Summary of State Activities-New York, 1999-2000 - R. H. Fakundiny (The State Geologists Journal, 2000)
Keywords: geology

Field Investigation of a Landslide Site at Elsmere, Albany County, NY - Fickies, R. H. (2000)
Keywords: geology

Field Investigation of a Landslide Site at Goodyear Lake, Otsego County, NY - Fickies, R.H. (2000)
Keywords: geology

Landslide at Albany County, New York - Fickies, R. H. (Association of Engineering Geologists News, 2000)
Keywords: geology

Archaeology and the Rural Landscape - C. L. Fisher (Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Domestic Site Archaeology in New York State, 2000)
Keywords: anthropology

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey of OGS # 41017: Provide Special Housing Unit for Albion Correctional Facility, Town of Attica, Orleans County, New York - C. L. Fisher; J. S. Cardinal (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1018.07.121, Route 28 over Mill Creek, Hamlet of Weavertown, Town of Johnsburg, Warren County, New York. - C. L. Fisher; J. S. Cardinal; M.S. LoRusso (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1018.07.121,NY Route 28 Bridge over Mill Creek: Hamlet of Wevertown, Town of Johnsburg, WarrenCounty, New York - C. L. Fisher; J. S. Cardinal; M.S. LoRusso (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of Pin 1043.19.121: Realignment of Crescent-Vischer Ferry Road, Town of Halfmoon, Saratoga County - C. L. Fisher; J. S. Cardinal; M.S. LoRusso (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1090.13.101, Normanskill Creek Alignment, City of Albany, Albany County, New York - C. L. Fisher (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1125.20.101: Realignments of NY Route 85, Addendum to 98 PR 3285, City of Albany, Albany County, New York - C. L. Fisher; J. S. Cardinal (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 3082.15.121, Addendum III, NY 290 Manlius Center to Route 5, Town of Manlius, Onondaga County, New York - C. L. Fisher (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Site Examination Report of the Sears-Shaver, Sidney Watts, and Kendall Sites, Towns of Clay and Lysander, Onondaga County, New York. - C. L. Fisher; A. Gore; R. Dean (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resource Survey of PIN 3804.13.121/BIN 4433230 Culvert Replacement, Town of Manlius, Onondaga County, New York - C. L. Fisher; A. Gore; M.S. LoRusso (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 3037.56.121, Site Examination of the Sears-Shaver, Sidney Watts, and Kendall Site, Towns of Clay and Lysander, Onondaga County, New York. - C. L. Fisher; A. Gore; R. Dean (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 3804.13.121, Culvert Replacement, Town of Manlius, Onondaga County, New York. - C. L. Fisher; A. Gore; M.S. LoRusso (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Face of Colonial Albany - C. L. Fisher (Archaeology, 2000)
Keywords: anthropology

The Cambrian in Israel and Jordan-The Feather Edge of the Mediterranean Region - G. Geyer; E. Landing (Cambrian From the Southern Edge., 2000)
The Cambrian of Israel and Jordan belongs to the relatively poorly known regions of Cambrian rocks. The outcrops cover small areas in the southernmost part of Israel, from about 50 km north of Eilat to almost the Red Sea, and areas in the southwestem part of Jordan. The best outcrops are found in the Timna area of Israel, which includes the legendary copper mines of King Solomon, at the eastern shore of the Dead Sea, in the Petra area, and in the Wadi Ram region of Jordan. They belong to a thick blanket of Cambrian through Cretaceous clastics which drapes the northern margin of the Arabo-Nubian Shield and was formerly termed the "Nubian sandstone".
Keywords: Arabo-Nubian Shield; Cambrian; Israel; Jordan

A Phase II Cultural Resource Survey Report of PIN 3037.56.121, Site Examinations of Sears Shaver Site, Sidney Watts Site, and Kendalll Site. Towns of Clay and Lysander, Onondaga County, New York - A. Gore; R. Dean; C. L. Fisher (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

New Dates from Old Collections: The Roundtop Site and Maize-Beans-Squash Agriculture in the Northeast - J. P. Hart (North American Archaeologist, 2000)
The Roundtop site located in the Upper Susquehanna River Valley of New York has long been held to contain the earliest evidence for maize-beans-squash agriculture in the Northeast. In his reports on this site, Ritchie linked charred maize, beans, and squash remains with a radiocarbon date of A.D. 1070 + 60 and pottery associated with the early Owasco Carpenter Brook phase. Recent AMS dating of the domesticates indicates that there is no evidence for maize, beans, and squash co-occurring at the site before A.D. 1300. The dates are supported by pottery collections and Ritchie's lab notes. These results emphasize that site descriptions in the literature are interpretations not observations. These interpretations need to be carefully assessed before their incorporation into new analyses and syntheses. This can only be done if collections of artifacts, botanical and zoological remains, and field and lab notes are maintained by museums.
Keywords: AMS dating; bean; maize; Museum collections; New York; Roundtop site; squash

New Dates on Classic New York State Sites: Just How Old Are Those Longhouses? - J. P. Hart (Northeast Anthropology, 2000)
The Roundtop, Maxon-Derby, Sackett, Bates, and Kelso sites have been important sources of information on settlement patterns in New York State during the period A.D. 1000 to 1400, ever since Ritchie and Funk's classic 1973 publication Aboriginal Settlement Patterns in the Northeast. Based on these sites, it has been accepted knowledge that large longhouses were in place by the eleventh to early twelfth centuries A.D. in the upper Susquehanna and Finger Lakes regions. A series of 15 new radiometric and AMS dates from these sites revises this perception, suggesting that longhouses the size of those at Roundtop were not present until the calibrated thirteenth century A.D.
Keywords: Iroquois; longhouses; Museum collections; radiocarbon dating

Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Domestic Site Archaeology in New York State - J. P. Hart; C. L. Fisher (New York State Museum Bulletin, 2000)
Keywords: anthropology

Squash Down, Beans Up - J. P. Hart (Archaeology, 2000)
Keywords: anthropology

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1011.11.101, NY 145 over Bowery Creek, Town of Durham, Greene County New York - Horton, E.; M.S. LoRusso (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for OGS-DOT # 40921/S7008: Provide Salt Storage Building, Maintenance subheadquarters , DOT Region 1, I-87 Exit 34, Town of Chesterfield, Essex County, New York - Horton, E.; A. Lain (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1011.11.101, NY 145 over Bowery Creek, Town of Durham, Greene County, New York. - Horton, E.; M.S. LoRusso (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 8145.17.121, BIN 1-04098-0, NY 211 over the Wallkill River, Town of Montgomery, Orange County, New York - Horton, B.; M.S. LoRusso (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Writings of Sherman Bishop: Part I. The Salamanders of New York - Hunsinger, T. (Herpetological Review, 2000)
Keywords: biology history

Cosmic Spherules Support the Interpretation of a Buried Impact Crater Beneath Panther Mountain in the Central Catskill Mountains, New York - Y. W. Isachsen (Terrestrial and Cosmic Spherules, Proceedings of the 1998 Annual Meeting TECOS, 2000)
Keywords: geology

Geology of New York, A Simplified Account, Second Edition - Y. W. Isachsen; E. Landing; Lauber, J. M.; L. V. Rickard; W. B. Rogers (New York State Museum Educational Leaflet, 2000)
Keywords: geology

Presentation of the John Mason Clarke Medal to Frank Revetta - Y. W. Isachsen; R. H. Fakundiny (Geology and Environmental Sciences, 2000)
Keywords: geology

Endosymbionts of Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas) in Belarus - Karatayev, A. Y.; Burlakova, L. E.; D. P. Molloy; Volkova, L. K. (International Review of Hydrobiology, 2000)
Dreissena polymorpha were dissected and examined for endosymbionts from 17 waterbodies in Belarus — the country through whose waterways zebra mussels invaded Western Europe nearly two centuries ago. Fourteen types of parasites and other symbionts were observed within the mantle cavity and/or associated with internal tissues, including ciliates (Conchophthirus acuminatus, Ancistrumina limnica, and Ophryoglena sp.), trematodes (Echinostomatidae, Phyllodistomum, Bucephalus polymorphus, and Aspidogaster), nematodes, oligochaetes, mites, chironomids, and leeches. Species composition of endosymbionts differed among river basins and lake systems. The most common endosymbiont was the ciliate C. acuminatus. Its mean infection intensity varied significantly among waterbodies from 67 ± 6 to 3,324 ± 556 ciliates/mussel.
Keywords: Conchophthirus acuminatus; Dreissena polymorpha; endosymbionts; trematodes

Seasonal Dynamics of Conchophthirus acuminatus (Ciliophora, Conchophthiridae) Infection in Dreissena polymorpha and D. bugensis (Bivalvia: Dreissenidae) - Karatayev, A. Y.; D. P. Molloy; Burlakova, L. E. (European Journal of Protistology, 2000)
Although considerable research has been carried out on Dreissena spp., relatively little is known about the symbiotic organisms living within them. We report a two-year study of the dynamics of infection by the commensal ciliate Conchophthirus acuminatus in D. polymorpha and D. bugensis populations in the Dnieper River in the Ukraine and in four D. polymorpha populations in Belarus. C. acuminatus was present in all samples. The moderate to high infection prevalence and moderate infection intensity that we recorded in D. polymorpha populations were in contrast to the low prevalence and very low intensity of infection observed in D. bugensis. Recording C. acuminatus in D. bugensis represents the first record of any ciliate species from this mussel and the first report of C. acuminatus in a host other than D. polymorpha. Since infection prevalence and intensity strongly correlated with the size of D. polymorpha, the presence of large, infected mussels is likely important to serve as a reservoir for maintaining infection in the overall population. To infect new host mussels, C. acuminatus must disperse into surrounding waters, and we suggest that a period of mass dispersal may be synchronized to occur when new potential hosts, i.e., juvenile mussels, become abundant.
Keywords: Belarus; commensal; Endosymbiont; Ukraine; Zebra mussel

