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Program for the conference on
"Geology of Long Island and Metropolitan New York"

The following program is subject to minor changes.

Saturday April 12, 2003

Earth and Space Sciences Building, SUNY Stony Brook

Directions to SUNY Stony Brook and ESS Department

Registration Information

Modified June 08, 2007

Summary of Program

8:30 a.m. Register and View Posters
9:00 a.m. Introduction
9:15 a.m. Oral Presentations
9:45 a.m.  Two minute oral summaries by Poster Presenters and lab tour leaders
Questions and Comments from Audience
10:30 a.m. Coffee and View Posters
11:00 a.m. Oral Presentations
12:00 Noon Lunch, View Posters
12:45 p.m. Visit Labs, Field Trips
1:30 p.m. Oral presentations
2:30 p.m. Coffee, View Posters, Visit Labs, Field Trips
3:00 p.m. Oral Presentations
4:00 p.m.  45 minute Field Trips

Field Trips and Lab Tours

Bring an Umbrella for the Field Trips in Case of Rain!

  Leaders Meet  12:45 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
Crystallography Lab Tour Aaron Celestian 343 X X  
Isotope Lab Tour Jenna Cole 317 X X  
Boulder Field Trip Wal Pacholik 001 X X  
Soil Water Field Trip Jennie Munster 001 X X  
Long Island DEM Field Trip Bret Bennington 331 X X  
Loess Field Trip Vesna Kundic 001 X X  
Glacial Tectonics Field Trip Gil Hanson 001     X
Hydrology Field Trip Mary Elefante 001     X


To Long Island Geologists Web Page

Companies, agencies, schools, universities and colleges are encouraged to display promotional or informational material at the conference at no cost.
Inform us by April 7, if you would like to have a display.

There is an e-mail link to the author(s). 
The link on the title goes to the abstract on the web. 

 Some of the web sites are fairly large. Be patient while they download.

Time

Title

Authors

Affiliation

8:30
 a.m.
Registration, Coffee, View Posters    
9:00 Introduction Gilbert N. Hanson Stony Brook Univ.
9:15 A Field Course to Improve Student Performance and Scientific Interest in Applied Hydrology Shafiul H. Chowdhury Queens College
9:30 New applications of Quick Time Virtual Reality (QTVR) in geological education  J Bret Bennington
Charles Merguerian
Hofstra University 
9:45 Summary of Presentations by Poster Presenters
Descriptions of Lab Tours and Field Trips by leaders
   
10:30  Coffee, View Posters    
11:00 Benthic Habitat Mapping in the Peconic Bays

 

Roger D. Flood 
Robert Cerrato,
Steven Goodbred
Nicole Maher
Michelle Arlotta
Laurie Zaleski
Stony Brook Univ.
11:15 Impact of Geology and Geophysics on the Channel Improvement Project of New York Harbor
Robert Fleming
William Murphy
William, Beckett Boyd
Gary Fleming
Stephanie Beda
W. Bruce Ward
Ben A. Baker
Earthworks LLC
Earthworks LLC
Earthworks LLC
Earthworks LLC
Earthworks LLC
Earthworks LLC
US Army Corps of Engineers
11:30 Late Pleistocene sequence geometry beneath the Long Island shelf from Chirp sonar data Ghosh, A.
Christie-Blick, N.
Mountain, G.S.
McHugh, C.M.G.
Pekar, S.F.
Columbia Univ.
Columbia Univ.
Rutgers Univ
Queens College
Columbia Univ.
11:45 Sea level and Salt Marshes. Can local hydrodynamics modify global trends? Alexander S. Kolker
Tamara Kroboth
Steven Goodbred
J.Kirk Cochran
Stony Brook Univ.
12:00 Lunch, View Posters    
12:45 View Posters, Field Trips    
1:15 The Importance of Chemical Reactions in Subterranean Estuaries: The Concentrations of Trace metals and Nutrients in Submarine Groundwater Seepage at West Neck Bay, Long Island, New York Tsukamoto, Y. Saņudo-Wilhelmy, S.A. 
Bokuniewicz, H.
Taylor, G.T.
Stony Brook Univ.
1:30 The impact of ground water on the circulation within Great South Bay: A preliminary model study Charles N. Flagg
ChangSheng Chen
 Hedong Liu
BNL
U Mass Dartmouth
U Mass Dartmouth
1:45 Groundwater Head Measurements in South-Central Suffolk County, NY 1975-2001 David J. Tonjes
Russell J. Wetjen
Cashin Associates
Cashin Associates
2:00 A SUTRA Model of Seawater Intrusion in Western Long Island, New York P.E. Misut1 
W. Yulinsky
2 
D. Cohen
3
D. St. Germain
3 
C. I. Voss
1 
J. Monti Jr.
1

