Cultural Resource Archaeological Pre-Reconnaissance and Architectural Survey Report for PIN 1754.46.121, Town of Colonie, Albany, County, New York - M. Lenardi; M.S. LoRusso (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resource Survey Report of PIN 3287.16.121, Route 370, Town of Lysander, Onondaga County, New York - M. Lenardi (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report of the Mosher Site, PIN 3037.56.121, Town of Belgium, Onondaga County, New York - M. Lenardi; Horton, E. (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Amphiboles in New York State Museum's Mineral Collection - M. V. Lupulescu (Members Update, 2004)
Keywords: geology

Mineralogy of the Kimberlites from New York State - M. V. Lupulescu (Rocks & Minerals, 2004)
Type II (orangeiite) kimberlite dikes, which are centimeters to meters in width, carrying upper-mantle and crustal xenoliths, hosted by Cambrian and Devonian sedimentary rocks, occur in central New York. They show narrow, chilled margins, evidence of multiple intrusions and a complex mineralogical composition: olivine, diopside, phlogopite, garnet, perovskite, titanite, spinel, ilmenite, magnetite, pyrrhotite, pentlandite, millerite, pyrite, calcite, chlorite, and serpentine.
Keywords: kimberlites; New York

Studies of New York Amphiboles - M. V. Lupulescu (Rocks & Minerals, 2004)
Keywords: geology

The Facial Reconstruction Process - Malin, G. (New York State Museum Video, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 3287.15.121, NYS Route 370, From the Village of Cato to the Village of Meridian, Town of Cato, Cayuga County, New York - D. E. Mazeau (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Rt.2 Bridge Replacement Over the Lil' Hoosick, Town of Petersburgh, Rensselaer County, New York - D. E. Mazeau; B. R. Dale; Boyle, M. (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Sasafras and Its Lepidopteran Cohorts, or Bigger and Better Caterpillars Through Chemistry - T. L. McCabe (Encyclopedia of Biology, 2004)
Keywords: biology

Additions to the Liverwort Flora of Connecticut - N. G. Miller (Evansia, 2004)
Keywords: biology

Bryophyte Dispersal Inferred from Colonization of an Introduced Substratum on Whiteface Mountain, New York - N. G. Miller; McDaniel, S. F. (American Journal of Botany, 2004)
A long-standing debate in bryophyte biogeography concerns the frequency of long-distance spore dispersal. The diversity of bryophytes on mortared rock walls along the Veterans Memorial Highway on Whiteface Mountain, New York, USA, was studied to document the recruitment of species over the 65 years since the highway was constructed. The highway is situated in the Adirondack Mountains, a relatively unpopulated region with a largely acidic flora. The introduction of mortar has increased the bryophyte diversity by 50% above that of native lithic substrata on the mountain. The composition of the native and mortar floras differed greatly, suggesting that the walls were not colonized by locally abundant ruderal species. Many of the species sampled on the walls are typically found only in lower elevation forested sites, distant (∼5 km or more) from the highway, and not on anthropogenic calcium carbonate. These results suggest that a bryophyte community consisting of common and uncommon species assembled from distant sites at the rate of at least one species per year in the last 65 years. These data provide the ecological context for experimental and phylogeographic studies and suggest that some bryophytes may be capable of routine dispersal over distances of at least 5 km.
Keywords: Adirondack Mountains; bryophyte; calcicole; calcium carbonate substrata; Long-distance dispersal; ruderal

Building International Bridges of Understanding and Collaborative Science - D. P. Molloy (Members Update, 2004)
Keywords: biology

A Method for Controlling Dreissena Species - D. P. Molloy (2004)
Keywords: biology

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 3198.08.121, NY 104A/Sterling Creek, Town of Sterling, Cayuga County, New York - J. F. Pasquini; N. L. Davis; M.S. LoRusso (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Livestock Predation by Lions (Panthera leo) and Other Carnivors on Ranches Neighboring Tsavo National Parks, Kenya - Patterson, B. D.; Kasaki, S. M.; Selempo, E.; R. W. Kays (Biological Conservation, 2004)
Lion depredations on livestock are largely responsible for their conflicts with humans and for the historic collapse of their geographic range. Understanding of patterns associated with such predation can be used to mitigate its effects and promote more stable coexistence of lions and humans. We analyzed attacks on livestock over a four-years period on two neighboring arid-land ranches adjoining Tsavo East National Park, Kenya. A total of 312 attacks claiming 433 head of stock were examined. Lions were responsible for 85.9% of the attacks; hyenas and cheetahs were the other predators responsible. Lions and hyenas attacked mainly cattle and did so at night, whereas cheetahs almost exclusively took smaller sheep and goats. There was no temporal autocorrelation of daily losses, suggesting that the attacks are independent events. Both number of attacks and number of stock killed showed significant seasonal differences, and their monthly totals correlated positively with precipitation. Intensified predation in the wet season differs from patterns of lion predation elsewhere but reinforces the pattern that large carnivores take more livestock when native prey are most difficult to find and kill. On average, wildlife attacks claimed 2.4% of range stock annually, and livestock represented ca. 5.8% of the diet of ranch lions. This predation represented 2.6% of the herd’s estimated economic value, and cost the ranch $8749 per annum. Each lion cost ranchers approximately $290 per year in depredations.
Keywords: Cattle; Conflict; Kenya; Lion; Predator; Seasonality

Cultural Resources Data Recovery Plan of the Parishville Blacksmith and Wagon Shop - M. Pickands (2004)

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Addendum for PIN 1753.63.121, Batchellerville Bridge, BIN 3-30419-0, Town of Edinburgh (MCD 091-06) Saratoga County, New York 98PR 2823 (Program Year 1998/99) - M. Pickands (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Archaeological Excavations at the Smith-Holloway 4 Site: A Summary of the 2002 and 2003 Field Season - C. B. Rieth (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cordage, Fabrics, and Their Use in the Manufacture of Early Late Prehistoric Vessels in New York - C. B. Rieth (Perishable Material Culture in the Northeast, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey and Site Examination Report of the Bend Site (NYSM # 11564), PIN 1807.01.121, Exit 11 Connector from I-87 to Route 9 Intersection, Village of Round Lake, Town of Malta, Saratoga County, New York - C. B. Rieth; Holschuh, D.; M.S. LoRusso (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Survey Program Workscope Specification for New York State Department of Transportation Projects - C. B. Rieth (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

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

Protection for Archaeological Remains on State Land - C. B. Rieth (Suffolk County Archaeological Association Newsletter, 2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Research Design for 2004 NYSM/University at Albany, SUNY Field School Excavations at the Pethick Site, Town of Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York - C. B. Rieth (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Research Permits from State-owned Land - C. B. Rieth (Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology Newsletter, 2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Encyclopedia of Biology - Rittner, D.; T. L. McCabe (Facts on File, Inc., 2004)
Keywords: biology

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey of PIN 7111.19.101, Route 12E, Town of Lyme, Jefferson County, New York - J. Ross; V. A. Schmitt; M.S. LoRusso (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Phase I Reconnaissance Report Addendum and Phase II Site Examination of the Myers and McClelland-Martin Site, Village of Waddington, St. Lawrence County, New York - Sastry, S.; N. L. Davis (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Thompkins Collection - J. L. Scherer (Members Update, 2004)
Keywords: history

