Origin and Reservoir Characteristics of Upper Ordovician Trenton-Black River Hydrothermal Dolomite Reservoirs in New York - L. B. Smith Jr. (AAPG Bulletin, 2006)
In the past decade, more than 20 new natural gas fields have been discovered in laterally discontinuous dolomites of the Upper Ordovician Black River Group in south-central New York. The dolomites form around basement-rooted wrench faults that are detectable on seismic data. Most fields occur in and around elongate fault-bounded structural lows interpreted to be negative flower structures. Away from these faults, the formation is composed of impermeable limestone and forms the lateral seal for the reservoirs. In most cases, the faults die out within the overlying Trenton Limestone and Utica Shale. Most porosity occurs in saddle dolomite-coated vugs, breccias, and fractured zones. Matrix porosity is uncommon in the Black River cores described for this study. The patchy distribution around basement-rooted faults and geochemical and fluid-inclusion analyses supports a fault-related hydrothermal origin for the saddle and matrix dolomites. This play went for many years without detection because of its unconventional structural setting (i.e., structural lows versus highs). Using the appropriate integrated structural-stratigraphic-diagenetic model, more hydrothermal dolomite natural gas reservoirs are likely to be discovered in the Black River of New York and in carbonates around the world.
Keywords: Black River Group; New York; Upper Ordovician

Structurally Controlled Hydrothermal Alteration of Carbonate Reservoirs: Introduction - L. B. Smith Jr.; Davies, G.R. (AAPG Bulletin, 2006)
This issue of the AAPG Bulletin is dedicated to structurally controlled hydrothermal alteration of carbonate rocks and reservoirs. This type of alteration covers the spectrum of carbonate-hosted sulfide ore deposits to hydrothermal dolomite to leached limestones, and in many cases has a major impact on reservoir type, geometry, quality, and distribution. Hydrothermal dolomite (HTD) reservoirs have a long history of exploration and development in North America, extending from the earliest discoveries in the Ordovician Lima- Indiana and other trends of the northeastern United States (Hurley and Budros, 1990; Wickstrom et al., 1992), and continuing today with the Trenton–Black River play and other hosts in the Michigan and northern Appalachian basins of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada.
Keywords: carbonate rocks; Hydrothermal alteration

Archaeological Monitoring, Treatment, and Data Recovery Plan for the World Trade Center Site and the New York City Hudson River Bulkhead, PIN X759.80.321 Rte. 9A from West Thames to Chambers StreetsNew York City, New York County, New York - J. Sopko (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey for PIN 1306.50.121, I-890, Wetland Mitigation of Exit 6, Town of Rotterdam, Schenectady County, New York. - J. Sopko (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1089.61.101, Route 4 over Glens Falls Feeder Canal, Town of Kingsbury, Washington County, New York - J. Sopko; M.S. LoRusso (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Long-term Changes in Ecosystem Health of Two Hudson Valley Watershed, New York, USA, 1936-2001. - Stainbrook, K. M.; Limburg, K. E.; R. A. Daniels; Schmidt, R. E. (Hydrobiologia, 2006)
We examined long-term ecological change in two Hudson River tributaries, the Wappinger and Fishkill Creek watersheds in Dutchess County, New York State. Fish data spanning 65 years (1936, 1988, 1992, and 2001) and shorter term macroinvertebrate data (1988, 2001) were used to assess the influence of land use practices. Between 1988 and 2001, macroinvertebrate index Biotic Assessment Profile (BAP) improved by 113–165% in the Fishkill Creek watershed, and fish Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) improved by 117–140%. Fish IBI and fish species richness were significantly different (p < 0.01) between the watersheds, with Wappinger Creek in better condition. Long-term fish IBI scores showed degradation in both watersheds since the 1930s. Changes in species composition suggest community homogenization on par with overall changes in the fish fauna of New York. Most notable were increases in tolerant species and declines in intolerant or moderately tolerant species. Whereas Fishkill Creek IBIs showed decline in 1988 relative to 1936, followed by improvement, Wappinger Creek declined monotonically in environmental quality. Development has intensified in both watersheds, but Fishkill Creek is improving while Wappinger Creek watershed is undergoing less mitigated degradation. We find that older, semi-quantitative data can be used to construct environmental quality indicators, and can be of great use for measuring long-term change.
Keywords: aquatic invertebrates; biotic indices; Fish; historic trends; New York; stream ecology

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey for PIN 2016.71.121, Route 12, Towns of Sangerfield, Marshall, Kirkland, and New Hartford, Oneida County, New York - D. Staley; V. A. Schmitt (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Letter Report for the MacNaughton Cabin and McIntyre Blast Furnace Site, Town of - D. Staley (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2071.07.121 Route 291 over the Erie (Barge) Canal, Town of Marcy, Oneida County, New York. - D. Staley; V. A. Schmitt (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2804.43.101, Slopewall on State Route 80, Town of Stark, Herkimer County, New York - D. Staley (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report of the Soddy and Talcott Tavern Site, Towns of Adams and Watertown, Jefferson County, New York. - D. Staley (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report of the Waterville Curve, Simon Hubbard, and Franklin Comstock Site, Route 12, Towns of Marshall and Kirkland, Oneida County, New York. - D. Staley (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Shadow of Doubt or Doubtful Shadows: Small-Scale Low-Density Lithic Scatters and Agrifacts - D. Staley (North American Archaeologist, 2006)
The fundamental identification of flaked stone as artifact is critical to all that follows in archaeology. The identification of sites, interpretations of prehistoric behaviors, adaptations, land use patterns, settlement and subsistence studies, etc. can be distilled to the initial determination of an artifact as being “real” or the result of natural or accidental phenomena such as plow damage. In cultural resource management, artifact identification drives immediate field decisions to modify research strategies and ultimately forms the argumentative basis for research potentials and determinations of significance. Chert flakes and shatter discovered during a NYSDOT sponsored project conducted by New York State Museum-Cultural Resource Survey Program were subjected to a battery of lithic attribute analyses in an attempt to identify artifacts in an agricultural area blanketed by natural chert. With the exception of exotic material types, no single attribute can certainly identify human involvement. A cumulative score of multiple attributes affords greater levels of confidence for cultural vs. natural determinations for larger assemblages. In settings with the “background noise” of natural chert in cultivated soils, cultural genesis determinations of single pieces and very small sparse assemblages must be recognized as hunches or faith-based decisions yet worthy of measured continued investigation.
Keywords: artifacts; attribute analyses; Chert flakes; lithics; shatter

Ambulance on Exhibit - G. Stein (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: history

Memories of the Rocket Car - G. Stein (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: history

Data Recovery and Monitoring Excavations along Route 4, Town of Fort Edward, Washington County, New York. - T. Thomas (New York Archaeological Council Newsletter, 2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

News from the New York State Museum - T. Thomas (New York Archaeological Council Newsletter, 2006)
Keywords: anthropology

Strabismus and Pseudofossils: A Case Study of Rudolf Ruedemann (1864-1956) - V. P. Tollerton Jr. (Earth Sciences History, 2006)
Rudolf Ruedemann (1864-1956), fourth State Paleontologist of New York, was an internationally renowned and well-respected paleontologist. Throughout his long and productive career, he named, described, and figured more than six hundred fossils. Some of those fossils have not stood the test of time, having succumbed to the usual paleontological process of being synonymized, often because the material is poorly preserved or distorted. There are, however, a surprisingly large number of his fossils that are of inorganic origin, that is, they are pseudofossils. Evidence has been discovered that indicates he may have had the eye condition known as strabismus. The major alternative hypothesis, that he knew the fossils were pseudofossils and that he established the species to prove preconceived ideas, as well as minor alternatives, concerning his ego, or his judgement, are demonstrated to be implausible. It is recommended that his collections be re-studied and that this possible eye condition be taken into account.
Keywords: history of science; pseudofossils; Rudolf Ruedemann

