Program for Conference on the

"Geology of Long Island and Metropolitan New York"

Saturday April 15, 2000

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 Tuesday April 11, if you would like to have a display.

We can arrange for you to have a poster or table in the lobby. The poster boards are eight foot by four foot. You may request any fraction of such a poster board.

Detailed Program

Link on Author's Name is to e-mail
Link on Title is to Abstract on the Web

Time	Title	Authors	Affiliation
8:30 a.m.	Register and View Posters
9:20 a.m.	Introductory Remarks	G.N. Hanson	SUSB
	Oral Presentations Session Chair	J Bret Bennington	Hofstra
9:30	Interactive Java Computer Software for Earth Science Education and Research	Glenn Richard Janet L. Kaczmarek	SUSB
9:45	Pleistocene Glacial, Interglacial and Interstadial Stratigraphy, Long Island, New York	Les Sirkin
10:00	On the Origin of Parabolic Dunes Near Friar’s Head, Long Island, New York	Steven C. Englebright¹ Gilbert N. Hanson¹ Troy Rasbury¹ Eric Lamont²	¹SUSB²NY Botanical Garden
10:15	Contrasting Radar Signals in Sand and Till: An Example From Grandifolia Sandhills, Eastern LI	Dan. M. Davis Francis D. Winslow III Elliot C. Klein William E. Holt	SUSB
10:30	Coffee and View Posters
11:00	Oral remarks by Poster Presenters Questions and Comments from Audience
12:00	Lunch, View Posters
12:30 p.m.	View Posters, Visit Labs, Field Trip
	Oral Presentations Session Chair:	Dan Davis	SUSB
1:00 p.m.	The Regional Geologic Framework of the Inner-Continental Shelf off New York: Baseline Information for Environmental and Resource Management	William C. Schwab E. Robert Thieler Bradford Butman Marilyn R. Buchholtz ten Brink	USGS Woods Hole
1:30	GIS-Based Shoreline Recession Analysis in the Great Lakes and Potential Applications to New York and New Jersey	William Montgomery	New Jersey City University
1:45	Investigations on Ridge and Runnel Topography and its Influence on Beach Morphodynamics	Robert Turner	Southampton College
2:00	Coffee, View Posters
2:15	View Posters, Visit Labs, Field Trip
2:45	Oral Presentation Session Chair	Henry Bokuniewicz	Stony Brook
2:45	A Comparison of Changes between Natural and Renourished Beaches - the 1997-2000 Interval between Sand Replenishment Projects at eastern Jones Beach Island and western Fire Island New York	Fred Wolff J Bret Bennington	Hofstra
3:00	Ambient water quality in the Upper Glacial aquifer near the Town of Brookhaven landfill, Suffolk Co., NY	David Tonjes	SUSB
3:15	Fate and Transport of Contaminants in the Hyporheic Zone	Daniel O.Rourke¹ Ronald Paulsen² Teng-fong Wong¹	¹SUSB ²Suffolk Co. Health
3:30	End of Oral Presentations
3:45	View Posters, Visit Labs, Field Trip
4:30	End of Conference
POSTERS
Poster	Interactive Java Computer Software for Earth Science Education and Research	Glenn Richard Janet L. Kaczmarek	SUSB
Poster	Basement Geology of the Long Island Sound based on the lithology of erratics on the Stony Brook Campus As part of my poster presentation there will be 20 minute field trips at 12:30 p.m., 2:15 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. to investigate the shape, roundness and lithology of boulders near the ESS building. Meet at the entrance to the ESS Lecture Hall, room 001, if you wish to participate.	Waldemar Pacholik	Central Islip HS SUSB
Poster	The Cliffs at Caumsett State Park	Gloria Mandell	SUSB
Poster	First Steps at the Ground Penetrating Radar Mapping of the Shallow Subsurface Geology, Hither Hills, Eastern Long Island	Elliot C. Klein Francis D. Winslow III Dan M. Davis William E. Holt	SUSB
Poster	Using Ground Penetrating Radar to Characterize Geological Environments of the Shallow Subsurface on Long Island, New York	Francis D. Winslow III Elliot C. Klein Dan M. Davis	SUSB
Poster	Erosion Criterion Applied to a Shoreline Adjacent to a Coastal Inlet	Brian Batten Henry Bokuniewicz	SUSB
Poster	Numerical prediction of natural sediment bypass-partitioning at Moriches Inlet	Frank S. Buonaiuto Daniel C. Conley Henry Bokuniewicz	SUSB
Poster	Insight into the Sediment Budget for the Jones Beach Area on the South Shore of Long Island from Long Range Beach Profiles	Linda Selvaggio Diane Donner Daniel Conley	SUSB
Poster	Benthic Morphology of the Hudson River as Revealed by Multibeam Sonar	Vicki Lynn Ferrini Roger D. Flood JoAnn Thissen Henry Bokuniewicz	SUSB
Poster	Surface Sediment Characteristics in the Hudson River between Kingston and New Baltimore, New York	JoAnn Thissen Henry Bokuniewicz Vicki Lynn Ferrini Roger D. Flood	SUSB
Poster	Zeta Potentials of Long Island Aquifer Material	Alysa N Suero	SUSB
Poster	Seismological Analysis and the Effect of Earthquakes in the New York Vicinity and Long Island	Krista Pasfield	Smithtown HS Student
Poster	Polygonum Cuspidatum: Geobotanical Constraints on Range Expansion	Audra Selvaggio	Smithtown HS Student
Poster	Hudsonia, sp.: Eolian and Sedimentary Interrelationships	Danielle Tommaso	Mount Sinai HS Student