The Behavior and Ecology of Olingos (Bassaricyon gabii) and Their Competition with Kinkajous (Potos flavus) in Central Panama - R. W. Kays (Mammalia, 2000)
Five olingos (Bassaricyon gabbii) were captured with hoistable tree traps in central Panama. Observation of feeding individuals and the contents of 8 faeces identified 15 species of fruits and flowers in the olingo's diet. No evidence for carnivory was observed. One adult male used a home range of 37.5 ha (95% MCP), and travelled 1412 ± 272 m in a 1/2 night. Olingos appear to share many ecological and behavioral traits with kinkajous (Potos flavus), and competition for food may limit the abundance and distribution of the threatened olingo.
Keywords: abundance; Bassaricyon gabbii; Diet; distribution; feces; olingos

Keeping the Peace in Tsavo National Park - R. W. Kays (In The Field, 2000)
Keywords: biology

Microsatellite Analysis of Kinkajou Social Organization - R. W. Kays; Gittleman, J. G.; Wayne, R. K. (Molecular Ecology, 2000)
Kinkajou social groups generally consist of one adult female, two males, one subadult and one juvenile. Based on analysis of variation in 11 microsatellite loci, we assess the degree of kinship within and between four social groups totaling 25 kinkajous. We use exclusion and likelihood analyses to assign parents for seven of the eight offspring sampled, five with ≥ 95% certainty, and two with ≥ 80% certainty. Five of six identified sires of group offspring came from the same social group as the mother and pup. Adult males and females within a group were unrelated and subadults and juveniles were offspring of the group adults, suggesting a family structure. All five identified paternities within a social group were by the dominant male of the group. However, this copulation asymmetry does not necessarily reflect cooperation due to kinship ties between the two adult males within a group as one of two adult male pairs sampled was unrelated. Neighbouring male kinkajous were more closely related to each other than neighbouring female kinkajous, suggesting that females disperse more often or farther than males.
Keywords: Carnivora; Dispersal; paternity; patrilineal; Potos; relatedness

Catalog of the New York Minerals of the New York State Mueusm - 2000 Supplement: New York State Museum Open File Report 8m220 - W. M. Kelly; Inman, C. G.; M. Hawkins (2000)
Keywords: geology

Boning on the Mohawk: An Overview of Mohawk Faunal Assemblages and Subsistence Patterns - R. D. Kuhn; Funk, R. E. (Archaeology of Eastern North America, 2000)
This paper presents a summary and analysis of the growing body of data on faunal assemblages from Mohawk sites. The results of excavations on eighteen Mohawk sites are incorporated into the study, including previously unpublished data from five sites. Similarities and differences between Mohawk faunal assemblages are identified using cluster analysis and interpreted in relation to key changes in Mohawk subsistence activities over time. As a result, six distinctive subsistence strategies are defined that appear to have both chronological and economic significance. Measures of richness, evenness and diversity are presented for Mohawk faunal assemblages, and a chronological trend toward more diversified assemblages is identified. Based on this evidence it is argued that changes in Mohawk subsistence strategies reflected adaptive responses that produced more stable and reliable economic patterns over time.
Keywords: bone; fauna; hunting; Mohawk; subsistence

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of OGS # 41238/S6578: Provide Independent Living Residence, Helen Hayes Hospital village of West Haverstraw, Town of Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York - A. Lain (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of OGS # 41238/S6578-Addendum: Provide Transitional Living Center, Helen Hayes Hospital Village of West Haverstraw, Town of Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York - A. Lain; M.S. LoRusso (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of OGS # Q0671: Construct 12 Bed Crisis Residence, Hudson River Psychiatric Center, Town of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York - A. Lain; M.S. LoRusso (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of OGS # Q0694:Provide Entrance Road, Building NO. 142, Huson River Psychiatric Center, Town of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York - A. Lain (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of OGS # S-7202: New Child and Family Services Secure Facility, Green Haven Correctional Facility, Town of Beekman, Dutchess County, New York - A. Lain (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of OGS-DOCS # 40401/S7309-Addendum: Mitigation Wetland, MT. McGregor Correctional Facility, Town of Moreau, Saratoga County, New York - A. Lain (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of OGS-DOCS # 40711: Upgrade Wastewater Treatment Plant, Groveland Correctional Facility, Town Of Sonyea, Livingston County, New York - A. Lain (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of OGS-DOVS OGS#40290: Marcy Correctional Facility Expansion, Town of Marcy (MCD 06513), Oneida County, New York - A. Lain (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for OGS # 41238/S6578, Provide Transitional Living Center, Helen Hayes Hospital, Village of West Haverstraw, Town of Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York - A. Lain; M.S. LoRusso (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for OGS-DOT # 41103: Construct Salt Storage Structure, DOT Region 2, Route 28 Hamlet of Thendara, Town of Webb, Herkimer County, New York - A. Lain (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cambrian--Ordovician Boundary Age and Duration of the Lowest Ordovician Tremadoc Series Based on U-Pb Zircon Dates from Avalonian Wales - E. Landing; Bowring, S. A.; Davidek, K. L.; Rushton, A.; Fortey, R. A.; Wimbledon, W. A. P. (Geological Magazine, 2000)
Two thin volcaniclastic sandstone beds in the Bryn-llin-fawr road section in North Wales overlie an apparent sequence boundary within the uppermost Cambrian Acerocare Zone and are overlain by lowest Ordovician (lower Tremadoc) Rhabdinopora faunas. U–Pb geochronology of zircons from these sandstones yields a maximum Cambrian–Ordovician boundary age of 489±0.6 Ma. This age indicates both that the Tremadoc Series (lowest Ordovician) may be shorter in duration than was previously thought and that the duration of the Middle and Late Cambrian (c. 22 Ma) was much less than that of the Early Cambrian (c. 33 Ma). Cambrian trilobite zones locally had an average duration as short as 1 Ma.
Keywords: Cambrian–Ordovician boundary; North Wales; trilobites; volcaniclastic sandstone

The Betsey Prince Site: An Early Black Domestic Site on Long Island - M.S. LoRusso (Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Domestic Site Archaeology in New York State, 2000)
Keywords: anthropology

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for an Architectural Survey of OGS-DOCS # S7290: Fishkill Correctional Facility, City of Beacon, Dutchess County, New York - M.S. LoRusso (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 7143.26.121, US 11 & 177 Intersection and Hamlet of Adams Center Improvements, Hamlet of Adams Center, Town of Adams, Jefferson County, New York - M.S. LoRusso (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resources Architectural Survey and Archeological Pre-Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1041.04. 102, NY 372, Village of Greenwich and Town of Easton, Washington County, New York - M.S. LoRusso (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for OGS Q0671, Construct 12 Bed Crisis Residence Hudson River Psychiatric Center, Town of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York - M.S. LoRusso (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1041.04.102, NY 372 Village of Greenwich and Town of Easton, Washington County, New York. - M.S. LoRusso (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1041.04.102, NY 372, Village of Greenwich and Town of Easton, Washington County, New York - M.S. LoRusso (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

PIN 5753.72.122, Boatlanding Bridge HAER Documentation, City of Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York - M.S. LoRusso (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

PIN 6803.25.101 HABS Documentation of Elmira, Corning and Waverly Railway, Seeley Creek Substation. Town of Ashland, Chemung County - M.S. LoRusso (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Winter Dispersal of Bryophyte Fragments in the Adirondack Mountains, New York - McDaniel, S. F.; N. G. Miller (The Bryologist, 2000)
Bryophyte and vascular plant fragments were obtained from late-spring snowbeds at three localities in the Adirondack Mountains, New York. Fragment diversity in samples at alpine and krummholz sites far exceeded that at a forested site, and the diversity of bryophyte species represented by the fragments surpassed that of vascular plants. Approximately 82% of all bryophyte fragments found were in sufficiently good condition to permit identification to species or genus. Statistically significant differences in fragment species diversity occurred between the alpine sites and the forested site, but not between the two alpine sites. The consistent presence of liverworts in the alpine samples indicates that their absence from late-glacial sediments may be due more to taphonomy than either an absence of hepatics from the late-glacial flora or an inability of hepatics to disperse by gametophyte fragments. We detected only a few allochthonous fragments in our samples, and these were of bryophyte species characteristic of lower elevation balsam fir and red spruce-balsam fir forests. In alpine tundra, winter-dispersed fragments of bryophytes may serve as vegetative diaspores, providing a mechanism for rapid establishment of new populations every year following snow melt.
Keywords: Adirondack Mountains; bryophytes; Dispersal; New York; winter

The Callitrichaceae in the Southeastern United States - N. G. Miller (Harvard Papers in Botany, 2000)
Keywords: biology