Rediscovering This Earth: Some Ethnogeological Aspects of the Illinois Valley Hopewell Mounds - Van Nest, J. (Recreating Hopewell, 2006)
Keywords: anthropology

Gebhards of Schoharie Were Geological Pioneers - L. VanAller Hernick (Schoharie County Historical Review, 2006)
Keywords: geology

A Look Back: Remembering State Paleontologist Winifred Goldring - L. VanAller Hernick (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: geology history paleontology

Pragian to Eifelian Strata (Mid Lower to Lower Middle Devonian), Northern Appalachian Basin -- A Stratigraphic Revision - C. A. Ver Straeten; C. Brett (Northeastern Geology and Environmental Science, 2006)
Keywords: geology

Selling the Store: The Johnson Country Store Collection - Williams, C. (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: history

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2016.68.121, Route 12 over Cincinnati Creek, Town of Trenton, Oneida County, New York - L. J. Xinakes; N. L. Davis; V. A. Schmitt (New York State Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration, 2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2016.68.121, Route 12 over Cincinnati Creek, Town of Trenton, Oneida County, New York - L. J. Xinakes; N. L. Davis; V. A. Schmitt (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

PIN 1001.28.121, NY 2 over the Poestenkill, Hamlet of Eagle Mills, Town of Brunswick, Rensselaer County, New York - Boyle, M.; M.S. LoRusso (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Andrew Jackson Downing - Burch, R. J. (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: history

Edward Lamson Henry - Burch, R. J. (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: history

From the Collections: The New York Chamber of Commerce Collection at the New York State Museum - Burch, R. J. (Members Update, 2005)
Keywords: history

PIN 1218.04.121/BIN 1-00663-0, Route 9L over Halfway Creek, Town of Queensbury, Warren County, New York - J. S. Cardinal (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

PIN 2016.66.121/BIN 1-00950-9, NY Routes 12 and 365 Interchange, Town of Trenton, Oneida County, New York - J. S. Cardinal (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

PIN 8177.41.122, Cultural Resource Site Examination of the Rhoades Site, Town of Deerpark, Orange County, New York - J. S. Cardinal (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

PIN 9044.53.121, Route Bridge over Mine Kill, Town of Gilboa, Schoharie County, New York - J. S. Cardinal; M.S. LoRusso (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Molecular Phylogeny of Cicadomorpha (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadoidea, Cercopoidea, and Membracoidea): Adding Evidence to the Controversy - J. R. Cryan (Systematic Entomology, 2005)
The hemipteran infraorder Cicadomorpha comprises the superfamilies Cicadoidea (cicadas), Cercopoidea (spittlebugs or froghoppers) and Membracoidea (leafhoppers and treehoppers). Earlier attempts to determine relationships among these three monophyletic lineages using either morphological or molecular data suffered from insufficient sampling (taxonomic and data) and problematic tree rooting, leading to discordant results. Presented here are phylogenetic reconstructions within Cicadomorpha based on DNA nucleotide sequence data from multiple genetic markers (18S rDNA, 28S rDNA, and histone 3) sequenced from representative taxa of Cicadidae, Tettigarctidae, Cercopidae, Aphrophoridae, Clastopteridae, Machaerotidae, Epipygidae, Cicadellidae, Membracidae, Myerslopiidae and Aetalionidae. To test the robustness of the phylogenetic signal, these sequence data were analysed separately and in combination under various alignment parameters using both manual alignment (of both attenuated and full sequences) and alignment via clustal x. The results demonstrate clearly that, despite the alignment method used, basing a phylogeny on a single gene region is often misleading. Analyses of the combination of datasets support the major relationships within Cicadomorpha as (Membracoidea (Cicadoidea, Cercopoidea)). Internal relationships recovered within each superfamily shows evidence for: (1) the placement of Myerslopiidae as the sister group of the remaining Membracoidea; (2) the paraphyly of Cicadellidae; (3) the sister-group relationship between Machaerotidae and Clastopteridae; (4) the monophyly of Cercopidae; (5) the diversification of Epipygidae from within the possibly paraphyletic Aphrophoridae.
Keywords: Cercopoidea (spittlebugs or froghoppers); Cicadoidea (cicadas); hemipteran; Membracoidea (leafhoppers and treehoppers); Phylogenetics

Reconstructing Agricultural Self-Sufficiency at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico - Dahlin, B. H.; Beach, T.; Luzzadder-Beach, S.; Hixson, D.; Hudson, S.; Mangnoni, A.; Mansell, E.; D. E. Mazeau (Ancient Mesoamerica, 2005)
The Pakbeh Regional Economy Program is studying the vexing questions of economic life among the ancient Maya in northwestern Yucatan, Mexico. The region constitutes an ideal laboratory in which to investigate these questions, as it has very limited agricultural potential and fewer options for intensification than are found in the southern and central lowlands, yet many times more people lived here during the Classic period than can eke out a living today, and it has abundant evidence of market trade. Because crop yields in outfields are very low, and known intensification techniques are possibly incapable of sufficient yield enhancement, we anticipated that it would be an easy task to demonstrate that this population was dependent on imports of food and other necessities of life from beyond the region and therefore had a complex exchange economy. Twelve years later, we report on how wrong we were. We are still struggling with an evaluation of agricultural insufficiency. We explore the many and varied lines of evidence we have pursued and the confounding factors inherent in them, including problems with reconstructing ancient population size, equating contemporary and historical crop yields and farming practices, as well as ancient with modern environmental conditions, and hypothesizing potential forms of agricultural intensification, including intensive fertilization and other yield enhancement techniques, and reliance on alternative crops. The best that we can say at this juncture is that using contemporary production and consumption standards, the most conservative population estimates, and the most liberal estimates of available land in the surrounding region, we can conclude only that regional agricultural self-sufficiency remains unlikely but not proved. What initially seemed like an archaeological “no-brainer” has required us to delve into the realm of archaeological epistemology that we would like to share with our colleagues.
Keywords: agricultural insufficiency; archaeological epistemology; Maya; Mexico

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1089.57.121, Route 4 Broadway, Village of Fort Edward, Washington County, New York - B. R. Dale (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 9125.05.121, NY Route 30 and 30A, Town of Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York,Addendum - B. R. Dale; V. A. Schmitt (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

PIN 1041.04.102, Route 372, Village of Greenwich, Town of Easton, Washington County, New York - B. R. Dale; M.S. LoRusso (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

PIN 7143.27.121, US 11/Main Street, Village of Canton, St. Lawrence County, New York - B. R. Dale; M.S. LoRusso (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Tales from the Field - B. R. Dale (Members Update, 2005)
Keywords: anthropology

