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Program for the Eighteenth Conference on

"Geology of Long Island and Metropolitan New York"

Saturday April 9, 2011 

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, professional development or continuing education can attend for any number of hours. You may attend only the stream table demonstration
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 April 5th, if you would like to have a display.

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 room 001 ESS Building

Time

Title

Authors

9:00 AM INTRODUCTION G.N. Hanson
9:15

SALTWATER INTRUSION BENEATH MANHASSET NECK: A THREE DIMENSIONAL SIMULATION OF VARIABLE-DENSITY GROUND-WATER FLOW

Jack Monti, Jr,
Paul E. Misut
Ronald Busciolano

9:30

STUDY OF SUBMARINE GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE ON THE WEST SHORE OF FORGE RIVER USING ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY MEASUREMENTS AND SEEPAGE METERS

 
Josephine  Durand
J. Wanlass2,
N. Stark1,
R. Paulsen2,
T-f. Wong1
9:45

NITROGEN LOSS IN A BARRIER ISLAND SHALLOW AQUIFER SYSTEM

Caitlin Young
Fang Liu

10:00

GROUNDWATER FLOW SIMULATION MODEL FOR A LANDFILL SITE IN THE TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK

Omkar Aphale
David Tonjes
10:15 Poster presenter and Coffee  
Poster

ESTIMATE FOR THE VOLUME OF THE PORT JEFFERSON OUTWASH FAN DEPOSITED BY A WISCONSIAN SUBGLACIAL STREAM USING WELL LOG DATA

Patrick Criscuola
10:45

PROPOSED DIVERSION OF BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY’S SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT EFFLUENT FROM THE PECONIC RIVER TO NEARBY GROUNDWATER RECHARGE BASINS

Douglas Paquette, Robert Lee,
Jason Remien,
Timothy Green

11:00

USING GIS TOOLS IN EVALUATING GROUNDWATER FLOODING ON LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK

Jack Monti, Jr,
Ronald Busciolano

11:15

FIFTEEN YEARS AND GOING STRONG – MORE SUFFOLK COUNTY GROUNDWATER MODEL APPLICATIONS

Mary Anne Taylor
Daniel O’Rourke
John Boyer
11:30

THE MINERALOGY AND METAL CONTAMINATION OF SEDIMENTS IN THE APEX OF THE NEW YORK BIGHT, NY, USA: AN INTEGRATED LABORATORY AND FIELD STUDY OF TRACE METAL BEHAVIOR IN AN URBAN ESTUARY

Noureddin Amaach

 

11:45 DEVELOPING A CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY FOR SEDIMENT CORES FROM GILGO BEACH MARSH, LONG ISLAND, NY

E. Christa Farmer
J. Bret Bennington,

Courtney Melrose,
Matthew Jensen,
Amy Hoffmann,

Tami Longjohn
Luciana Noboa
12:00 USE OF ENGINEERING PROPERTIES TO IDENTIFY MULTIPLE GLACIAL ADVANCES IN NEW YORK CITY’S SUBSURFACE Cheryl Moss
12:15 THE ORIGIN OF TRONDHJEMITE IN THE PALISADES SILL AT THE GRANITEVILLE QUARRY, STATEN ISLAND, NY: A 2011 REVIEW AND IDEAS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH Alan Benimoff
12:30

STRATIGRAPHY, STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY AND METAMORPHISM OF THE INWOOD MARBLE FORMATION, NORTHERN MANHATTAN, NYC, NY

 
J. Mickey Merguerian,
Charles Merguerian
Nehru Cherukupalli
12:45 END OF CONFERENCE OR
LUNCH TIME FOR THOSE STAYING FOR STREAM TABLE DEMONSTRATION
 
1:30 PM DEMONSTRATION OF A PROFESSIONAL GRADE RIVER SIMULATOR (STREAM TABLE) Christopher Marotta