Description of the Larvel Stages of the Shield Darter, Percina peltata (Pisces: Percidae), in New York - Schmidt, R. E.; R. A. Daniels (Zootaxa, 2004)
A series of larvae of Percina peltata (Pisces: Percidae) was collected from the Neversink River, a Delaware River tributary, in spring of 2001 and 2002. We provide descriptions and illustrations of yolk sac larvae and post yolk sac larvae through the end of larval development. The larval morphology of P. peltata is plesiomorphic for the clade of the Etheostomatinae which we correlate with the plesiomorphic position afforded P. peltata in other studies. We do not consider the larval morphology of this species to be an adaptation to its environment.
Keywords: early life history; post yolk sac larvae; taxonomy; yolk sac larvae

The Taxonomy, Larva, and Ecology of Agrotis buchholzi (Noctuidae), with a New Sibling Species from North Carolina - Schweitzer, D. F.; T. L. McCabe (The Lepidopterists Society, 2004)
Agrotis huchholz.i is one of four Lepidoptera species believed to be endemic to the New Jersey Pine Barrens. It occurs primarily in recently burned or exceptionally xelic or sterile areas where its sole larval food plant, Pyxidanthera barbulata (Diapensiaceae), occurs in openings in the shrub layer. Adults can be quite common locally. There are two broods approximately two months apart with the first sarting about late May. Hibernation is as prepupal larvae in the sand. The la,va is similar to that of other species of Agrotis. Adults are very active and feed but their natural food sourees are not known. A sibling species, Agrotis carolina, new species, is closely associated with P. barbu/ata in southeastern North Carolina. Its range resembles that of another endemic, Hemipachnobia subporphyrea. The combined ranges of these two Agrotis are very similar to those of an unnamed Cyclophora (Geometridae) and Spartiniphaga carterae Schweitzer (Noduidae) and their habitats commonly overlap in both states. Fire is a crucial factor in forming and maintaining habitat for all of these species. A buchho/zi may become imperiled hecause of a decline of wildfires. A carolina, but not A. buchholzi , is thriving in habitats maintained by prescribed bums.
Keywords: Agmtis obliqua; Agrotis stigmosa; bivoltin; larval hibernation; monophagy; Sand plains

From the Collections - C. J. Sheviak (Members Update, 2004)
Keywords: biology

Tales from the Field - C. A. Siegfried (Members Update, 2004)
Keywords: biology

Status of Bedrock Mapping Indexed by 7 1/2 & 15 Minute Quadrangles - J. B. Skiba; Manchester, J. (New York State Museum Circular, 2004)
Keywords: geology

Cultural Resources Data Recovery Plan for the Fisher Site 6 and Maychak-Gardner Site for PIN 1089.62.121, I-90 Exit 8 Connector with Route 4, Town of North Greenbush, Rensselaer County, New York - J. Sopko (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Data Recovery Plan of the Maychuk-Gardner and Fisher 6 Site - J. Sopko (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Data Recovery Report for the Weaver-Demarest Site: PIN 1089.51.101, NY 4 and 32, Village of Waterford, Saratoga County, New York - J. Sopko (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for Church Street, Bridge Replacement, Town of Hoosick, Rensselaer County, New York - J. Sopko (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1248.13.101/BIN 1-03852-0, Route 149 over Mettawee River, Town of Granville, Washington County, New York - D. Staley; V. A. Schmitt; M.S. LoRusso (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 2038.28.121, Route 365 at Interstate 90 Exit 33 Interchange, Town of Verona, Oneida County, New York - D. Staley; V. A. Schmitt (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

PIN 7143.25.121 Route 11 Town of Adams, Jefferson County, New York - D. Staley; M.S. LoRusso (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Seeing the Furnace for the Trees: Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of the Adirondack Iron and Steel Company's Upper Works, Town of Newcomb, Essex County, New York - D. Staley (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Comparison of rDNA Sequences from Colchicine Treated and Untreated Sporocysts of Phyllodistomum folium and Bucephalus polymorphus (Digenea) - Stunzenas, V; J. R. Cryan; D. P. Molloy (Parasitology International, 2004)
The most frequently used antimitotic agent in cytogenetic studies is colchicine. We investigated whether the initial treatment of trematodes for karyological analysis with colchicine would have mutagenic or degradational effect on rDNA sequences. Dreissena polymorpha is the intermediate host of Phyllodistomum folium and Bucephalus polymorphus, and the sporocyst stage of these trematode species develop, respectively, in the gills and gonads of this mussel. Sporocysts of P. folium and B. polymorphus were obtained from D. polymorpha collected from waterbodies in Belarus and in Lithuania. 5.8S and 28S rDNA genes, ITS1 and ITS2 of P. folium and B. polymorphus were sequenced and compared, and no nucleotide sequence differences between colchicine treated and untreated trematodes were found. Based on these results, we conclude that colchicine treatment for 3–5 h has no mutagenic or degradational effect on rDNA sequences. During the course of this investigation, two genetically different P. folium samples were noted in Belarus.
Keywords: 28S; 5.8S; Bucephalus polymorphus; Colchicine; Dreissena polymorpha; ITS1; ITS2; Phyllodistomum folium; Ribosomal RNA gene

Phytolith Evidence for Twentieth-Century B.P. Maize in Northern Iroquoia - Thompson, R. G.; J. P. Hart; H. J. Brumbach; Lusteck, R. (Northeast Anthropology, 2004)
The history of maize (Zea mays) in historic northern Iroquoia has recently undergone significant revisions. Macrobotanical finds in southern Ontario and opal phytolith assemblages recovered from pottery sherd cooking residues in the northern Finger Lakes region of New York suggest that maize has a history dating to as early as circa calibrated 1400 B.P. in the region. In this article we provide new phytolith evidence that suggest maize’s presence in New York by circa calibrated 1900 B.P. This evidence suggests that maize was being used in the region for at least a millennium before the advent of northern Iroquoian subsistence-settlement traits and that the crop’s adoption was not responsible for the development of those traits.
Keywords: cooking residue analysis; crop histories; maize; New York; phytoliths; Zea mays ssp. mays

Paleontology of the Lower Utica Shale at Rural Grove, Montgomery County, New York - V. P. Tollerton Jr. (2004)
Keywords: paleontology

Summary of a Revision of New York State Ordivician Eurypterids: Implications for Eurypterid Paleoecology, Diversity and Evolution - V. P. Tollerton Jr.; , (Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 2004)
The record of Ordovician Eurypterida from New York State, USA, is shown to be largely false. Twenty-nine species in 17 genera are here recognised as pseudofossils, reducing by more than 75% the total number of named Ordovician eurypterid taxa. Consequently, 10 families now have their first occurrence either later in the Ordovician or in the Early Silurian. The implications for eurypterid palaeoecology, diversity and evolution are not as straightforward as would be expected from such a drastic taxonomic revision. All Ordovician eurypterids are now known to occur in shallow-water, near-shore shales or fine-grained carbonates. Diversity measures indicate that the end-Ordovician extinction event appears to have had less effect on eurypterids than previously known, and their turnover is level in the Ordovician.
Keywords: Arthropoda; Chelicerata; distribution; Early Silurian

