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Preliminary Program for the Sixteenth Conference on

"Geology of Long Island and Metropolitan New York"

Saturday March 28, 2009

Earth and Space Sciences Building - Stony Brook University

Link to Call for Papers for information on preparing the abstract.

Speakers please note: All presentations will be in Power Point. Please bring your presentation on a flash drive or a CD. You may not use your laptop.

Attendance is Free. Registration is not necessary.

Those wishing to receive hours toward in-service credit can attend for any number of hours.
You may attend only the field trip.
There is no charge.

Companies, agencies, schools, universities and colleges are encouraged
to display promotional or informational material at the conference at no cost.
Inform us by March 24, if you would like to have a display.

Summary of Program

9:00 a.m.	Introduction
9:10 a.m.	Oral Presentations
9:50 a.m.	Poster Presenters
10:10 a.m.	Break
10:40 a.m.	Oral Presentations
12:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m.	Meet in ESS 123 for Geology Field Trip to Avalon Park and Preserve, Stony Brook

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

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

There is a link to the abstract on the title.

Oral Presentations will be in the the Lecture Hall (ESS 001) Earth and Space Sciences Building

Time	Title	Authors
Time 9:00 AM	Title Introduction	Authors G.N. Hanson
Time 9:10	Title Redefining the Southern Terminus of the Intrusive Contact Between the Yonkers and Fordham Gneiss in Van Cortlandt Park, New York City, New York	Authors D.E. Isler D.A. Vellone C. Merguerian M. Merguerian	Oral
Time 9:30	Title 50 Ka till-filled Pleistocene plunge pools and potholes found beneath the World Trace Center site, New York, NY	Authors C.J. Moss C. Merguerian	Oral
Time 9:50	Title Poster Presenters Give Oral Summary	Authors
Time 10:10	Title View Posters	Authors	Oral
Time 10:50	Title Long-term Changes in the East Hampton Town Atlantic Ocean and Peconic Estuary Shorelines and their Contiguous Dunes and Bluffs as Inferred from Historic Maps, Land Surveys, Orthographic Vertical Photographs, LIDAR and Subcentimeter GPS Measurements	Authors L. Penny M. Abramson Wm. Walsh	Oral
Time 11:10	Title Impact of Acid Rain and Fire on Soil pH in Dwarf Pine Plains, Long Island, New York	Authors Pushpa Jha G.N. Hanson	Oral
Time 11:30	Title Ways to Define Contamination and Find a Source: Beaverdam Creek as an Example	Authors D.J. Tonjes	Oral
Time 11:50	Title Evaluating nitrogen loss in Suffolk County Groundwater: Denitrification in Northport Public Supply wells	Authors C. Young G.N. Hanson	Oral
Time 12:10	Title Submarine Groundwater Discharge in Manhasset Bay	Authors T. Pick R.Coffey	Oral
Time 12:30	Title Lunch	Authors
Time 1:30	Title Geology of Avalon Park and Preserve meet in ESS 123 Return by 3:30 PM	Authors
Time Posters	Title	Authors
Time	Title Origin of Atlantic Coastal Plain Ponds in New York and New Jersey	Authors S. Zhang G.N. Hanson	Poster
Time	Title	Authors C. Young G.N. Hanson	Poster
Time	Title Temporal and spatial distribution of benthic foraminifers in western Long Island Sound	Authors V. Acosta J. Rios C. McHugh A. Balbas H. Pant	Poster
Time	Title Distribution of Contaminated Sediments in Western Long Island Sound	Authors A. Bowman C. McHugh	Poster
Time	Title Spatial and temporal distribution of heavy metals in western Long Island Sound	Authors A. Balbas C. McHugh W. Vargas M-H. Cormier	Poster
Time	Title Late Pleistocene to Holocene sedimentation of a coastal system: Raritan and Sandy Hook Bays, New Jersey	Authors E. Klein C. McHugh	Poster
Time	Title Holocene Reefs and the Evolution of the Peconic ‘Oyster Terrain’	Authors J.W. Kinney R.D. Flood	Poster
Time	Title New Insights on the Origin of the Peconic Bays from a New Detailed Bathymetric Map	Authors R.D. Flood J.Kinney	Poster