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Program for the Twentieth Conference on
"Geology of Long Island and Metropolitan New York"
Saturday April 13, 2013
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 05/29/2014
Each presentation will be 15 minutes.
There is an e-mail link to the author(s). The link on the title goes to the abstract
on the web.
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
|
| 9:00 AM |
Introduction |
G.N. Hanson |
Stony Brook University |
| 9:05 AM |
Impacts of sea-level rise on on Long Island Water Tables: One search for evidence
|
D. Tonjes |
Stony Brook University |
| 9:20 AM |
An Extraordinary Deposit of very coarse Stratified Drift, Cold Spring Harbor |
H.C. Mills
|
Nassau Community College |
| 9:35 AM |
Glacial Cobbles from Long Island’s North Shore as Lithic Material: Exotic Points?
Bartered Lithics? Or was Quartz the Favored Choice for Stone Points?
|
B. Keegan |
Experimental Flintknapper |
| 9:50 AM |
Petrography and Bedrock Origin of Shelter Rock, a Large Glacial Erratic in Western
Long Island, New York |
C. Ciano1
J.C. Cheong1
S. Leone2
C. Merguerian2
J B. Bennington2 |
1Macarthur High School
2Hofstra University |
| 10:05 AM |
Geophysical Insights Into the Origin of ‘The Wall’, a Glaciotectonic Feature on the
Stony Brook Campus
|
D.M. Davis
J. Farrell
J. Inoa
H. Last G. Swirson
Y. Tang
G. Zagorsky |
Stony Brook University |
| 10:20 AM |
Formation of Long Island's North Shore Coastline
|
W. Pacholik |
Central Islip HS |
| 10:35 AM |
Evidence of Glacial Readvances During Recession from the Last Glacial Maximum from
the Citifield Stadium Site, Queens, New York City, NY
|
C. Moss |
Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers |
| 10:50 AM |
Documenting the occurrence of Carolina Bays on Long Island
|
G.E. Gill |
Stony Brook University |
| 11:05 AM |
Break with light lunch provided
|
|
|
| 11:45 AM |
Submarine Groundwater Discharge: Understanding Flux Signatures in Thermal Infrared
Data in Port Jefferson and Stony Brook Harbors, Long Island, New York
|
J. Tamborski |
Stony Brook University |
| 12:00 PM |
Effect of the Shoreline Topography on Seepage Properties in Port Jefferson Harbor
, NY |
J.M. Durand
C. Young
G. Hanson
T-f. Wong |
Stony Brook University |
| 12: 15 PM |
Submarine discharge of nitrate rich groundwater into Port Jefferson Harbor, Long Island, NY
|
C. Young1
J. Durand1
J. Rapaglia2
H. Bokuniewicz1 |
1Stony Brook University
2Sacred Heart University |
| 12:30 PM |
Controls on Megaconstruction - Geotechnical Advances in NYC Capital Projects
|
V. Fernandes
C. Merguerian |
Hofstra University |
| 12:45 PM |
Delineation of Fractures, Foliation, and Groundwater of the Bedrock at the Harlem
River Tunnel in Northern New York County, New York
|
F. Stumm
A. Chu
P.K. Joesten
M. L. Noll
M. Como |
USGS Coram |
| 1:00 PM |
From Montauk To Manhattan: Measuring Storm Tide And High-Water Marks Caused By Hurricane
Sandy In New York |
A. Simonson |
USGS Coram |
| 1:15 PM |
Sedimentology and Structure of Storm Overwash Lobes Deposited by Hurricane Sandy Near
Tiana Beach, New York
|
J.B. Bennington |
Hofstra University |
| 1:30 PM |
Hurricane Sandy Cleanup in NYC
|
T. Masters |
Envirotrac |
| 1:45 PM |
End of Conference |
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