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Program for the 24th Conference on

"Geology of Long Island and Metropolitan New York"

Saturday April 8, 2017 

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.

Abstracts as of 08/08/2017

Each presentation will be 15 minutes.

 

 

Time	Title	Authors	Affiliation
9:00 AM	Introduction and the Geoscience Workforce Gap	G.N. Hanson	Stony Brook University
9:15 AM	pH of Soil on Stony Brook Campus: research projects by GeoPREP high school students	M. Donnelly GeoPREP high school students	Stony Brook University
9:30 AM	Geoscience educational opportunities & career oriented research experiences	S. Tvelia M. McNamara S. Mandia D. Butkos	Suffolk County Community College
9:45 AM	Teaching an active learning class in geomorphology	A.D. Rogers G.N. Hanson	Stony Brook University
10:00 AM	Pebbly Loess in the Pine Barrens of Central Suffolk County, Long Island Research reports that describe pebbly loess on Long Island and elsewhere	J. Rezza	Stony Brook University
10:15 AM	Function and performance of Nitrogen Removing Biofilters (NRBs) for onsite wastewater treatment	X. Mao S. Waugh R. Price  J. Garvey  C. Gobler H. Walker	Stony Brook University
10:30 AM	U-Pb ages for zircon from SBU campus loess	A. Kling S. Jaret E.T. Rasbury	Stony Brook University
10:45	Poster Presenters give brief oral presentations
11:00 AM	Break
11:30 AM	The Recent Long Island Drought	D. Tonjes	Stony Brook University
11:45 AM	Distribution of Large Glacial Erratic Boulders on the North Shore of Nassau County, New York	H.C. Mills A.J. Lindberg L. A. Lindberg	Nassau County Division of Museums & Preserves  (Ret.)
12: 00 PM	Mapping the 20-foot clay (Wantagh Formation) in Queens and Brooklyn, NY	C Moss T. D. Canale	MRCE
12:15 PM	Seismic and Core Studies south of Long Island: New Data and New Insights.	R. Flood	Stony brook University
12:30 PM	New insights from sediment cores into the environmental history of a Phragmites-invaded coastal wetland in Douglas Manor,  Queens, NY	J.B Bennington E. Weaver M. LaBarca J. Finkbeiner	Hofstra University Syracuse University Syosett High School Paul D. Schreiber High School
12:45 PM	Tracking the path of contaminants in western and central Long Island Sound	E. Lauture	Queens College
1:00 PM	Applying for Geologic Licensure in New York State	J. M. Nadeau	NYSCPG
Poster	Assessment of a flood prevention application for residents of the South Shore of Long Island New York	I. Gogos J. Finneran K. Shire, A. Marsellos	Hofstra University
Poster	GIS and statistical analysis of local business responses of flooding events along the Mohawk River valley in Amsterdam, New York	S. Lakeram D.Chernoff T. Pascucci A. Marsellos	Hofstra University

 

Immediately after the conference there will be an opportunity to participate in one of the following: Demonstration of an EM2 stream table and an augmented reality sandbox in ESS137  led by Gen Ito Help seminar on applying for the  New York State Professional Geologist license in ESS 123 led by John M. Nadeau