Introduction to the Perch Lake Mounds - Van Nest, J. (Bulletin Jefferson County Historical Society, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Review of "The Sheguiandah Site: Archaeological, Geological and Paleobotanical Studies at a Paleoindian Site on Manitoulin Island, Ontario", edited by P.J. Julig - Van Nest, J. (Geoarchaeology, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

K-bentonites, Volcanic Ash Preservation, and Implications for Lower to Middle Devonian Volcanism in the Acadian Orogen, Eastern North America - C. A. Ver Straeten (Geological Society of America Bulletin, 2004)
Lower to Middle Devonian marine strata in the Appalachian foreland basin feature up to 80 or more thin K-bentonites that represent ancient volcanic ashes. The time vs. space distribution of K-bentonites through the Lochkovian to Eifelian Stages (representing ∼30 m.y.) shows a distinct pattern of clustered multiple beds, several scattered beds, and thick intervals with no K-bentonites. Four clusters of 7 to 15 individual, closely spaced layers occur in the middle Lochkovian (Bald Hill K-bentonites, Kalkberg–New Scotland Formations), late Pragian or early Emsian (Sprout Brook K-bentonites, Esopus Formation) and early Eifelian (two clusters, the Tioga middle coarse zone and Tioga A–G K-bentonites, Onondaga Formation). Detailed examination of these Devonian K-bentonites shows that in many cases they do not represent a single eruption. Multilayered beds, fossil layers within beds, authigenic minerals (e.g., glauconite and phosphate nodules), subjacent hardgrounds, and an irregular distribution of beds through space and time raise questions about the depositional history and preservation potential of volcanic ash in marine environments and the degree to which the beds represent a primary record of volcanism. These and other lines of evidence indicate that postdepositional physical, biological, and geochemical processes (e.g., sedimentation rate, event, and background physical processes, burrowing) have modified the primary record of these water-laid ash-fall events. These factors may lead to preservation of primary ash deposits or to their resedimentation and/or partial to complete mixing with background sediments. The preservation potential, and resulting distribution, of the Devonian K-bentonites can be analyzed across a spectrum of preservational magnafacies. In this paper I present a model of ash preservation; the model incorporates environmentally related physical, biological, and chemical processes active in epicontinental seas and marine foreland basins. Conclusions based on the model indicate that the middle Lochkovian, early Emsian, and early Eifelian were times of peak volcanic activity in eastern North America, related to times of increased tectonism in the Acadian orogen.
Keywords: Acadian Orogeny; Devonian; K-bentonites; marine processes; Preservation

Sprout Brook K-bentonites: New Interval of Devonian (Early Emsian?) K-bentonites in Eastern North America - C. A. Ver Straeten (Northeastern Geology and Environmental Science, 2004)
Keywords: geology

Volcanism in Eastern North America: A "Deep Time" Perspective - C. A. Ver Straeten (Members Update, 2004)
Keywords: geology

Reservoir Characterization of the Mississippian Madison Formation, Wind River Basin, Wyoming - Westphal, H.; Eberli, G. P.; L. B. Smith Jr.; Grammer, G. M.; Kislak, J. (AAPG Bulletin, 2004)
Significant heterogeneity in petrophysical properties, including variations in porosity and permeability, are well documented from carbonate systems. These variations in physical properties are typically influenced by original facies heterogeneity, the early diagenetic environment, and later stage diagenetic overprint. The heterogeneities in the Mississippian Madison Formation in the Wind River basin of Wyoming are a complex interplay between these three factors whereby differences from the facies arrangement are first reduced by pervasive dolomitization, but late-stage hydrothermal diagenesis introduces additional heterogeneity. The dolomitized portions of the Madison Formation form highly productive gas reservoirs at Madden Deep field with typical initial production rates in excess of 50 MMCFGD. In the study area, the Madison Formation is composed of four third-order depositional sequences that contain several small-scale, higher frequency cycles. The cycles and sequences display a facies partitioning with mudstone to wackestone units in the transgressive portion and skeletal and oolitic packstone and grainstone in the regressive portions. The grainstone packages are amalgamated tidally influenced skeletal and oolitic shoals that cover the entire study area. The basal three sequences are completely dolomitized, whereas the fourth sequence is limestone. The distribution of petrophysical properties in the system is influenced only in a limited manner by the smaller scale stratigraphic architecture. Porosity and permeability are controlled by the sequence-scale stratigraphic units, where uniform facies belts and pervasive dolomitization result in flow units that are basically tied to third-order depositional sequences with a thickness of 65 100 ft (20 30 m). The best reservoir rocks are found in regressive, coarse-grained dolomites of the lower two sequences. Although the amalgamated shoal facies is heterogeneous, dolomitization decompartmentalized these cycles. Fine-grained sediments in the basal transgressive parts of these sequences, along with caliche and chert layers on top of the underlying sequences, are responsible for a decrease of porosity toward the sequence boundaries and potential flow separation. Good reservoir quality is also found in the third sequence, which is composed of dolomitized carbonate mud. However, reservoir-quality predictions in these dolomudstones are complicated by several phases of brecciation. The most influential of these brecciations is hydrothermal in origin and partly shattered the entire unit. The breccia is healed by calcite that isolates individual dolomite clasts. As a result, the permeability decreases in zones of brecciation. The late-stage calcite cementation related to the hydrothermal activity is the most important factor to create reservoir heterogeneity in the uniform third sequence, but it is also influential in the grainstone units of the first two sequences. In these sequences, the calcifying fluids invade the dolomite and partly occlude the interparticle porosity and decrease permeability to create heterogeneity in a rock in which the pervasive dolomitization previously reduced much of the influence of facies heterogeneity.
Keywords: carbonate systems.; permeability; petrophysical properties; porosity

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1721.74.111, Kinns Road over Interstate Route 87, Town of Clifton Park, Saratoga County, New York - L. J. Xinakes; N. L. Davis; V. A. Schmitt; M.S. LoRusso (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1721.74.111, Kinns Road over Interstate Route 87, Town of Clifton Park, Saratoga County, New York - L. J. Xinakes; N. L. Davis; V. A. Schmitt; M.S. LoRusso (New York State Department of Transportation, 2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Classification of the Trilobite Subfamilies Hystricurinae and Hintzecurinae subfam. nov., with New Genera from the Lower Ordovician (Ibexian) of Idaho and Utah - Adrain, J. M.; Lee, D. C.; Westrop, S. R.; Chatterton, B. D. E.; E. Landing (Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 2003)
The Hystricuridae, previously regarded by most workers as a paraphyletic group, is considered on the basis of new and revised silicified species from Utah and Nevada. Major subgroups of hystricurids appear to be monophyletic, but the sister group relationships of several related families require investigation. The Hystricurinae is restricted to Hystricurus Raymond, 1913, Tersella Petrunina, 1973, and Flectihystricurus gen. nov. (type species: Hystricurus flectimembrus Ross, 1951). A new subfamily Hintzecurinae is diagnosed. The subfamily appears to be restricted to the upper Skullrockian Stage, and comprises the new genera Hintzecurus (t.s.: Hystricurus paragenalatus Ross, 1951), Genalaticurus (t.s.:Hystricurus genalatus Ross, 1951), Ibexicurus (t.s.: I. parsonsi sp. nov.), Lavadamia (t.s.: L.joplinae sp. nov.), Politicurus (t.s.: Hystricurus politus Ross, 1951), and Rossicurus (t.s.:Hystricurus lepidus Hintze, 1953). _ Trilobites, Hystricuridae, Ordovician, Idaho, Utah.
Keywords: geology paleontology