A European Feather Moss, Pseudoscleropodium purum, Naturalized Widely in New York State in Cemeteries - N. G. Miller; Trigoboff, N. (The Bryologist, 2000)
Plants of Pseudoscleropodium purum, a moss native to central and western Europe, are well established in western, central, and eastern New York State, mainly in lawns of cemeteries, especially those with moist clayey soil, shade provided by conifers (Picea abies, Thuja occidentalis) in small groves, and periodic mowing. Male and female plants occur in Rensselaer County, New York cemeteries, but not in the same ones. Sporophytes have not been found, and reproduction appears to occur vegetatively as plants are cut and spread during lawn maintenance. If spore production is established within the naturalized range of this moss in the northeastern United States, the species may become more widespread, and possibly invasive. While the date and method of introduction into the State of New York are unknown, a 19th century specimen of P. purum from the West Coast of North America indicates that the moss may have reached that region as packing material in the late-1800's.
Keywords: moss; naturalizing; New York

First Records of the European Moss, Pseudoscleropodium purum, Naturalized in New England - N. G. Miller (Rhodora, 2000)
Keywords: biology

Male Plants of Cyrtomnium hymenophylloides (Bryophyta: Mniaceae) in Siberia - N. G. Miller; Mogensen, G. S. (Arctoa, 2000)
Male plants of the arctic-alpine moss Cyrtomnium hymenophylloides are present in a collection of this species from the unglaciated Lena River Valley, Siberia, Asian Russia. Male plants are otherwise known from near or in unglaciated refugia in arctic Canada and Alaska. Female plants are more widespread in northern regions of glaciated North America and Fennoscandia. The differential distribution of male and female plants, and the apparent absence of sporophytes in the few known places were males and females occur together, indicate that there is limited potential of dispersal by spores throughout the range of this moss, and not only in North America as was previously documented.
Keywords: arctic-alpine; Asian Russia; Cyrtomnium hymenophylloides; Lena River Valley; moss; Siberia

A New Perspective on Indian-White Contact: Cultural Symbols and Colonial Trade - Miller, C. L.; G. R. Hamell (American Encounters: Natives and Newcomers from European Contact to Indian Removal, 1500-1850, 2000)
Keywords: anthropology history

Pseudoscleropodium purum, A European Moss Widely Naturalized in New York State - N. G. Miller (New York Flora Association Newsletter, 2000)
Keywords: biology

Web Site and Unpublished Data Sets for the Southeastern Flora - N. G. Miller; Arriagada., J. E. (Sida Bot. Misc., 2000)
Keywords: biology

A Catalog of Sterling Forest Plants. Botanical Research Report #2000-01 - R. S. Mitchell; Barbour, J. G.; Focht, J. (2000)
Keywords: biology

A Catalog of Sterling Forest Plants, Seventh Report - R. S. Mitchell; Barbour, J. G.; Focht, J. (2000)
Keywords: biology

Database & Revised Checklist of New York State Plants CD format - R. S. Mitchell (The University of the State of New York, 2000)
Keywords: biology

Polygonaceae (Smartweed Family) - R. S. Mitchell (The Plants of Pennsylvania-An Illistrated Manual, 2000)
Keywords: biology

Review of "Flora of the Northeast: A Manual of the Vascular Flora of New England and Adjacent New York" by Dennis W. Magee & Harry E. Ahles - R. S. Mitchell (NYFA Newsletter, 2000)
Keywords: biology

Zebra Mussel Information System Compact Disc. 2nd Edition - D. P. Molloy; Crosier, D. M. (2000)
Keywords: biology

Organic Carbon Burial and Faunal Dynamics in the Appalachian Basin during the Devonian (Givetian-Famennian) Greenhouse: An Integrated Paleoecological/Biogeochemical Approach - Murphy, A. E.; Sageman, B. B.; C. A. Ver Straeten; Hollander, D. J. (Warm Climates in Earth History, 2000)
Keywords: geology

Late Prehistoric Settlement in the Lower Upper Ohio River Basin - Nass, J. P.; J. P. Hart (Cultures Before Contact: The Late Prehistory of Ohio and Surrounding Regions, 2000)
The Late Prehistoric Period in the upper Ohio River Basin is characterized by nucleated farming communities. Historically, these villages, wheterh found in Ohio, northern West Virginia, or southwestern Pennsylvania, have been uncrtitically classified as components of the Monongahela Tradition, ca. A.D. 1000-1630. The present paper examines the utility of the Monongahela concept given the existing data base and outlines a more objective approach for understanding settlement responses to both localized and regional environmental and social conditions.
Keywords: archaeological systematics; Late Prehistoric Period; Monongahela tradition; upper Ohio River basin

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1753.37.121, Relocation of Maxwell Road at Albany Shaker Road, Town of Colonie, Albany County, New York--Addendum - M. Pickands (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2134.14.121, NY 5 over Canaseraga Creek, Village of Sullivan, Town of Sullivan, Madison County, New York. - M. Pickands (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2134.39.121, NY 5 from High Street to Harp Road, Village of Canastota, Town of Lenox, Madison County, New York. - M. Pickands; M.S. LoRusso (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 2018.88, Rte. 28, T. Webb, Herkimer Co., Addendum 1B - Native Burial Location - M. Pickands (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 2134.14.121 Rte. 5 over Canaseraga Creek, Town of Sullivan, Madison County - M. Pickands (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 2134.39.121, NY 5 from High Street to Harp Road, Village of Canastota, Town of Lenox, Madison County, New York - M. Pickands; M.S. LoRusso (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Spain's Boarding House and Early Twentieth-Century Settlement in the Western Adirondacks - M. Pickands (Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth Century Domestic Site Arhcaeology in New York State, 2000)
Keywords: anthropology

A Cultural Resource Survey Report for Site Monitoring Activities at the Robinson II Site, PIN 3804.06.121, Bartell Road Fishing Access Site, Interstate Deck Bridge Project, Town of Clay, Onondaga County, New York - C. B. Rieth (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Historic Preservation Plan for Bartell Road Fishing Access Site, Interstate Bridge Deck Project, Town of Clay, Onondaga County, New York. - C. B. Rieth (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources OGS-S6179, Coxsackie Correctional Facility, Town of Coxsackie, Greene County, New York - J. Ross (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Archibald Dunlop (1672-1713) of Stratford, Connecticut: His Maternal Descent from James II of Scotland - J. L. Scherer (The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2000)
Keywords: history

Archibald Dunlop (1672-1713) of Stratford, Connecticut: His Maternal Descent from James II, King of Scotland - J. L. Scherer (New England Historic Genealogical Register, 2000)
Keywords: history

A Shaker Legacy: The Shaker Collection at the New York State Museum. Revised Edition - J. L. Scherer (New York State Museum Circular, 2000)
Keywords: history

Gartenkultur Nordamerikanischer Cypripedium-Arten - C. J. Sheviak (Die Orchidee, 2000)
Keywords: biology

Natural Color - C. J. Sheviak (Outdoor Photographer, 2000)
Keywords: biology

The Northeastern Members of the Platanthera hyperborea Complex (Orchidaceae) - C. J. Sheviak (North American Native Orchid Journal, 2000)
Keywords: biology

Refinements In Our Understanding of Some Green Platantheras - C. J. Sheviak (North American Native Orchid Journal, 2000)
Keywords: biology

Rapid Onset of Late Paleozoic Glaciation on Gondwana: Evidence from Upper Mississippian Strata of the Midcontinent, United States - L. B. Smith Jr.; Read, J. F. (Geology, 2000)
Direct evidence of the late Paleozoic glaciation of Gondwana from glacial deposits suggests that geographically extensive continental glaciation began some time in the Namurian (Late Mississippian). However, the timing and characteristics of the onset of glaciation are poorly understood because of a lack of reliable paleontological control and reworking of initial glacial deposits by subsequent glacial advances. Indirect evidence of glaciation preserved in unconformity-bounded, low-latitude ramp sequences in the Illinois basin, United States, suggests that geographically extensive continental glaciation of Gondwana actually began in the late Visean. An abrupt change from carbonate-dominated sequences bounded by disconformities with little evidence of erosion to mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sequences bounded by unconformities with deep incised valleys was likely produced by a three-fold increase in the magnitude of eustatic sea-level fluctuations. The increase in the magnitude of sea-level fluctuations was likely driven by an equally abrupt increase in ice volume and marks the onset of the geographically extensive late Paleozoic glaciation of Gondwana. A possible explanation for the rapid onset of glaciation is the closing of the equatorial seaway between Laurussia and Gondwana. Closing of this seaway would have led to an abrupt change in oceanic and atmospheric circulation patterns that could have initiated major continental glaciation in the Southern Hemisphere.
Keywords: eustasy; incised valley glaciation; mixed carbonate-siliciclastic; sequence stratigraphy

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1721.51.121, New Construction of a Connector Exit between I-87 and World Road and I-87 and the Albany Airport - J. Sopko; Kahn, B. (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resources Pre-Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1721.51.121, I-87 Exit 3, Town of Colonie, Albany County - J. Sopko; Kahn, B. (2000)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Farmstead Archaeology and the Impact of Agrarian Change at Three Sites in Eastern New York - J. Sopko (Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century Domestic Site Archaeology in New York State, 2000)
Keywords: anthropology

