Research Projects

Geology of Long Island and New York City

History of the New York City Water Tunnel System

Sedimentary and Glacial Geology of Long Island

Metamorphic Geology, Glacial Geology, and Tectonics of New York City and Long Island

Paleontology and Paleoecology

Cretaceous Paleoecology of the NJ Coastal Plain

Cretaceous Plant Fossils from Long Island

Quantitative Paleoecology

Fossil Trackways

Other Topics Farther Afield

Appalachian Basin Marine Units and Cyclothems

Teaching Resources

Geology of Long Island and New York City

Digital Elevation Model of Long Island, NY (images and QTVR movie)

Queens Water Tunnel (annotated images)

Minerals of New York City (annotated images)

New York City Earthquake -Jan. 2001 (images, diagrams, text)

Paleontology and Paleoecology

Virtual Reality Images of Fossils (QTVR movies)

Marine Microfossils (teaching resources and Power Point presentation)

Petrology and Mineralogy

Petrologic Image Gallery (petrographic thin section images)

Rotating Petrographic Thin Sections (QTVR movies)

Panoramas and Virtual Field Trips

Geological Panoramas (QTVR movies)

Virtual Geology Field Trips

Geologic Photo Tour of Iceland

Misc. Topics and Resources

Starry Night Astronomy Labs (MS Word files)

QuickTime Virtual Reality Multimedia for Teaching Geology

Reference Materials for Geologists and K-16 Teachers

Professional Organizations Offering In-Service Credit to Teachers

Geoscience Web Links

Bibliographic Reference List - NYC, Appalachian, and Cordilleran Geology

"On the Rocks" Field Trip Guidebooks to the Regional Geology of the New York / Southern New England Region by John Sanders and Charles Merguerian