2015 Program | Department of Geosciences

Program for the 22nd Conference on

"Geology of Long Island and Metropolitan New York"

Saturday April 11, 2015

Earth and Space Sciences Building - Stony Brook University

The conference will begin at 9:00 AM and is FREE.

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.

No need to register. Just show up.

Teachers and professionals may receive contact hours towards professional development. You can attend for any number of hours.

Everyone is welcome. Especially students.

Titles and Abstracts as of 04/13/2015

Each presentation will be 15 minutes.

Companies, agencies, schools, universities and colleges are encouraged to display promotional or informational material at the conference at no cost.
There is an e-mail link to the author(s). The link on the title goes to the abstract on the web.

Time	Title	Authors	Affiliation
Time 9:00 AM	Title Introduction	Authors G.N. Hanson	Affiliation Stony Brook University
Time 9:15 AM	Title The New York State Master Teacher Program: Experiences, Goals and Future Directions in Earth Science Teaching	Authors S. Burns O. Crnosija C. Hantz	Affiliation Connetquot HS Smithtown HS West Mount Sinai HS
Time 9:30 AM	Title Structural Geology and Metamorphism of the World Trade Center Site	Authors C. Merguerian C. Moss	Affiliation Duke Labs/Hofstra Univ. Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers
Time 9:45 AM	Title Boulders and the 2 Till Problem on Long Island	Authors H.C. Mills	Affiliation
Time 10:00 AM	Title The Problem Posed by New York’s “20-Foot Clay”: Which is Wrong – Published Dates, Presumed Glacial Events, or Strata Origins?	Authors C. Moss	Affiliation Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers
Time 10:15 AM	Title The Morphology and Stratigraphy of the Jericho Moraine, Nassau County, NY	Authors H.C. Mills	Affiliation
Time 10:30 AM	Title Long Island's Carolina Bays and the Younger Dryas Impact Event abstract Research Report	Authors S. Tvelia	Affiliation Suffolk Community College
Time 10:45 AM	Title Grain size analysis and soil stratigraphy across Suffolk County: Proxy for classification of sediment as a diamict	Authors K. Dominguez	Affiliation Stony Brook University
Time 11:00 AM	Title Break Coffee, Tea and Light Lunch	Authors	Affiliation
Time 11:30 AM	Title Report on Water Level Monitoring in the Vicinity of the Brookhaven Landfill, 2014	Authors D. Tonjes	Affiliation Stony Brook University
Time 11:45 AM	Title Dunes, Bluffs and Peneplains on New York's Ocean Coast	Authors H. Huang	Affiliation Stony Brook University
Time 12: 00 PM	Title The Environmental History of North Cinder Island Marsh in the Town of Hempstead, New York.	Authors V. Fernandes E.C. Farmer J. Browne D. Peteet J. Mayo	Affiliation Hofstra University
Time 12:15 PM	Title Trace metal trends in sediment cores and foraminifera tests from the Crab Meadow marsh, Northport, NY	Authors D. Ferraiolo J.B. Bennington B. Senzer	Affiliation Hofstra University Hofstra University Syosett HS
Time 12:30 PM	Title Pore Water Radionuclide Variability in Smithtown Bay - Implications for Submarine Groundwater Discharge	Authors J. Tamborski	Affiliation Stony Brook University
Time 12:45 PM	Title Multi-Model Validation Assessment of Groundwater Flow Simulation Models Using Area Metric Approach	Authors O. Aphale D.J. Tonjes	Affiliation Stony Brook University
Time 1:00 PM	Title Delineation of Fractures, Foliation, and Groundwater of the Bedrock at a Geothermal Feasibility Site on Roosevelt Island, New York County, New York	Authors F. Stumm A. Chu M. Como M.L. Noll P.K. Joesten	Affiliation USGS Coram
Time 1:15 PM	Title The effect of road salt on soil pH	Authors L. Gil A. King C. Cobo S. Tang	Affiliation GeoPREP program Stony Brook University
Time Abstract Only	Title Long Island Subglacial Drainage Patterns Reveal the Direction of Glacial Flow	Authors W. Pacholik	Affiliation Central Islip HS
Time Poster	Title Time Trends of Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluent with Sources from Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Facilities and Hospitals	Authors K. Colella	Affiliation Stony Brook University
Time 1:45 PM	Title Demonstration of Ground Penetrating Radar. Meet in Lecture Hall. The demonstration is just outside the building.	Authors G. Piccione	Affiliation
Time 1:45 PM	Title Demonstration of MasterSizer grain-size analyzer in room ESS 323	Authors M. Donnelly	Affiliation
Time 2:15 PM	Title Demonstration of Ground Penetrating Radar. The demonstration is just outside the building.	Authors G. Piccione	Affiliation
Time 2:15 PM	Title Demonstration of MasterSizer grain-size analyzer in room ESS 323	Authors M. Donnelly	Affiliation