Dr. Andrew Kozlowski

Curator of Quaternary Landscape Materials
andrew.kozlowski@nysed.gov
518-486-2012

My research focuses on geologic mapping of sediments deposited and landforms created during the Pleistocene epoch (2.6 million - 11,700 years ago), the most recent time that episodes of global cooling, or ice ages, took place. Much of the world's temperate zones were alternately covered by glaciers during cool periods and uncovered during the warmer interglacial periods when the glaciers retreated.

I utilize field mapping, exploratory drilling and coring, geophysical methods and age dating (geochronology) to better understanding of three-dimensional geologic frameworks of glacial deposits and reconstruct former positions and locations of glaciers in New York State. It is my long term research goal to provide better understanding and resolution of glacial stratigraphy and glacial chronology in New York State and the Great Lakes Region.

My work directing the geologic mapping program in the State Museum and Quaternary research helps to address societal and land use issues for example geologic hazards such as landslides, water quality & resources, and aggregate resources, etc. most of which are the direct result of repeated glaciations.

My Research Project (new)

Publications

2006

Geyer, G., Landing, E., 2006. Morocco Field Excursion 2006. Ediacaran-Cambrian Depositional Environments and Stratigraphy of the Western Atlas Regions, in: Geyer, G., Landing, E. (Eds.), Morocco 2006. EdiacaranCambrian Depositional Environments and Stratigraphy of the Western Atlas Regions. Explanatory Description and Field Excursion Guide. , , pp. 47-112.

2005

Landing, E., 2005. Ancient Life, in: Eisenstadt, P., Moss, L. (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of New York State. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, pp. 83-86.
Landing, E., 2005. Geology and Plate Techtonics, in: Eisenstadt, P., Moss, L. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of New York State. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, New York, pp. 632-636.
E. Landing 2005, Early Paleozoic Avalon — Gondwana Unity: An Obituary — Response to ’Palaeontological Evidence Bearing on Global Ordovician-Silurian Continental Reconstructions’ by R. R. Fortey and L. R. M. Cocks, Earth-Science Reviews 69, 169-175. 10.1016/j.earscirev.2004.10.002
E. Landing 2005, Fabulous Fossils-The State Museum’s Trilobites. Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum 1, 8-9

2004

G. Geyer, E. Landing 2004, A Unified Lower-Middle Cambrian Chronostratigraphy for West Gondwana, Acta Geologica Polonica 54, 233-273.
E. Landing 2004, Fossils and "Deep Time" In New York, New York State Museum Educational Leaflet The University of the State of New York, Albany, NY
E. Landing 2004, Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary Interval Deposition and the Marginal Platform of the Avalon Microcontinent, Journal of Geodynamics 37, 411-435. 10.1016/j.jog.2004.02.014
Landing, E., Westrop, S., 2004. Environmental Patterns in the Origin and Evolution and Diversification Loci of Early Cambrian Skeletalized Metazoa: Evidence from the Avalon Microcontinent, in: Lipps, J., Wagoner, B. (Eds.), Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Biological Revolutions. Paleontological Society, , pp. 93-105.

2003

E. Landing 2003, Self-Taught American Scientist. New York Archives 2, 13-15