Long Island Association of Professional Geologists

Update on Professional Licensing of Geologists
in New York State, 04/08 (Download pdf)

Dinner Meetings

"Mapping the Mid-Ocean Ridge Aboard the Glomar Challenger"

Presented by
Chris Baiz
Owner - The Old Field Vineyard

Thursday June 19, 2008

Cocktails/Networking 6:00 p.m.: Dinner 7:00 p.m.: Presentation 7:45 p.m.
at
Holiday Inn, Plainview
215 Sunnyside Blvd.
Exit 46 on the L.I.E., just off the service road.
516-347-7400

Reservations required by Monday, June 16, 2008.
Preregistration: $40.00 members, $50.00 non-members. Dinner and bar.

We would like to encourage attendance by local regulators. The LIAPG members will underwrite the cost for up to two members from each of the Suffolk County and Nassau County Health Departments and the NYSDEC. Please contact Cheryl Neary (631-586- 4900 x190) to sign up under this special arrangement.

Companies and agencies may sponsor and host geology students at this meeting. If you would like to sponsor a geology student, please call Cheryl Neary (631-586-4900 x190) for information, or pay for and note that you are supporting a student on your registration form. Students may be sponsored at the $40.00 rate.

Make your reservations by sending a check for $40.00 / $50.00 per participant made out to LIAPG.

Send checks to: LIAPG c/o Cheryl Neary, 42 Jefferson Avenue, Patchogue, NY 11772-1008
RSVP by phone to Cheryl Neary: 631-586-4900 ext. 128, at Fenley & Nicol Environmental, Inc

Joint Field Trip and Dinner Meeting with the
Long Island Association of Professional Geologists

OPEN TO ALL LIAPG and AIPG MEMBERS, OTHER INTERESTED SCIENTISTS, FAMILY, AND FRIENDS

Field Trip Fee: $10 for ferry - to be collected on site. See above to register for the dinner meeting.

We need a minimum of 30 participants for this trip to run - please email liapgpres@gmail.com if you plan on attending this trip.

We are proud to announce our first joint field trip and meeting with the Long Island Association of Professional Geologists. Our program will feature an exciting afternoon field trip to the Sunken Forest, accessible via ferry service from Sayville NY, where will we mix geology, ecology and an enjoyable afternoon on Long Island’s barrier island. The field trip will be followed by our attendance to the LIAPG June Dinner Meeting/Presentation at the Holiday Inn, Plainview New York. Please note our field trip is not mandatory, although encouraged, and may be weather-dependent (call Kurt Stokes at cell phone 646.261.9991, if in question - i.e. heavy rain, to see if the trip is a go). The dinner meeting speaker/presentation is to be determined and that information will be available at a later date.

Maintained by The Fire Island National Seashore (www.nps.gov/fiis), the Sunken Forest is one of the last remaining maritime forests on the eastern seaboard. It earned its name because it appears lower than the surrounding ocean and bay. The forest is not actually below sea level -- the high surrounding Holocene Age primary and secondary sand dunes that protect this environment create the illusion of being lower than sea level.

The Sunken Forest spans approximately 40 acres set in a swale between the dunes. It truly is a unique ecosystem located within a classic unconsolidated barrier island geologic setting. You can walk for miles up and down the extensive boardwalks that carry you over the two rows of dunes and throughout the forest system. The Sunken Forest itself consists primarily of American holly, sassafras, and shadblow, floral able to grow in a predominantly quartz grain barrier island setting. Some trees are estimated to be well over 200 years old.

This naturally preserved wilderness is abundant with hardwood groves, dunes, swamps, and marshland. Serious hikers, bird watchers, and ecologists find this part of the island absolutely fascinating. With several ecosystems, there is plenty of diversity in the flora and wildlife. While walking through the forest, be sure to look up at the twisted canopy, as it may be the forest's most intriguing attribute.

Directions: To get to the Sayville Ferry from the west, take Southern State Parkway to Heckscher State Parkway Exit 44 Sunrise Highway eastbound. Take Sunrise Highway east 4.5 miles to Exit 49, Lakeland Ave (south). Turn left at the second traffic light onto Main Street where you take the right fork (South Main Street) and then turn right (south) onto Foster Ave. Follow Foster to the end and make a left turn onto Browns River Road. Turn left onto River Road where you will find pay parking (approximately $10 per car –car pooling is encouraged!) and the ferries ($10 group rate per person round trip if we have 30 people) to the Sunken Forest at Sailors Haven. For more information on the ferries go to: www.sayvilleferry.com. The actual ferry schedule has not been posted yet for 2008. However, it is anticipated that we will depart Sayville at 1:00pm with the return ferry departing from Sailors Haven approximately 4:00pm.

