Dreissena polymorpha and Conchophthirus acuminatus: What Can We Learn from Host-Commensal Relationships? - Karatayev, A. Y.; Burlakova, L. E.; D. P. Molloy; Mastitsky, S. E. (Journal of Shellfish Research, 2007)
Host specificity, extremely high prevalence and infection intensity, and easy sampling make the mantle-cavity ciliate Conchophthirus acuminatus a very convenient model to address numerous fundamental questions relating to symbiosis and commensalism. The acquisition of food by the ciliate as a result of Dreissena filtration activity is probably the basis of the symbiosis, with additional benefits to C. acuminatus being shelter, provision of oxygen, and dispersal. The number of C. acuminatus in a Dreissena population depends on the mussel's size-frequency distribution as there is a direct correlation between Dreissena size and infection intensity. Lack of a correlation between host density and commensal infection intensity may indicate that D. polymorpha and C. acuminatus have a different environmental optimum. Zebra mussels of a given length in each population may have their own carrying capacity of C. acuminatus infection intensity. Upon reaching this carrying capacity, a symbiont population may have density-dependent feedback mechanisms, which slow its reproduction rate within a host and/or increase its emigration from the mussel to maintain an optimal density within its host. Massive emergence of ciliates into open water may be synchronized with a mass occurrence of recently settled Dreissena juveniles to maximize the infection.
Keywords: commensal; Conchophthirus acuminatus; dispersal mechanisms; host specificity; Zebra mussel

Timing and Local Perturbations to the Carbon Pool in the Lower Mississippian Madison Limestone, Montana and Wyoming - Katz, D. A.; Buoniconti, M. R.; Montanez, I. P.; Swart, P. K.; Eberli, G. P.; L. B. Smith Jr.; , (Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2007)
Keywords: geology

An Appointment with Death - R. W. Kays (BBC Wildlife, 2007)
Keywords: biology

Bats: Gone with the Wind? - R. W. Kays (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2007)
Keywords: biology

CSI: Adirondacks Biologists Use Crime Scene Techniques to Study Fishers - R. W. Kays (Legacy, 2007)
Keywords: biology

Skulls Tell Their Stories - R. W. Kays (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2007)
Keywords: biology

Glacifluvial Landforms of Erosion - A. E. Kehew; Lord, M. L.; A. L. Kozlowski (Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, 2007)
Keywords: geology

Tunnel Channels of the Saginaw Lobe, Michigan, USA - A. E. Kehew; A. L. Kozlowski (Applied Quaternary Research in the Central Part of Glaciated Terrain, 2007)
Keywords: geology

Mound 34: The Context for the Early Evidence of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex at Cahokia - Kelly, J.E.; Brown, J.A.; Hamlin, J.M.; Kelly, L.S.; Kozuch, L.; Parker, K.; Van Nest, J. (Southeastern Ceremonial Complex: Chronology, Iconography, and Meaning, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Comparative Phylogeography and Genetic Structure of Vanuatu Birds: Control Region Variation in a Rail, a Dove, and a Passerine - J. J. Kirchman; Franklin, J. D. (Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2007)
Keywords: biology paleontology

New Species of Extinct Rails (Aves: Rallidae) from Archaeological Sites in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia - J. J. Kirchman; D. W. Steadman (Pacific Science, 2007)
Keywords: biology paleontology

Searching for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker - J. J. Kirchman (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2007)
Keywords: biology

Searching Old Ground with New Methods - A. L. Kozlowski (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology geology

Early Orthoceratoid Cephalopods from the Argentine Precordillera (Lower--Middle Ordovician) - Kroeger, B.; Beresi, M.S.; E. Landing (Journal of Paleontology, 2007)
Keywords: paleontology

The Earliest Ordovician Cephalopods of Eastern Laurentia--Ellesmerocerids of the Tribes Hill Formation, Eastern New York - Kroger, B.; E. Landing (Journal of Paleontology, 2007)
Keywords: paleontology

America's First Science Parks - E. Landing (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2007)
Keywords: geology history paleontology

Cambrian of East Laurentia: Field Workshop in Eastern New York and Western Vermont - E. Landing; Franzi, D. A.; Hagadorn, J. W.; Westrop, S. R.; Kroger, B.; Dawson, J. C. (S.W. Ford Memorial Volume: Ediacaran-Ordovician of East Laurentia, 2007)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Dedication to S. W. Ford - E. Landing (S.W. Ford Memorial Volume: Ediacaran-Ordovician of East Laurentia, 2007)
Keywords: geology paleontology

East Laurentia 2007-A Pre-meeting Statement - E. Landing (S.W. Ford Memorial Volume: Ediacaran-Ordovician of East Laurentia, 2007)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Ediacaran-Ordovician of East Laurentia: S.W. Ford Memorial Volume - E. Landing (New York State Museum Bulletin, 2007)
Keywords: geology

Ediacaran-Ordovician of East Laurentia-Geologic Setting and Controls on Deposition along the New York Promontory Region - E. Landing (S.W. Ford Memorial Volume: Ediacaran-Ordovician of East Laurentia, 2007)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Fabulous Fossils-300 Years of Worldwide Research on Trilobites: An Introduction - E. Landing (Fabulous Fossils: 300 Years of Worldwide Research on Trilobites, 2007)
Keywords: paleontology

Global Standard Names for the Lowermost Cambrian Series and Stage - E. Landing; Peng, S.; Babcock, L.E.; G. Geyer; Moczydlowska-Vidal, M. (Episodes, 2007)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Reply: 'Distinguishing Eustatic and Epeirogenic Controls on Lower-Middle Cambrian Boundary Successions in West Gondwana (Morocco and Iberia),' by Ed Landing, Gerd Geyer, and Wolfram Heldmaier, Published in Sedimentology (2006) - E. Landing; G. Geyer (Sedimentology, 2007)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Terminal Cambrian and Lowest Ordovician Succession of Mexican West Gondwana: Biotas and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Tinu Formation - E. Landing; Westrop, S.R.; Keppe, J.D. (Geological Magazine, 2007)
Keywords: geology paleontology

The Empire State and the "Perculiar Institution" - J. A. Lemak (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2007)
Keywords: history

The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology - J. A. Lemak (The Public Historian, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology history

Cultural Resource Survey Report Archaeological and Architectural Reconnaissance of PIN 7111.20.121, Route 12E, Town of Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, New York - M. Lenardi; V. A. Schmitt; Pellerin, J. (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Survey Report for PIN 7143.29.121, Route 11, Village of Mannsville, Jefferson County, New York - M. Lenardi; M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Beth Wellman (1946-2007) - M.S. LoRusso (The Bulletin: Journal of the New York Archaeological Association, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

An Historic American Engineering Record Level III Documentation of the Clay Hill Road Bridge Spanning Champlain Barge Canal, PIN 1940.87.121, Clay Hill Road/Champlain Barge Canal, Village for Fort Ann, Washington County, New York - M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Historic Context Study for PIN 7115.07.101, NY Route 3 Corridor, Adirondack Park, Clinton, Franklin, Essex, and St. Lawrence Counties, New York - M.S. LoRusso; Pellerin, J.; Morgan, R. (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Historic Setting Analysis for PIN 3287.17.101, NY 370/Onondaga Lake Parkway, Village of Liverpool, Onondaga County, New York - M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Minerals from New York State: Pegmatites - M. V. Lupulescu (Rocks & Minerals, 2007)
Keywords: geology

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 8754.76.121, Ravensdale Parkway over Sawmill Bridge, Westchester County, New York - A. Lynch; M.S. LoRusso; C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Addendum Survey for PIN 0054.05.121, NYS Route 347 from the Northern State Parkway to NYS Route 25A, Village of Hauppauge, Town of Smithtown, Suffolk County, New York. - D. E. Mazeau (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Site Examination Report of the OWP South Site, SCO Site, Naima Site, Creek Site, Country Club Site, and KoC Site, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York - D. E. Mazeau (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 0054.05.121, Addendum Survey for PIN 0054.05.121, Route 347 from the Northern State Parkway to NYS Route 25A, Village of Hauppauge, Town of Smithtown, Suffolk County, New York - D. E. Mazeau (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1941.08.121, East Street Bridge, Fort Edward, Washington County, New York - D. E. Mazeau; M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report for PIN 0054.05.124, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York. - D. E. Mazeau (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Fabulous Fossils: 300 Years of Worldwide Research on Trilobites - Mikulic, D.G.; E. Landing; Kluessendorf, J. (New York State Museum Bulletin, 2007)
Keywords: paleontology