Crop Domestication in Prehistoric Eastern North America - Asch, D. L.; J. P. Hart (Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science, 2003)
At European Contact, eastern North American Indian agriculture featured the New World cosmopolitan ‘‘three sisters:’’ maize, beans, and squash. Maize and beans had diffused from the tropics as domesticates, as did some squashes. The dominance of this triad in temperate eastern North America was recent. Maize became an important crop only about 1000 years ago, and beans entered the region at 850 b.p. But before maize became preeminent—as early as 3500 b.p.—there was an ‘‘Eastern Agricultural Complex’’ (EAC), which consisted of several indigenous crops. EAC was largely an indigeneous development; its origins can be traced back at least 7300 years.
Keywords: Chenopodium berlandieri; Cucurbita pepo; Eastern Agricultural Complex; Eastern North America; Helianthus annuus; Iva annua; Maize–beans–squash agriculture; Plant domestication; Prehistoric agriculture

Natural History of the Pine Bush: Albany and Schenectady Counties New York - Barnes, J. K. (New York State Museum Bulletin, 2003)
Keywords: biology

Engineering Geology of New York City: Continuing Value of Geologic Data - Baskerville, C. A.; R. H. Fakundiny (Earth Science in the City: A Reader, 2003)
Keywords: engineering; New York City; urban geology

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 2095.34.101, NYS Route 10,(Rock St., Wheeler St., Walnut St., and Reed St.), Village of Canajoharie, Town of Canajoharie, Montgomery County, New York - J. Bollen (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1460.43.101, NY Route 32-Culvert Carrying Kromma Kill Under Route 32, Village of Menands, Albany County, New York - Boyle, M.; Kahn, B. (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Survey Report for PIN 1036.01.101 - NY 351/Poestenkill Creek, Town of Poestenkill, Rensselaer County - Boyle, M.; M.S. LoRusso (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Geomorphic History of New York State - D. H. Cadwell; Muller, E. H.; Fleischer, P. J. (Geoarchaeology of Landscapes in the Glaciated Northeast, 2003)
Keywords: geology

Cultural Resource Archaeological Monitoring Report for PIN 3010.12.121/BIN 1-03921-0, Improvements to NY 92 and NY 173, Replacement of Bridge over Limestone Creek, Village of Manlius, Town of Manlius, Onondaga County, New York - J. S. Cardinal (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resource Site Examination Report of PIN 1940.87.101, Stone Wall (Feature 20) along Clay Hill Rd., Town of Fort Ann, Washington County, New York - J. S. Cardinal (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

From the Collections - Cook, T. M. (Members Update, 2003)
Keywords: anthropology

Geoarchaeology of Landscapes in the Glaciated Northeast - Cremeens, D. L.; J. P. Hart (New York State Museum Bulletin, 2003)
Keywords: anthropology

Introduction - Cremeens, D. L.; J. P. Hart (Geoarchaeology of Landscapes in the Glaciated Northeast, 2003)
Keywords: anthropology

The New World Treehopper Tribe Microcentrini (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Stegaspidinae): Monographic Revision and Phylogenetic Position - J. R. Cryan; Robertson, J. A.; Deitz, L. L. (Thomas Say Publications, 2003)
Keywords: biology

Review of "Inland Fishes of Massachusetts", by K. E. Hartell, D. B. Halliwell, and A. E. Launer - R. A. Daniels (Copeia, 2003)
Keywords: biology

The Cultural Landscape at the Site of the Lutheran Church and Burial Ground - N. L. Davis (People, Places, and Material Things: Historical Archaeology of Albany, New York, 2003)
Keywords: anthropology

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1248.13.101/BIN 1-03852-0, NY State Route 149 over Mettawee River, Town of Granville, Washington County, New York, Addendum - N. L. Davis (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 2017.14.221, Oertle Parcel Wetland Restoration Project, Town of Marcy, Oneida County, New York, 03PR00024, Addendum - N. L. Davis (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resource Site Examination Report of PIN 1089.58.101, Soil Borings at the Funston Site and the Rt. 29 (Ferry Street) causeway/Old Champlain Canal, Village of Schuylerville, Town of Saratoga, Saratoga County, New York, Addendum - N. L. Davis (2003)

A Cultural Resource Site Examination Report of PIN 7143.26.121, The Adams Five Corners Site (NYSM#10611), US Route 11 and NYS Route 177, Hamlet of Adams Center, Town of Adams, Jefferson County, New York - N. L. Davis (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1041.04.102, NY 372, Bridge Replacement BIN 1-04691-0, Village of Greenwich, Town of Easton, Washington County, New York - R. Dean (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1806.37.101, NY 32 and 4 Y Intersection Replacement and Abandon Culvert C150055 under NY 32, Town of Stillwater, Saratoga County, New York - R. Dean (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Curation of Archaeological Collections at the New York State Museum - P. B. Drooker (New York Archaeological Council Newsletter, 2003)
Keywords: anthropology

Matting and Pliable Fabrics from Bottle Creek - P. B. Drooker (Bottle Creek: A Pensacola Culture Site in South Alabama, 2003)
Keywords: anthropology

Seismic-Risk Evaluation in Cities of New York and Surrounding Regions: Issues Related to all Intraplate Cities - R. H. Fakundiny (Earth Science in the City: A Reader, 2003)
Keywords: New York; seismic risk; seismology; urban geology

An Archaeological Study of the Most Advantageous Situation in the Highlands Fort Montgomery National Historic Landmark, Orange County, New York - C. L. Fisher (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

An Archeological Report on the 18th-Century Mohawk Iroquois Occupation of the Enders House Site at Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site, Montgomery County, New York - C. L. Fisher (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Survey Report for PIN 3140.09.121, Bridge Replacement, BIN 1-02435-0, at Route 38A over Dresserville Creek, Village of Montville, Town of Moravia (MCD 01112), Cayuga County, New York - C. L. Fisher; M.S. LoRusso; V. A. Schmitt (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Introduction to Historical Archaeological Studies of Albany - C. L. Fisher (People, Places, and Material Things: Historical Archaeology of Albany, New York, 2003)
Keywords: anthropology

People, Places, and Material Things: Historical Archaeology of Albany, New York - C. L. Fisher (New York State Museum Bulletin, 2003)
Keywords: anthropology

Soldiers in the City: The Archaeology of the British Guard House - C. L. Fisher (People, Places, and Material Things: Historical Archaeology of Albany, New York, 2003)
Keywords: anthropology

Trace Elements and Stable Isotope Analysis of Human Remains from the Lutheran Church Lot - C. L. Fisher (People, Places, and Material Things: Historical Archaeology of Albany, New York, 2003)
Keywords: anthropology