Changes in Fish Assemblages in the Tidal Hudson River, New York - R. A. Daniels; Limburg, K. E.; Schmidt, R. E.; Strayer, D. L.; Chambers, R. C. (American Fisheries Society Symposium, 2005)
The main channel of the Hudson River is a tidal estuary from its mouth in New York Harbor to Troy, New York, 247 km upstream. It drains about 35,000 km2 and is an important navigational, commercial, and recreational system. Since the arrival of European settlers over 400 years ago, it has undergone numerous environmental changes. These changes have included channel maintenance by dredging, wholesale dumping of industrial and domestic wastes, scattered in-basin urbanization and shoreline development, deforestation of the watershed and an increase in agriculture, and water removal for commercial, industrial, and agricultural needs. In addition, the biota of the river has supported commercial and recreational harvesting, exotic species have become established, and habitats have become fragmented, replaced, changed in extent, or isolated. The tidal portion of the Hudson River is among the most-studied water bodies on Earth. We use data from surveys conducted in 1936, the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s to examine changes in fish assemblages and from other sources dating back to 1842. The surveys are synoptic but use a variety of gears and techniques and were conducted by different researchers with different study goals. The scale of our assessment is necessarily coarse. Over 200 species of fish are reported from the drainage, including freshwater and diadromous species, estuarine forms, certain life history stages of primarily marine species, and marine strays. The tidal Hudson River fish assemblages have responded to the environmental changes of the last century in several ways. Several important native species appear to be in decline (e.g., rainbow smelt Osmerus mordax and Atlantic tomcod Microgadus tomcod), others, once in decline, have rebounded (e.g., striped bass Morone saxatilis), and populations of some species seem stable (e.g., spottail shiner Notropis hudsonius). No native species is extirpated from the system, and only one, shortnose sturgeon Acipenser brevirostrum, is listed as endangered. The recent establishment of the exotic zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha may be shifting the fish assemblage away from openwater fishes (e.g., Alosa) and toward species associated with vegetation (e.g., centrarchids). In general, the Hudson River has seen an increase in the number and importance of alien species and a change in dominant species.
Keywords: environmental changes; fish assemblages; Hudson River; New York

Discovery Now - R. A. Daniels (Members Update, 2005)
Keywords: biology

Fish - R. A. Daniels (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: biology

One Fish, Two Fish, ... - R. A. Daniels (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: biology

Review of "Disconnected Rivers: Linking Rivers to Landscapes" - R. A. Daniels (Quarterly Review of Biology, 2005)
Keywords: biology

A Look Back: The New York State Museum and the Capitol Fire - P. B. Drooker (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: anthropology

Molecular Genetic Variation Across the Southern and Eastern Geographic Ranges of the African Lion, Panthera leo - Dubach, J.; Patterson, B.D.; Briggs, M.B.; Venzke, K.; Flamand, J.; Stander, P.; Scheepers, L.; R. W. Kays (Conservation Genetics, 2005)
We examined sequence variation in the mitochondrial cytochrome b and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 5 genes (2,360 bp total) for 26 lions from eleven locations throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Six distinct haplotypes were observed in the combined sequences, forming two clades: the eastern and the western savannas. The Uganda-Western Kenya haplotype grouped at a basal position with the eastern clade of lions from Tsavo south to the Transvaal and Natal regions. The phylogenetic position of the haplotype from Sabi Sands in the southern part of Kruger National Park remained poorly resolved. The haplotypes found in Namibia and Botswana formed the western clade. The modest genetic variation documented here argues against taxonomic distinctions among living African lions.
Keywords: African lion; cytochrome b; mitochondrial variation; NADH dehydrogenase; Panthera leo; phylogeography

Mohican Seminar 2 The Challenge--An Algonquian Peoples Seminar - Dunn, S. W. (New York State Museum Bulletin, 2005)
Keywords: anthropology history

New York State Geological Survey (NYSGS) - R. H. Fakundiny; Albanese., J. R. (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: geology history

Albany as a Military Headquarters - C. L. Fisher (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: anthropology history

Addendum Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 7130.19.121, Route 22, Town of Beekmantown, Clinton County, New York - A. Gore; V. A. Schmitt (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 7049.16.122, Route 812 over the Oswegatchie River, St. Lawrence County, New York - A. Gore; V. A. Schmitt (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 7780.04.102, Wetland Mitigation Along Route 72, Town of Parishville, St. Lawrence County, New York - A. Gore (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Art of the Mushroom - J. H. Haines (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: biology history

Mushrooms - J. H. Haines (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: biology

A Look Back: "Old Indian Life Groups. - G. R. Hamell (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: anthropology biology

Rattlesnake Tales - G. R. Hamell; Fox, W.A. (Ontario Archaeology, 2005)
Archaeological evidence from the Northeast and from selected Mississippian sites is presented and combined with ethnographic, historic and linguistic data to investigate the symbolic significance of the rattlesnake to northeastern Native groups. The authors argue that the rattlesnake is, chief and foremost, the pre-eminent shaman with a (gourd) medicine rattle attached to his tail. A strong and pervasive association of serpents, including rattlesnakes, with lightning and rainfall is argued to have resulted in a drought-related ceremonial expression among Ontario Iroquoians from circa A.D. 1200 -1450.
Keywords: anthropology

Cooking Residues, AMS Dates, and the Middle-to-Late-Woodland Transition in Central New York - J. P. Hart; H. J. Brumbach (Northeast Anthropology, 2005)
Keywords: anthropology

Discovery Now: Making Sense of Gourds - J. P. Hart (Members Update, 2005)
Keywords: anthropology biology

Monongahela Subsistence-Settlement Change? - J. P. Hart; Nass, J. P.; Means, B. K. (Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 2005)
The Late Prehistoric (c. A.D. 1050/1100–1635) Monongahela tradition of southwestern Pennsylvania and portions of adjoining states has come to be associated with specific subsistence-settlement traits. These include a heavy dependence on maize-based agriculture, large percentages of villages in upland locales, and use of semisubterranean storage facilities. In the traditional approach, that entails the construction of a series of sequential time periods, changes in subsistence and settlement traits are most often interpreted to have occurred at the boundaries of the time periods. These periods are defined on the basis of pottery style changes and the addition of European artifacts. An accumulation of data now allows for statistical analysis of posited changes in Monongahela tradition settlement and subsistence traits. Results of this study do not support the proposed subsistence and settlement pattern shifts at time period boundaries. Rather, the results support the position of continuous variation in the settlement and subsistence traits through the entire sequence with no evidence of regional uniformity.
Keywords: late prehistory; Monongahela tradition; settlement; subsistence

Cultural Resources Archaeological Pre-Reconnaissance and Architectural Survey Report of PIN 1306.50.121,Route 7 and I-87, Town of Colonie, Albany County, New York - Holschuh, D.; V. A. Schmitt; C. B. Rieth (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Nature and Significance of the Carthage-Colton Shear Zone and Related Late-to-Postectonic Granites and Ore Deposits; Adirondack Mountains, New York - Johnson, E; Selleck , B.; DeLorraine, W.; M. V. Lupulescu (2005)
Keywords: geology

Exotic Species - R. W. Kays; R. A. Daniels; R. S. Mitchell; D. P. Molloy; C. A. Siegfried (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: biology

Mapping Mammals: Moving from Paper Tags to Digital Maps - R. W. Kays (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: biology

Lost Mines, Hidden Danger - W. M. Kelly; Schultz, R. (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: geology history

Meteorites - W. M. Kelly (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: geology

Mining and Mineral Industry - W. M. Kelly (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: geology

Ancient Life - E. Landing (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: geology paleontology

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 - E. Landing (Earth-Science Reviews, 2005)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Fabulous Fossils-The State Museum's Trilobites - E. Landing (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: paleontology

Geology and Plate Techtonics - E. Landing (Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: geology

A Cultural Resource Survey Report Archaeological Reconnaissance and Architectural Survey of PIN 2134.18.121, NYS Route 5, Town of Mohawk, Montgomery County, New York - M. Lenardi; V. A. Schmitt (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report Archaeological Pre-Reconnaissance and Architectural Survey of PIN 0757.46.121, Town of Riverhead,Suffolk County, New York - M. Lenardi; M.S. LoRusso (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Battle of Bennington - P. Lord Jr. (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: history

Wood Creek - P. Lord Jr. (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: history

A Cultural Resource Survey Report for An Historic Setting Analysis of PIN 5576.67.121, US Route 20A, Village of East Aurora, Erie County, New York - M.S. LoRusso; Pellerin, J. (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

An Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) Documentation of the Fulton Street Bridge over the Old Champlain Canal, NYSDOT PIN 1804.93.101, Village of Waterford, Saratoga County, New York. - M.S. LoRusso (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Fluoropargasite, A New Member of the Calcic Amphiboles from Edenville, Orange County, New York - M. V. Lupulescu; Rakovan, J.; Robinson, G. W.; Hughes, J. M. (The Canadian Mineralogist, 2005)
Fluoropargasite (IMA 2003–050), ideally NaCa2(Mg4Al)(Si6Al2)O22F2, is a new member of the calcic amphiboles (group 2). It was collected from the Franklin Marble, of Grenville age, at Edenville, Orange County, New York, the type locality. The holotype specimen is a 13 × 7 × 4.5 cm crystal associated with calcite, actinolite, titanite and phlogopite. The same mineral has also been identified from Russell, St. Lawrence County, and Monroe, Orange County, New York. The mineral is black, with a gray to greenish gray streak and a vitreous luster. It is transparent to translucent in very thin fragments, non-fluorescent in ultraviolet light, brittle with a conchoidal fracture, and has a perfect {110} cleavage, a Mohs hardness of ~6, a Dmeas of 3.18 g/cm3 and a Dcalc of 3.19 g/cm3 for the empirical formula with Z = 2. Fluoropargasite is biaxial (+), with α 1.634, β 1.642, γ 1.654 (all ± 0.002), 2Vmeas 68°, 2Vcalc 79°, Y = b and Z ∧ c = 24° (acute), dispersion r > v, weak, pleochroism X colorless to light brown, Y light brown, and Z brown. The Gladstone–Dale compatibility index is superior, with 1 – (KP/KC) = −0.010 for the calculated density, and −0.016 for the measured density. The mineral is monoclinic, C2/m, with refined unit-cell parameters a 9.8771(6), b 18.041(1), c 5.3092(3) Å, β 105.133(1)°, V 913.25(3) Å3, Z = 2, and a:b:c 0.5475:1:0.2943, determined from single-crystal X-ray- diffraction data using MoKα radiation. A refinement of the structure led to the determination of cation site-preferences and degree of order. The six strongest lines in the X-ray powder-diffraction pattern [d in Å(I)(hkl)] are: 8.44(100)(110), 3.13(80)(310), 3.28(41)(240), 2.345(41)(3̅51), 2.810(32)(330), and 2.385(21)(350). The chemical composition determined by electron-microprobe analysis is SiO2 43.30, MgO 14.44, FeO 9.73, CaO 12.29, Al2O3 12.11, Na2O 2.88, TiO2 0.90, MnO 0.08, K2O 0.91, V2O3 0.18, Cr2O3 0.01, F 2.71, Cl 0.12, O = (F + Cl) −1.17, H2O (stoichiometry) 0.71, sum 99.20 wt%, which corresponds to the empirical formula: (Na0.75K0.17)∑ 0.92 (Ca1.94Na0.06)∑2.00 (Mg3.18Fe2+1.18Al0.50Ti0.10Fe3+0.02V0.02Mn0.01)∑5.00 (Si6.39Al1.61)∑8.00 O22[F1.26(OH)0.71Cl0.03]∑2.00, with (OH + F + Cl) = 2 apfu based on 24 anions. The name of the mineral is in accord with the IMA nomenclature for amphiboles.
Keywords: calcic amphibole; Edenville; fluoropargasite; Franklin Marble; Grenville Province; new mineral species; New York; structure determination

Garnet - M. V. Lupulescu (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: geology

New Mineral Species - M. V. Lupulescu (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: geology

The Carnivora: The Evolution, Adaptive Significance and Conservation of Their Diversity - Macdonald, D.W.; R. W. Kays (Walkers Carnivores of the World, 2005)
Keywords: biology

New Life for Old Bones - Malin, G. (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: biology history paleontology

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey for PIN 1940.98.101, Ryder Road Detour, Village and Town of Whitehall, Washington County, New York - D. E. Mazeau; M.S. LoRusso (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

DEC Ridge Environmental Center, Village of Ridge, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York - D. E. Mazeau (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

From the Collections: The Entomology Collection - T. L. McCabe (Members Update, 2005)
Keywords: biology

Insect Biodiversity of a Jack Pine Barrens, An Interim Report - T. L. McCabe (2005)
Keywords: biology

Jack Pine Lepidoptera Survey. April - June 2005 Update - T. L. McCabe (2005)
Keywords: biology

James Eights 1798-1882 Antarctic Explorer, Albany Naturalist, His Life, His Times, His Works - McKinley, D. L. (New York State Museum Bulletin, 2005)
Keywords: biology history

The Bryoflora of Mt. Everett, Taconic Mountains, Massachusetts - N. G. Miller (Rhodora, 2005)
An inventory of the bryophyte flora of Mt. Everett and vicinity, southwestern Massachusetts, a 795 m mountain with an unusual dwarf Pinus rigida (pitch pine) summit forest, produced records for 109 mosses and 45 liverworts (153 species and one variety). The summit pine vegetation contained some bryophytes known to occur in lowland pitch pine forest elsewhere in the northeastern United States, but no species unique to this vegetation type. Some species more characteristic of higher elevation mountains with red spruce-balsam fir forest in the northeastern United States were present in the summit and subsummit areas of Mt. Everett, especially the latter. These azonal northern bryophytes may be descendents of populations of species that were more abundant in the past. Species richness on the mountain increased from summit to lowland, and the subsummit area contained more species than the summit forest area. Substantial differences exist between the bryofloras of Mt. Everett and Mt. Greylock, Massachusetts, 70 km to the north, reflecting edaphic and climatic dissimilarities between the two areas. Bryum flaccidum, Plagiomnium medium, Pseudotaxiphyllum distichaceum, and Sphagnum quinquefarium, on the basis of collections from Mt. Everett and vicinity, are added to the flora of Massachusetts.
Keywords: Berkshires; bryophytes; liverworts; Massachusetts; mosses; Mt. Everett; Mt. Greylock; pine barrens; pitch pine; Taconic Mountains

Bryophytes and Lichens of a Calcium-Rich Spring Seep Isolated on the Granitic Terrain of Mt. Katahdin, Maine, U.S.A - N. G. Miller; Fryday, A. M.; Hinds, J. W. (Rhodora, 2005)
An unexpected concentration of calcicole mosses and lichens has been discovered at and near a small spring seep on the granite headwall of the North Basin of Mt. Katahdin, Piscataquis County, Maine. Water samples from the spring were circumneutral and high in calcium ion content, whereas other springs, ponds, and streams on the mountain tested acidic and low in calcium. Because the Katahdin granite contains no primary carbonate minerals, it is suggested that the source of calcium enrichment in the North Basin spring water is secondary calcium carbonate (calcite) precipitated in cavities and fractures near the base of the upper Katahdin granite and its subsequent dissolution and mobilization by percolating groundwater. Plagioclase, epidote, and other calcic minerals in the granite supply the primary calcium ions. The moss calcicoles grew in small discontinuous patches on wet humified peaty soil over alpine bedrock ledges in communities having floristics and water chemistry similar to lowland rich fens. Present in or near the seep were mosses previously unrecorded for New England or Maine [Loeskypnum wickesiae (Grout) Tuom., Neckera oligocarpa Bruch in Hartm., Pseudoleskea radicosa (Mitt.) Mac. & Kindb., Tortella tortuosa var. fragilifolia (Jur.) Limpr., Warnstorfia sarmentosa (Wahlenb.) Hedenäs], one lichen [Hymenelia cyanocarpa (Anzi) Lutzoni], reported here for the first time from North America, and another lichen (Thelidium minutulum Körb.) for the first time from the contiguous United States. An area adjacent to the seep, but unaffected by calcareous seep-water, was remarkable for a concentration of rare lichen species of acidic rocks, including Catillaria contristans (Nyl.) Zahlbr. and Lecanora caesiosora Poelt, that have not previously been reported from North America. The bryophyte and lichen flora of the seep area is an example of a Holocene alpine microrefugium. Refugia such as these can serve as a source of propagules that allow new populations to establish elsewhere in mountainous terrain, or beyond, during climatic and other environmental change. Therefore, extant, cryptic microrefugia are important biogeographically and especially worthy of preservation efforts.
Keywords: Base-rich spring seep; bryophytes; calcicole; lichens; Maine; microrefugia; Mt. Katahdin; rich fen