Discovery of Dreissena rostriformis bugensis (Andrusov 1897) in Western Europe - D. P. Molloy; bij de Vaate, A.; Wilke, T.; L. Giamberini (Biological Invasions, 2007)
Keywords: biology

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 6010.14 SR 54 over Eggleston Creek, Town of Barrington, Yates County, New York - Moragne, S.; Morgan, R.; C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Estate Landscapes and the Cult of the Ruin: A Lesson of Spatial Transformation in Rural Ireland - Orser, C.E. (Estate Landscapes: Design, Improvement and Power in the Post-Medieval Landscape, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

La promisa de una arqueologia del munto moderno en America del Sur, con especial referencia a Argentina - Orser, C. E. (Revista de Arqueologia Historica Argentina y Latinoamericana, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Screening Survey for Bronx Parkway at Kazimiroff Boulevard and Gun Hill Road, Bronx County, New York. - J. F. Pasquini (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Screening Survey for Culvert Project along Route 7, Riceville, Montgomery County, New York. - J. F. Pasquini (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Screening Survey for Route 12, Village of Lowville, Herkimer County, New York - J. F. Pasquini (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Screening Survey for Route 46, Signal Pole Foundation Locations, City of Rome, Herkimer County, New York - J. F. Pasquini (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Screening Survey of Meadowbrook State Parkway/Southern State Parkway, Suffolk County, New York. - J. F. Pasquini (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1188.33.121, NY 67 over Hoosick River, Hamlet of Eagle Bridge, Towns of Hoosick and White Creek, Washington County, New York - M. Pickands; M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1807.55.102, Route 155 Turning Lane at Shaker High School, Town of Colonie, Albany County, New York. - M. Pickands (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report for PIN 1804.42.122, CR 914V, Glenridge Road, Town of Glenville, Schenectady County, New York - M. Pickands; , (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Historical Archaeology at the New York State Museum - M. Pickands; V. A. Schmitt; C. B. Rieth (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Archaeometric analysis of lithic outcrops from Eastern New York - Rafferty, S.; Wood, C.; C. B. Rieth (North American Archaeologist, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Pair of Lice Lost or Parasites Regained: The Evolutionary History of Anthropoid Primate Lice - Reed, D.L.; Light, J.E.; Allen, J.M.; J. J. Kirchman (BMC Biology, 2007)
Keywords: biology

Archaeological Monitoring, Treatment, and Data Recovery Plan for the Erie Canal and Rexford Aqueduct Site (NYSM 10878), Route 146, Town of Niskayuna, Schenectady County, New York - C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 3804.81.321, Emergency Culvert Replacement, Route 48, Baldwinsville, Onondaga County, New York - C. B. Rieth; Moragne, S.; M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN AX1710701, NYS Route 28 (C963068), Town of Franklin, Delaware County, New York - C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Data Recovery Plan for the Erie Canal and Rexford Aqueduct Site, Town of Niskayuna, Schenectady County, New York. - C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Letter Report for PIN 2056.81.101, Route 8, Town of Arietta, Hamilton County, New York--Addendum - C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1116.43.121/BIN 1-00673-0, Route 9N, Village of Hadley, Saratoga County, New York. - C. B. Rieth; M.S. LoRusso; J. F. Pasquini; H. Brown (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 5804.56.121, Route 20, Town of Ripley, Chautauqua County, New York - C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 9067.10.101, Route 17 (Exit 115), Town of Mamakating, Sullivan County, New York - C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN AX1710701, NYS Route 28, Culvert Flood Damage (C963067), Town of Franklin, Delaware County, New York. - C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN AX1710701, NYS Route 41 (C920110), Town of Afton, Chenango County, New York - C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for Route 28, Town of Nineveh, Chenango County, New York - C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Public Archaeology and Education in Research and Compliance Projects: An Introduction - C. B. Rieth (Northeast Anthropology, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Report on the Activities of the State Archaeologist's Office 2006-2007. - C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Teaching Our Teachers: A Case Study in Public Archaeology - C. B. Rieth; Primeau, K. (Northeast Anthropology, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

A Trace Element Analysis of Ceramics from the Pethick Site, Schoharie County, New York - C. B. Rieth; Rafferty, S.; Saputo, D (North American Archaeologist, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Gazetteer of Major New York State Mineral Localities - Robinson, G.W.; S. C. Chamberlain (Rocks & Minerals, 2007)
Keywords: geology

The Gems of New York State - Robinson, G.W.; S. C. Chamberlain (Rocks & Minerals, 2007)
Keywords: geology

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report for the 1887 Fire Site, the Menzo-Wheeler Site, Old Stone Shop Site, and the Carlisle Fox Site, Route 12E Three Mile Bay, Town of Lyme, Jefferson County, New York (PIN 7111.19.101). - J. Ross (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Wurlitzer 125 Band Organ Reunited with 1915 Herschell-Spillman in Albany, NY - J. L. Scherer (Carousel News & Trader, 2007)
Keywords: history

First Record of Central Stoneroller (Campostoma anomalum) in the Tidal Hudson River - Schmidt, R. E.; R. S. Morse; B. R. Weatherwax (Northeast Naturalist, 2007)
Keywords: biology

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1043.51.101, Intersection of Route 9/67 and Stonebreak Road, Town of Malta, Saratoga County, New York - Sobik, C.; C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2018.95.101, Route 28 through Blue Mountain Lake, Town of Indian Lake, Hamilton County, New York - Sobik, C.; S. Higgins; M.S. LoRusso; C. B. Rieth (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for Route 9, PIN 1043.59.101, Town of Malta, New York. - Sobik, C. (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1806.49.101, Route 8 Culvert Replacement, Town of Horicon, Warren County, New York - J. Sopko; M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN A03103701, Empire Rail Corridor, Port of Rensselaer Southern Connector Road with Route 9J, Town of East Greenbush and Staats Island Road, Town of Schodack, Rensselaer County, New York - J. Sopko; V. A. Schmitt (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report of PIN 1932.76.121, Route 9J Multi-Use Path, Village of Castleton-on-Hudson, Rensselaer County, New York - J. Sopko (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Addendum to PIN 2038.29.121, Route 365 from Interstate 90 to Spring Road, Town of Verona, Oneida County, New York - D. Staley; V. A. Schmitt (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Circling Back - D. Staley (Shadowlands: Legacies from the Alaska Native Past, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2011.07.101, Route 168 over Otsquago Creek Tributary, Town of Stark, Herkimer County, New York - D. Staley; M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2011.08.101, Route 168 over Otsquago Creek, Town of Stark, Herkimer County, New York - D. Staley; M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2037.17.121, Route 31 over the Sconondoa Creek, Town of Vernon, Oneida County, New York. - D. Staley; V. A. Schmitt (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2038.30.101, Route 365 over Mud Creek, Town of Westmoreland, Oneida County, New York. - D. Staley (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2125.15.121, Route 30A over the CSX Railroad, Village of Fonda, Montgomery County, New York - D. Staley; V. A. Schmitt (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2303.47.101, SR 47 over Wells Creek, Town of Western, Oneida County, New York - D. Staley; M.S. LoRusso (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2801.27.123, River Street Stream Restoration, Oriskany Flats Wildlife Management Area, Town of Whitestown, Oneida County, New York - D. Staley (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2804.81.121, Retaining Wall and Slope Contract 7, Villages of Fonda and Fort Plain, Montgomery County, New York - D. Staley (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for Scaroon Manor Campground and Day Use Area, Town of Chester, Warren County, New York - D. Staley (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