Bulge Migration and Pinnacle Reef Development, Devonian Appalachian Basin - C. A. Ver Straeten; C. Brett (Journal of Geology, 2000)
Detailed stratigraphic analyses of Late Emsian and Early Eifelian (Lower to Middle Devonian) carbonate‐dominated strata in the northern Appalachian Basin indicate anomalous, locally varying relative sea level changes and inversions of topography. The distribution of a major basal‐bounding unconformity, basinal pinnacle reefs, local absence of parasequences, and eastward migration of shallow marine carbonate lithofacies and related biofacies in the Onondaga Limestone and underlying strata mark the retrograde migration of an elongate, northeast‐southwest‐trending area of positive relief, bordered on its cratonward side by a similarly migrating basin of intermediate depth. These features are thought to represent the forebulge and back‐bulge basin of the Appalachian foreland basin system as it developed during a time of relative quiescence within the Acadian Orogeny. However, the relatively small size of the bulgelike feature (ca. 80–100‐km‐wide, 20–50‐m positive relief), its great distance from the probable deformation front (>400 km), and the lack of a well‐developed foredeep immediately adjacent to the bulgelike feature may indicate that it represents a smaller‐scale flexural high (“flexural welt”) superposed over the cratonward edge of the larger‐scale classical forebulge of the basin. Development of shallow‐water reefs on the crest of the bulge during sea level lowstand, followed by migration of the bulge and widespread transgression, permitted growth of economically significant pinnacle reefs in the deep basin center. Further subsurface reef exploration should concentrate along the projected position of the bulge during the basal Onondaga lowstand.
Keywords: carbonate‐dominated strata; Early Eifelian; Late Emsian; Lower to Middle Devonian; northern Appalachian Basin; stratigraphic analyses

Archaeological Textile Research in the Americas - Webster, L.; P. B. Drooker (Beyond Cloth and Cordage: Archaeological Textile Research in the Americas, 2000)
Keywords: anthropology

Lower Cambrian (Branchian) Trilobites and Biostratigraphy of the Hanford Brook Formation, Southern New Brunswick - Westrop, S. R.; E. Landing (Journal of Paleontology, 2000)
Keywords: Avalonia; Cambrian; Hanford Brook Formation; North America; trilobites

Distributions of Lake Fish in the Northeast: II. The Minnows (Cyprinidae) - Whittier, T.R.; Halliwell, D. B.; R. A. Daniels (Northeastern Naturalist, 2000)
We discuss the distribution and native status of 24 minnow species (family: Cyprinidae) collected at 203 randomly selected lakes in the northeastern USA (New England, New York, New Jersey) by the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP). Twenty-four species were collected during the summers of 1991–96. Only golden shiner was frequently collected, occurring in 71% of the sampled lakes. Fallfish, creek chub, and common shiner were also common. The remaining species were taken in <10% of the lakes. Physical (surface area, depth, elevation), chemical (pH, total phosphorus), and watershed disturbance characteristics of the lakes show distinct species-specific patterns. Evidence suggests that native minnow biodiversity has declined over the last 150 years as a result of changing biotic, physical, chemical, and watershed characteristics.
Keywords: distribution; Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program; lakes; minnow Cyprinidae; native status; northeastern USA

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 8019.01.101, Tomahawk Street, NY 118 from US 202 to US 6, Town of Somers, Westchester County and Hamlet of Baldwin Place, Town of Carmel, Putnam County, New York. - Black, A.; M. Pickands; M.S. LoRusso (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 8019.01.101, Tomahawk Street, NY 118 from US 202 to US 6, Town of Somers, Westchester County, New York - Black, A.; M.S. LoRusso (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Trip to Secret Caverns and Fossil Collecting, Schoharie County, NY - D. H. Cadwell; W. M. Kelly; L. VanAller Hernick (1999)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Comparison of Artifact Collections from the State Street Blockhouse Site: Albany, New York - J. S. Cardinal (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 8756.77.101, Oniontown Road At-Grade, Railroad Crossing Elimination, Town of Dover, Dutchess County, New York - J. S. Cardinal (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Status of Fishes of the Allegheny River Watershed of New York State - Carlson, D. M.; R. A. Daniels; Eaton, S. W. (Northeast Naturalist, 1999)
The Allegheny River drainage in southwestern New York supports a diverse fish fauna that i ncludes reports of 95 species. Of these, nine species are classified as endangered, threatened, or of special concern in New York; this number represents 38% of the listed species in the state. Thirteen of the 95 species are reported only from the Allegheny River drainage and have not been found in other New York drainages. Eleven species are introduced, and four may have migrated into the drainage recently. Individual waters with high species richness, 46-67 species, include the Allegheny River, French Creek, Olean Creek, and Chautauqua Lake. The ichthyofauna of the Allegheny River drainage is important because of the number of rare fish species present in the drainage (26) when compared to other New York drainages.
Keywords: Allegheny River Drainage; Fish; species; status

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1236.13.101, Route 29 over the Kayaderosseras Creek, Town of Milton, Saratoga County, New York. - N. L. Davis (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 3042.09.121, NY 26 over Mead Brook, Town of Cincinnatus, Cortland County, New York. - N. L. Davis; M.S. LoRusso; J. S. Cardinal (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 3102.19.121, NY 41 over Maybury Brook, Town of Solon, Cortland County, New York. - N. L. Davis; M.S. LoRusso; J. S. Cardinal (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1085.27.101, NY 146 from River Road to Glenridge Road, Towns of Niskayuna and Clifton Park, Schenectady and Saratoga County, New York. - N. L. Davis; M.S. LoRusso (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey for PIN 3057.44.121/BIN 1-01045-0, Route 13 over Albright Creek, Village of East Homer, Town of Homer, Cortland County, New York. - R. Dean; J. S. Cardinal; M.S. LoRusso; C. L. Fisher (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1116.12.101, Route 9N Bridge Replacement over Silver Brook, Town of Keene, Essex County, New York - R. Dean (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1132.12.101, Route 155 and 85A to Route 20, Towns of New Scotland and Guilderland, Albany County, New York - R. Dean; M.S. LoRusso (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2016.53.101, Route 12 Realignment, Town of Paris, Oneida County, New York. - R. Dean (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2236.24.121, Route 29 and CR 920C from Cayadutta Creek, East to the Proximity of Harrison Street, City and Town of Johnstown, Fulton County, New York. - R. Dean; M.S. LoRusso (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 3057.44.121/BIN 1-01045-0, Route 13 over Albright Creek, Village of East Homer, Cortland County, New York - R. Dean; J. S. Cardinal; M.S. LoRusso (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 9086.00.101--Addendum II, Route 443 Retaining Wall along the Fox Creek, Town of Wright, Schoharie County, New York. - R. Dean (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report for PIN 1132.12.101, Route 155, Town of Guilderland, Albany County, New York - R. Dean (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Exotic Ceramics at Madisonville: Implications for Interaction - P. B. Drooker (Taming the Taxonomy: Toward a New Understanding of Great Lakes Archaeology, 1999)
Keywords: anthropology

Fabric Impressed Sherd from the Rose Hotel Site. Appendix D - P. B. Drooker (Archaeological Investigations at the Rose Hotel (11Hn-116), Hardin County, Illinois, 1999)
Keywords: anthropology

Makers and Markets: A New Exhibit Introduces an Important Collection and a Renovated Gallery at the Peabody Museum - P. B. Drooker (Symbols, 1999)
Keywords: anthropology

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for OGS 40506-C, Proposed Lotion of DOT Maintenace Subhead Quarters, Town of Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York - A. Gore (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Age of Common Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) in the Northeastern United States - J. P. Hart; Scarry, C. M. (American Antiquity, 1999)
A radiocarbon date of A.D. 1070±60 was linked to the remains of maize (Zea mays), beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), and squash (Cucurbita pepo) at the Roundtop site in the Susquehanna River valley of New York by William Ritchie in 1969 and 1973 publications. This date established the presence of beans in the Northeast at an earlier time than in most other areas of the eastern United States, w here they are generally rare before A.D. 1300.  Subsequently beans have been reported in pre-A.D. 1300 contexts from at least eight other sites in the Northeast. Recent calibrated A MS dates on beans f rom Roundtop are no earlier than A.D. 1300 (Hart 1999a). Given that the original Roundtop date was responsible for the acceptance of early beans in the Northeast, the AMS dates suggested that beans may not become archaeologically visible there until ca. A.D. 1300. AMS dates on beans from four other sites, reported here, substantiate the Roundtop results. Beans and by extension maize-beans-squash intercropping are not evident in the Northeast before ca. A.D. 1300.
Keywords: AMS dating; Archaeology; common bean; crop history; maize-bean-squash agriculture; northeastern North America; Phaseolus vulgaris

Another look at Clemson's Island - J. P. Hart (Northeast Anthropology, 1999)
Archaeological sites assigned to the “Clemson’s Island” complex have great potential to be used to address issues of early Late Prehistoric (c. A.D. 750 – A.D. 1250) subsistence and settlement evolution in the Susquehanna River basin. During the 1980s and into the 1990s much effort was expended in attempts to identify a coherent set of common stylistic and functional attributes to define the Clemson’s Island taxon and adaptive type. These efforts culminated in a state plan for Clemson’s Island by Hay and associates (1987) and a widely read and referenced synthesis by Stewart (1990, 1994). Despite these efforts, Clemson’s Island remains somewhat enigmatic; there is much stylistic and functional variation that defy ready classification within the constructs of a culture-historic taxon or adaptive type. This variation, however, is critical to the identification and explanation of subsistence and settlement evolution. Future Clemson’s Island research should be geared toward identification of variation rather than the search for commonalties.
Keywords: archaeological history; Archaeology; Clemson's Island; systematics