A Decade of Sedimentation in Ice-contact, Proglacial Lakes, Bering Glacier, AK. - Fleisher, P. J.; Bailey, P. K.; D. H. Cadwell (Sedimentary Geology, 2003)
Bathymetric surveys during the 1991–2000 decade in two ice-contact, proglacial lakes on the eastern sector of Bering piedmont lobe captured the buildup effects of the 1993–1995 surge. Following ice-front advance of 1.0–1.5 km into Tsivat and Tsiu Lakes, the basins were significantly altered by surge-related sedimentation including the impact of a subglacial outburst into Tsivat Lake. The subsequent changes in basin shape, size, and morphology were monitored by six bathymetric surveys. Measured changes in water depth serve as a proxy for determining increments of sediment accumulation. Upwelling, ice-front vents fed by subglacial tunnels transported suspended fine sediment directly into the lake system. The rate of suspension settling within both lakes varied from 0.6 to 1.2 m year−1 prior to the surge. Suspended load during surge years increased sixfold from 1.7 to 13.9 g l−1, accompanied by increased sediment accumulation of 2.2–3.1 m year−1. Vent-related aggradation and subsequent filling of Tsivat Lake caused sediment bypassing to Tsiu Lake, where encroachment by delta growth contributed to a postsurge rate of bottomset accumulation of 3.0 m year−1. The total sediment influx from subglacial sources is represented by the sum of bathymetrically determined accumulation, plus an estimated volume of sediment that remained suspended, thus passing through the lake system. Total sediment flux along the eastern Bering piedmont lobe from 1991 to 2000 is approximately 227 million cubic meters.
Keywords: Ice-contact lake sedimentation; Bathymetry; Sediment flux

Bacterial Endocytobionts within Endosymbiotic Ciliates in Dreissena polymorpha (Lamellibranchia: Mollusca) - Fokin, S. I.; L. Giamberini; D. P. Molloy; bij de Vaate, A. (Acta Protozoologica, 2003)
This paper documents a multi-level microcosm system: Dreissena-ciliates-bacteria-viruses. In the first comprehensive investigation of endocytobionts present in the cytoplasm of endosymbiotic ciliates from mussels, bacteria are described from Conchophthirus acuminatus and an undescribed Ophryoglena sp. species which are, respectively, commensal and parasitic in the freshwater bivalve Dreissena polymorpha. Light microscopy, electron microscopy, Feulgen staining, and in situ observation indicated that in some populations of C. acuminatus practically all individuals were infected with cytoplasmic bacteria. Some of these bacteria were in the α-subgroup of proteobacteria. In situ hybridization indicated that some other eubacteria with a very similar morphology were also present in the cytoplasm of C. acuminatus. Using in situ hybridization with appropriate oligonucleotide probes, a large amount of bacteria, most of which were also in the α-subgroup, were observed in the cytoplasm of each specimen of Ophryoglena sp. examined. Some bacteria with virus particles were also observed in a population of the Ophryoglena sp. The bacteria in C. acuminatus were not likely the same as in the Ophryoglena sp. The presence of α-subgroup proteobacteria in the cytoplasm of both endosymbiotic ciliates, in conjunction with previous reports of these bacteria in free-living species, indicates that they are widely established endocytobionts in these protists.
Keywords: bacteria; Conchophthirus acuminatus; Dreissena polymorpha; in situ hybridization; Ophryoglena sp.

A Small Paleo-Indian Encampment in Orange County, New York - Funk, R. E.; Wellman, B.; Decker, H. R.; W. F. Ehlers Jr. (The Bulletin: Journal of the New York State Archaeological Association, 2003)
Keywords: anthropology

Three Sixteenth-Century Mohawk Iroquois Village Sites - Funk, R. E.; R. D. Kuhn (New York State Museum Bulletin, 2003)
Keywords: anthropology

A Survey of Parasites of Coyotes (Canis latrans) in New York Based on Fecal Analysis - Gompper, M. E.; Goodman, R. M.; R. W. Kays; Ray, J. C.; Fiorello, C. V.; Wade., S. E. (Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 2003)
Coyotes (Canis latrans) have colonized northeastern North America only within the past 10–80 yr. We examined feces of coyotes in 2000–01 at three sites in New York (USA) to survey parasites in the region. Two cestodes, nine nematodes, five protozoa, one trematode, and two arthropods were identified from 145 coyote fecal samples. Parasite component community diversity was higher (n=16 species) in southern New York than in middle and northern sites (nine species each) and infracommunity species richness was greater in southern New York than at the other sites. These differences may reflect the variable diets of coyotes, as well as recent colonization of the region and the mixing of component communities from expanding coyote populations.
Keywords: Canis latrans; Coyotes; New York; Parasites; survey

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report for NYSM 10977, Erie Canal Kirkville Site for PIN 3804.12.121, CR 15, Kirkville Road/Old Erie Canal, Town of Manlius, Onondaga County, New York - A. Gore (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Reconnaissance Cultural Resource Survey of Office of General Services Project No. S8870, Preservation of Lands at SUNY Old Westbury, Towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead, Nassau County, New York - A. Gore (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Site Examination Report for The Rogers Site, NYSM# 11422; the Powerline Site, NYSM # 11423; and the Parishville Center Wagon Shop Site, NYSM #11425, PIN 7780.04.101, NY Route 72, Town of Parishville,St. Lawrence County, New York 98PR 182 - A. Gore; M. Pickands (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Tales from the Field: The Battle of New York - A. Gore (Members Update, 2003)
Keywords: anthropology

The Death of Owasco - J. P. Hart; H. J. Brumbach (American Antiquity, 2003)
The Owasco culture is a critical taxon in William A. Ritchie 's culture history of New York. In its final construction, Owasco was viewed by Ritchie as representing the onset of recognizable northern Iroquoian traits. This interpretation is widely accepted among archaeologists currently working in New York. An examination of the history of the taxon shows that it is nothing more than a subjectively defined unit based on the thoughts of Ritchie and his predecessor Arthur C. Parker. Recent empirical research has shown that the key traits Ritchie used to define Owasco have very different histories than he thought. Owasco does not stand either theoretically or empirically and should be abandoned as a unit of analysis.
Keywords: archaeological systematics; Arthur C. Parker; New York; Owasco; William A. Ritchie

Phytolith Evidence for Early Maize (Zea mays) in the Northern Finger Lakes Region of New York - J. P. Hart; Thompson, R. G.; H. J. Brumbach (American Antiquity, 2003)
The timing of crop introductions, particularly of maize (Zea mays), has been of long-standing interest to archaeologists working in various regions of eastern North America. The earliest confirmed macrobotanical evidence for maize in New York is A.D. 1000. We report on the results of accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) dating. phytolith analysis, and stable carbon isotope analysis of carbonized cooking residues adhering to the interior surface of pottery sherds from three sites in the northern Finger Lakes region of New York. Maize, squash (Cucurbita sp.) wild rice (Zizania aquatica), and sedge (Cyperus sp.) were identified in phytolith assemblages dating to as early as the first half of the calibrated seventh century A.D. The results demonstrate that low δ13C values on cooking residues cannot be used to preclude the possibility that maize was cooked in vessels. Two of the maize-bean-squash crop triad were present in New York at least 350 years earlier than previously documented, and the Northern Flint Corn Complex was present in New York by at least the first half of the seventh century A.D. This research highlights the potential of cooking residues to provide new insights on prehistoric plant-based subsistence.
Keywords: Agriculture; America; Analysis; Archaeological site; C 13; Ceramics; Dating; Die; Economy; Flora; Isotope Analysis; Laboratory; maize; Mass spectrometry; New York; Palaeobotany; Phytolith; Sample; United States of America; Woodland