Please also note that rooms at the Holiday have been blocked for this event at reduced cost; when reserving reference group code GCM.

1:00PM – 4:30PM Field Trip to the Sunken Forest. Meet at the Sayville Ferry Dock, 41River Road, Sayville, NY.

6:00PM – 7:00PM Social Hour (cash bar) at Holiday Inn, 215 Sunnyside Blvd., Plainview, NY, ph. 516.349.7400

Conferences and Field Trips

Field Trip
Geology of Port Jefferson
Gil Hanson
Stony Brook University
Saturday June 28, 2008
9 AM to 12 noon

Port Jefferson is at the eastern end of the Stony Brook Moraine and the western end of the Roanoke Point Moraine which were formed by lobes of the glacier that created the Harbor Hill Moraine some 20,000 years ago. The long ridge that forms Mount Misery is an interlobate moraine that formed between the Stony Brook Moraine and the Roanoke Point Moraine. As the Stony Brook lobe advanced on Long Island from the north it acted like bulldozer pushing the sediments it encountered into the arc-shaped Stony Brook Moraine. After the pushing action, a subglacial stream formed under the ice, filled with fast moving water. This water traveled uphill, carrying a large load of sediments that it removed from the area that is now Port Jefferson Harbor and Port Jefferson. The stream exited the glacier near the Port Jefferson railroad station forming a large alluvial fan to the south.

On this trip we will:

First review the geology of Port Jefferson at Stony Brook University.
Travel by car to Port Jefferson Stop near the Port Jefferson Harbor to view the walls of the broad tunnel valley.
Travel by car south on Main Street up a steep gradient which is essentially along the last path of the subglacial stream that created the Port Jefferson tunnel valley
Stop to consider what the mouth of the tunnel valley may have looked liked as the water was pouring out of it.
Visit a kettle hole that is 100 feet deep which may represent the location of a large chunk of ice torn from the front of the glacier and then buried by the sands and gravels deposited in the alluvial fan.
At the end of the trip there will be an optional opportunity to walk to the top of Cedar Hill, with an elevation of 271 feet, the highest point in Port Jefferson.
Information about the geology of Port Jefferson can be found at http://www.geo.sunysb.edu/reports/dem_2/
We will meet at Stony Brook University in ESS 123 at 9 AM. We will then car pool to Port Jefferson.
Directions to SUNY Stony Brook and ESS Building From exit 62 of the Long Island Expressway (LIE, I-495) follow Nicolls Road (Route 97) north for nine miles. Pass the South and Main entrances to the University. Enter the North entrance which will be on your left. At the top of the small hill, turn right on Circle Road. Proceed about 1 mile. Turn left onto Campus Drive and then immediately turn left again onto John S. Toll Drive. Proceed about 50 yards then turn right into the large paved parking lot. The Earth and Space Sciences building is the large concrete building at the northeast end of the parking lot. Map of campus is on the web at: http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/map/

Be prepared for inclement weather. We will go rain or shine.
Three contact hours toward in-service credit for teachers or professional geologists.
There is no fee
Please email gilbert.hanson@sunysb.edu if you plan to participate and note if you wish to have an in-service credit letter.

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News and Events

Professional Licensing of Geologists in New York State:

Dinner Meetings

"Mapping the Mid-Ocean Ridge Aboard the Glomar Challenger"

Presented by
Chris Baiz
Owner - The Old Field Vineyard

Thursday June 19, 2008

Register now using PayPal

Joint Field Trip and Dinner Meeting with the
Long Island Association of Professional Geologists

Conferences and Field Trips

Fifteenth Conference on the
"Geology of Long Island and Metropolitan New York"

Short Courses

Events

News and Events

Professional Licensing of Geologists in New York State:

Dinner Meetings

"Mapping the Mid-Ocean Ridge Aboard the Glomar Challenger"

Presented by Chris Baiz Owner - The Old Field Vineyard

Thursday June 19, 2008

Register now using PayPal

Joint Field Trip and Dinner Meeting with the Long Island Association of Professional Geologists

Conferences and Field Trips

Fifteenth Conference on the "Geology of Long Island and Metropolitan New York"

Short Courses

Events

Presented by
Chris Baiz
Owner - The Old Field Vineyard

Joint Field Trip and Dinner Meeting with the
Long Island Association of Professional Geologists

Fifteenth Conference on the
"Geology of Long Island and Metropolitan New York"