CVS Archaeology Elective Class Excavates at the Thayer Homestead - D. Staley (Newsletter of the Cherry Valley Springfield Central School District, 2007)
Keywords: anthropology

Further Archaeological Investigations at the Thayer Homestead: Excavations at the Hop House/Barn - D. Staley (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Giant Cladoxylopsid Trees Resolve the Enigma of the Earth's Earliest Forest Stumps at Gilboa - Stein, W.E.; Mannolini, F.; L. VanAller Hernick; E. Landing; Berry, C.M. (Nature, 2007)
Keywords: paleontology

Iceboats at the State Museum? - G. Stein (Legacy, 2007)
Keywords: history

A Look Back: Collections from the New York State Agricultural Society - G. Stein (Legacy, 2007)
Keywords: history

Eurypterus remipes and E. lacustris (Chelicerata: Eurypterida) from the Silurian of North America - Tetlie, O.E.; V. P. Tollerton Jr.; S. J. Ciurca Jr. (Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2007)
Keywords: paleontology

Evolution of the Planthoppers (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) - J. M. Urban; J. R. Cryan (Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2007)
Keywords: biology

Where was Ebenezer Emmons' House? - L. VanAller Hernick (Earth Sciences History, 2007)
Keywords: Ebenezr Emmon; geology

Basinwide Stratigraphic Synthesis and Sequence Stratigraphy, Upper Pragian, Emsian and Eifelian Stages (Lower to Middle Devonian), Appalachian Basin - C. A. Ver Straeten (Devonian Events and Correlations, 2007)
The late Eifelian–earliest Givetian interval (Middle Devonian) represents a time of significant faunal turnover in the eastern Laurentia and globally. A synthesis of biostratigraphic, K-bentonite and sequence stratigraphic data indicates that physical and biotic events in the Appalachian foreland basin sections in New York are coeval with the predominantly carbonate platform sections of southern Ontario and Ohio. The upper Eifelian (australis to ensensis conodont zones) Marcellus Subgroup in New York comprises two large-scale (3rd-order) composite depositional sequences dominated by black shale, which are here assigned to the Union Springs and Oatka Creek Formations. The succession includes portions of three distinctive benthic faunas or ecological–evolutionary sub-units (EESUs): ‘Onondaga’, ‘Stony Hollow’ and ‘Hamilton’. In the northern Appalachian Basin in New York, the boundaries of these bioevents show evidence of abrupt, widespread extinctions, immigration and ecological restructuring. In the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario and from central to northern Ohio, the same sequence stratigraphic pattern and bioevents are recognized in coeval, carbonate-dominated facies. The correlations underscore a relatively simple pattern of two major sequences and four subsequences that can be recognized throughout much of eastern Laurentia. Moreover, the biotic changes appear to be synchronous across the foreland basin and adjacent cratonic platform. However, the degree of change differs substantially, being less pronounced in carbonatedominated mid-continent sections. Finally, we make the case that the two major faunal changes align with regional sequence stratigraphic patterns as well as with the global Kačák bioevents.
Keywords: earliest Givetian; eastern Laurentia; faunal turnover; late Eifelian; Middle Devonian

Rock of Deep Ages - C. A. Ver Straeten (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2007)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Going Wild: What a Global Small-animal Tracking System Could do for Experimental Biologists - M. Wikelski; R. W. Kays; Kasdin, J.; Thorup, K.; Smith, J.A.; Cochran, W.W.; Swenson, G.W., Jr. (Experimental Biology, 2007)
Keywords: biology

Cultural Resources Screening Survey for PIN 1130.60.121, Route 22 over Kinderhook Creek, Town of Stephentown, Rensselaer County, New York - Williams, J. (New York State Department of Transporation and the Federal Highway Administration, 2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Screening Survey for PIN 1130.60.121, Route 22 over Kinderhook Creek, Town of Stephentown, Rensselaer County, New York - Williams, J. (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1306.78.101, Roundabout Construction at Route 146 and 7, Town of Rotterdam, Schenectady County, New York - L. J. Xinakes; N. L. Davis; V. A. Schmitt (New York State Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration, 2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1306.78.101, Roundabout Construction at Route 146 and 7, Town of Rotterdam, Schenectady County, New York - L. J. Xinakes; N. L. Davis; V. A. Schmitt (2007)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) Predation on Agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) - Aliaga-Rossel, E.; Moreno, R. S.; R. W. Kays; Giacalone, J. (Biotropica, 2006)
We collected details on the predation of four agoutis (Dasyprocta punctata) by ocelots (Leopardus pardalis). All kills were made outside of the typical agouti activity period (<0500 h). Agoutis were captured from behind and killed with a bite through the back of the skull. The kill sites for two female agoutis were significantly closer to their den sites than expected, while kill sites for two males were not. All carcasses were completely covered by leaves during the day and were fed on during night hours. Predation by ocelots can be a significant cause of mortality for agoutis at Barro Colorado Island (BCI).
Keywords: agouti; Dasyprocta punctata; Leopardus pardalis; Neotropics; ocelot; Panama; predation

Glacial Erratics as Sources of Lithic Raw Material: The McGregor Site on Long Island, New York - Bernstein, D. J.; M. Lenardi (Lithic Technology, 2006)
For virtually all of the prehistoric period the lithic industry on Long Island and the mainland coast around Long Island Sound was focused primarily on the use of quartz cobbles that are ubiquitous on the region's beaches. However, recent research at the McGregor site on eastern Long Island suggests that small quarries or workshops at isolated glacial erratics also served as an important source of lithic material Stations such as McGregor provided needed lithic materialfor manufacturing expedient tools when people were engaged in activities such as hunting and collecting plant foods away from the coastal areas, and thus did not have ready access to quartz cobbles. The identification of the McGregor site broadens our under standing of the range of lithic technology and raw material usage in coastal New York.
Keywords: anthropology

Provenance of Fossiliferous Clasts in Carboniferous Conglomerates, Isle Madame, Southern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia - Boucot, A. J.; E. Landing; Boyce, W. D.; Barr, S. M.; White, C. E. (Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2006)
Fossiliferous clasts occur in Carboniferous conglomerate in the Horton Group on western Isle Madame and in the Mabou Group on eastern Isle Madame. Most of the clasts (21 of 23 examined) are calcareous siltstone and sandstone that contain Silurian Lower Devonian faunas comparable to those in the Arisaig area, northern mainland Nova Scotia, although the lithologies are coarser grained and less calcareous than those of the Arisaig section. These middle Paleozoic faunas are well constrained to the Silurian (uppermost Llandovery through Pridoli) and lowest Devonian and are characteristic of those known from shallow siliciclastic-dominated platforms of the Avalon microcontinent in Wales and England. The remaining two clasts have abundant inarticulate brachiopod shells that indicate provenance from Middle Cambrian proximal marine facies on the Avalonian marginal platform. No clasts were found that are likely to have been derived from the Torbrook Formation, and thus from the Meguma terrane in southwestern Nova Scotia, as has been previously reported. The association of relatively large, reworked fossiliferous clasts in Carboniferous conglomerate on Isle Madame suggests local derivation from lower and middle Paleozoic units not presently exposed, although probably present as subcrop under the Carboniferous units, in southwestern Cape Breton Island and adjacent mainland Nova Scotia.
Keywords: eastern Isle Madame; fossiliferous clasts; Horton Group; Isle Madame; Mabou Group

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1096.21.101, Route 50 over the Indian Kill, Town of Glenville, Schenectady County, New York. - Boyle, M.; C. B. Rieth (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Jay Bridge Town of Essex County, New York (Pamphlet) - Boyle, M. (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

After the Horror of War, a "Song to Joy" - Burch, R. J. (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: history

The Gift of Birds: A Sort of Fairy Tale - Burch, R. J. (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: history

At Home on the Delaware and Hudson Canal - J. S. Cardinal (Legacy, 2006)
Keywords: anthropology