Rethinking the Three Sisters - J. P. Hart (Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology, 2003)
Keywords: anthropology

George Catlin: The Iroquois Origins of His Indian Portrait Gallery - Hauptman, L. R.; G. R. Hamell (New York History: Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association, 2003)
Keywords: anthropology history

Earth Science in the City: A Reader - Heiken, G.; R. H. Fakundiny; Sutter, J. (Special Publication Series, 2003)
Keywords: geology

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Addendum, PIN 3037.56.121, Town of Belgium, Onondaga County, New York - Horton, B. (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Response to Revilla, and Buckley and Ruxton: The Resource Dispersion Hypothesis - Johnson, D.; MacDonald, D.; R. W. Kays; Blackwell, P. G. (Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 2003)
We agree with Revilla [1] that the resource dispersion hypothesis (RDH) indeed lacks comprehensive evidence in any one specific case; however, this deficiency results from a lack of good tests, rather than from the failure of any tests [2]. Revilla's claim that ‘we only need evidence against one of its assumptions and/or predictions to invalidate it’, is too sweeping. RDH cannot be rejected just because it does not work everywhere or is difficult to test. Ecological models can only be refined into theories by discovering where they do not work, as well as where they do [3]. The costs of group living that Revilla cites do not detract from the proposition that heterogeneous resources will lower those costs compared with homogenous resources. Revilla sees a ‘conceptual gap’ between the RDH mechanism and a causal means of group formation because he incorrectly assumes that wherever resources are heterogeneous, RDH automatically predicts animals to live in groups. RDH was always a facilitating, rather than a causal, factor leading to group formation 4 and 5. We agree that ‘resource patchiness alone’ is not enough to explain group living (indeed, we have previously outlined why simultaneous dispersal costs are crucial 6 and 7) – RDH is not exclusive of other theories.
Keywords: resource dispersion hypothesis

Patterns of Emergence and Survival of Conchophthirus acuminatus (Ciliophora: Conchophthiridae) from Dreissena polymorpha (Bivalvia: Dreissenidae) - Karatayev, A. Y.; Mastitsky, S. E.; D. P. Molloy; Burlakova, L. E. (Journal of Shellfish Research, 2003)
Keywords: biology

Seasonal Dynamics of Endosymbiotic Ciliates and Nematodes in Dreissena polymorpha - Karatayev, A. Y.; Mastitsky, S. E.; Burlakova, L. E.; D. P. Molloy; Vezhnovets, G. G. (Journal of Invertebrate Patholology, 2003)
We report the results of a two-year study in the Svisloch River (Minsk, Belarus) on the dynamics of infection in Dreissena polymorpha by nematodes and three ciliate species Conchophthirus acuminatus, Ophryoglena sp., and Ancistrumina limnica. Although these endosymbionts were present in most of the samples, their prevalence and infection intensity differed significantly. C. acuminatus and A. limnica infection intensities in both years of the study had a maximum in summer and were positively correlated with water temperature. In contrast, Ophryoglena sp. and nematode infection intensities were considerably lower in summer versus winter and were negatively correlated with temperature. In the first long-term study to monitor the size and reproductive rate of C. acuminatus, we found that mean length was negatively correlated with temperature and that temperature was positively correlated with asexual reproduction, with a peak of cell division in April as water temperatures increased.
Keywords: Ancistrumina limnica; Belarus; commensal; Conchophthirus acuminatus; Endosymbiont; Nematode; Ophryoglena sp.; Zebra mussel

Coyote - R. W. Kays; Bogan, D. (Natural History of the Albany Pine Bush, 2003)
Keywords: biology

Fisher - R. W. Kays; Bogan, D. (Natural History of the Albany Pine Bush, 2003)
Keywords: biology

Social Polyandry and Promiscuous Mating in a Primate-like Carnivore: the Kinkajou (Potos flavus) - R. W. Kays (Monogamy: Mating Strategies and Partnerships in Birds, Humans and Other Mammals, 2003)
Keywords: biology

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey and Site Examination Report for the OGS Cemetery Site, Greene County, New York - A. Lain; C. B. Rieth; D. Staley (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

First Middle Ordovician Biota from Southern New Brunswick: Stratigraphic and Tectonic Implications for the Evolution of the Avalon Continent - E. Landing; Westrop, S. R.; Kim, D. H. (Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2003)
A limestone boulder in the Triassic Lepreau Formation near Saint John, New Brunswick, has yielded the first diverse marine fauna from the sub-Caradoc Ordovician of the western Avalon continent. This fauna includes the first Arenig conodonts recovered from Avalon and represents an unexposed interval in southern New Brunswick. Association of the conodonts Drepanoistodus and Baltoniodus and the trilobites Neseuretus, Nileus, and Stapeleyella emphasizes the faunal dissimilarity of Avalon and Laurentia through the late Middle Ordovician. Extension of the ranges of Neseuretus cf. Neseuretus parvifrons and Stapeleyella from Britain into New Brunswick further emphasizes that "eastern" and "western" Avalon were confluent parts of a unified, insular Avalon continent that originated in the latest Precambrian. This fauna correlates with the lower Amorphognathus (Lenodus) variabilis Zone (Kundan Stage) of Baltica and the terminal Arenig (upper Middle Ordovician; lower Darriwilian Stage) of Avalonian Britain. Available evidence suggests that an Arenig cover sequence with local shallow-water hematitic iron ore, quartz arenite, and rare limestone extended across the Avalonian marginal and inner platforms from eastern Newfoundland to the Boston, Massachusetts, region. This "western" Avalonian Arenig shows the greatest similarity with the Arenig of the Welsh Borderlands. Phosphatic fossils from the boulder have a thermal alteration index much lower than that of nearby lower Paleozoic outcrops and suggest derivation of the boulder from a weakly heated Avalonian succession brought into the Bay of Fundy region by post-Ordovician transcurrent faulting.
Keywords: Avalon; conodonts; Lepreau Formation; New Brunswick; Saint John; Triassic; trilobites

Self-Taught American Scientist - E. Landing (New York Archives, 2003)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Silurian Lands and Seas: Paleogeography Outside of Laurentia - E. Landing; Johnson, M. K. (New York State Museum Bulletin, 2003)
Keywords: geology

