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Preliminary Program for the Sixteenth Conference on

"Geology of Long Island and Metropolitan New York"

Saturday March 28, 2009

Earth and Space Sciences Building - Stony Brook University

Link to Call for Papers for information on preparing the abstract.

Speakers please note: All presentations will be in Power Point. Please bring your presentation on a flash drive or a CD. You may not use your laptop.

Attendance is Free. Registration is not necessary.

Those wishing to receive hours toward in-service credit can attend for any number of hours.
You may attend only the field trip.
There is no charge.

Companies, agencies, schools, universities and colleges are encouraged
to display promotional or informational material at the conference at no cost.
Inform us by March 24, if you would like to have a display.

Summary of Program

9:00 a.m.	Introduction
9:10 a.m.	Oral Presentations
9:50 a.m.	Poster Presenters
10:10 a.m.	Break
10:40 a.m.	Oral Presentations
12:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m.	Meet in ESS 123 for Geology Field Trip to Avalon Park and Preserve, Stony Brook

Bring an Umbrella for the Field Trip in Case of Rain!

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

Time	Title	Authors
9:00 AM	Introduction	G.N. Hanson
9:10	Redefining the Southern Terminus of the Intrusive Contact Between the Yonkers and Fordham Gneiss in Van Cortlandt Park, New York City, New York	D.E. Isler D.A. Vellone C. Merguerian M. Merguerian	Oral
9:30	50 Ka till-filled Pleistocene plunge pools and potholes found beneath the World Trace Center site, New York, NY	C.J. Moss C. Merguerian	Oral
9:50	Poster Presenters Give Oral Summary
10:10	View Posters		Oral
10:50	Long-term Changes in the East Hampton Town Atlantic Ocean and Peconic Estuary Shorelines and their Contiguous Dunes and Bluffs as Inferred from Historic Maps, Land Surveys, Orthographic Vertical Photographs, LIDAR and Subcentimeter GPS Measurements	L. Penny M. Abramson Wm. Walsh	Oral
11:10	Impact of Acid Rain and Fire on Soil pH in Dwarf Pine Plains, Long Island, New York	Pushpa Jha G.N. Hanson	Oral
11:30	Ways to Define Contamination and Find a Source: Beaverdam Creek as an Example	D.J. Tonjes	Oral
11:50	Evaluating nitrogen loss in Suffolk County Groundwater: Denitrification in Northport Public Supply wells	C. Young G.N. Hanson	Oral
12:10	Submarine Groundwater Discharge in Manhasset Bay	T. Pick R.Coffey	Oral
12:30	Lunch
1:30	Geology of Avalon Park and Preserve meet in ESS 123 Return by 3:30 PM
Posters
	Origin of Atlantic Coastal Plain Ponds in New York and New Jersey	S. Zhang G.N. Hanson	Poster
		C. Young G.N. Hanson	Poster
	Temporal and spatial distribution of benthic foraminifers in western Long Island Sound	V. Acosta J. Rios C. McHugh A. Balbas H. Pant	Poster
	Distribution of Contaminated Sediments in Western Long Island Sound	A. Bowman C. McHugh	Poster
	Spatial and temporal distribution of heavy metals in western Long Island Sound	A. Balbas C. McHugh W. Vargas M-H. Cormier	Poster
	Late Pleistocene to Holocene sedimentation of a coastal system: Raritan and Sandy Hook Bays, New Jersey	E. Klein C. McHugh	Poster
	Holocene Reefs and the Evolution of the Peconic ‘Oyster Terrain’	J.W. Kinney R.D. Flood	Poster
	New Insights on the Origin of the Peconic Bays from a New Detailed Bathymetric Map	R.D. Flood J.Kinney	Poster