campus grant will enhance a federal funding for student-faculty research on a more large-scale effect involving Arctic air.

Two SUNY Oswego students will advance to a statewide business plan competition after recent success in the CNY Competes regional event.

SUNY Oswego senior meteorology major Daniel Maslowski won this year’s Launch It student entrepreneurship competition with an idea to save lives and resources.

Dave Valentino’s “Physical Geology” course is intended to provide a foundation for future geologists. This semester’s course has probed the past around campus while making the present more meaningful for students.

Academic excellence and a range of involvement have earned Kari Henry of Brooklyn the Oswego Alumni Association’s 2020 Outstanding Senior Award.

SUNY Oswego honored two faculty members with the Award of Excellence in Research and Sponsored Programs, based on outstanding dedication to seek and obtain external funding, and the cumulative funds in which they have received.

A team of researchers from SUNY Oswego and four other colleges and universities recently earned a National Science Foundation grant to study water levels over the last 150,000 years in two of North America's driest places, Death Valley and another dry lakebed in Southern California's Mohave Desert, Searles Lake.

The devastation SUNY Oswego geology major Kimberly Smith saw as a volunteer last summer helping with cleanup at Sandy Island State Park drove her to study the impact of high water levels on wildlife habitat in the environmentally unique dunes of eastern Lake Ontario.

Digging deep underground is helping some SUNY Oswego students see soil in a new light. SUNY Oswego News student reporter Krystal Cole has the dirt on this hands-on effort.