Tectonic Setting of Outer Trench Slope Volcanism: Pillow Basalt and Limestone in the Ordovician Taconian Orogen of Eastern New York - E. Landing; Pe-Piper, G; Kidd, W. S. F.; Azmy, K. (Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2003)
The only pillow basalt in synorogenic sedimentary rocks at the exterior margin of the Taconic orogen in eastern North America is at Stark's Knob in eastern New York. Earlier reported as extrusive into allochthonous Ordovician slope and rise facies, this small lens (ca. 125+ m long, 39 m thick) is a fault-bounded block in Upper Ordovician melange under the Taconian frontal thrust. Its N-MORB (normal mid-ocean ridge basalt) basalt geochemistry and spinel composition are characteristic of oceanic ridge settings at a water depth of 2 km or more. Abundant limestone lenses on pillows and lava shelves within pillows yielded a middle Late Ordovician gastropod. The limestones are reconciled with this extrusion depth and with limited early Paleozoic pelagic carbonate production by lime mud transport from the Laurentian platform or abiotic carbonate precipitation with sea-water heating during basalt extrusion. A genetic relationship between the parautochthonous Stark's Knob basalts and the allochthonous Jonestown volcanics in slope and rise facies of the Hamburg klippe, eastern Pennsylvania, is likely. Both are Ordovician MORB basalts that reflect volcanism on the subducting outer trench slope prior to the Taconic arc Laurentia collision. Taconic orogenesis may have led to basalt production on the subducting plate by (1) the setting up of orogen-parallel, predominantly strike-slip motion on the subducting slab with MORB basalt generated at offsets in a setting analogous to the Gulf of California or (2) development of faults in a flexure-induced extensional regime. By either process, mafic volcanism appears to be a rare but tectonically significant process on outer trench slopes as continental margins or oceanic plates enter subduction zones.
Keywords: Eastern North America; New York.; pillow basalt; Stark's Knob; Taconic orogen

Uppermost Cambrian Lower Ordovician Faunas and Laurentian Platform Sequence Stratigraphy, Eastern New York and Vermont - E. Landing; Westrop, S. R.; L. VanAller Hernick (Journal of Paleontology, 2003)
The Cambrian–Ordovician boundary is a type 1 depositional sequence boundary with dramatic local erosional incision in restricted marine facies on the easternmost New York Promontory. The systemic boundary is bracketed below by Late Cambrian, upper Cordylodus proavus Zone (s.s). conodonts from carbonates of the upper Little Falls Formation (=Whitehall Formation, abandoned). Presumed Lower Ordovician ellesmeraceratoid cephalopods from the upper Little Falls are uppermost Cambrian and among the oldest known in North America. The overlying deepening–shoaling cycle of the Tribes Hill Formation (=Cutting and Great Meadows Formations, abandoned) is the local expression of a lowermost Ordovician (Rossodus manitouensis Zone) depositional sequence recognizable across Laurentia. Complete replacement of conodonts takes place in the late Tremadocian or Tremadocian–Arenigian boundary interval with onlap of the “Fort Ann Formation” across the paleokarst cap of the Tribes Hill. The trilobites Hystricurus sp. and Symphysurina myopia Westrop new species occur in less restricted, thrombolitic facies of the middle Tribes Hill that have the highest conodont diversity. Ulrichodina Furnish, 1938, emend. is regarded as the senior synonym of the conodont Colaptoconus Kennedy, 1994 (=Glyptoconus Kennedy, 1980).
Keywords: Cambrian–Ordovician boundary; cephalopods; conodonts; New York Promontory; trilobites

Do Mammals Use Culverts to Cross Interstate 87 within the Adirondack Park? - LaPoint, S. C.; R. W. Kays; Ray, J. C. (Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies, 2003)
Keywords: biology

Death Notice, Robert E Funk - Lindner, C.; J. P. Hart; Wellman, B. (Anthropology News, 2003)
Keywords: anthropology

In Memorium: Robert E. Funk 1932-2002 - Lindner, C.; J. P. Hart; Wellman, B. (Mammoth Trumpet, 2003)
Keywords: anthropology

The Navigators: A Journal of Passage on the Inland Waterways of New York (1793) - P. Lord Jr. (New York State Museum Bulletin, 2003)
Keywords: history

Architectural Survey and Historic Context Analysis for PIN 8503.15.121 - NY 66 and 295, Village of Chatham, Columbia County, New York - M.S. LoRusso (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Historic Context Analysis for PIN 1130.48.101 - NY Route 22/White Creek, Village of Salem, Washington County, New York - M.S. LoRusso (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Historic Context Analysis for PIN 9306.73.121 - NY Routes 7 and 206, Village of Bainbridge (Bainbridge Historic District), Chenango County, New York - M.S. LoRusso (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for OGS Project # 41136-C, Springfield, NY - D. E. Mazeau; B. R. Dale (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Backyard Bugs - T. L. McCabe; Stegemann, E. (The Conservationist, 2003)
Keywords: biology

Class Insecta: Order Lepidoptera - T. L. McCabe (Natural History of the Albany Pine Bush, 2003)
Keywords: biology

Hadena ligata Moschler (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): Distribution and Revised Taxonomy - T. L. McCabe (Zootaxa, 2003)
Keywords: biology

Insect Survey, Investigator's Annual Report, Virgin Islands National Park, St. John (Research permit: VIIS-2001-SCI-0012) - T. L. McCabe; Dievendorf, G. (2003)
Keywords: biology

Sterling Forest Entomological Faunal Survey for 2000-2001 - T. L. McCabe; Yrizarry, J. (2003)
Keywords: biology

The Asian Weed Fatoua villosa (Moraceae) in New York State and Massachusetts - N. G. Miller; C. E. Wood Jr. (Rhodora, 2003)
Keywords: biology

Extending the Paleobotanical Record at the Hiscock Site, New York: Correlations Among Stratigraphic Pollen Assemblages from Nearby Lake and Wetland Basins - N. G. Miller; Futyma, R. P. (Bul. Buffalo Soc. of Natural Sciences, 2003)
Keywords: biology paleontology

The Pine Bush Bryophyte Flora - N. G. Miller; L. Leonardi (Natural History of the Albany Pine Bush, 2003)
Keywords: biology

Chromosome Analysis of Phyllodistomum folium (Trematoda, Gorgoderidae) Infecting Three European Populations of Zebra Mussels - Petkeviciute, R.; Staneviciute, G.; D. P. Molloy (Parasitology Research, 2003)
Keywords: biology

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey for PIN 1089.54.101, BIN 1-00096-0, US 4 and NY 32 at D&H Railroad, Town of Halfmoon, Saratoga County, New York - M. Pickands; M.S. LoRusso (2003)

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey for PIN 1130.60.101, Replacement of BIN 1-01700-0, NY 22 over the Waloomsac River, Hamlet of North Hoosick, Town of Hoosick, Rensselaer County, New York - M. Pickands; M.S. LoRusso (2003)

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report for The Burke Site, NYSM# 11168, PIN 7042.38.123, Program Year 1993, NY 26, Towns of Lewis and West Turin, Lewis County, New York - M. Pickands (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Site Examination Report for The Rogers Site, NYSM# 11422; the Powerline Site, NYSM # 11423; and the Parishville Center Wagon Shop Site, NYSM #11425, PIN 7780.04.101, NY Route 72, Town of Parishville,St. Lawrence County, New York 98PR 182 - M. Pickands; A. Gore (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

New York State Museum Activities - C. B. Rieth (New York Archaeological Council Newsletter, 2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Research Permits and Archaeological Collections from State-Owned Land - C. B. Rieth (New York Archaeological Council Newsletter, 2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Research Permits and Archaeological Excavation on State Land - C. B. Rieth (Fort George Advice, Newsletter of the Fort George Historical Association, 2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Tale of Shales: The Relative Roles of Production, Decomposition, and Dilution in the Accumulation of Organic-rich Strata, Middle-Upper Devonian, Appalachian Basin - Sageman, B. B.; Murphy, A. E.; Werne, J. P.; C. A. Ver Straeten; Hollander, D. J.; Lyons, T. W. (Chemical Geology, 2003)
Keywords: geology

