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25th Conference on

"Geology of Long Island and Metropolitan New York"

Saturday April 14, 2018 

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. 

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.

Each presentation will be 15 minutes.

 

Authors, Abstracts and Titles to date (04/13/2018)

	Title	Authors	Affiliation
9:00 AM	Title Introduction and  The Geoscience Workforce Gap	Authors G.N. Hanson	Affiliation Stony Brook University
9:15 AM	Title Fluoridation and county-level secondary bone cancer among cancer patients in New York State	Authors N. Crnosija J. R. Meliker	Affiliation Stony Brook University
9:30 AM	Title Nitrogen transformation and microbial characterization in Removing Biofilters (NRBs) for onsite wastewater treatment on Long Island	Authors X. Mao S. Waugh R. Price F. Russo C. Gobler H. Walker	Affiliation Stony Brook University
9:45 AM	Title Emerging Contaminants in Groundwater on Long Island;	Authors C. Berardi Tuohy	Affiliation Arcadis
10:00 AM	Title Analysis of Emerging Contaminants in groundwater	Authors D. Corbett	Affiliation Arcadis
10:15 AM	Title Groundwater quality monitoring upgradient of the Town of Brookhaven landfill in the Upper Glacial aquifer (1982-2016): a preliminary report	Authors D. Tonjes P. Nguyen	Affiliation Stony Brook University
10:30 AM	Title Groundwater cleanup progress at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY	Authors D. Paquette Wm. Dorsch R. Howe, V Racaniello J. Burke	Affiliation Brookhaven National Laboratory
10:45 AM	Title Short oral presentations by Poster Presenters	Authors	Affiliation
11:00 AM	Title Coffee and Snack view posters	Authors	Affiliation
11:30 AM	Title Update on the status of the NYS Professional Geologist License	Authors R. Alvey	Affiliation EPA
11:45 AM	Title Shallow Water Quality of Shelter Island, NY.	Authors B. McCarthy I. Fisher K. Colella	Affiliation USGS Coram
12:00 PM	Title Why are plants thriving in woodlands on Stony Brook Campus despite acid rain and acid soil?	Authors J. Hudson G.N. Hanson	Affiliation Stony Brook University
12:15 PM	Title Occurrence of Pebbly Loess on the North and South Forks Research reports that describe pebbly loess on Long Island and elsewhere	Authors K. Guercio C. Morrill	Affiliation Stony Brook University
12:30 PM	Title Late Glacial to modern evolution of the inner continental shelf south of Long Island	Authors R.D Flood J. Lashley I. Dwyer H. Bokuniewicz	Affiliation Stony Brook University
12:45 PM	Title Interpreting the Stratigraphic Record of Glacial Readvances Along the Hudson River at Manhattanville, New York City, NY	Authors C. Moss	Affiliation MRCE
1:00 PM	Title Long Island Subglacial Drainage Patterns Reveal the Direction of Glacial Flow	Authors W. Pacholik	Affiliation Central Islip HS
1:15 PM	Title Challenges of imaging burial sites in glacially-derived sediments using GPR a comparison of GPR results in Montauk and on Shelter Island, showing the challenges of identifying older burial sites in the absence of well-stratified sediments	Authors N. Crnosija D. M. Davis A. McGovern S. Lotz V. Kundic	Affiliation Stony Brook University
1:30 PM	Title Application of GPR and OSL in interpretation of depositional history of western part of Fire Island, NY	Authors V. Kundic D. M. Davis	Affiliation Stony Brook University
1:45 PM	Title GPR studies in chaotic glacial terrain: the Ashley Schiff Preserve, Stony Brook a description of the stark contrast between the well-defined glacial tectonics at other sites and the chaotic signal of hummocky terrain in the Ashley Schiff Preserve, with an interpretation of what the GPR signal can tell us even in such a complex setting	Authors S. Lotz D. M. Davis N. Crnosija V. Kundic	Affiliation Stony Brook University
	Title	Authors	Affiliation
Poster	Title Mineralogical Analysis of Indian Rock, a Large Glacial Erratic in Rocky Point, NY	Authors A. Zovich J.B. Bennington	Affiliation S.H. Calhoun HS Hofstra University
Poster	Title Preliminary Survey of Glacial Deposits Exposed at Hallock State Park Preserve, Mattituck, NY	Authors A.J. LaBarca J.B. Bennington	Affiliation Syosset HS Hofstra University
Poster	Title Trace Metal Concentration in Soil at Crossroads Farm in Malverne, New York	Authors A. Lewis A. Hampton D. Hsu M. Jason M. Maliszka E.C. Farmer	Affiliation Hofstra University
Poster	Title Sedimentological Characterization of a Core from the Douglas Manor Marsh Using Laser Diffractometry	Authors L.Munn J.B. Bennington	Affiliation Elmont Memorial  HS Hofstra University

 

Immediately after the conference there will be tours through the following labs: Optically Stimulated Luminescence Laboratory,  room 373 ESS Building, led by Vesna Kundic   Stable Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory, room 315 ESS Building,  led by Greg Henkes   Isotope Geochemistry and Geochronology Laboratory, room 317 ESS Building, led by Troy Rasbury