1 U.S.G.S

2 N.Y.C. D.E.P. 

3 Malcolm Pirnie 

 

2:15 New observations on the glacial geomorphology of Long Island from a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) J Bret Bennington  Hofstra University
2:30  View Posters, Field Trips, Lab Tours    
3:00 The Narrows flood – Post-Woodfordian meltwater breach through the Narrows channel, NYC  Charles Merguerian  Hofstra University 
3:15 Age and provenance of loess at Wildwood State Park Vesna Kundic
Gilbert N. Hanson
Sidney Hemming 
Stony Brook Univ.
Stony Brook Univ.
Columbia Univ.
3:30 Petrography, trace element mapping and U-Pb systematics in Triassic tufa calcite of the Newark Basin Troy Rasbury
Jessica Neinstedt
Carol deWet
Antonio Lanzirotti
Stony Brook Univ.
Stony Brook Univ.
Franklin & Marshall
BNL
4:00 Field Trips    
Poster A geochemical study to determine the sources of nitrate in the groundwater of Suffolk County, Long Island, NY Jennie Munster
Gilbert N. Hanson

Henry Bokuniewicz
Stony Brook Univ.
Poster History and hydrogeologic effects of ground-water use in Kings, Queens, and western Nassau Counties, Long Island, New York, 1800's through 1997 Richard A. Cartwright USGS Coram
Poster Groundwater Remediation Projects at Brookhaven National
Laboratory
Doug Paquette
and others
BNL
Poster Open Loop Geothermal Well Systems on Long Island Paul K. Boyce, P.E.
Doreen Fitzsimmons
P.W. Grosser
Poster Formation and Geomorphology of Long Beach and Short Beach Matthew Cons
J. Maxwell Gutman
Smithtown High School/Suffolk Community College Summer Field Program
Poster The Quaternary Geology of Newark Bay and Kill Van Kull Channel, New York and New Jersey  Stephanie Beda
W. Bruce Ward
William Murphy
Robert Fleming
Gary Fleming
Beckett Boyd
Ben A. Baker
Earthworks LLC
Earthworks LLC
Earthworks LLC
Earthworks LLC
Earthworks LLC
Earthworks LLC
US Army Corps of Engineers
Poster Mercury and Gamma Spectra Measurements for Federal Superfund Stockpile Soils

Tracy Smith

Michelle Pizzulli

B.S. Bowerman, 

J.W. Adams

P.D. Kalb

A. Lockwood

Geneane Walsh

P.W. Grosser 
P.W. Grosser 
BNL
BNL
BNL
BNL
Richard Stockton
Poster Till South of the Ronkonkoma Moraine Charles King
Lance Mion
Waldemar Pacholik
Gilbert N. Hanson
Longwood HS
Riverhead HS
Central Islip HS
Poster Clast fabric in a Stony Brook campus moraine: 
Testing models for the process of glacial lobe dynamics
Jennifer DePaoli
Charles Regulinski
Josh Timlin
Dan Davis
Elliot Klein
Troy Rasbury
Stony Brook Univ.

Directions to SUNY Stony Brook and ESS Building

From exit 62 of the Long Island Expressway (LIE, I-495) follow Nicolls Road (Route 97) north for nine miles. Pass the South and Main entrances to the University.

The Earth and Space Sciences building is the large concrete building at the northeast end of the parking lot. 

Map of campus is on the web at: www.sunysb.edu/doit/maps.html


Long Island Geologists
Earth and Space Sciences Building
S.U.N.Y.
Stony Brook, New York 11794-2100

Tel.: 631 632 8200; Fax: 631 632 8240

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