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 9067.17.121, Route 17 over Neversink River, Town of Thompson, Sullivan County, New York. - J. S. Cardinal; V. A. Schmitt (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1188.27.101, Route 67 over Hudson River, City of Mechanicville, Town of Halfmoon, Saratoga County, New York. - J. S. Cardinal (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Rhoades Site: Archaeology of a 19th Century Rural Community (Pamphlet) - J. S. Cardinal (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1306.61.121, Route 7 over the Hoosick River, Town of Hoosick, Rensselaer County, New York. - B. R. Dale; M.S. LoRusso (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report of the Raymond Dale, James Holloway, and Eva Coursen Site, Town of Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York - B. R. Dale (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Site Examination of the Raymond Dale and James Holloway Sites, Town of Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York. - B. R. Dale (New York Archaeological Council Newsletter, 2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Fish, Conewango Creek, Allegheny River Drainage, New York, USA - R. A. Daniels; R. S. Morse; B. R. Weatherwax (Checklist, 2006)
Fishes of the Conewango Creek basin of the Allegheny River watershed were surveyed in 2004 and 2005. This basin is a part of the extreme northeastern portion of the vast Mississippi River drainage in North America and includes several species on the periphery of their range; many are rare in the state of New York, USA. One goal of the survey was to develop a species list for the system and assess the change in status of species by comparing recent catches to those of a synoptic survey conducted in 1937. We collected representatives of 70 species and three hybrid taxa. Ten of these fishes have not been reported from the system previously. Prior to this survey, 69 species of fish were reported from the basin. We failed to collect representatives from nine of these species. We collected representatives from 16 families, with 26 species in Cyprinidae and 11 in Percidae, the two most speciose families.
Keywords: Allegheny River Drainage; Conewango Creek; Fish; New York

Fish, Ichthyomyzon bdellium, Ichthyomyzon greeleyi, Noturus flavus, Moxostoma breviceps, Lythrurus umbratilis, Notropis buccatus, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus, Morone americana, Lepomis cyanellus, Ammocrypta pellucida: Distribution extensions - R. A. Daniels; Carlson, D. M.; R. S. Morse; B. R. Weatherwax (Checklist, 2006)
Conewango Creek drains approximately 2,325 km2 in southwestern New York and northwestern Pennsylvania, U.S.A. It is part of the Allegheny River watershed, which drains into the Mississippi River drainage through the Ohio River. The first synoptic survey of the fishes of the basin occurred in 1937 (Greeley 1938). After this initial survey, workers from the state management agency (New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)), colleges, environmental organizations and museums collected information on fish distribution episodically during the next seven decades. Carlson et al. (1999) compiled and updated this earlier information on the status of fishes and listed 69 species from the basin. In a survey conducted in 2004 and 2005, Daniels et al. (2006) collected representatives of ten species not previously reported from the streams of the basin.
Keywords: Ammocrypta pellucida; Distribution extensions; Fish; Ichthyomyzon bdellium; Ichthyomyzon greeleyi; Lepomis cyanellus; Lythrurus umbratilis; Misgurnus anguillicaudatus; Morone americana; Moxostoma breviceps; Notropis buccatus; Noturus flavus

Wright on Fish - R. A. Daniels (Guelph Ichthyology Reviews, 2006)
Albert Hazen Wright (1879-1970) was a prominent herpetologist, but began his career as a biologist studying the relationship between fish distribution and habitat. His innovative study resulted in a thesis in 1906, but the results of the thesis work did not appear as a peer-reviewed publication. The edited manuscript and printing plates for a planned publication were discovered at the New York State Museum. Documents at the State Museum, NYS Archives and Cornell University Library revealed that the manuscript was accepted, reviewed by peers and prepared for publication. However, it was never published. The publication would have been a valuable one for the discipline because it is an early effort of the study of ecology of fishes.
Keywords: Albert Hazen Wright; fish distribution; fish ecology; history of science

Structurally Controlled Hydrothermal Dolomite Reservoir Facies: An Overview - Davies, G.R.; L. B. Smith Jr. (AAPG Bulletin, 2006)
Structurally controlled hydrothermal dolomite (HTD) reservoir facies and associated productive leached limestones are major hydrocarbon producers in North America and are receiving increased exploration attention globally. They include multiple trends in the Ordovician (locally, Silurian and Devonian) of the Michigan, Appalachian, and other basins of eastern Canada and the United States, and in the Devonian and Mississippian of the Western Canada sedimentary basin. They also occur in Jurassic hosts along rifted Atlantic margins, in the Jurassic–Cretaceous of the Arabian Gulf region and elsewhere. Hydrothermal dolomitization is defined as dolomitization occurring under burial conditions, commonly at shallow depths, by fluids (typically very saline) with temperature and pressure (T and P) higher than the ambient T and P of the host formation. The latter commonly is limestone. Proof of a hydrothermal origin for HTD reservoir facies requires integration of burial-thermal history plots, fluid-inclusion temperature data, and constraints on timing of emplacement. Hydrothermal dolomite reservoir facies are part of a spectrum of hydrothermal mineral deposits that include sedimentary-exhalative lead-zinc ore bodies and HTD-hosted Mississippi Valley–type sulfide deposits. All three hydrothermal deposits show a strong structural control by extensional and/or strike-slip (wrench) faults, with fluid flow typically focused at transtensional and dilational structural sites and in the hanging wall. Transtensional sags above negative flower structures on wrench faults are favored drilling sites for HTD reservoir facies. Saddle dolomite in both replacive and void-filling modes is characteristic of HTD facies. For many reservoirs, matrix-replacive dolomite and saddle dolomite appear to have formed near-contemporaneously and from the same fluid and temperature conditions. The original host facies exerts a major influence on the lateral extent of dolomitization, resultant textures, pore type, and pore volume. Breccias, zebra fabrics, shear microfractures, and other rock characteristics record short-term shear stress and pore-fluid-pressure transients, particularly proximal to active faults. High-temperature hydrothermal pulses may alter kerogen in host limestones, a process designated “forced maturation.” Basement highs, underlying sandstone (and/or carbonate?) aquifers (probably overpressured), and overlying and internal shale seals and aquitards also may constrain or influence HTD emplacement. Although many questions and uncertainties remain, particularly in terms of Mg and brine source and mass balance, recognition and active exploration of the HTD play continues to expand. Increasing use of three-dimensional seismic imagery and seismic anomaly mapping, combined with horizontal drilling oblique to linear trends defined by structural sags, helps to reduce risk.
Keywords: hydrothermal dolomite

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1025.10.121, Route 197, Village of Fort Edward, Washington County, New York - N. L. Davis; M.S. LoRusso (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Fortifications of el-Lejjun (Area C) - de Vries, B.; Godwin, V.; A. Lain (The Roman Frontier in Central Jordan: Final Report on the Limes Arabicus Project, 1980-1989, 2006)
Keywords: anthropology

The Legionary Bath (Area C.10) - de Vries, B.; A. Lain (The Roman Frontier in Central Jordan: Final Report on the Limes Arabicus Project, 1980-1989, 2006)
Keywords: anthropology

The Lime Kiln (Area O) - de Vries, B.; A. Lain (The Roman Frontier in Central Jordan: Final Report on the Limes Arabicus Project, 1980-1989, 2006)
Keywords: anthropology

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1006.07.101, Route 143, Town of Coeymans, Albany County, New York - R. Dean (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1006.97.101, Route 143, Town of Coeymans, Albany County, New York - R. Dean; C. B. Rieth; M.S. LoRusso (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

10,000 Years of Mohawk Valley History - P. B. Drooker (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: anthropology

