Program for the Fourteenth Conference on

"Geology of Long Island and Metropolitan New York"

Saturday April 14, 2007

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 10, if you would like to have a display.

Field Trips and Lab Tours

	Leaders	Meet	12:45 p.m.	2:00 p.m.	3:45 p.m.
Isotope Lab Tour	Penny Youngs	317	X
Long Island DEM Field Trip	Bret Bennington	331	X
Loess Field Trip	Vesna Kundic			X
Boulder Field Trip	Wal Pacholik	001		X
Soil Water Field Trip	Sunny Xu	001		X
Virtual Field Trip Greenland on the Hudson	Yuri Gorokhovich	001	X	X
Ashley Schiff Field Trip	Gil Hanson	001			X

There is an e-mail link to the author(s). The link on the title goes to the abstract on the web.

There is a link to the abstract on the title.

Oral Presentations will be in the the Lecture Hall (ESS 001) Earth and Space Sciences Building

Poster Presentation will be in the First Floor Lobby of the Earth and Space Sciences Building

Time	Title	Authors
8:30 a.m.	Registration, Coffee, View Posters
9:00	Introduction	G.N. Hanson
9:10	New York Landscape Regions in Google Earth: A Comprehensive Teaching Tool	E.L. CohenS. Kluge J. Ebert A. Patrick
9:25	Use of 3D Visualization of Environmental Data for Public Education	N. Valkenburg D.A. Smolensky
9:40	A systems based seminar on sustainability of the Long Island Pine Barrens	G.A. Richard G.N. Hanson J. Gurevitch W. Sanderson G. Halada
9:55	Summary of Presentations by Poster Presenters Descriptions of Lab Tours and Field Trips by leaders
10:40	Coffee and View Posters
11:15	Submarine groundwater discharge to Great South Bay, NY, estimated using Ra isotopes	A.J.Beck J.P.Rapaglia S.Yang, J.K.Cochran, H.J. Bokuniewicz
11:30	Preliminary data on the impacts of the 2005-2006 water management project at Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge, Shirley, NY	D.J. Tonjes K. Brewer K. Somers E. O'Brien GT Greene
11:45	Geomorphic alterations of tidal wetlands by mosquito control agencies	John Potente
12:00	Lunch,
12:45 p.m.	View Posters, Field Trips
1:15	Multibeam Sonar Reveals Mound Features Associated with Oyster Terrain in the Peconics Estuary	J. Kinney R.G. Flood
1:30	Newly Discovered Serpentinite Bodies Associated with the St. Nicholas Thrust Zone in Northern Manhattan	C. Merguerian C.J. Moss
1:45	Measuring Engineering Properties of NYC Rocks using a Schmidt Rebound Hammer – Preliminary Results	D.A. Vellone C. Merguerian
2:00	Field Trips, Lab Tour
2:30	Different and Distinct - Implications of Unusual Glacial Strata in Brooklyn	C.J. Moss C. Merguerian
2:45	Provenance of Loess on Long Island using single grain ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages of muscovite	V. Kundic J. Zhong S. Hemming G.N. Hanson
3:00	Major ion chemistry and mixing proportions of nitrate sources in groundwater	J.E. Munster G.N. Hanson, Q. Liu H.J. Bokuniewicz
3:45	Field Trip to Ashley Schiff Park Preserve
Poster	Geotagging Photographs and Other Data for Distribution on the web	G.A. Richard S.G. Richard
Poster	Origin and evolution of Dry Valleys south of Ronkonkoma Moraine in Long Island	S. Sen G.N. Hanson
Poster	Depositional History of the past 20,000 years in Western Long-Island Sound, New York	V. Acosta C. McHugh W. Vargas M-H. Cormier
Poster	Geology of Selden Campus Suffolk County Community College	S. Tvelia
Poster	Organic Matter Distribution in the Sediment Profiles of the Long Island Sound	T. Charles H.K. Pant C.McHugh M-H. Cormier
Poster	High resolution geophysical survey of western Long Island Sound offshore New York: A seafloor morphology shaped by glacial features, tidal currents and human activity	W. Vargas M-H Cormier C. M. G. McHugh V. Acosta A. Bowman
Poster	Tracking Mercury Contamination in the Sediments of Western Long Island Sound	A. Bowman C. McHugh J. Varekamp M-H Cormier
Poster	Non-point sources of perchlorate to Suffolk County groundwater	J.E. Munster G.N. Hanson, H.J. Bokuniewicz
Poster	Monitoring for impacts from an extensive water management project, Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge, Shirley, NY	K. SomersK. BrewerGT Greene D.J. Tonjes
Poster	Construction management of an extensive water management project, Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge, Shirley, NY	K. BrewerK. SomersGT Greene D.J. Tonjes
Poster	Groundwater remediation program at Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY	W.R. Dorsch R.F. Howe V.J. Racaniello J.E. Burke D.E. Paquette