Flora and Vegetation - N. G. Miller (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: biology

Ophryoglena hemophaga n. sp. (Ciliophora: Ophryoglenidae): A Parasite of the Digestive Gland of Zebra Mussels Dreissena polymorpha - D. P. Molloy; Lynn, D. H.; L. Giamberini (Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 2005)
Ophryoglena hemophaga n. sp. is described from a freshwater Dreissena polymorpha population in the Rhine delta of the Netherlands. This is the first ophryoglenine species (order Hymenostomatida, suborder Ophryoglenina) recorded as a molluscan parasite. As is typical of ciliates in the suborder Ophryoglenina, O. hemophaga exhibits a polymorphic life history with cystment and reproduction by palintomy. Trophonts were observed within digestive gland lumina, and zebra mussel hemocytes were present in some of their digestive vacuoles. The presence of a single, longitudinal tract of multiple contractile vacuoles represents its most unique feature and distinguishes it from all other described Ophryoglena spp. The number of somatic kineties of O. hemophaga (range 50 to 62) is also a distinguishing feature, since it is the lowest described from any Ophryoglena sp. Other characteristics of this species include: ovoid to elongate trophonts 96 to 288 µm in length, with an elongate macronucleus 41 to 65 µm in length; tomonts 50 to 150 µm in diameter producing a clear mucous cyst envelope, whose thickness is approximately half of the tomont diameter; elongated theronts 96 to 131 µm in length which emerge after 1 to 3 cell divisions taking 36 to 48 h at 20 ± 3°C. Protomonts and theronts are, respectively, negatively and positively phototactic—characteristics that likely aid in maintenance of infection in zebra mussel populations.
Keywords: Contractile vacuoles; Palintomy; Phototaxis; Theront; Tomont; Trophont; Zebra mussel

The Rediscovery of a Species - R. S. Morse (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: biology

Cultural Resources Data Recovery Report of the Spain's Boarding House Site, Village of Thendara, Herkimer County, New York - M. Pickands (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Archaeological Research and National Register Significance - C. B. Rieth (New York Archaeological Council Newsletter, 2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Crusoe Creek Excavations - C. B. Rieth (The Monitor, 2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Site Examination Report of the Crusoe Creek Site (NYSM # 1253), Town of Savannah,Wayne County, New York - C. B. Rieth (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Survey Reconnaissance Survey Report for OGS 41532, Green Haven Correctional Facility, Greene County, New York. - C. B. Rieth; J. Bollen (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

John Big Tree - C. B. Rieth (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: anthropology

Kanatsiohareke Mohawk Community - C. B. Rieth (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: anthropology

Upland Settlement and Subsistence in New York - C. B. Rieth (Uplands Archaeology in the East: Symposia VIII and IX, 2005)
Keywords: anthropology Cultural Resources

PIN 3045.51.121, NY Route 104, Town of Scriba and City of Oswego, Oswego County, New York - J. Ross; V. A. Schmitt; N. L. Davis (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Carousels - J. L. Scherer (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: history

Duncan Phyfe - J. L. Scherer (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: history

Furniture Making - J. L. Scherer (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: history

The Tompkins Collection - J. L. Scherer (The Dutch Settlers Society of Albany Yearbook, 2005)
Keywords: history

The Weitsman Stoneware Collection - J. L. Scherer (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: history

The 'Discovery' of Platanthera praeclara - C. J. Sheviak (The Native Orchid Conference Journal, 2005)
Keywords: biology

The Alvord Plaster Mill Site - Shoemaker, S. (Legacy, 2005)
Keywords: anthropology

Secrets of Stone Flakes - Shoemaker, S. (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: anthropology

Zebra Mussels - C. A. Siegfried; D. P. Molloy (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: biology

New Hydrothermal Dolomite Natural Gas Reserves in Southern Tier - Smith, L.; R. E. Nyahay (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: geology

Archaeological Monitoring, Treatment, and Data Recovery Plan for New York City Hudson River Bulkhead, PIN X759.80.321, Route 9A from Vesey to Murray Streets, Battery Park City Site 26, New York City, New York County, New York - J. Sopko (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey of PIN 1460.42.121 NY 32 over the Mohawk River, City of Cohoes and Town of Waterford, Albany and Saratoga Counties, New York-Addendum - J. Sopko (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1001.38.121, Route 2 Slope Stabilization Area, Town of Petersburg, Rensselaer County, New York - J. Sopko (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1306.50.121, Routes 7 and I-87, Exit 5 Interchange Bridge Replacement, Town of Colonie, Albany County, New York - J. Sopko (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1721.78.121, Exit 5 of I-87, Town of Colonie, Albany County, New York - J. Sopko; V. A. Schmitt (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for Stony Kill Environmental Education Center, Town of Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York - J. Sopko (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1932.28.121 Route 9J Multi-Use Path, Village of Castleton-on-Hudson, Rensselaer County, New York - D. Staley (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2038.29.121, Route 365, Town of Verona, Oneida County, New York - D. Staley; V. A. Schmitt (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Site Examination Report of GM05, GM40, and GM62, Department of Corrections Five Points Correctional Facility Parcel, Seneca Army Depot, Town of Romulus, Seneca County, New Yor - D. Staley (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Punuk Whale Bone Grave from Sivuqaq, St. Lawrence Island: Evidence of High Social Standing, A.D. 775-1020 - D. Staley; Mason, O. K. (Alaska Journal of Anthropology, 2005)
Cultural resource monitoring from 1991 to 1994 revealed 114 graves within the Gambell beach ridge plain; only one gravecontained a sizable inventory of associated objects, classifiable within the Punuk phase. A single 14C age on the driftwood grave cover placed the interment between AD 775 and 1020. The associated grave goods are anomalously elaborate for the Sivuqaq region and somewhat resemble the high status graves reported from Cape Dezhneva, Chukotka.
Keywords: Bering Strait archaeology; Cultural Change; Mortuary Practices

A Sampler of Butterflies and Moths in New York State - Stegemann, E.; T. L. McCabe (The Conservationist, 2005)
Keywords: biology

Ambulances in New York 1911-2004 - G. Stein (New York State Museum Circular, 2005)
Keywords: history

Bicycling (Manufacture) - G. Stein (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: history

Franklin Automobile Company - G. Stein (The Encyclopedia of New York, 2005)
Keywords: history

Good Roads Movement - G. Stein (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: history

Help is Here: How the Ambulances Came to the State Museum - G. Stein (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: history

League of American Wheelmen - G. Stein (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: history

Motor Vehicle Industry - G. Stein (Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: history

Motorcycling - G. Stein (Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: history

A New Home for a Prized Possession - G. Stein (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: history

Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company - G. Stein (Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: history

Railroad Grade Crossings - G. Stein (Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: history

Into Africa - J. M. Urban (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: biology

A Look Back: James Hall 1811-1898 - L. VanAller Hernick (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: history paleontology

Devonian Stratigraphy and K-bentonites in the Cherry Valley-Schoharie Valley Region - C. A. Ver Straeten; Ebert, J.R.; Bartholomew, L.J.; Benedict, L.J.; Matterson, D.K.; Shaw, G.H. (Fieldtrip Guidebook, 2005)
Keywords: geology