Snake Hill - Reconstructing Eastern Taconic Foreland Basin Litho- and Biofacies from a Giant Melange Block in Eastern New York, USA - A. M. English; E. Landing; G.C. Baird (Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2006)
Exotic lithofacies and faunas have long been known from Snake Hill, eastern New York, USA. The faunally diverse, sandstone-dominated Upper Ordovician succession at Snake Hill sharply contrasts with surrounding tectonized sparsely fossiliferous distal shale. Re-examination of the Snake Hill section shows that it is a storm- and wave-dominated near-shore facies with a benthic fauna analogous to that of the younger Lorraine Group (Ashgillian) of central New York, and to that of the upper Martinsburg Group (upper Caradocian) of eastern Pennsylvania. Orthograptus ruedemanni Chron graptolites indicate that the Snake Hill succession is older than the surrounding tectonized, deep-water shale (Climacograptus spiniferous Chron). Snake Hill is best interpreted as a parautochthonous block in mélange originally deposited close to the shoreline of the emergent Taconic accretionary prism. Because the Snake Hill succession is sandstone-dominated, it is inappropriate to refer mudstone-dominated facies that underlie the western margin of the Taconic allochthon in the Hudson River valley region to the Snake Hill “Shale,” as has been done in the past. The thick (ca. 150 m), lithologically distinct succession at Snake Hill is therefore referred to as the “Snake Hill Formation.” The Snake Hill Formation is the only known example of proximal, near-shore facies deposited on the western side of the outer Taconic arc, and represents easternmost deposition in the Taconic foreland basin. The Snake Hill Formation is a unique occurrence, and thus is restricted to its type locality at Snake Hill, New York.
Keywords: Biofacies; Biostratigraphy; Late Ordovician; Snake Hill; Taconic

My, What Big Teeth You Have! - R. S. Feranec (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: paleontology

What Became of the MegaFauna? - R. S. Feranec (American Scientist, 2006)
Keywords: biology paleontology

A Future for the Past: The State Museum's Acquisition of Millions of Archaeological Artifacts Secures New York City's History - C. L. Fisher (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: anthropology history

Latest Ediacaran and Cambrian of the Moroccan Atlas Regions - G. Geyer; E. Landing (Morocco 2006. Ediacaran-Cambrian Depositional Environments and Stratigraphy of the Western Atlas Regions. Explanatory Description and Field Excursion Guide, 2006)
The characteristics of the latest Ediacaran through Cambrian of the Moroccan Atlas regions are described and illustrated. Such major depositional controls as tectonic environments (a transtensional regime in this time interval) and eustatic changes that defined sequence boundaries and „Grand cycles,“ as well as a progressive southerly movement of the West Gondwanan margin that led to the loss of tropical carbonate platform facies and their replacement by siliciclastic-dominated successions in the Lower–Middle Cambrian boundary interval, are discussed briefly. The lithostratigraphic units for the uppermost Proterozoic(?) to the Upper Cambrian of the Moroccan Anti-Atlas and High Atlas mountains are reviewed and partly revised. The descriptions of lithostratigraphic units include lithology, depositional environments, fossil content, and synonymy. The Jbel Wawrmast Formation is divided into a lower Brèche à Micmacca Member and an upper Tarhoucht Member (new) that comprises the majority of the formation. The bio- and chronostratigraphy of the Atlas regions are summarized, and recently proposed, formal and informal biostratigraphical units of the Lower–Middle Cambrian are reviewed. Detailed stratigraphy allows recognition of diachroneity for several formational contacts. Controversial data and problems of the Moroccan Precambrian–Cambrian boundary are discussed in detail. The available evidence does not permit highly resolved certainty in correlations even at the stage-level with Lower Cambrian sections on other Cambrian continents. However, close similarities exist in the litho- and biostratigraphic developments of southern Morocco and Iberia, and demonstrate that both regions were coterminous on the West Gondwanan margin and geographically separated from the Avalon microcontinent by the latest Proterozoic.
Keywords: Cambrian; latest Ediacaran; lithostratigraphy; Moroccan Atlas

Morocco 2006. Ediacaran-Cambrian depositional Environments and Stratigraphy of the Western Atlas Regions. Explanatory Description and Field Excursion Guide - G. Geyer; E. Landing (Beringeria Special Issue, 2006)
Keywords: geology

Morocco Field Excursion 2006. Ediacaran-Cambrian Depositional Environments and Stratigraphy of the Western Atlas Regions - G. Geyer; E. Landing (Morocco 2006. EdiacaranCambrian Depositional Environments and Stratigraphy of the Western Atlas Regions. Explanatory Description and Field Excursion Guide, 2006)
This field excursion emphasizes paleoenvironments, litho- and biostratigraphy, sequence boundaries, volcanic ash occurrences, and potential for intercontinental correlation of a number of important Ediacaran and Cambrian sections of the Moroccan Atlas regions. The arrangement of the sections visited during the field excursion from December 2 to 5, 2006, begins on the northern slope of the western Anti-Atlas with the lowest Cambrian at Tiout and the lower part of the trilobite-bearing Cambrian at Tazemmourt. Complete sections through the trilobite-bearing Cambrian in the Lemdad syncline feature the Cambrian in the western High Atlas range. The subsequent drive across the western Anti-Atlas shows aspects of post-Pan-African Proterozoic, siliciclastic facies with archaeocyathan bioherms in the Issafen Syncline, and spectacular slump-folding of the Lie de vin Formation as well as a siliciclastical-dominated Lower and fossiliferous Middle Cambrian in the Tata region. The final day in the field features the Devonian and the siliciclastic Middle Cambrian along the southern flank of the western Anti-Atlas and carbonate-dominated Lower Cambrian at the western rim of the Anti-Atlas. Information on the stops includes a summary of the lithologic sequence and, if available, a complete list of faunas found at successive levels. The sample numbers with the prefix F refer either to the faunal levels of HUPÉ (1953, 1959) or SDZUY (1978); sample numbers with a comma indicate a precisely measured level above the base of the section or unit; other samples refer to horizons reported by G. GEYER (e.g., 1986, 1988b, 1990c, 1998) or to subsequent collections by the authors and W. HELDMAIER (1997).
Keywords: Biostratigraphy; Cambrian; Ediacaran; intercontinental correlation; lithostratigraphy; Moroccan Atlas regions; paleoenvironments; sequence boundaries; volcanic ash occurrences

A Comparison of Non-invasive Techniques to Survey Carnivore Communities in Northeastern North America - Gompper, M.E.; R. W. Kays; Ray, J.C.; LaPoint, S.D.; Bogan, D.A.; J. R. Cryan (Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2006)
Carnivores are difficult to survey due, in large part, to their relative rarity across the landscape and wariness toward humans. Several noninvasive methods may aid in overcoming these difficulties, but there has been little discussion of the relative merits and biases of these techniques. We assess the value of 5 noninvasive techniques based on results from 2 multiyear studies of carnivores (including members of Carnivora and Didelphidae) in New York forests. Two metrics were particularly valuable in assessing the species-specific value of any particular survey technique: latency to initial detection (LTD) and probability of detection (POD). We found differences in the value of techniques in detecting different species. For midsized species (raccoon [Procyon lotor], fisher [Martes pennanti], opossum [Didelphis virginiana], and domestic cat [Felis catus]), camera traps and track-plates were approximately equivalent in detection efficiency, but the potential for wariness toward the survey apparatus resulted in higher LTD for track-plates than for cameras. On the other hand, track-plates detected small carnivores (marten [M. americana] and weasels [Mustela spp.]) more often than cameras and had higher PODs for small and midsized species than did cameras. Cameras were efficient mechanisms for surveying bears (Ursus americanus; low LTD, high POD) but functioned poorly for discerning presence of coyotes (Canis latrans; high LTD, low POD). Scat surveys and snowtracking were the best methods for coyotes, which avoided camera traps and artificial tracking surfaces. Our analysis of fecal DNA revealed that trail-based fecal surveys were inefficient at detecting species other than coyotes, with the possible exception of red foxes (Vulpes vulpes). Genetic analyses of feces and snowtracking revealed the presence of foxes at sites where other techniques failed to discern these species, suggesting that cameras and track-plates are inefficient for surveying small canids in this region. The LTD of coyotes by camera traps was not correlated with their abundance as indexed by scat counts, but for other species this metric may offer an opportunity to assess relative abundance across sites. Snowtracking surveys were particularly robust (high POD) for detecting species active in winter and may be more effective than both cameras and track-plates where conditions are suitable. We recommend that survey efforts targeting multiple members of the carnivore community use multiple independent techniques and incorporate mechanisms to truth their relative value.
Keywords: camera traps; carnivores; fecal DNA; latency to detection; New York; noninvasive survey; probability of detection; snowtracking; track-plates