Current Northeast Paleoethnobotany - J. P. Hart (New York State Museum Bulletin, 1999)
Keywords: anthropology

Dating Roundtop's Domesticates: Implications for Northeastern Late Prehistory - J. P. Hart (Current Northeast Paleoethnobotany, 1999)
Keywords: anthropology

Introduction - J. P. Hart (Current Northeast Paleoethnobotany, 1999)
Keywords: anthropology

Maize Agriculture Evolution in the Eastern Woodlands of North America: A Darwinian Perspective - J. P. Hart (Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 1999)
David Rindos' coevolution theory remains the most comprehensive application of Darwinian theory to issues of prehistoric agriculture evolution. While his theory has drawn attention, there has been a lack of subsequent development of the application of Darwinian theory to prehistoric agricultural evolution. Combining Sewall Wright's shifting balance theory of evolution with aspects of Rindos' coevolution theory provides important new insights into the processes of crop transmission between regions. Using these theories, a model is developed for the adoption and subsequent evolution of maize agriculture in the Eastern Woodlands of North America.
Keywords: e evolution; Eastern Woodlands; maize agricultur; shifting balance theory

Catalog of the New York Minerals of the New York State Mueusm - 1999 Supplement: New York State Museum Open File Report 8m211 - W. M. Kelly; Inman, C. G.; M. Hawkins (1999)
Keywords: geology

Seismic Reflection and Vibracoring Studies of the Continental Shelf Offshore Central and Western Long Island, New York - W. M. Kelly; Albanese, J. R.; Harsch, A. A. (Marine Georesources and Geotechnology, 1999)
The ridge-and-swale topography on the continental shelf south of Fire Island, New York, is characterized by northeast-trending linear shoals that are shore attached and shore oblique on the inner shelf and isolated and shore parallel on the middle shelf. High-resolution seismic reflection profiles show that the ridges and swales occur independent of, and are not controlled by, the presence of internal structures (for example, filled tidal inlet channels, paleobarrier strata) or underlying structure (for example, high-relief Cretaceous unconformity). Grab samples of surficial sediments on the shelf south of Fire Island average 98 % sand. Locally, benthic fauna increase silt and clay content through fecal pellet production or increase the content of gravel-size material by contribution of their fragmented shell remains. Surficial sand on the ridges is unimodal at 0.33 mm (medium sand, about 50 mesh), and surficial sand in troughs is bimodal at 0.33 mm and 0.15 mm (fine sand, about 100 mesh). In addition to seismic studies, 26 vibracores were recovered from the continental shelf in state and federal waters from south of Rockaway and Long Beaches, Long Island, New York. Stratigraphic and sedimentological data gleaned from these cores were used to outline the geologic framework in the study area. A variety of sedimentary features were noted in the cores, including burrow-mottled sections of sand in a finer silty-sand, rhythmic lamination of sand and silty-sand that reflect cyclic changes in sediment transport, layers of shell hash and shells that probably represent tempestites, and changes from dark color to light color in the sediments that probably represent changes in the oxidation reduction conditions in the area with time. The stratigraphic units identified are an upper, generally oxidized,nearshore facies, an underlying fine-to medium-sand and silty-clay unit considered to be an estuarine facies, and a lower, coarse-grained, deeply oxidized, cross-laminated preHolocene unit. Grain-size analysis shows that medium-to fine-grained sand makes up most (68-99 %) of the surficial sediments. Gravel exists in trace amounts up to 19 %. Silt ranges between 3 % and 42 %, and clay ranges from 1 % to 10 %.
Keywords: continental shelf; New York; ridge-and-swale topography; seismic reflection; vibracoring

The Janes Who Made the Planes: Grumman in World War II - Kleinegger, C. (The Long Island Historical Journal, 1999)
Keywords: history

Histological Analysis of Mantle-cavity Ciliates in Dreissena polymorpha: Their Location, Symbiotic Relationship, and Distinguishing Morphological Characteristics - Laruelle, F.; D. P. Molloy; Fokin, S. I.; M. A. Ovcharenko (Journal of Shellfish Research, 1999)
Four families of trematodes were observed in histological sections during a 1992–1997 investigation of the parasites of zebra mussels Dreissena polymorpha. These included Aspidogastridae, i.e., Aspidogaster, Echinostomatidae, Bucephalidae, i.e., Bucephalus polymorphus, and Gorgoderidae, i.e., Phyllodistomum folium. This article describes the precise location of these trematodes in the tissues of D. polymorpha, provides graphic evidence of their effect on the organs they inhabit, and highlights the distinguishing morphological characteristics. Evidence of defense reaction of host to trematode infection, i.e., encapsulation of Aspidogaster and nacrezation of B. polymorphus, is also presented and is the first such report for zebra mussels. The histological photomicrographs included represent the first comprehensive series published on trematode infection of zebra mussels. These images, in conjunction with the morphological descriptions presented, should assist researchers in identifying the 4 major trematode taxa that they are likely to encounter in the tissue sections of zebra mussels.
Keywords: Dreissena polymorpha; histological sections; Parasites; trematodes; Zebra mussels

Cultural Resouces Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 4034.52.101, NY 5 from Conrail to Tonawanda Creek, Town of Batavia, Genesee County, New York - M.S. LoRusso (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1382.20.101, BIN 1-02879-0, NY 73 over West Branch of Ausable River, Town of North Elba, Essex County, New York - M.S. LoRusso (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2018.60.121, NY 28 to NY 12 to Moose River, Towns of Boonville, Oneida County, New York - M.S. LoRusso (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 4034.52.101, NY 5: 100 meters east of Conrail to Tonawanda Creek, City of Batavia, Genesee County, New York - M.S. LoRusso (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 9095.46.101, Route 10, Villages of Hobart and Stamford, Towns of Stamford and Harpersfield, Delaware County, New York - M.S. LoRusso (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Lamb Site Pollen and Macro-fossils - N. G. Miller (The Lamb Site: A Pioneering Clovis Encampment, 1999)
Keywords: anthropology biology

Late-Quaternary History of the Alpine Flora of the New Hampshire White Mountains - N. G. Miller; Spear, R. W. (Geographie Physique et Quaternaire, 1999)
A distinctive flora of 73 species of vascular plants and numerous bryophytes occurs in the ca. 20 km 2 of alpine tundra in the White Mountains, New Hampshire. The late- Quaternary distribution of these plants, many of which are disjuncts, was investigated by studies of pollen and plant macrofossils from lower Lakes of the Clouds (1 542 m) in the alpine zone of Mount Washington. Results were compared with pollen and macrofossils from lowland late-glacial deposits in western New England. Lowland paleofloras contained fossils of 43 species of vascular plants, 13 of which occur in the contemporary alpine flora of the White Mountains. A majority of species in the paleoflora has geographic affinities to Labrador, northern Québec, and Greenland, a pattern also apparent for mosses in the lowland deposits. The first macrofossils in lower Lakes of the Clouds were arctic-alpine mosses of acid soils. Although open-ground mosses and vascular plants continued to occur throughout the Holocene, indicating that alpine tundra persisted, fossils of a low-elevation moss Hylocomiastrum umbratum are evidence that forest (perhaps as krummholz) covered a greater area near the basin from 7 500 to 3 500 yBP. No calcicolous plants were recovered from sediments at lower Lakes of the Clouds. Climatic constraints on the alpine flora during the Younger Dryas oscillation and perhaps during other cold-climate events and intervening periods of higher temperature may have led to the loss of plant species in the White Mountain alpine zone. Late-glacial floras of lowland western New England were much richer than floras of areas above treeline during late-glacial time and at the present.
Keywords: alpine tundra; alpine zone; bryophytes; Lakes of the Clouds; late- Quaternary distribution; Mount Washington.; New Hampshire; plant macrofossils; pollen; vascular plants; White Mountains

Pleurocladula albescens in the Late-Pleistocene of Vermont, U.S.A., and on the Rarity of Hepaticae in Glacial Sediments - N. G. Miller (Haussknechtia Beih., 1999)
Keywords: biology paleontology

Are Invasive Plants Really a Serious Danger to native Plants and Habitats - R. S. Mitchell (Wildflower, 1999)
Keywords: biology

