1994 Program | Department of Geosciences

"Geology of Long Island and Metropolitan New York"

Saturday April 23, 1994

Earth and Space Sciences Building - SUNY Stony Brook

PROGRAM

Time	Title	Authors	Affiliation
8:30 a.m.	Pick up registration materials, View posters
9:00 a.m.	Introductory remarks	Gilbert N. Hanson	SUNY Stony Brook
9:05 a.m.	Geology of the Long Island platform	Les Sirkin	Adelphi University
9:30 a.m.	Stratigraphy, structural geology, and ductile- brittle faults of the New York City area	Charles Merguerian	Hofstra University
9:45 a.m.	Post-Newark folds and faults: implications for geologic history of the Newark basin	Charles Merguerian, J.E. Sanders	Hofstra University
10:00 a.m.	Geochronology of southwestern Connecticut	Antonio Lanzirotti, James Sevigny Gilbert N. Hanson	SUNY Stony Brook
10:15 a.m.	Geochemistry of the amphibolites of Central Park, New York City	J.C. Eicher, D.M. Ageitos, F.C. Seeber, C.H. Kaplan, S.G. Buehler, J.H. Puffer	Rutgers University, Newark
10:30 a.m.	Break, View posters
11:00 a.m.	Fitting newly discovered north-shore Gilbert-type lacustrine deltas into a revised Pleistocene chronology of Long Island	J.E. Sanders, Charles Merguerian	Hofstra University
11:15 a.m.	Wading River - The evolution and ecology of a North Shore embayment and adjacent pre-historic Indian sites	Herbert C. Mills	Nassau County Museum
11:30 a.m.	The role of the shoreface in providing beneficial effects from washovers, inlet breaches (as Little Pike's Inlet) and barrier island preservation through migration	Fred Wolff	Hofstra University
11:45 a.m.	The effect of barrier island morphology on the environment of the back bay at Westhampton beach	Daniel Conley	SUNY Stony Brook
12:00	Lunch, View posters
1:00 p.m.	A geomorphic analysis suggesting the origin of the migrating dunes at Napeague, NY	Patricia E. Dubecky	Suffolk Community College
Thomas J. Maher	College of Charleston
1:15 p.m.	Peak storm-tide elevations produced by the December 1992 storm along the coast of Long Island, New York, with historical peak storm-tide elevations	Christopher E. Schubert Ronald Busciolano	U.S.G.S. Syosset
1:30 p.m.	The chemical composition of precipitation in the Peconic River watershed	John Proios, Martin Schoonen	SUNY Stony Brook
1:45 p.m.	The effects of a rain storm upon the major chemical constituents of the Peconic River	John Choynowski, Martin Schoonen	SUNY Stony Brook
2:00 p.m.	The hydrogeochemistry of the Peconic River watershed: a quantitative approach to estimate the anthropogenic loadings in the watershed	Martin A.A. Schoonen, Craig Brown	SUNY Stony Brook
2:15 p.m.	Delineation of the hydrogeologic framework and saltwater intrusion of the Great Neck Peninsula, Long Island, New York by use of geologic, hydrologic and geophysical methods	Frederick Stumm, Andrew Lange	U.S. G.S. Syosset
2:30 p.m.	Break, View posters
3:00 p.m.	Iron reactions in the Magothy and Upper Glacial aquifers of Suffolk County, Long Island	Craig J. Brown	U.S.G.S. Syosset
Martin A.A. Schoonen	SUNY Stony Brook
3:15 p.m.	Iron oxidation and iron bacteria formation in municipal production wells in Suffolk County, New York	Steven R. Colabufo	Suffolk Co. Water Authority
Martin A.A. Schoonen	SUNY Stony Brook
3:30 p.m.	Understanding 1993 groundwater conditions at the Town of Brookhaven landfill through sliding stiff diagrams	David J. Tonjes	SUNY Stony Brook
John Black	Suffolk Community College
James Heil	Town of Brookhaven
3:45 p.m.	Hydraulic Conductivity, porosity, and particle size distribution of core samples of the upper glacier aquifer Laboratory observation	Johnson N. Olanrewaju Teng-fong Wong	SUNY Stony Brook
4:00 p.m.	Distribution of phagotrophic dinoflagellate species in anthropogenically contaminated sediment of Huntington Harbor	Daniel Habib Fa Tien Shia	Queens College CUNY
4:15 p.m.	Georgica Pond water management issues	Drew Bennett	Camp, Dresser & McKee
4:30	View posters
5:30 p.m.	End of conference
poster	Some impacts of the December "92 Nor'easter along the Long Island coast	H. Bokuniewicz, K. Sakson	SUNY Stony Brook
poster	Rockhounding at Orient's public beach	Sharon Kelly	Suffolk Gem & Mineral Soc.
poster	Biochemistry of the Calverton Ponds, Suffolk County	Christine Kovari Martin A.A. Schoonen	SUNY Stony Brook
poster	Use of Tritium-³Helium groundwater dating technique to estimate migration rates of volatile organic compounds in an unconsolidated sand and gravel aquifer system	Janakiram R. Naidu	Brookhaven National Lab.
poster	Hydrogeology of Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY	Douglas E. Patchett	Brookhaven National Lab.
poster	A hydrological study of the effects of urban development on storm runoff: A case study in Queens, New York	Monica Tsang-Rakovan, K. J. Phillips, Kalid Bajwa, John Ferrelli	Fanning, Phillips & Molnar New York City Transit Auth.
poster	Use of Long Island as a geological laboratory for K-12 earth science education	Glenn A. Richard, Karen Lutzer	SUNY Stony Brook
poster	Buried, anomalously deep V-shaped valley in bedrock surface, New Haven Harbor, CT	J.E. Sanders	Hofstra University
Abstract only	Geochemistry of the schists of Central Park, New York City	J.H. Puffer, D.M. Ageitos, S.C. Buehler, J.C. Eicher, C.H. Kaplan, F.C. Seeber	Rutgers University, Newark
Abstract only	Comparison of hydraulic conductivity values determined by aquifer tests, specific capacity tests, slug tests and grain size analysis	Thomas P. Doriski, Stephanie Davis, Monica Tsang-Rakovan Sadrul Hussain	Fanning, Phillips & Molnar New York City Transit Auth.