Addendum Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 7130.19.121, Route 22, Towns of Beekmantown and Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York - A. Gore; V. A. Schmitt (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report of the Veder and Elliot Site, Town of Lysander, Onondaga County, New York. - A. Gore (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Phase II Cultural Resource Survey Report for PIN 7130.19.121, Lombard, Culver Hill, Pinsonnault, East Beekman Community, and Howe Site, Towns of Plattsburgh and Beekmantown, Clinton County, New York. - A. Gore (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Archaeology of Urban Households at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico - Hutson, S. R.; Magnoni, A.; D. E. Mazeau; Stanton, T. (The Northern Lowlands: New Approaches to Archaeology in the Yucatan Peninsula, 2006)
Keywords: anthropology

Tectonic-Hydrothermal Brecciation Associated with Calcite Precipitation and Permeability Detruction in Mississippian Carbonate Reservoirs, Wyoming and Montana - Katz, D.A.; Eberli, G.P.; Swart, P.K.; L. B. Smith Jr. (AAPG Bulletin, 2006)
The Mississippian Madison Formation contains abundant fracture zones and breccias that are hydrothermal in origin based on their morphology, distribution, and geochemical signature. The hydrothermal activity is related to crustal shortening during the Laramide orogeny. Brecciation is accompanied by dedolomitization, late-stage calcite precipitation, and porosity occlusion, especially in outcrop dolomites. The tectonic-hydrothermal late-stage calcite reduces permeability in outcrops and, potentially, high-quality subsurface reservoir rocks of the subsurface Madison Formation, Bighorn Basin. The reduction of permeability and porosity is increased along the margins of the Bighorn Basin but not predictable at outcrop scale. The destruction of porosity and permeability by hydrothermal activity in the Madison Formation is unique in comparison to studies that document enhanced porosity and permeability and invoke hydrothermal dolomitization models. Hydrothermal breccias from the Owl Creek thrust sheet are classified into four categories based on fracture density, calcite volume, and clast orientation. Shattered breccias dominate the leading edge of the tip of the Owl Creek thrust sheet in the eastern Owl Creek Mountains, where tectonic deformation is greatest, whereas fracture, mosaic, and chaotic breccias occur throughout the Bighorn Basin. The breccias are healed by calcite cements with 18O values ranging between 26.5 and 15.1 Peedee belemnite (PDB), indicating that the cements were derived from isotopically depleted fluids with elevated temperatures. In the chaotic and mosaic breccia types, large rotated and angular clasts of the host rock float in the matrix of coarse and nonzoned late-stage calcite. This appearance, combined with similar 18O values across even large calcite veins, indicates that the calcite precipitated rapidly after brecciation. Values for 13C ( 5–12 PDB) from the frontal part of the Owl Creek thrust sheet indicate equilibrium between methane and CO2-bearing fluids at about 180 C. Fluid inclusions from the eastern basin margin show that these cements are in equilibrium with fluids having minimum temperatures between 120 and 140 C and formed from relatively low-salinity fluids, less than 5 wt.% NaCl. Strontium isotope ratios of these hydrothermal fluids are more radiogenic than proposed values for Mississippian seawater, suggesting that the fluids mixed with felsic-rich basement before migrating vertically into the Madison Formation. We envisage that the tectonic-hydrothermal late-stage calcite-cemented breccias and fractures originated from undersaturated meteoric groundwaters that migrated into the burial environment while dissolving and incorporating Ca2+ and and radiogenic Sr from the dissolution of the surrounding carbonates and the felsic basement, respectively. In the burial environment, these fluids were heated and mixed with hypersaline brines from deeply buried parts of the basement. Expulsion of these fluids along basement-rooted thrust faults into the overlying strata, including the Madison Formation, occurred most likely during shortening episodes of the Laramide orogeny by earthquake-induced rupturing of the host rock. The fluids were injected forcefully and in an explosive manner into the Madison Formation, causing brecciation and fracturing of the host rock, whereas the subsequent and sudden decrease in the partial pressure of CO2 caused the rapid precipitation of calcite cements. The explosive nature of hydrothermal fluid migration ultimately produces heterogeneities in reservoir-quality carbonates. In general, flow units in the Madison Formation are related to sequence boundaries, which create vertical subdivisions in the porous dolomite. The late-stage calcite cement surrounds hydrothermal breccia clasts and invades the dolomite, reducing porosity and permeability of the reservoir-quality rock. As a consequence, horizontal flow barriers and compartments are established that are locally unpredictable in their location and extent and regionally predictable along the margins of the Bighorn Basin.
Keywords: Hydrothermal breccias; hydrothermal dolomite; Mississippian Madison Formation; Owl Creek thrust sheet

The Mane Thing about Lions - R. W. Kays (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: biology

My Kingdom for a Crown - R. W. Kays (Natural History, 2006)
The article relates the author's experience of capturing Bobby, an oversize ocelot. The author and his colleagues tracked Bobby using various equipment. It had the ability to cover more than three and a half square miles on its nightly patrols. They inadvertently caught Bobby in a trap intended for a puma. It was a shock for the author and his colleagues to find Bobby in such trap. Nevertheless, it did allow them to check Bobby's weight and replace its radio collar before its batteries ran down. They were stunned to find out that Bobby weighed forty-one pounds, making it the largest ocelot in the world.
Keywords: biology

Focus on Nature IX: Natural History Illustration (Exhibit Catalog) - Kernan, P. (New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: biology

Upland Bird Communities on Santo, Vanuatu, South Pacific - Kratter, A.W.; J. J. Kirchman; D. W. Steadman (Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 2006)
We surveyed indigenous landbirds at two upland, mostly forested sites in southwestern Santo, Vanuatu. One site (Wunarohaehare, 600-1,250 m elevation) lies on the western, rain-shadowed slope of Mt. Tabwemasana. The other (Tsaraepae, 500-700 m elevation) is 16 km to the south, on the southeastern, very wet slope of Peak Santo. These are the richest single-site bird communities yet surveyed in Vanuatu, with 30 species of resident birds recorded at each site, 27 of which were common to both sites, including 6 species endemic to Vanuatu. We judged that 12 of the shared species were common at both sites. The non-overlapping species were a megapode, a parrot, and four understory passerines. We present new data on vocalizations for four species endemic to Vanuatu (Ptilinopus tannensis, Todiramphus farquhari, Neolalage banksiana) or to Vanuatu plus New Caledonia (Clytorhynchus pachycephaloides). We found less seasonality in breeding than previously reported for Vanuatu. Most human impact at the sites today may be from non-native mammals (rats, cats, pigs, cows), along with low levels of hunting and forest clearing. Based on prehistoric bones from elsewhere in Vanuatu, we suspect that formerly the sites on Santo may have supported additional species of megapode, hawk, parrot, and starling.
Keywords: biology

The Human Osteological Remains - A. Lain (The Roman Frontier in Central Jordan: Final Report on the Limes Arabicus Project, 1980-1989, 2006)
Keywords: anthropology

The Principia of el-Lejjun (Area A) - A. Lain; Parker, S.T. (The Roman Frontier in Central Jordan: Final Report on the Limes Arabicus Project, 1980-1989, 2006)
Keywords: anthropology

