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Preliminary Program for Conference on the

"Geology of Long Island and Metropolitan New York"

Saturday April 24, 1999 

Earth and Space Sciences Building - SUNY Stony Brook

 

Companies, agencies, schools, universities and colleges are encouraged to display  promotional or informational material at the conference at no cost. Inform us by April 20, if you would like to have a display.


We can arrange for you to have a poster or table in the lobby. The poster boards are eight foot by four foot.  You may request any fraction of such a poster board.

Links on Authors Name is to e-mail
Links on Title are to Abstract on the Web

Time

Title

Authors

Affiliation

Time

8:30 a.m.

Title

Pick up registration materials and View Posters

Authors

 

Affiliation

 

Time

9:00 a.m.

Title

Introductory Remarks

Authors

G.N. Hanson

Affiliation

SUSB

Time

 

Title

Session Chair

Authors

 

Affiliation

 

Time

9:15

Title

Summer Educational Interns: Training Future Teachers to Utilize the Natural Environment as a Laboratory for Student Research Projects

Authors

Janet L. Niebling
Glenn A. Richard

Affiliation

SUNY Stony Brook

Time

9:30

Title

Techniques of TBM Tunnel Mapping - The Queens Tunnel, NYC

Authors

Charles Merguerian

Affiliation

Hofstra University

Time

9:45

Title

The birth of Iapetus: Geochemical evidence for Late Neoproterozoic rifting from the metaigneous rocks of the Ned Mountain formation, Manhattan Prong

Authors

Pamela Chase Brock
Patrick W.G. Brock

Affiliation

Queens College of CUNY

Time

10:00

Title

Tracing the St. Nicholas Thrust and Cameron's Line Through The Bronx, NYC

Authors

Tyrand Fuller
Lesley Short
Charles Merguerian

Affiliation

Hofstra University

Time

10:15

Title

Preliminary Geophysical Investigation of a Large Scale Magnetic Anomaly in Suffolk County, New York

Authors

Francis D. Winslow III,
Daniel Davis, and
Saad S. B. Haq.

Affiliation

SUNY Stony Brook

Time

10:30

Title

Coffee and View Posters

Authors

 

Affiliation

 

Time

 

Title

Session Chair

Authors

 

Affiliation

 

Time

11:00

Title

Paleocommunities and depositional environments of the Upper Cretaceous Navesink Formation, New Jersey: a report on work-in-progress.

Authors

J Bret Bennington
Jessica Miller
James Bonelli

Affiliation

Hofstra University

Time

11:15

Title

Glaciotectonic Processes and Glacigenic Sediments on Eastern Long Island

Authors

Elliot Klein
Dan Davis

Affiliation

SUNY Stony Brook

Time

11:30

Title

The Hudson Champlain Lobe of the the Laurentide ice sheet and the moraines of western Long Island

Authors

Les Sirkin

Affiliation

Adelphi University

Time

11:45

Title

Pleistocene Sediments Newly Exposed near Dobbs Ferry Metro North RR Station, Westchester County, NY

Authors

John E. Sanders

Affiliation

Hofstra University

Time

12 noon

Title

Lunch and View Posters

Authors

 

Affiliation

 

Time

 

Title

Session Chair

Authors

Frank Castellano

Affiliation

 

Time

1:00

Title

Seismic Stratigraphic Evidence for the Last Glacial Maximum and Post-Glacial Sea Level Rise, Raritan Bay, N.J.

Authors

Stephanie B. Gaswirth, Gail M. Ashley, Robert E. Sheridan

Affiliation

Rutgers University

Time

1:15

Title

An investigation of shoreline dynamics at Shinnecock Inlet, NY

Authors

Brian Batten
Henry Bokuniewicz

Affiliation

SUNY Stony Brook

Time

1:30

Title

Multibeam Mapping in Long Island Coastal Waters

Authors

Roger Flood

Affiliation

SUNY Stony Brook

Time

1:45

Title

Trace metal contaminants in surficial bottom sediments of the Hudson River Estuary