New North American Records of Aquatic Insects as Paratenic Hosts of Pheromermis (Nematoda: Mermithidae) - D. P. Molloy; Vinikour, W. S.; Anderson, R. V. (Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 1999)
Several species of aquatic insects in Trout Park Nature Preserve (Elgin, IL) were observed to have small, black spots (<0.1 mm diameter) visible within their bodies. Microscopic examination revealed these spots to be coiled juveniles of a mermithid (Nematoda: Mermithidae). Based on host habitat (seepage areas and rivulets), host species (aquatic insects), and size (mean diameter of coiled juveniles = 79 μm), it is likely that these mermithids were in the genus Pheromermis. Since adult mermithids were not found, species determination was not feasible, and the possibility of a new species cannot be ruled out. Pheromermis pachysoma and Pheromermis vesparum, however, are two species known to use aquatic insects as paratenic (i.e., transport) hosts in order to reach their definitive hosts, vespid wasps. Wasp larvae are infected by consuming the flesh of adult aquatic insects that contain the coiled juveniles of these Pheromermis spp. Of the 19 macroinvertebrate species examined in this study, Pheromermis juveniles were found in 4 caddisfly species (Hesperophylax designatus, Lepidostoma liba, Glossosoma intermedium, and Diplectrona modesta) and in 2 stonefly species (Clioperla clio and Amphinemura delosa). In addition to all 6 insect species being new host records for Pheromermis infection, this also represents the first report of nematode infection in stoneflies within the Western Hemisphere and of a Pheromermis sp. in Illinois. Among trophic groups, insect detritivores have been frequently recorded infected with coiled Pheromermis juveniles because of their direct consumption of eggs, and we also observed this for detritivores in our investigation (e.g., L. liba and A. delosa). Because C. clio was intensively infected, however, our study also provided evidence that predatory insects can be paratenic hosts. Coiled juveniles were typically present in muscle and fat body and present in almost all body regions. Not every infected paratenic host had external signs of infection; thus, dissections are required for accurate determination of infection prevalence and intensity. Our findings, in conjunction with those made in previous studies, indicate that a wide variety of aquatic insects may be used as paratenic hosts by Pheromermis. Because of their small size, it is highly likely that coiled juveniles are either overlooked or mistaken for melanized integumental wounds during field studies of aquatic insects. A more careful inspection for these coiled juveniles in aquatic insects, especially detritivores and their predators in seepage areas, would probably reveal that Pheromermis is far more common than presently documented.
Keywords: Amphinemura delosa; Clioperla clio; Diplectrona modesta; Glossosoma intermedium; Hesperophylax designatus; Lepidostoma liba; Pheromermis pachysoma; Pheromermis vesparum; prevalence and intensity of infection

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey of PIN 1347.07.122, Selkirk Bypass NY 396 from US 9W to NY 144, Town of Bethlehem, Albany County, New York - M. Pickands; M.S. LoRusso (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 3022.32.121, NY 437 over Owasco Creek, Towns of Fleming and Owasco, Oswego County, New York. - M. Pickands; M.S. LoRusso (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 3804.06.121, Bartell Road Fishing Access Site, Interstate Bridge Deck Project, Town of Clay, Onondaga County, New York and Town of Hastings, Oswego County, New York. - C. B. Rieth (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Data Recovery Plan, Schoharie Creek II Site, Route 7 over Schoharie Creek, Town of Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York. - C. B. Rieth (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Data Recovery Report for PIN 1753.50.121, Middle Line Road, Town of Ballston, Saratoga County, New York. - C. B. Rieth (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Data Recovery Report for the Schoharie Creek II Site, PIN 9306.56.121, Route 7 over Schoharie Creek, Town of Schoharie, Schoharie, New York - C. B. Rieth (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 9125.05.121, Routes 30/30A Intersection and Vrooman Corners Intersection, Town of Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York - C. B. Rieth (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Report for OGS # 40693-C, Perimeter Fence, Highland Residential Center, Town of Lloyd, Ulster County, New York - J. Ross; J. S. Cardinal (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Addendum to PIN 2009.13.121, NY 167 over Barge Canal and Mohawk River, City of Little Falls, Herkimer County, New York. - V. A. Schmitt; M.S. LoRusso (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey for PIN 2009.12.121, NY 167 over Barge Canal and Mohawk River, City of Little Falls, NY - V. A. Schmitt; M.S. LoRusso (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The identities of Platanthera hyperborea and P. huronensis, with the description of a new species from North America - C. J. Sheviak (Lindleyana, 1999)
Keywords: Anatomy and morphology; Chromosome numbers; EnIcones; Platanthera aquilonis

Platanthera hyperborea and a Reappraisal of Green Platantheras - C. J. Sheviak (North American Native Orchid Journal, 1999)
Keywords: biology

Cultural Resource Site Examination Report for PIN 2016.53.101, NY 12 Realignment, Town of Paris, Oneida County, New York--Ormsby Farm Site (NYSM site 10808) - J. Sopko (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1460.33.121, NY 32 over the Barge Canal, Village of Waterford, Saratoga County, New York - J. Sopko (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report for PIN 1460.31.101 NY 32 from County Route 301 to 308, NYSM Sites 366 Winnie IV and 10439 Long-Louck, Town of New Scotland, Albany County, New York - J. Sopko (1999)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Railroad Crossing Elimination Project in Elmira - G. Stein (Journal of the Chemung County Historical Society, 1999)
Keywords: history

Silas Watson Ford: A Major But Little-known Contributor to the Cambrian Paleontology of North America - L. VanAller Hernick (Earth Sciences History, 1999)
Silas Watson Ford (1848-1895), telegrapher and paleontologist born in Glenville, New York, in 1848, made significant contributions to Cambrian paleontology from 1871 to 1888. The focus of his work was the allochthonous Taconic rock that lies east of the Hudson River in easternmost New York. His discovery of a ‘Primordial’ fauna in this region was instrumental in helping to resolve the uncertainty surrounding the age of this older portion of the Taconics. While most of his papers were published in the American Journal of Science, a series of seven papers on the ‘Silurian Age’ was published by the New York Tribune in 1879. For this work he was subsequently awarded an honorary master's degree by Union College. Ford was hired by his contemporary, Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927), to work for the U.S. Geological Survey from 1884 to 1885. Highly regarded by James Hall (1811-1898), James Dwight Dana (1813-1895), Joachim Barrande (1799-1883), and many other prominent geologists of the time, he was often consulted for his expertise in collecting and describing Cambrian-age fossils. While Walcott's career continued to flourish, Ford faded into obscurity after 1888. Plagued by personal problems, he was forced to give up his personal library, his fossil collection, and finally, his career. He died in 1895 at the age of 47, with his passing virtually unnoticed by his professional colleagues.
Keywords: Cambrian paleontology; history of science; New York; Silas Watson Ford

A New Species of Perrotia from Taiwan - Wang, Y. Z.; J. H. Haines (Mycotaxon, 1999)
Keywords: biology

Distributions of lake fish in the Northeast: I. Centrarchidae, Percidae, Esocidae and Moronidae - Whittier, T. R.; Halliwell, D. B.; R. A. Daniels (Northeastern Naturalist, 1999)
Using data collected at 203 randomly selected lakes in eight states in northeastern USA, we present maps of distributions and native status for 22 fish species generally characteristic of warm water lakes, mostly water-column feeders, belonging to four families: Centrarchidae (sunfish and bass), Esocidae (pike and pickerel), Moronidae (white perch), and Percidae (yellow perch, walleye, and darters). Pumpkinseed and yellow perch were the most widespread species in our survey, collected in 74% and 72% of lakes, respectively. Five centrarchid species- large-mouth bass, bluegill, small mouth bass, black crappie, and rock bass-were collected in 55%, 32%, 31%, 22%, and 15% of the sampled lakes, respectively, and were judged as non-native in the majority of those lakes. Chain pickerel, white perch, redbreast sunfish, and tessellate darter were collected in 45%, 19%, 14%, and 10% of lakes. The remaining species were taken in <10% of the sampled lakes. Physical (surface area, depth, elevation), chemical (pH, total phosphorus), and watershed disturbance characteristics of the lakes show distinct species-specific patterns.
Keywords: Centrarchidae; distributions; Esocidae; fish species; Moronidae; native status; Percidae; warm water lakes

A New Foliicolous Lachnum from Taiwan - Wu, M-L.; J. H. Haines (Mycotaxon, 1999)
Keywords: biology

The Genera of Inuleae (Compositae; Asteraceae) in the Southeastern United States - Arriagada, J. E. (Harvard Papers in Botany, 1998)
Keywords: biology

Caledonian eclogite-facies metamorphism of Early Proterozoic Protoliths from the North-East Greenland Eclogite Province - Brueckner, H. K.; Gilotti, J. A.; Nutman, A. P. (Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 1998)
High-pressure metamorphic assemblages occur in mafic, ultramafic and a few intermediate rocks in a gneiss complex that covers an area of approximately 400 × 100 km in the North-East Greenland Caledonides. Detailed petrologic and geochronologic studies were carried out on three samples in order to clarify the P-T-t evolution of this eclogite province. Geothermobarometry yields temperature estimates of 700–800 °C and pressure estimates of at least 1.5 GPa from an eclogite sensu stricto and as high as 2.35 GPa for a garnet websterite. The eclogite defines a garnet-clinopyroxene-amphibole-whole rock Sm-Nd isochron age of 405 ± 24 Ma (MSWD 0.9). Isofacial garnet websterites define garnet-clinopyroxene-orthopyroxene-amphibole-whole rock-(biotite) ages of 439 ± 8 Ma (MSWD =2.1) for a coarse-grained sample and 370 ± 12 Ma (MSWD=0.6) for a finer-grained variety. Overgrowths on zircons from the fine-grained pyroxenite and the eclogite give a pooled 206Pb/238U SHRIMP age of 377 ± 7 Ma (n=4). Significantly younger Rb-Sr biotite ages of 357 ± 8, 330 ± 6 and 326 ± 6 agree with young Rb-Sr, K-Ar and 40Ar/39Ar mineral ages from the gneiss complex and indicate slow cooling of the eclogitic rocks. High-pressure metamorphism may have been at least 439 Ma old (Siluro-Ordovician) with cooling through amphibolite-facies conditions in the Devonian and continued crustal thinning and exhumation well into the Carboniferous. Sm-Nd whole rock model ages indicate the eclogite protoliths are Early Proterozoic in age, while 207Pb/206Pb SHRIMP ages of 1889 ± 18 and 1981 ± 8 from anhedral zircon cores probably reflect Proterozoic metasomatism. The samples have negative ɛNd values (−5 to −16) and elevated 87Sr/86Sr ratios (0.708–0.715), consistent with field evidence that the eclogite protoliths were an integral part of the continental crust long before Caledonian metamorphism. The presence of a large Caledonian eclogite terrane in Greenland requires modification of current tectonic models that postulate subduction of Baltica beneath Laurentia during the Caledonian orogeny.
Keywords: geology

