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 Program for Conference on the

"Geology of Long Island and Metropolitan New York"

Saturday April 15, 2000 

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 Tuesday April 11, 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.

 

Detailed Program

Link on Author's Name is to e-mail
Link on Title is to Abstract on the Web

Time

Title

Authors

Affiliation

Time

8:30 a.m.

Title

Register and View Posters

Authors

 

Affiliation

 

Time

9:20 a.m.

Title

Introductory Remarks

Authors

G.N. Hanson

Affiliation

SUSB

Time

 

Title

Oral Presentations Session Chair

Authors

J Bret Bennington

Affiliation

Hofstra

Time

9:30

Title

Interactive Java Computer Software for Earth Science Education and Research

Authors

Glenn Richard
Janet L. Kaczmarek

Affiliation

SUSB

Time

9:45

Title

Pleistocene Glacial, Interglacial and Interstadial Stratigraphy, Long Island, New York

Authors

Les Sirkin

Affiliation

 

Time

10:00

Title

On the Origin of Parabolic Dunes  Near Friar’s Head, Long Island, New York

Authors

Steven C. Englebright1
Gilbert N. Hanson1
Troy Rasbury1
Eric Lamont2

Affiliation

1SUSB
2
NY Botanical Garden

Time

10:15

Title

Contrasting Radar Signals in Sand and Till: 
An Example From Grandifolia Sandhills, Eastern LI

Authors

Dan. M. Davis
Francis D. Winslow III
Elliot C. Klein
William E. Holt

Affiliation

SUSB

Time

10:30

Title

Coffee and View Posters

Authors

 

Affiliation

 

Time

11:00

Title

Oral remarks by Poster Presenters
Questions and Comments from Audience

Authors

 

Affiliation

 

Time

12:00 

Title

Lunch, View Posters

Authors

 

Affiliation

 

Time

12:30 p.m.

Title

View Posters, Visit Labs, Field Trip

Authors

 

Affiliation

 

Time

 

Title

Oral Presentations Session Chair: 

Authors

Dan Davis

Affiliation

SUSB

Time

1:00 p.m.

Title

The Regional Geologic Framework of the Inner-Continental Shelf off New York: 
Baseline Information for Environmental and Resource Management 

Authors

William C. Schwab
E. Robert Thieler
Bradford Butman
Marilyn R. Buchholtz ten Brink 

Affiliation

USGS Woods Hole

Time

1:30

Title

GIS-Based Shoreline Recession Analysis in the Great Lakes and Potential Applications to New York and New Jersey

Authors

William Montgomery

Affiliation

New Jersey City University

Time

1:45

Title

Investigations on Ridge and Runnel Topography and its Influence on Beach Morphodynamics

Authors

Robert Turner

Affiliation

Southampton College

Time

2:00

Title

Coffee, View Posters

Authors

 

Affiliation

 

Time

2:15

Title

View Posters, Visit Labs, Field Trip

Authors

 

Affiliation

 

Time

2:45

Title

Oral Presentation Session Chair

Authors

Henry Bokuniewicz

Affiliation

Stony Brook

Time

2:45

Title

A Comparison of Changes between Natural and Renourished Beaches - the 1997-2000 Interval between Sand Replenishment Projects 
at eastern Jones Beach Island and western Fire Island New York 

Authors

Fred Wolff
J Bret Bennington

Affiliation

Hofstra

Time

3:00

Title

Ambient water quality in the Upper Glacial aquifer near the Town of Brookhaven landfill, Suffolk Co., NY

Authors

David Tonjes

Affiliation

SUSB

Time

3:15

Title

Fate and Transport of Contaminants in the Hyporheic Zone

Authors

Daniel O.Rourke1
Ronald Paulsen2
Teng-fong Wong1

Affiliation

1SUSB
2Suffolk Co. Health

Time

3:30

Title

End of Oral Presentations

Authors

 

Affiliation

 

Time

3:45

Title

View Posters, Visit Labs, Field Trip

Authors

 

Affiliation

 

Time

4:30

Title

End of Conference

Authors

 

Affiliation

 

Time

POSTERS

Title

 

Authors

 

Affiliation

 

Time

Poster

Title

Interactive Java Computer Software for Earth Science Education and Research

Authors

Glenn Richard
Janet L. Kaczmarek

Affiliation

SUSB

Time

Poster

Title

Basement Geology of the Long Island Sound based on the lithology of erratics on the Stony Brook Campus

As part of my poster presentation there will be 20 minute field trips
at 12:30 p.m., 2:15 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. to investigate the shape, roundness
 and lithology of  boulders near the ESS building. Meet at the entrance 
to the ESS Lecture Hall, room 001, if you wish to participate.

Authors

Waldemar Pacholik

Affiliation

Central Islip HS
SUSB

Time

Poster

Title

The Cliffs at Caumsett State Park

Authors

Gloria Mandell

Affiliation

SUSB 

Time

Poster

Title

First Steps at the Ground Penetrating Radar Mapping of the Shallow Subsurface Geology, Hither Hills, Eastern Long Island

Authors

Elliot C. Klein
Francis  D. Winslow III
Dan M. Davis
William E. Holt

Affiliation

SUSB

Time

Poster

Title

Using Ground Penetrating Radar to Characterize Geological Environments
 of the Shallow Subsurface on Long Island, New York

Authors

Francis D. Winslow III
Elliot C. Klein
Dan M. Davis 

Affiliation

SUSB

Time

Poster

Title

Erosion Criterion Applied to a Shoreline Adjacent to a Coastal Inlet 

Authors

Brian Batten
Henry Bokuniewicz

Affiliation

SUSB

Time

Poster

Title

Numerical prediction of natural sediment bypass-partitioning at Moriches Inlet 

Authors

Frank S. Buonaiuto  
Daniel C. Conley
Henry Bokuniewicz

Affiliation

SUSB

Time

Poster

Title

Insight into the Sediment Budget for the Jones Beach Area on the South Shore of Long Island from Long Range Beach Profiles

Authors

Linda Selvaggio
Diane Donner
Daniel Conley

Affiliation

SUSB

Time

Poster

Title

Benthic Morphology of the Hudson River as Revealed by Multibeam Sonar

Authors

Vicki Lynn Ferrini
Roger D. Flood
JoAnn Thissen
Henry Bokuniewicz

Affiliation

SUSB

Time

Poster

Title

Surface Sediment Characteristics in the Hudson River between Kingston and New Baltimore, New York

Authors

JoAnn Thissen
Henry Bokuniewicz
Vicki Lynn Ferrini
Roger D. Flood

Affiliation

SUSB

Time

Poster

Title

Zeta Potentials of Long Island Aquifer Material

Authors

Alysa N Suero

Affiliation

SUSB

Time

Poster

Title

Seismological Analysis and the Effect of Earthquakes in the  New York Vicinity and Long Island

Authors

Krista Pasfield

Affiliation

Smithtown HS
Student

Time

Poster

Title

Polygonum Cuspidatum: Geobotanical Constraints on Range Expansion

Authors

Audra Selvaggio

Affiliation

Smithtown HS
Student

Time

Poster

Title

Hudsonia, sp.: Eolian and Sedimentary Interrelationships

Authors

Danielle Tommaso

Affiliation

Mount Sinai HS
Student