Authors

Fatemeh Sayrafiezadeh and
William Harris

Affiliation

Brooklyn
College

Time

2:00

Title

Much ado about mercury: Evaluation of   treatment options for mercury contaminated soil at BNL

Authors

Paul K. Boyce
Kris Almskog

Affiliation

P.W. Grosser Consult.
Kalogeras & Grosser

Time

2:15

Title

Coffee and View Posters

Authors

 

Affiliation

 

Time

 

Title

Session Chair

Authors

 

Affiliation

 

Time

2:45

Title

Water composition comparisons between deeper portions of the Upper Glacial Aquifer and shallower portions of the Magothy Aquifer in south-central Brookhaven Town (Suffolk County, Long Island)

Authors

David Tonjes

Affiliation

SUNY Stony Brook

Time

3:00

Title

Simulation of the effects of pumping and recharge on ground-water flow and the freshwater/saltwater interface on the North Fork, Long Island, New York

Authors

Chris Schubert
Paul Misut

Richard Bova

Affiliation

USGS Coram, NY
USGS Coram, NY
Suffolk County Water Aurthority

Time

3:15

Title

Summary of U.S. Geological Survey studies of iron geochemistry and microbiology  in the aquifer system on Long Island, New York

Authors

Craig J. Brown
Donald A. Walter
Steven Colabufo

Affiliation

USGS Coram, NY
USGS Marlborough, MA
Suffolk County Water Authority

Time

3:30

Title

Applications of Suffolk County's finite element groundwater model

Authors

Sy Robbins
Mary Anne Taylor

Affiliation

Suffolk Co. Health
CDM

Time

3:45

Title

End of Oral Presentations.   View Posters

Authors

 

Affiliation

 

Time

4:30

Title

End of Conference

Authors

 

Affiliation

 

Time

Poster

Title

Much ado about mercury: Evaluation of   treatment options for mercury contaminated soil @ BNL

Authors

Paul K. Boyce
Kris Almskog

Affiliation

P.W. Grosser Consult.
Kalogeras & Grosser

Time

Poster

Title

Promoting awareness of the interdisciplinary relationships between geology and events in human culture and history

Authors

Gail Bennington
Linda Horowitz
J. Bret Bennington

Affiliation

Oceanside H.S.
Oceanside H.S.
Hofstra University

Time

Poster

Title

Characterization of surface sediments in the Hudson River with the use of Multibeam sonar and sediment analysis

Authors

Vicki Lynn Ferrini
JoAnn Thissen
Flood, Roger D.

Affiliation

SUNY Stony Brook

Time

Poster

Title

Measuring Submarine Groundwater Seepage Using an Ultrasonic Flow Meter and the 'Old Reliable' - A Comparative Study

Authors

Daniel O'Rourke
Ronald J. Paulsen
Teng-fong Wong

Affiliation

SUNY Stony Brook
Suffolk Co. Health Services
SUNY Stony Brook

Time

Poster

Title

GIS-based shoreline recession analysis on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan

Authors

W. W. Montgomery1
R.B. Chase2,
A.E. Kehew2
G.P. Anderson2

Affiliation

1New Jersey City University
2Western Michigan University

Time

Poster

Title

Fate of nitrogen in a ponded recharge basin

Authors

Michelle Pizzulli
Gilbert N. Hanson

Affiliation

SUNY Stony Brook

Time

Poster

Title

Lunar Cycles - 1999

Authors

John E. Sanders

Affiliation

Hofstra University

Time

Poster

Title

Evidence of Glaciotectonic Phenomena in a North Shore Coastal Bluff at Nissequogue, Long Island, New York

Authors

Linda Selvaggio
Glenn A. Richard

Affiliation

SUNY Stony Brook

Time

Poster

Title

The Gamma Forest at Brookhaven National Laboratory: A model for depicting geobotanical data.

Authors

Nick Superina

Affiliation

Smithown H.S. - SCC Summer Field Program

Time

Poster

Title

Ground-water flow modeling at the Port Washington L-4 Landfill superfund site

Authors

Keith A. White
Michael J. Gefell
Scott T. Saroff

Affiliation

Blasland, Bouck & Lee, Inc.