Field and Laboratory Studies of Zebra Mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) Infection by the Ciliate Conchophthirus acuminatus in the Republic of Belarus - Burlakova, L. E.; Karatayev, A. Y.; D. P. Molloy (Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 1998)
This study quantifies the infection prevalence and intensity of the European, commensal, host-specific ciliateConchophthirus acuminatus(Scuticociliatida: Conchophthiridae) in five zebra mussel populations within the Republic of Belarus. Laboratory and field experiments were also conducted to assess variables affecting infection.C. acuminatuswas found in zebra mussels in all five waterbodies sampled: Naroch, Myastro, and Lukomskoe Lakes, Skema Stream, and in the Svisloch River. Prevalence was always 100%, with the exception of shallow areas (≤0.5 m depth) in the Svisloch River. This was possibly the result of the elimination of the majority of infected zebra mussels each winter by a combination of factors, including ice scour, mallard duck predation, and fluctuating water levels. As a result, zebra mussels are not permanently present at shallow depths, and the mussels that we randomly sampled there during the summer were thus smaller (i.e., younger) and less infected than those present in deeper sections of the river. This is the first study to quantify the intensity ofConchophthirusinfection in zebra mussels. When infection prevalence was 100%, it was not uncommon for zebra mussels to have 500–2,000C. acuminatusin their mantle cavities, particularly those mussels ca. 15–30 mm in length. Zebra mussels, while relatively small bivalves, have one of the highest intensities ever reported for ciliates in the order Scuticociliatida. Infection intensity correlated directly with mussel length (range inr2 = 0.83–0.92). Transinfection of zebra mussels withC. acuminatuswas achieved both in the laboratory and field, and represented the first successful trials to initiate protozoan infection inDreissena.Laboratory experiments demonstrated thatC. acuminatusrapidly leave their dying zebra mussel hosts, and this suggested that these mussels are likely a major source for the spread ofC. acuminatusinfection. Field trials indicated that the presence of mussels with high intensity infections can cause an increase in the levels of infection (both prevalence and intensity) in other zebra mussels in their microhabitat.
Keywords: Conchophthiridae; Dreissenidae.; Infection intensity; Infection prevalence

Final Report, Onondaga County, Fiscal Year 1997, New York State Geological Survey Environmental Services Technical Report 98-001 - D. H. Cadwell; Nottis, G. N.; Gerhard, D. (1998)
Keywords: geology

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey for PIN 2057.28.101, Route 13, Village of Chittenango, Town of Sullivan, Madison County, New York--Addendum - J. S. Cardinal; M.S. LoRusso (1998)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Survey Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2018.85.121, Addendum NY 28, Countryman Road to Village of Middleville Line, Towns of Herkimer and Newport, Herkimer County, New York. - J. S. Cardinal (1998)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Washington Square Mound Site: A Middle Caddo Mound Complex in South Central East Texas - Corbin, J. A.; J. P. Hart (Texas Archaeological Society Bulletin, 1998)
Keywords: anthropology

Complex Pedostratigraphy of a Terrace Fragipan at the Memorial Park Site, Central Pennsylvania - Cremeens, D. L.; J. P. Hart; Darmody, R. G. (Geoarchaeology, 1998)
A fragipan (Bxb horizon) encountered during the excavation of a multicomponent archaeological site buried on an alluvial terrace in central Pennsylvania was evaluated to determine the degree of development, pedostratigraphy, and age. Based on the horizon thickness, and the degree of development of adjacent horizons, we believe that the fragipan was weakly developed. Two to three buried A horizons (Ab) occurred within the Bxb, thus, the fragipan formed in a cumulative, or fluvent, type alluvial landscape and postdates the Ab horizons overprinted by it. The buried soils were associated with stratified cultural remains. Artifact and radiocarbon ages indicate that the fragipan formed in the last 4500 years. Fragipan-containing soils on alluvial terraces should be investigated for buried soils and associated stratified cultural remains overprinted by subsequent pedogenesis.
Keywords: alluvial terrace; buried A horiqon; Fragipan; Geoarchaeology; pedostratigraphy; soils

Changes in the Distribution of Stream-Dwelling Crayfishes in the Schoharie Creek System, Eastern New York State. - R. A. Daniels (Northeastern Naturalist, 1998)
Changes in the distribution of crayfishes in the Schoharie Creek drainage, eastern New York State, are assessed, based on historical records and surveys conducted in 1982-83 and 1996. The native crayfish assemblage in this region probably consisted of only three species: Cambarus bartonii, C. robustus, and Orconectes propinquus. In 1982-83, six crayfishes (C bartonii, C. robustus, O. immunis, O. obscurus, O. propinquus, and O. rusticus) were collected in the drainage. In 1996, all the crayfishes except O. obscurus were found again, and an additional species (O. virilis) was captured at one site. Between the two survey periods, O. rusticus markedly expanded its range, while the range of O. propinquus decreased and the relative abundance of other species declined. The habitat use of each species is examined.
Keywords: crayfish; expansion; habitat; survey

Fish Scale Evidence for Rapid Post Glacial Recolonization of an Atlantic Coastal Pond - R. A. Daniels; D. Peteet (Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters, 1998)
Fish scales from the sediment of Allamuchy Pond, New Jersey, USA, indicate that fishes were present in the pond within 400 years of the time of the first deposition of organic material, at ≈ 12, 600 years BP. The earliest of the scales, from a white sucker, Catostomus commersoni, appears in sediment dated 12,260±220 years BP. Presence of scales in sediment deposited before 10,000 years BP indicates that Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, sunfish, Lepomis sp., and yellow perch, Perca flavescens, were also early inhabitants of the pond. The timing of the arrival of each of these fishes suggests that they migrated out from Atlantic coastal refugia. A minnow scale, referred to Phoxininae, was also retrieved; it could not be matched to any cyprinid currently found in northeastern North America. The species present historically in this pond are from five families found currently in ponds throughout the North-east and suggest that the lentic palaeo-environment was similar to present midelevation or high-latitude lentic systems.
Keywords: Atlantic coastal refugia; Catostomus commersoni; fish scales; Perca flavescens; Phoxininae

New Uppermost Cambrian U-Pb Date from Avalonian Wales and Age of the Cambrian-Ordovician Boundary - Davidek, K. E.; E. Landing; Bowring, S. A.; Westrop, S. R.; Rushton, A. W. A.; Fortey, R. A.; Adrian, J. M. (Geological Magazine, 1998)
A crystal-rich volcaniclastic sandstone in the lower Peltura scarabaeoides Zone at Ogof-ddû near Criccieth, North Wales, yields a U–Pb zircon age of 491±1 Ma. This late Late Cambrian date indicates a remarkably young age for the Cambrian–Ordovician boundary whose age must be less than 491 Ma. Hence the revised duration of the post-Placentian (trilobite-bearing) Cambrian indicates that local trilobite zonations allow a biostratigraphic resolution comparable to that provided by Ordovician graptolites and Mesozoic ammonites.
Keywords: Cambrian–Ordovician boundary; Late Cambrian; North Wales; U–Pb zircon age

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1124.33.101, NY 23 and 23A, Town of Prattsville, Greene County, New York. - N. L. Davis; J. S. Cardinal; M.S. LoRusso (1998)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 3752.33.101, Black Creek Bridge/Erie Canal, Town of Clay, Onondaga County, New York - N. L. Davis; V. A. Schmitt; M.S. LoRusso (1998)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 7004.05.101, Route 37B, Town of Louisville and Massena, St. Lawrence County, New York. - N. L. Davis; M.S. LoRusso; T. Thomas; Kahn, B. (1998)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 8006.48.101, NY 17 at Exit 122, Town of Wallkill, Orange County, New York - N. L. Davis (1998)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1124.33.101, NY 23 and 23A Intersection, Town of Prattsville, Greene County, New York - N. L. Davis; J. S. Cardinal; M.S. LoRusso (1998)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2044.61.121, NY Route 30 from Amsterdam City Line to Fulton County Line, Town of Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York. - R. Dean; N. L. Davis (1998)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN HMLA.00.201, State Dam Road, Aider Creek, Town of Boonville, Oneida County, New York. - R. Dean (1998)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2044.61.121, Route 30 from Amsterdam City Line to Fulton County Line, Town of Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York - R. Dean; N. L. Davis (1998)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 3082.14.121, Route 290, Manlius Center, Onondaga County, New York. - R. Dean (1998)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 9044.39.101, NY 30 over Schoharie Creek, Hamlet of North Blenheim, Town of Blenheim, Schoharie County, New York - R. Dean; M.S. LoRusso (1998)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report for PIN 1043.20.121, Site 4 of the J. Marvin House and the Associated Site # 10658, US Route 9, City of Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, New York - R. Dean (1998)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report for PIN 3019.14.121, Alvord Plaster Mill Site, Route 173 and 91, Jamesville Hill, Village of Jamesville, Town of DeWitt, Onondaga County, New York - R. Dean (1998)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Dynamics of Zebra Mussel Oxygen Demand in the Seneca River, New York - Effler, S.W.; Boone, S.R.; C. A. Siegfried; Ashby, S.L. (Environmental Science and Technology, 1998)
The magnitude and dynamics of oxygen depletion from zebra mussel metabolism for a severely infested 1.4 km section of the Seneca River, NY, is documented for a 3-month period of 1994, based on hourly measurements of dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations at an upstream site and a downstream site and mass balance calculations. The average areal zebra mussel oxygen demand (ZOD) in the study section during a 30-day low-flow period (population density ∼40 000 individuals m-2) was 39.4 g m-2 d-1. The average value of ZOD for the same 30-day period, normalized for zebra mussel biomass mass (42.4 mg of O2 (g of zebra mussel)-1 d-1), compares favorably to recently reported oxygen consumption rates from laboratory experiments, sup porting its application elsewhere to accommodate the effects on oxygen resources of invaded systems. Values of ZOD varied greatly during the study reflecting responses of the invader to changes in ambient conditions, including flow and a major decrease in the population.
Keywords: mass balance; oxygen demand; oxygen depletion; Zebra mussels

