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26th Conference on

"Geology of Long Island and Metropolitan New York"

Saturday April 13, 2019 

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.

Geologists may receive contact hours towards professional development.

Teachers: the link for the CTLE registration is  https://forms.gle/y3pEcZ9dxPJ9yqn46

You can attend for any number of hours.

Everyone is welcome. Especially students.

Authors, Abstracts and Titles to date (04/05/2019)

	Title	Authors	Affiliation
Time	Oral Presentations
9:00	Introduction and Geoscience Workforce Gap	GN Hanson	Stony Brook University
9:15	Reversing the Enrollment Trend: GeoPATHS Extra: Geoscience Educational Opportunities & Career Oriented Research Experiences	S Tvelia	Suffolk County Community College
9:30	An Analysis of Pebbly Loess in the Dwarf Pine Plains, West Hampton Beach, NY	E Caulfield D Garcia	Stony Brook University
9:45	Insights into Evolution of Fire Island at Robert Moses State Park using GPR and OSL	V Kundic DM Davis	Stony Brook University
10:00	“Re-Mapping” Harlem’s Glacial Lake, New York City, NY	C Moss	Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers
10:15	Emerging Contaminants in Long Island Groundwater	N Valkenburg PG	Huntington, NY
10:45	Oral Presentations by Poster presenters
11:00	Coffee and poster viewing
11:30	Analysis of Groundwater Quality of Shelter Island, Suffolk County, New York	S Chen I J Fisher P Zhang	USGS Coram, CCNY USGS Coram CCNY
11:45	Behavior of iron and other metals in a lignocellulose-based biofilter for onsite wastewater treatment: Implications for metals cycling in the LI Upper Glacial Aquifer	R Price Z Collins Smith M Graffam G Heufelder SC Nyer N Volkenborn H Walker LM Wehrmann CJ Gobler	Stony Brook Univ. Stony Brook Univ Stony Brook Univ. Worcester Polytech Stony Brook Univ. Stony Brook Univ. SBU &Worcester Polytech Stony Brook Univ. Stony Brook Univ.
12:00	Occurrence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in shallow groundwater, Long Island, New York	IJ Fisher B A McCarthy S Chen PJ Phillips	USGS Coram USGS Coram USGS Coram USGS Troy
12:15	Water Resource Monitoring of the Central Pine Barrens region of Long Island, NY	B Bayraktar IJ Fisher A Simonson	USGS Coram
12:30	Mapping groundwater salinity and sampling for nitrogen loading in a Phragmites-invaded coastal wetland in Douglas Manor, Queens, NY	JB Bennington D Darnaud, S Dwyer L Munn S Dierks	Hofstra Hofstra Hofstra Elmont Memorial High School GEI Consultants
12:45	Geologic and Hydrogeologic Conditions beneath St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Manhattan, New York City, NY	J Rhyner	PW Grosser
	Field Trip
1:15 PM	Field Trip: Nature of Campus soil (soil profile, soil pH, soil Ca/Al ratio, pebbly loess)	GN Hanson
	Poster Presentations
	Bathymetric Sediment Traps in New York Harbor  abstract  poster	G Castro E Lysakova	New York Harbor School
	Statistical Analysis of Public Awareness of Groundwater Contamination from the Northrop Grumman Plume Affecting Select Communities in Nassau County, New York	M Maliszka C Urrea DJ. LoMonaco G Taylor AE Marsellos	Hofstra University
	Times Series Regression and Spectral Analysis on Nitrate Concentrations in Long Island, New York	T Plitnick R Lagattolla KG Tsakiri C Petrocheilos AE Marsellos	Hofstra University Hofstra University Rider University Plymouth University UK Hofstra University
	Time Series Analysis Comparing Climatic Averages and the Water Levels of aquifers in Albany, NY and Queens, NY	A Rienzo SL Roscoe L Mahoney P Weinstein KG Tsakiri C Petrocheilos AE Marsellos	Hofstra University Hofstra University Hofstra University Hofstra University Rider University Plymouth Unversity UK Hofstra University
	Spectral Analysis of the Groundwater Levels in a Suburban versus an Urban Region. An Example from Suffolk and Queens Counties in Long Island, NY	J Tran PL Rodriguez T Smith KG Tsakiri C Petrocheilos AE Marsellos	Hofstra University Hofstra University Hofstra University Rider University Plymouth Unversity UK Hofstra University