History in Every Place - Williams, C. (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: history

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1247.08.121, Route 9P/Saratoga Lake, City of Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, New York - L. J. Xinakes; N. L. Davis; M.S. LoRusso (New York State Department of Transportation, 2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1247.08.121, Route 9P/Saratoga Lake, City of Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, New York - L. J. Xinakes; N. L. Davis; M.S. LoRusso (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Adair's 'Marsh-mallows': An Eighteenth-Century Native American Cornfield Crop in the Southeastern United States - Asch, D. L. (Aboriginal Ritual and Economy in the Eastern Woodlands: Essays in Memory of Howard Dalton Winters, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Master Lansing Prouty: An Individual Death Reveals the Trials of Everyday Life in 1840s Greenwich - Barbagallo, T. (Annual Journal of the Washington County Historical Society, 2004)
Keywords: history

The Bakehouse - J. Bollen ('The Most Advantageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Bridge Replacement with Culvert at Whalen Hill Rd (Johnny Cake Hill Rd) at Edumar Lane, Town of Madison, Madison County, New York - Boyle, M. (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report, Phase I Archaeological and Architectural Survey Addendum of PIN 1001.28.121, BIN 1-00020-0, NY Route 2 over the Poestenkill, Hamlet of Eagle Mills, Town of Brunswick, Rensselaer County, New York - Boyle, M.; M.S. LoRusso (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Eurypterids, Phyllocarids, and Ostracodes - Braddy, S. J.; V. P. Tollerton Jr.; Racheboeuf, P. R.; Schallreuter, R. (The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, 2004)
Keywords: paleontology

New York Glacial Geology - D. H. Cadwell; Muller, E. H. (Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology, Part II: North America, 2004)
Keywords: geology

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 8039.94.122. Route 9W, Village of Port Ewen, Ulster County, New York - J. S. Cardinal; M.S. LoRusso (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN8177.41.122/BIN 1-04066-0, Route 209 over Neversink River Bridge Replacement, Town of Deerpark, Orange County, New York - J. S. Cardinal (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Site Examination Report for NYSM # 11553, The Van Aken Farm II Site, Route 9W, Clay Road to North Broadway and Salem Street Intersection, Village of Port Ewen, Town of Esopus, Ulster County, New York - J. S. Cardinal (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Spatial Distribution Plots - J. S. Cardinal; Whelan, L. ('The Most Advantageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site., 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Where Have all the Rotifers Gone: Long Term Patterns in Lake Champlain Zooplankton Communities 1990-2001 - Carling, K. J.; Mihuc, T. B.; C. A. Siegfried; Bonham, R.E.; Dunlap, F. (Lake Champlain Partnerships and Research in the New Millennium, 2004)
Keywords: biology

Status of Fishes in New York: Increases, Declines and Homogenization of Watersheds - Carlson, D.M.; R. A. Daniels (American Midland Naturalist, 2004)
Fishes present in 19 watersheds in New York are inventoried. One hundred seventy-six taxa (171 species) reside in these watersheds. Eighteen taxa are extra-limital exotic fishes, that is, they are not native to any New York watershed. The remaining 158 taxa are native in at least one New York watershed, although transfer of species among watersheds within the state is, and has been, widespread. Sixteen species are diadromous or estuarine and eight of these species support land-locked populations, so 150 taxa are strictly freshwater and native. Watersheds differed markedly in richness and composition. Over 100 taxa are reported from five watersheds and seven have fewer than 75 taxa. Twelve species are now extirpated from all New York watersheds and 28 other species have disappeared from at least one of their historic watersheds. Fifty-seven native species are infrequently caught, are considered rare and are candidates for special consideration. Within the state, patterns of species distribution are complex and are affected by environmental differences among the watersheds, the presence of suitable dispersal routes and widespread introductions.
Keywords: fish assemblages; New York; species distribution; watersheds

From the Earth: Minerals and Meaning in the Hopewellian World - Charles, D. K.; Van Nest, J.; Buikstra, J.E. (Soils, Stones and Symbols: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on the Mineral World, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Initial Deglaciation of the Adirondack Mountains and Development of the Fulton Chain Lakes - Connally, G. G.; D. H. Cadwell (2004)

Species Profiles Aquatic Nuisance Species Research Program - Crosier, D. M.; D. P. Molloy (2004)
Keywords: biology

Discovery Now - J. R. Cryan (Members Update, 2004)
Keywords: biology

Treehopper Trees: Phylogeny of Membracidae (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Membracoidea) Based on Molecules and Morphology - J. R. Cryan; Wiegmann, B. M.; Deitz, L. L.; Dietrich, C. H.; Whiting, M. F. (Systematic Entomology, 2004)
Recent independent phylogenetic analyses of membracid relationships based on molecular and morphological data have identified monophyletic lineages within the family. However, the results of these studies have not fully resolved treehopper phylogeny, and relationships among some higher membracid lineages remain in doubt. Portions of three datasets (958 aligned nucleotides from elongation factor-1α, 2363 aligned nucleotides from 28S ribosomal DNA, and eighty-three morphological features of adults and nymphs) introduced in recent studies were reanalysed separately and in combination with two new molecular datasets (321 aligned nucleotides from wingless and 1829 aligned nucleotides from 18S ribosomal DNA). The results of the combined data analyses, contrary to previous analyses of morphological data alone, grouped membracids into two well-supported lineages, one comprising Stegaspidinae and Centrotinae, the other comprising Membracinae, Darninae and Smiliinae. The analyses recovered Centrotinae, Membracinae and Darninae as monophyletic groups, but Stegaspidinae was paraphyletic with respect to Centrotinae, and Smiliinae was polyphyletic with Micrutalini placed as a sister group to the clade comprising Membracinae, Darninae and Smiliinae. These results are consistent with the following hypotheses, proposed previously based on an analysis of morphological data: (1) the posterior pronotal process was derived and lost multiple times during the evolution of Membracidae; (2) Membracidae originated in the New World and reached the Old World subsequently via dispersal; (3) maternal care evolved independently multiple times and may or may not have been preceded by the acquisition of ant mutualism.
Keywords: membracid; Phylogenetic analyses; treehopper phylogeny

Decapods of Inland Waters - R. A. Daniels (New York State Biodiversity Clearinghouse http://www.nybiodiversity.org/summaries/decapods/index.html, 2004)
Keywords: biology

Freshwater and Estuarine Fish - R. A. Daniels (New York State Biodiversity Clearinghouse http://www.nybiodiversity.org/summaries/fish/index.html, 2004)
Keywords: biology

Petrogenesis of Prismatine-bearing Metapelitic Gneisses Along the Moose River, West-central Adirondacks, New York - Darling, R. S.; Florence, F. P.; Lester, G. W.; P. R. Whitney (Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in North America, 2004)
Keywords: geology

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey of PIN 1306.70.101, Route 7, Town of Pittstown, Rensselaer County, New York - N. L. Davis (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Main Barracks - N. L. Davis ('The Most Advantageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site., 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Cultural Resources Data Recovery Plan for the Champlain Canal/Bemis Heights Site. PIN 1089.70.101, Town of Stillwater, Saratoga County, New York - R. Dean; C. B. Rieth (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Lake George Battlefield Park Collection at the New York State Museum - P. B. Drooker (Fort George Advice: The Newsletter of the Lake George Battlefield (Fort George) Alliance, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

The Making of a Postage Stamp - P. B. Drooker (Members Update, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Perishable Material Culture in the Northeast - P. B. Drooker (New York State Museum Bulletin, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Perishables in the Northeast - P. B. Drooker (Perishable Material Culture in the Northeast, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Pipes, Leadership, and Interregional Interaction in Protohistoric Midwestern and Northeastern North America - P. B. Drooker (Smoking and Culture: Recent Developments in the Archaeology of Tobacco Pipes, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Susannah Swan's Wampum Bag - P. B. Drooker; G. R. Hamell (Perishable Material Culture in the Northeast, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