Distinguishing Eustatic and Epeirogenic Controls on Lower-Middle Cambrian Boundary Successions in West Gondwana (Morocco and Iberia) - E. Landing; G. Geyer; Heldmaier , W. (Sedimentology, 2006)
Major eustatic fall has been invoked to explain Lower–Middle Cambrian boundary sandstones and faunal replacements on a number of Cambrian palaeocontinents. This proposal has been tested on the Moroccan and Spanish margins of West Gondwana and found to be inadequate to explain stratigraphical developments. In these regions, sandstone intervals long presumed to be regressive and late Early Cambrian in age are now shown to be early Middle Cambrian, and composed of a lower regressive and an overlying transgressive sandstone separated by a regional unconformity. Only the lower tidalites (i.e. Tazlaft Formation in Morocco and lower Daroca sandstones in Spain) record the Hawke Bay eustatic regression in West Gondwana. The Tazlaft is overlain by a newly recognized, unconformably overlying sandstone (Talelt Formation) that onlapped southern Morocco with reactivation of a pull-apart or transcurrent regime. Up to 150 m of erosion on uplifted blocks in the High Atlas range and foundering of the Souss Basin to the south preceded onlap and deposition of the volcanic-rich Tatelt, the correlative and depositional analogue of the upper Daroca and lower Valdemides Formations in northern Spain. With folding and erosion, a type 1 depositional sequence boundary also caps the Tatelt at its contact with an overlying, lower Middle Cambrian mudstone-dominated succession. This unconformity probably occurs in Spain within the Valdemiedes Formation and corresponds to a faunal discontinuity called the ‘Valdemiedes geoevent’. The Iberian ‘Daroca regression’ and Moroccan ‘Asrir regression’ are misnomers, as the sandstones on which they are based are composite units with a lower regressive interval that records eustatic fall and an upper transgressive unit that records epeirogenically driven onlap.
Keywords: Daroca Sandstone; depositional sequences; epeirogeny; eustasy; Jbel Wawrmast Formation; Middle Cambrian; Morocco; Souss Basin; Spain; Tatelt Formation; Tazlaft Formation; Valdemiedes Formation

Lower Ordovician Faunas, Stratigraphy, and Sea-level History of the Middle Beekmantown Group, Northeastern New York - E. Landing; Westrop, S. R. (Journal of Paleontology, 2006)
The Lower Ordovician middle Beekmantown Group is a very thin carbonate platform succession on the northern New York Promontory that thickens north into the Ottawa aulacogen near Montréal. The Tribes Hill Formation (Rossodus manitouensis Zone) records the earliest Ordovician (late Skullrockian, late early Tremadocian) eustatic high that submerged Laurentia, and produced the lowest Ordovician sequence along the New York Promontory. These dolostones are succeeded in the Beekmantown, New York, area by late Tulean?–Blackhillsian transgressive systems tract quartz arenites of the lower Fort Cassin Formation (Ward Member). The “Fort Ann Formation” (middle Stairsian, upper Tremadocian) of the southern Lake Champlain lowlands (=Theresa Formation sandstones in the Ottawa graben) is absent at Beekmantown, and moderate Stairsian (late Tremadocian) eustatic rise apparently did not inundate the Beekmantown area after Skullrockian–Stairsian boundary interval offlap. Highstand carbonates of the upper Fort Cassin Formation [Sciota Member = “Spellman Formation” and “Ogdensburg Member” of the “Beauharnois Formation” in the Montréal area; designations abandoned] at Beekmantown yield diverse conodonts seemingly characteristic of the Oepikodus communis–Fahraeusodus marathonensis Zone (new). However, associated trilobites, particularly Carolinites tasmanensis (Etheridge, 1919), show a correlation with the upper Trigonocerca typica (trilobite) Zone of the Utah and the overlying Reutterodus andinus (conodont) Zone. This abrupt early Blackhillsian lithofacies change features the appearance of chitinozoans and conodonts known from marginal successions, and records the Laignet Point highstand (new). This highstand is recognized across Laurentia on the west Newfoundland and southern Midcontinent platforms. It is recorded on the east Laurentian continental slope by lower Oepikodus evae Zone dysoxic black mudstone in the Taconian allochthons. Taxonomic re-evaluations include Ulrichodina Branson and Mehl, 1933, with its genotype species U. abnormalis (Branson and Mehl, 1933) emend., as the senior synonym of Colaptoconus Kennedy, 1994; Eucharodus Kennedy, 1980; and Glyptoconus Kennedy, 1980. Paraserratognathus An in An et al., 1983, emend. is the senior synonym of Wandelia Smith, 1991 and Stultodontus Ji and Barnes, 1994. Tropodus Kennedy, 1980 is the senior synonym of Chionoconus Smith, 1991. The trilobite fauna of the Sciota Member includes species of Isoteloides, Benthamaspis, Acidiphorus and Carolinites, of which I. fisheri is new.
Keywords: Lower Ordovician; middle Beekmantown Group; Tribes Hill Formation

State Fossils and New York State's Eurypterus remipes - E. Landing (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: paleontology

The Great Migration: Looking for a New Life in the State Capital - J. A. Lemak (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: history

Archaeological Monitoring, Treatment and Data Recovery Plan of PIN 0757.46.121, Grangebel Park Improvements in the Town of Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York - M. Lenardi (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Survey Report and Site Examination of PIN 0757.46.121, Grangebel Park Improvements in the Town of Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York - M. Lenardi; M.S. LoRusso (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Survey Report of PIN 1043.22.121, Route 9 Bridge Rehabilitation and Drainage Modifications in the Village of Keesville in the Towns of Chesterfield, Essex, and Ausable, Clinton County, New York. - M. Lenardi; M.S. LoRusso (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Survey Report of PIN 2236.22.121, Route 29 over Spruce Creek, Town of Salisbury, Herkimer County, New York. - M. Lenardi; V. A. Schmitt (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2236.22.121, Route 29, Town of Salisbury, Herkimer County, New York. - M. Lenardi; V. A. Schmitt (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

An Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) Documentation of the Palisades Interstate Parkway Bridge over State Route 202, NYSDOT PIN 8093.48.101, Town of Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York. - M.S. LoRusso (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Hidden Treasures: Minerals Under the Microscope - M. V. Lupulescu (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: geology

Iron Deposits from Hudson Highlands, NY: Systematics, Mineralogy, Mineral Chemistry and Tectonic Setting - M. V. Lupulescu; Gates, A. (Environmental Geology of the Highlands, Field Trip Guide and Proceedings, 2006)
Keywords: geology

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2134.27.121, NY Rte 5, Between Higinbotham Brook and Oneida Creek, City of Oneida, Madison County, New York - D. E. Mazeau; V. A. Schmitt (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

More on Mastodons and Their Extinction - N. G. Miller (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: biology paleontology

Paleoecology of a late Pleistocene Wetland and Associated Mastodon Remains in the Hudson Valley, Southeastern New York State - N. G. Miller; Nester, P. L. (GSA Special Publications, 2006)
Late Quaternary history and paleoecology of a small oxbow wetland on glaciated terrain were investigated using sediment lithology (cores, bulk samples, backhoedug trenches), ground-penetrating radar, vascular plant and moss macrofossil stratigraphies, and accelerator mass spectrometric radiocarbon dating. A nearly complete mastodon skeleton was recovered from late Pleistocene detrital peat and peaty marl near the top of the sediment sequence. Sedimentation in the basin began with silt and clay over dense cobble outwash transported southward from the nearby Hyde Park Moraine. Overbank sediment deposition occurred between ∼13,000 and 12,220 yr B.P. during a period of tundra vegetation, which ended with a sharp rise in spruce needle abundance and a shift to autochthonous marl and finally peat deposition. Fossils of aquatic and wetland plants began to accumulate before the tundra-spruce transition and increased after it. Rich fen wetland began to infill the pond with peat, while the upland supported open white spruce and later white spruce–balsam fir–tamarack forest. The mastodon, 11,480 ± 40 radiocarbon years old, was contemporaneous with spruce–balsam fir–tamarack forest and rich fen wetland. Many mastodon bones were articulated or nearly so, indicating that the animal died in the basin and that postmortem bone dispersal was slight.
Keywords: calcareous wetland; late Pleistocene; mastodon; New York; paleoecology; plant macrofossils

Review of: Maine Mosses, SphagnaceaeTimmiaceae, by Bruce Allen - N. G. Miller (Rhodora, 2006)
Keywords: biology

