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PROGRAM

"Geology of Long Island and Metropolitan New York"

Saturday April 18, 1998

Earth and Space Sciences Building - SUNY Stony Brook

Companies, agencies, schools, universities and colleges are encouraged to display promotional or informational material at the conference at no cost. Inform us by April 14, if you would like to have a display.

If you have photographs relating to the geology of Long Island or Metropolitan New York, we will be happy to display them. Please bring them to the conference. Minimum size 8" x 10".
There will be a $50 prize for the best photo! John Sanders won last year.

Time	Title	Authors	Affiliation
8:30 a.m.	Pick up registration materials and *View Posters*
9:00 a.m.	Introductory remarks	G.N. Hanson	SUSB
9:10 a.m.	Research Projects as a teaching tool for earth science classes	J.L. Niebling G.A. Richard	SUSB
9:30 a.m.	Annealed mylonites of the St. Nicholas thrust from a new excavation at the New York Botanical Gardens, The Bronx, New York	C. Merguerian J.E. Sanders	Hofstra
9:50 a.m.	Taconian-aged granulite facies regional metamorphism in the Manhattan Prong, NY and NJ	P.C. Brock, P.W.G. Brock	Queens College
10:10 a.m.	The Late Wisconsinan geomorphology of ice floes on Long Island: The geomorphology of lobes, sublobes, interlobate zones, and interlobate angles	L. Sirkin	Adelphi
10:30 a.m.	Coffee Break and *View Posters*
11:00 a.m.	Mattituck Cliffs and Ranco Quarry: Models for origin of Roanoke Point and Ronkonkoma Moraines?	W.J. Meyers S. Boguslavsky J. Cascione* S. Dunne J. Keller, D. Lewitt M. Lani, A. McVicker	SUSB *Ward Melville H.S.
11:20 a.m.	Classification of Pleistocene deposits, New York City and vicinity -Fuller (1914) revived and revised	J.E. Sanders C. Merguerian	Hofstra
11:40 a.m.	Deciphering the Origin of Diamict Deposits at Ditch Plains, Long Island	E. Klein W.J. Meyers D.M. Davis	SUSB
12:00 noon	Lunch and *View Posters*
1:00 p.m.	Ellis Island, NY or Ellis Island, NJ?	R.L. Swanson	SUSB
1:20 p.m.	An experimental investigation of the solubility of gibbsite, kaolinite and chlorite at 25 C.	R., Socoloff M. Ashby S.U.Aja	Brooklyn College
1:40 p.m.	Surface charge characteristics of pyrophyllite and smectite	N. Amaach S.U Aja	Brooklyn College
2:00 p.m.	Cooperative Development and Application of a Groundwater Model in Suffolk County, New York	M.A. Taylor S. F. Robbins	CDM Suffolk Co. Health
2:20 p.m.	Coffee Break and *View Posters*
2:50 p.m.	Physical and chemical characterization of eastern Long Island soils as they relate to geophysical logging	A. Soo, R. Paulsen T-F. Wong	SUSB, Suffolk Co. Health, SUSB
3:10 p.m.	Defining freshwater outcrops in West Neck Bay, Shelter Island, New York using direct contact resistivity measurements and transient underflow measurements	R. Paulson, C. Smith, T-F. Wong	Suffolk Co. Health Cornell Coop. Ext. SUSB
3:30 p.m.	Tracing sources of nitrate in Long Island groundwater	P.S. Bleifuss, G.N. Hanson M.A.A. Schoonen	SUSB
3:50 p.m.	The lunar perigee Syzgy cycle for 1998: Implications for astronomic tidal heights	J.E. Sanders	Hofstra
4:10 p.m..	Lab Tours and *View Posters*
4:10 p.m.	Update on Licensing of Geologists	R. Baldwin	H2M Group
5:00 p.m.	End of conference
Poster	Callianassid, burrowing bivalve, and Gryphaied oyster biofacies in the upper Cretaceous Navesink Formation, Central New Jersey: Paleocological and Sedimentological implications	JB. Bennington. P. Aluskewicz V. Apostolou O. Daniello A. DeMaine, N. Forsberg, J. Miller, K. Schwager E. Verdi	Hofstra
Poster	Chemical and physical characteristics of the sediments in the central Suffolk County Pine Barrens	C. Champey	Smithtown H.S.
Poster	Determining and monitoring movement of salt/fresh water interface on Shelter Island with the use of induction logs	G. Fitzpatrick R. Paulsen	Suffolk Co. Health
Poster	Groundwater modeling of recharge and seepage in coastal area of Shelter Island west of Coecles Inlet	A. Caniano T-F. Wong R. Paulsen	SUSB Suffolk Co. Health
Poster	Shallow seismic reflection in glaciotectonic Hither Hills, Long Island	M. Bernard D.M. Davis W.E. Holt	SUSB
Poster	Glacial/Holocene geomorphic features Stony Brook, Setauket and Port Jefferson, NY	P.E. McDonald G.N. Hanson	SUSB
Poster	Not just a chemical interaction: complementary roles of the geologist and engineer on a hazardous waste remediation project at BNL	P. Boyce F. Castellano	P.W. Grosser
Poster	Dendrochronology and geochemistry of trees on Long Island	S.A. Lawrence G.N. Hanson	SUSB
Poster	Analysis of Sesimic Profiles and Side-Scan Sonar Records from Lower NY Harbor	R. Flood V. Ferrini	SUSB
Poster	Glacio-tectonic features at Bald Hill Ronkonkoma Moraine	J.A. Black², Wm. J. Meyers¹, G.N. Hanson¹, R. Welch³	¹SUSB²GSI, ³Suffolk Community College,