Tributary Water Quality Feedback from the Spread of Zebra Mussels: Oswego River, NY - Effler, S.W.; C. A. Siegfried (Journal of Great Lakes Research, 1998)
Dramatic changes in the water quality of the Oswego River system, including Oswego Harbor, since the early 1990s brought about by zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) infestation are documented. The analysis is based on summertime (June to September) water quality monitoring of the Oswego Harbor (1981 and 1993), the mouth of the Oswego River (1983 to 1993), and three upstream sites in the Oswego River system (1990, 1991, and 1994), and two benthic surveys conducted along a 70 km reach of the system to the mouth of the Oswego River in 1994. It is estimated that water in the Oswego River was filtered more than twice over this length by the mussels in 1994 (at median flow) before it reached Oswego Harbor. The zebra mussel infestation converted the Oswego River and the harbor from a turbid (low clarity), phytoplankton-rich, nutrient-depleted system, to a system with distinctly greater clarity, reduced phytoplankton concentrations, enriched in soluble reactive phosphorus. Most of this impact was attributable to dense zebra mussel populations (e.g., ∼ 30,000 indiv/m2) in a 5 km river section, located > 60 km upstream of Oswego Harbor. These changes in tributary water quality represent a form of feedback associated with the spread of the zebra mussel from the Laurentain Great Lakes. Increased attached algae growth in the Great Lakes proximate to the inflow of infested tributaries is a reasonable expectation in response to the more available form of the phosphorous load.
Keywords: chlorophyll; nutrients; river; tributary; turbidity; water quality; Zebra mussels

Tsivat Basin Conduit System persists through two surges, Bering Piedmont Glacier, Alaska - Fleisher, P. J.; D. H. Cadwell; Muller, E. H. (Geological Society of America Bulletin, 1998)
The 1993–1995 surge of Bering Glacier, Alaska, occurred in two distinct phases. Phase 1 of the surge began on the eastern sector in July, 1993 and ended in July, 1994 after a powerful outburst of subglacial meltwater into Tsivat Lake basin on the north side of Weeping Peat Island. Within days, jökulhlaup discharge built a 1.5 km2 delta of ice blocks (25–30 m) buried in outwash. By late October 1994, discharge temporarily shifted to a vent on Weeping Peat Island, where a second smaller outburst dissected the island and built two new sandar. During phase 2, which began in spring 1995 and ended within five months, continuous discharge issued from several vents along the ice front on Weeping Peat Island before returning to the Tsivat Basin. Surge-related changes include a five- to six-fold increase in meltwater turbidity; the redirection of supercooled water in two ice-contact lakes; and an increase in the rate of glaciolacustrine sedimentation. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photos by Austin Post show large ice blocks in braided channels indicating excessive subglacial discharge in a similar position adjacent to Weeping Peat Island during the 1966–1967 surge. During the subsequent three decades of retreat, the location of ice-marginal, subglacial discharge vents remained aligned on a linear trend that describes the position of a persistent subglacial conduit system. The presence of a major conduit system, possibly stabilized by subglacial bedrock topography, is suggested by (1) high-level subglacial meltwater venting along the northern side of Weeping Peat Island during the 1966–1967 surge, (2) persistent low-level discharge between surges, and (3) the recurrence of localizing meltwater outbursts associated with both phases of the 1993–1995 surge.
Keywords: Alaska; Bering Glacier; glacier; meltwater turbidit; surge

Archaeological Investigations in the Upper Susquehanna Valley, New York State, Volume 2 - Funk, R. E. (Persimmon Press, 1998)
Keywords: anthropology

The Crandall-Wells Locality - Funk, R. E.; Wellman, B. (Archaeological Investigations in the Upper Susquehanna Valley, New York State, Volume 2, 1998)
Keywords: anthropology

Partial Eclogitization of the Ambolten Gabbro-norite, North-east Greenland Caledonides - Gilotti, J. A.; Elvevold, S. (Bulletin Suisse de Mineralogie et Petrographie, 1998)
Partially eclogitized igneous bodies composed of gabbro, leucogabbro, anorthosite and cross-cutting diabase dikes are well represented in the North-East Greenland Eclogite Province. A 200 x 100 meter intrusive body on Ambolten Island (78?? 20' N, 19?? 15' W) records a prograde transition from gabbro-norite to eclogite facies coronitic metagabro-norite surrounded by hydrated margins of undeformed to strongly foliated amphibolite. Igneous plagioclase + olivine + enstatite + augite + oxides convert to eclogite facies assemblages consisting of garnet, omphacite, diopside, enstatite, kyanite, zoisite, rutile and pargasitic amphibole through several coronitic reactions. Relict cumulus plagioclase laths are replaced by an outer corona of garnet, an inner corona of omphacite and an internal region of sodic plagioclase, garnet, kyanite, omphacite and zoisite. Olivine and intercumulus pyroxene are partly replaced by metamorphic pyroxenes and amphibole. The corona structures, zoning patterns, diversity of mineral compositions in a single thin section, and preservation of metastable asemblages are characteristic of diffusion-controlled metamorphism. The most extreme disequilibrium is found in static amphibolites, where igneous pyroxenes, plagioclase domains with eclogite facies, assemblages, and matrix amphibole coexist. Complete eclogitization was not attained at Ambolten due to a lack of fluids needed to drive diffusion during prograde and retrograde metamorphism. The P-T conditions of the high-pressure metamorphism are estimated at ??? 750??C and > 18 kbar. Well-equilibrated, foliated amphibolites from the margin of the gabbro-norite supports our contention that the entire North-East Greenland Eclogite Province experienced Caledonian high-pressure metamorphism, even though no eclogite facies assemblages have been found in the quartzofeldspathic host gneisses to date.
Keywords: anorthosite; cross-cutting diabase dikes; eclogitized igneous bodies; gabbro; leucogabbro; North-East Greenland

Progressive Mylonitization of Diabase Along a Major Thrust Fault - Gilotti, J. A. (Fault-related Rocks: A Photographic Atlas, 1998)
Keywords: geology

Classification of Freshwater Fishes of the Northeastern United States for Eses in the Development of Indices of Biological Integrity, With Regional Applications - Halliwell, D. B.; Langdon, R.; R. A. Daniels; Kurtenbach, J.; Jacobsen, R. (Assessing the sustainability and biological integrity of water resources using fish communities, 1998)
Keywords: biology

Long-Tail: The Panther in Huron-Wyandot and Seneca Myth, Ritual and Material Culture - G. R. Hamell (Icons of Power: Feline Symbolism in the Americas, 1998)
Keywords: anthropology

New York State Education Department, Cultural Resources Survey Program, Work Scope Specifications for Cultural Resource Investigations on New York State Department of Transportation Projects - J. P. Hart (1998)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Sensitivity Assessment for Prehistoric Sites PIN 5101.53.121 U.S. Route 219 Erie and Cattaraugus Counties, New York. - J. P. Hart (1998)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Preface - Johnson, M. E.; E. Landing (Silurian Cycles: Linkages of Dynamic Stratigraphy with Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Tectonic Changes, 1998)
Keywords: geology

Rediscovery of Brookite at Indian Ladder, NY - W. M. Kelly; M. Hawkins; S. H. Schimmrich (Rocks & Minerals, 1998)
Keywords: geology

Avalon 1997 - The Cambrian Standard. Third International Field Conference of the Cambrian Chronostratigraphy Working Group and I.G.C.P. Project 366 (Ecological Aspects of the Cambrian Radiation). - E. Landing; Westrop, S.R. (New York State Museum Bulletin, 1998)
Keywords: geology

Avalon 1997-A Pre-meeting Viewpoint - E. Landing (AVALON 1997-The Cambrian standard. Third International Field Conference of the Cambrian Chronostratigraphy Working Group and I.G.C.P. Project 366 (Ecological Aspects of the Cambrian Radiation), 1998)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Cambrian Faunal Sequence and Depositional History of Avalonian Newfoundland and New Brunswick: Field Workshop - E. Landing; Westrop, S. R. (Avalon 1997-The Cambrian standard. Third International Field Conference of the Cambrian Chronostratigraphy Working Group and I.G.C.P. Project 366 (Ecological Aspects of the Cambrian Radiation), 1998)
Keywords: geology paleontology