Review of: Moosflora, 4. Neubearbietete und erweiterte Auflage, by J-P. Frahm & W. Frey - N. G. Miller (Bryologist, 2006)
Keywords: biology

Competitive Release in Diets of Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) and Puma (Puma concolor) After Jaguar (Panthera onca) Decline - Moreno, R. S.; R. W. Kays; Samudio Jr., R. (Journal of Mammalogy, 2006)
We used fecal analyses to document the diet of ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) and puma (Puma concolor) at 2 sites in central Panama. We detected puma on Barro Colorado Island (BCI) nearly every month during the study but never found evidence of jaguars (Panthera onca) at either site. Both ocelots and puma fed predominantly on mammalian prey, but consumed a diversity of species. Collared peccaries (Pecari tajacu) and Central American red brocket (Mazama temama) were the most important food items for puma, whereas Central American agoutis (Dasyprocta punctata) and sloths (Choloepus hoffmanni and Bradypus variegatus) were the most important for ocelots. Considerable overlap in diet was found between populations and species, but the diet of puma on BCI was significantly different from the 2 ocelot populations in containing more large prey, suggesting that dietary differences between these predator species are chiefly related to their relative body size. Comparing across larger scales, both populations of ocelots in our study ate larger prey than elsewhere in their range, suggesting that their fundamental niche includes more medium-sized prey than their realized niche in other sites. Puma on BCI ate proportionally more peccaries and deer than in most other populations. These unusual diets in the wake of a recent decline or local extinction of jaguars are consistent with a prey shift in response to competitive release.
Keywords: Barro; Carnivora; Colorado Island; competitive release; Diet; felid; predation

Cultural Resources Screening Survey for PIN 1306.78.101, STAR Project at the Intersection of Hamburg Street and Curry Road (Rt. 146 and Rt. 7), Town of Rotterdam, Schenectady County, New York. - J. F. Pasquini (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Developmental Effects of Climate on the Lion's Mane (Panthera leo) - Patterson, B. D.; R. W. Kays; Kasiki, S. M.; Sebestyen, V. M. (Journal of Mammalogy, 2006)
Lion manes represent a compromise between social benefits and ecological costs. Mane development of Panthera leo varies geographically with prevailing climate, but varying genetics, behavior and social systems, and nutrition may all influence such broad-scale correlations. We studied captive lions housed comparably across 12 degrees of latitude in North America and correlated mane variation with climatic, life-history, and husbandry variables. As predicted from heat-load considerations, mane length and density were inversely correlated with temperature; color variation was unrelated. Mane development was correlated with January but not July conditions, suggesting a stronger response to cold than to heat. Climate-induced variation in manes of captives accounted for up to 50% of variation seen. Developmental effects of climate appear to be responsible for many of the taxonomic names applied to African lions and may signify important biological differences between modern and Pleistocene lions.
Keywords: developmental effects; lion mane; Panthera leophenotypic; plasticity; sexual selection; temperature

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey for PIN 1006.07.101, NY 143 from Spoor Road to NY 9W, Village of Ravena, Albany County, New York. - M. Pickands; V. A. Schmitt (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey of PIN 2064.03.321, NY5S from Auditorium Drive to Washington Street, City of Utica, Oneida County, New York - M. Pickands (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2016.67.121, NY 12 over Parker Hollow Road, Town of Trenton, Oneida County, New York. - M. Pickands; V. A. Schmitt (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

New York State's Garnetiferous Gneiss Bannerstones: The Form and Function of Flight - Rataul, R. C. (Northeast Anthropology, 2006)
Keywords: anthropology

Archaeology - C. B. Rieth (Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2006)
Keywords: anthropology

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey for PIN 2038.38, Route 46, Village of Oneida, Madison County, New York - C. B. Rieth; T. Thomas (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Data Recovery Plan for the Naimia Site, PIN 0054.05.124, Route 347 from the Northern State Parkway to Route 25A, Town of Smithtown, Suffolk County, New York - C. B. Rieth; D. E. Mazeau (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Documentation Report for OGS Project S2155, Study for Site Assessment, Troop G Headquarters, Loudon Road, Loudonville, New York - C. B. Rieth (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Letter Report for PIN 2804.35.301, Route 67 over Kayaderosseras Creek, Village of Fort Johnson, Town of Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York. - C. B. Rieth (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2803.98.101, Village of Sprakers, Montgomery County, New York. - C. B. Rieth (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

E. E. Evans-Pritchard - C. B. Rieth (Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2006)
Keywords: anthropology

Leslie A. White - C. B. Rieth (Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2006)
Keywords: anthropology

A. R. Radcliffe-Brown - C. B. Rieth (Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2006)
Keywords: anthropology

Salvage Archaeology - C. B. Rieth (Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2006)
Keywords: anthropology

Schoharie Valley Archaeology Field School - C. B. Rieth (Schenectady County Community College Public Archaeology Program Newsletter, 2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Upland Settlement and Subsistence in Eastern New York - C. B. Rieth (Proceedings of the Uplands Archaeology in the East IX Conference, 2006)
Keywords: anthropology

Using Archaeology to Teach Native American History - C. B. Rieth (Schenectady County Community College Public Archaeology Program Newsletter, 2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Phase 1A Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 3287.17.121, Route 370 Between I-81 and Old Liverpool Road, Town of Salina, Onondaga County, New York. - J. Ross; C. B. Rieth (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 3501.42.121, Bartell Road over I-81, Town of Cicero, Onondaga County, New York - J. Ross; V. A. Schmitt; S. Higgins; C. B. Rieth (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

All In The Family - J. L. Scherer (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: history

The Last Remaining Beech-Nut Circus Car - J. L. Scherer (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: history

A Look Back: Dr. Charles C. Adams and the Museums Shaker Collection - J. L. Scherer (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: history

Preserving Family History: The Heritage of an Albany County, New York, Family - J. L. Scherer (New England Ancestors, 2006)
Keywords: history

Hybridization in Umbridae in the Hudson River, New York, with Designation of Neotypes for Umbra limi and Umbra pygmaea - Schmidt, R. E.; R. A. Daniels (Zootaxa, 2006)
We document the occurrence of a natural hybrid between the Eastern Mudminnow, Umbra pygmaea (DeKay 1842) and the Central Mudminnow, U. limi (Kirtland 1840). Hybrid individuals were collected in a supratidal pool in a fresh-tidal marsh in the Hudson River, New York. ANOVA, ANCOVA, principal components analysis, and discriminant function analysis of meristics and morphometrics showed that the hybrids were distinguishable from the parental species and were generally intermediate between them. The tidal Hudson River is the only place these species are sympatric, and hybridization must have occurred within the last several decades. We designate neotypes for Umbra pygmaea and Umbra limi.
Keywords: Central Mudminnow; Champlain Canal; Eastern Mudminnow; Erie Canal; fish dispersal; James DeKay; Jared Kirtland; type locality; zoogeography

Cultural Resource Survey Bridge Evaluation Form of BIN 1023800/PIN 7152.62.121, Town of Alexandria, Jefferson County, New York - V. A. Schmitt (2006)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Know Thine Own Flora - C. J. Sheviak (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: biology

A New Platanthera (Orchidaceae) from the Intermountain West - C. J. Sheviak; Jennings, W. F. (Rhodora, 2006)
Platanthera sparsiflora is a variable species to which Limnorchis ensifolia and L. laxiflora have been referred. Recently, authors have adopted L. ensifolia for a group of plants that have also been referred to L. laxiflora and P. sparsiflora. None of these existing names apply to a recently delineated but related group, here described as the new species P. tescamnis. This species is distinguished by a small column with short rostellum lobes that position the viscidia above the orifice of the spur. The species exhibits ecological preferences that are unique in the group, occurring at relatively low elevations and in comparatively dry habitats in a hot, arid region. It occurs across the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau and bordering areas in California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado.
Keywords: Intermountain Region; Orchidaceae; Platanthera

Back from the "Dead": Changes in Brooktrout Lake Suggest Ecosystem Recovery after Acidification - C. A. Siegfried (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2006)
Keywords: biology