The William Tompkins Collection - P. B. Drooker (Members Update, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Water Quality Impacts and Indicators of Metabolic Activity of the Zebra Mussel Invasion of the Seneca River - Effler, S. W.; Matthews, D. A.; Brooks-Matthews, C. A.; Perkins, M.; C. A. Siegfried; Hassett, J. M. (Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 2004)
ABSTRACT: The conspicuous shifts in summertime values of common measures of water qualify that have persisted for 10 years (1993 to 2002) in the Seneca River, New York, as a result of the zebra mussel invasion are documented. Resolution of patterns in time and space is supported by water quality monitoring that extends back to the late 1970s. Patterns are evaluated to describe the stability of impacts and quantify metabolic activity of the invader. The water quality impacts that have persisted unabated for 10 years since the invasion are the most severe documented for a river in North America. Changes in summer median conditions since the invasion include: (1) a 16-fold decrease in chlorophyll concentration (Chi), (2) a 2.5-fold increase in Secchi disc transparency, (3) a 17-fold increase in soluble reactive phosphorus concentration, (4) a 3.7-fold increase in total ammonia concentration, (5) a greater than 25 percent decrease in dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration, and (6) a decrease in pH of 0.55 units. The strength of these signatures has been driven by anthropogenic influences that include upstream nutrient loading and morphometric modifications of the river, and the functioning of Cross Lake, through which the river flows. This hypereutrophic lake sustains dense zebra mussel populations and related water quality impacts in the river downstream of the lake outflow by acting as a source of veligers and suitable food for this bivalve. Evidence is presented that levels of metabolic activity of the zebra mussel in this river have been resource limited, manifested through increased consumption of Chl and DO with increased delivery of these constituents in the lake's outflow.
Keywords: aquatic ecosystem; dissolved oxygen; Dreissena polymorpha; metabolic activity indicators; waste assimilative capacity; water quality impacts

Cypripedium xherae: A Remarkable Natural Cypripedium Hybrid from Central Canada - Ewacha, B.; C. J. Sheviak (Orchids, 2004)
Keywords: biology

Delineation of Tectonic Provinces of New York State as a Component of Seismic-Hazard Evaluation - R. H. Fakundiny (Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, 2004)
Seismic-hazard evaluations in the eastern United States must be based on interpretations of the composition and form of Proterozoic basement-rock terranes and overlying Paleozoic strata, and on factors that can cause relative movements among their units, rather than Phanerozoic orogenic structures, which may be independent of modern tectonics. The tectonic-province concept is a major part of both probabilistic and deterministic seismic-hazard evaluations, yet those that have been proposed to date have not attempted to geographically correlate modern earthquakes with regional basement structure. Comparison of basement terrane (megablock) boundaries with the spatial pattern of modern seismicity may lead to the mechanically sound definition of tectonic provinces, and thus, better seismic-hazard evaluation capability than is currently available. Delineation of megablock boundaries will require research on the many factors that affect their structure and movement. This paper discusses and groups these factors into two broad categories-megablock tectonics in relation to seismicity and regional horizontal-compressive stresses, with megablock tectonics divided into subcategories of basement, overlying strata, regional lineaments, basement tectonic terranes, earthquake epicenter distribution, and epeirogeny, and compressive stresses divided into pop-ups and the contemporary maximum horizontal-compressive stress field. A list presenting four to nine proposed research topics for each of these categories is given at the end.
Keywords: eastern United States; Paleozoic strata; Proterozoic basement-rock terranes; Seismic-hazard evaluations

Acrimony in Albany - J. R. Finley (New York State Archives, 2004)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Archaeological Study - C. L. Fisher ('The Most Adventageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Cultural Resource Survey Archaeological Monitoring and Data Recovery Plan for PIN 2029.52.121, Addendum, Routes 5S, 10, and 920T, Village of Canajoharie, Montgomery County, New York - C. L. Fisher (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Grand Battery - C. L. Fisher ('The Most Adventageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

The Guardhouse - C. L. Fisher ('The Most Adventageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

The Material World of the Soldiers - C. L. Fisher ('The Most Adventageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

'The Most Advantageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site - C. L. Fisher (New York State Museum Cultural Resources Survey Program Series, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

The Powder Magazine - C. L. Fisher ('The Most Adventageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

The Soldier's Necessary - C. L. Fisher ('The Most Adventageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

The Storehouse - C. L. Fisher ('The Most Adventageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

An Ice Age Quarry Workshop: The West Athens Hill Site Revisited - Funk, R.E. (New York State Museum Bulletin, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Geochemistry and Structural Setting of the Cortlandt Igneous Complex, Stony Point, NY - Gates, A.; M. V. Lupulescu (2004)
Keywords: geology

A Unified Lower-Middle Cambrian Chronostratigraphy for West Gondwana - G. Geyer; E. Landing (Acta Geologica Polonica, 2004)
Similarities in biotic successions support a unified, composite chronostratigraphy for the Lower-Middle Cambrian of the Iberian and Moroccan margins of West Gondwana. The Cordubian Series (emended from an Iberian stage-level unit) comprises the sub-trilobitic Lower Cambrian of West Gondwana. This series represents ca. half of the Cambrian (ca. 25 m.y.), has a base defined at the lowest occurrence of diagnostic Cambrian ichnogenera in central Spain, and is comparable to the Placentian Series of Avalon. The overlying trilobite-bearing Lower Cambrian (ca. 9 m.y. duration), or Atlasian Series (new), of West Gondwana consists of two stages originally defined in highly fossiliferous (trilobites and archaeocyaths) Moroccan sections where they have great potential for precise U-Pb geochronology. The penultimate Lower Cambrian stage, the Issendalenian, with the near-joint lowest occurrence of trilobites and archaeocyaths, is approximately comparable with the sparsely fossiliferous, Iberian "Ovetian Stage" (designation abandoned). The "Ovetian" as currently revised is invalid because it is an objective homonym of SDZUY’s original “Ovetian.” The "Ovetian" is not a practically applicable unit as its basal stratotype horizon lacks any identified fossils, and its trilobites are so rare that it cannot serve as a standard for interregional correlation. By contrast, the Banian Stage as defined in Morocco is suitable as the terminal Lower Cambrian stage of West Gondwana. It is based on very fossiliferous successions that allow recognition of three successive trilobite zones and is similar in concept to the Iberian “Marianian Stage” (designation abandoned). The “Marianian” lacks a designated lower boundary stratotype locality, lacks a biostratigraphically defined base at a stratotype, and is so sparsely fossiliferous that no biostratigraphic zonation exists. Long-term problems involving regional definition of the West Gondwanan Lower–Middle Cambrian boundary are resolved. The lowest occurrence of paradoxidid trilobites, the classic index for the base of the Middle Cambrian, is diachronous in West Gondwana and other regions, with the group showing a delayed appearance in Iberia, Sweden, and Bohemia, by comparison with Morocco. Taxonomic revision of Iberian trilobites and new documentation of their ranges in Morocco show that the Iberian terminal “Lower Cambrian” “Bilbilian Stage” (designation abandoned) correlates with the Moroccan upper Banian and lower and middle “Tissafinian” Stages and with the Siberian upper Toyonian (traditionally assigned to the Lower Cambrian in Siberia) and lower Amgan (assigned to the Middle Cambrian in Siberia) Stages. The “Bilbilian” thus includes Middle Cambrian strata in a traditional international concept. Faunas from the base of the Iberian “lowest” Middle Cambrian “Leonian Stage” (designation abandoned) correlate largely into the second trilobite zone of the “Tissafinian” and are now understood to appear above an intra-Middle Cambrian faunal break. This faunal break is still poorly understood and may be an artifact of collection failure immediately above the sparsely fossiliferous, problematical “Valdemiedes event” interval. The base of this “Middle Cambrian”, now termed Celtiberian Series (new designation), in West Gondwana is best defined by the base of the lower Middle Cambrian Agdzian Stage (new designation). The Agdzian includes the “Tissafinian” and overlying lower “Toushamian Stage” designations abandoned) of Morocco, and has its top defined by the base of the middle Middle Cambrian Caesaraugustian Stage, as defined in Spain at the lowest occurrence of Badulesia tenera. The Languedocian, originally defined at the lowest occurrence of Solenopleuropsis (Manublesia) thorali in the southern Montagne Noire of France comprises the third, and terminal stage of the Celtiberian Series. We suggest that the designations “Lower Cambrian” and “Middle Cambrian” be regarded as descriptive and nonchronostratigraphic terms in discussions of the Cambrian.
Keywords: Agdzian Stage; Atlasian Series; Australia; Cambrian; Celtiberian Series; chronostratigraphy; Cordubian Series; Israel; Jordan; Morocco; Poland; Siberia; South China; Spain; Trilobita

Abstracts Northeast Natural History Conference VIII - R. J. Gill; Kolozsvary, M.B. (New York State Museum Circular, 2004)
Keywords: biology

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 7130.19.121, Route 22, Route 374-Haynes Road, Towns of Plattsburgh and Beekmantown, Clinton County, New York - A. Gore; V. A. Schmitt (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Seneca Iroquois Carved Wooden Ladles - G. R. Hamell (Members Update, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Can Cucurbita pepo Gourd Seeds be Made Edible? - J. P. Hart (Journal of Archaeological Science, 2004)
The earliest pre-maize indigenous crop in eastern North America are gourds of the species Cucurbita pepo; C. pepo gourd remains are found on mid-Holocene archaeological sites throughout the East. The C. pepo gourds of modern, natural populations produce high levels of extremely bitter cucurbitacins, chemicals which make both the flesh and the seeds inedible. It is assumed that the fruits and seed coats of the ancient C. pepo gourds were equally bitter and inedible. The major question regarding C. pepo gourds is how they would have been used. A series of recent experiments show that the seeds of dried C. pepo gourds can be processed to make them edible.
Keywords: Cucurbita pepo; Eastern North America; Gourd seed edibility; Seed crop processing

Do Cucurbita pepo Gourds Float Fish Nets? - J. P. Hart; R. A. Daniels; C. J. Sheviak (American Antiquity, 2004)
Among the various pre-maize indigenous crops of eastern North America, Cucurbita pepo gourd is the most enigmatic. C. pepo gourd remains have been found on mid-Holocene (8000-4000 B.P.) archaeological sites as far north and east as Maine. Their presumably extremely bitter flesh would have made the fruits inedible. Two not mutually exclusive hypotheses for use of the fruit are currently being debated: (1) the nutritious seeds were processed to remove bitterness and consumed and (2) dried fruits were used as fishnet floats and/or containers for general use. We report on a series of experiments that demonstrate the gourds function extremely well as fishnet floats. These results lend support to the second hypothesis, but do not conclusively prove they were used for this purpose.
Keywords: crop dispersals; Cucurbita pepo; fishnet floats; gourds

Faunal Analysis for the Main Barracks, Officer's Commisary, and Gaurdhouse - Horton, B. ('The Most Advantageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site., 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Archaeological Pre-Reconnaissance Survey and Architectural Reconnaissance Survey of PIN 1460.42.121/BIN 1-02250-0, NY 32 over the Mohawk River, City of Cohoes and Town of Waterford, Albany and Saratoga Counties, New York - Kahn, B. A.; M.S. LoRusso (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 111.23.121, Route 20 over Trout Creek, Town of Richfield Springs, Otsego County, New York - Kahn, B. A.; B. R. Dale (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Ecological Impact of Inside/Outside House Cats Around a Suburban Nature Preserve - R. W. Kays; DeWan, A. A. (Animal Conservation, 2004)
While subsidised populations of feral cats are known to impact their prey populations, little is known about the ecological impact of inside/outside hunting cats (IOHC). We studied IOHC around a suburban nature preserve. Mail surveys indicated an average of 0.275 IOHC/house, leading to a regional density estimate of 0.32 IOHC/ha. A geographical model of cat density was created based on local house density and distance from forest/neighbourhood edge. IOHC hunted mostly small mammals, averaging 1.67 prey brought home/cat/month and a kill rate of 13%. Predation rates based on kills brought home was lower than the estimate from observing hunting cats (5.54 kills/cat/month). IOHC spent most outside time in their or their immediate neighbours' garden/yard, or in the nearby forest edge; 80% of observed hunts occurred in a garden/yard or in the first 10 m of forest. Radio-tracked IOHC averaged 0.24 ha in home-range size (95% minimum convex polygon (MCP)) and rarely entered forest. Confirming this, scent stations detected cats more often near the edge and more cats were detected in smaller forest fragments. There was no relationship between the number of cats detected in an area and the local small mammal abundance or rodent seed predation rates. Cold weather and healthy cat predator populations are speculated to minimise the ecological impact of IOHC on this area.
Keywords: ferel cats; house cats; hunting; wildlife impacts

Focus on Nature VIII: Natural History Illustration Exhibition Catalog - Kernan, P. (New York State Museum, 2004)
Keywords: biology

Environmental Patterns in the Origin and Evolution and Diversification Loci of Early Cambrian Skeletalized Metazoa: Evidence from the Avalon Microcontinent - E. Landing; Westrop, S. R. (Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Biological Revolutions, 2004)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Fossils and "Deep Time" In New York - E. Landing (New York State Museum Educational Leaflet, 2004)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary Interval Deposition and the Marginal Platform of the Avalon Microcontinent - E. Landing (Journal of Geodynamics, 2004)
Thick terminal Proterozoic–lowest Cambrian successions allow reference of the Saint John, New Brunswick, and MacCodrum Brook, southern Cape Breton Island, areas to the marginal platform of the Avalon microcontinent. Marginal-platform siliciclastic-dominated sequences form a cover on Late Precambrian arc successions from southern New Brunswick to North Wales. Their deposition in fault-bounded basins began with the origin of the Avalon microcontinent and development of a persistent transtensional regime in the latest Precambrian. The terminal Proterozoic–lowest Cambrian on the Avalonian marginal platform consists of three successive lithofacies associations: lower subaerial rift to marginal-marine facies; overlying cool-water, wave-influenced, marine platform sandstones and shales; and higher macrotidal quartz arenites (=Avalonian depositional sequences 1–2). Only the Lower Cambrian macrotidal quartz arenites onlap southeast, where they form the oldest Cambrian unit on the inner platform. These major lithofacies are the Rencontre, Chapel Island, and Random formations, respectively, in Avalonian North America. Southwest thinning of the Rencontre–Chapel Island–Random interval in southern New Brunswick reflects slower subsidence of a fault-bounded area in the city of Saint John. The depositional sequence 1–2 unconformity, which falls in the sub-trilobitic Lower Cambrian Watsonella crosbyi Zone of the Chapel Island Formation, persists for 650 km along the marginal platform from southeastern Newfoundland to southern New Brunswick and, potentially, appears in Cape Breton Island. Latest Precambrian-earliest Cambrian epeirogenic and depositional history was very uniform along the marginal platform, and a unified lithostratigraphic nomenclature is appropriate.
Keywords: Avalon microcontinent; MacCodrum Brook; New Brunswick; Saint John; southern Cape Breton Island; terminal Proterozoic–lowest Cambrian successions