Cultural Resource Site Examination Report of Kenwood Ave (NYSM#10961) PIN 1004.05.101 NY 140/Kenwood Ave Village of Delmar, Town of Bethlehem, Albany County - Sastry, S. (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Phase I Reconnaissance cultural Resource Survey Report for PIN 1086.23.101 Route 43 over the Tsatsawassa BIN 1-02538-0, Town of Nassau, Rensselaer County - Sastry, S. (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Phase I Reconnaissance Cultural Resource Survey Report for PIN 8126.47.121 Taconic State Parkway, Dutchess County - Sastry, S.; J. S. Cardinal (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Phase II Site Examination of the Herreshoff/Arnold House Site NYSM #11056, Construction of Salt Storage Structure, DOT Maintenance Subheadquarters OGS # 41103 Hamlet of Thendara, Town of Webb, Herkimer County - Sastry, S. (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Albany Carousel History - J. L. Scherer (The Carousel News & Trader, 2003)
Keywords: history

Bits of Clifton Park History - J. L. Scherer (Town of Clifton Park, 2003)
Keywords: history

Summertime Fun at Halfmoon Beach - J. L. Scherer (Merry-Go Roundup, 2003)
Keywords: history

Garden cultivation of North American Cypripedium species - C. J. Sheviak (Paphiopedilum Review, 2003)
Keywords: biology

Tales from the Field - C. J. Sheviak (Members Update, 2003)
Keywords: biology

Discrimination of Effective from Ineffective Porosity in Heterogeneous Cretaceous Carbonates, Al Ghubar Field, Oman - L. B. Smith Jr.; Eberli, G. P.; Masaferro, J. L.; Al-Dhahab, S. (AAPG Bulletin, 2003)
Keywords: geology

Integrated Characterization of Hydrothermal Dolomite Reservoirs in Trenton-Black River Carbonates of New York - L. B. Smith Jr.; Lugurt, C. M.; R. E. Nyahay (Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, 2003)
Keywords: geology

Data Recovery Report for Ken-Hayt Site (NYSM Site 10403) for PIN 8123.07.301, NY 311 and 292 Intersection Improvement, Town of Patterson, Putnam County, New York - J. Sopko (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Site Examination of the Fisher Site 6 Prehistoric Site (NYSM Site 7060) for Pin 1089.62.121, I-90 Exit 8 Connector to Rte. 4. Town of North Greenbush, Rensselaer County, New York Addendum - J. Sopko (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey for PIN 2011.06.101 - NY 168/Ohisa Creek, Town of Stark, Herkimer County - D. Staley; M.S. LoRusso (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey of Addendum to PIN 2016.52.121/ BINs 7-00943-0 & 7-01582-0/Conrail/Rtes 12 & 20 to Sanger Hill Rd., Hamlet of Sangerfield, Town of Sangerfield, Oneida County, New York - D. Staley; M.S. LoRusso; Kahn, B. (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey of PIN 7780.04.101, NY Route 72, Town of Parishville, St. Lawrence County, New York, Addendum. Volume 1 - D. Staley; M.S. LoRusso; V. A. Schmitt (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 7012.09.101/BIN 1-03950-0, Ny 180 over the Chaumont River, Hamlet of LaFargeville, Town of Orleans, Jefferson County, New York - D. Staley; M.S. LoRusso; V. A. Schmitt (2003)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Domesticated Landscapes: The Subsistence Ecology of Plant and Animal Domestication - Terrell, J. E.; J. P. Hart; Barut, S.; Cellinese, N.; Curet, A.; Denham, T.; Kusimba, C. M.; Latinis, K.; Oka, R.; Palka, J.; Pohl, M. E. D.; Pope, K. O.; et al. (Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2003)
Keywords: anthropology

Sedimentologic and Palynologic Records of the Last Deglaciation and Holocene from Ballston Lake, New York - Toney, J. L.; Rodbell, D. T.; N. G. Miller (Quaternary Research, 2003)
Keywords: biology geology

Edwin Bradford Hall: Devonian Sponge Collector Extraordinaire - L. VanAller Hernick (Earth Sciences History, 2003)
Keywords: geology history paleontology

The Gilboa Fossils - L. VanAller Hernick (New York State Museum Circular, 2003)
The Devonian Period was an interval of dramatic change in the history of life on Earth. Much of the evidence for what is known about terrestrial life during this period in North America has come from some extraordinary fossil discoveries made in Gilboa, New York over the past 150 years. The abundance and often superb preservation of fossils from Gilboa have made this area one of the most important Devonian fossil localities in the world! The Gilboa Fossils is a history of the famous forest fossil site from its discovery in the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Topics include the Devonian flora and fauna found at this locality, and the role of the New York State Museum in disseminating knowledge about this important site.
Keywords: paleontology

Northfield Tunnel's Ancient Life - L. VanAller Hernick; Mannolini, S. (Kaatskill Life, 2003)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Late Quaternary Climate History of Western New York - T. Webb III; Shuman, B.; Leduc, P.; P. E. Newby; N. G. Miller (Bul. Buffalo Soc. Natural History, 2003)
Keywords: biology

An Introduction to Invertebrate Fossils of New York - Weinman, P. L.; E. Landing (New York State Museum Educational Leaflet, 2003)
Keywords: paleontology

A Tribute to Robert E. Funk (1932-2003) - Wellman, B. (The Bulletin: Journal of the New York State Archaeological Association, 2003)
Keywords: anthropology

Captain Samuel Schuyler - Bielinski, S. (Dutch Settlers Society of Albany Yearbook, 2002)
Keywords: history

The Edge of the Frontier on the Eve of the Revolution: The Last Days of Colonial Albany - Bielinski, S. (Cities Under Siege, 2002)
Keywords: history

Cultural Resource Survey Report of PIN 1089.58.101 Route 29/Spring Street west of Broad Street to Village line, Schuylerville, Saratoga County, New York - J. Bollen (2002)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 3010.15.121, BIN 1-03921-0: NY 92, From Candy Lane to East Village of Manlius Limits, RM 2050 to 2061, in the Village of Manlius, Town of Manlius, Onondaga County, New York - J. S. Cardinal; Horton, B.; M.S. LoRusso (2002)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 8758.78.121: Riverview Street over CSXT and NYSDEC Hudson River Day Use Boat Launch Area, in the Town of Stuyvesant, Columbia County New York - J. S. Cardinal (2002)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Tipularia - Catling, P. M.; C. J. Sheviak (Magnoliophyta: Liliidae: Liliales and Orchidales, 2002)
Keywords: North America; orchids; species

Glacial Lake Albany in the Champlain Valley - Connally, G. G.; D. H. Cadwell (Guidebook, 2002)
Keywords: geology

Enigmatic Treehopper Genera (Hemiptera: Membracidae): Deiroderes Ramos, Holdgatiella Evans, and Togotolania, New Genus - J. R. Cryan; Deitz, L. L. (Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 2002)
Two poorly known Neotropical treehopper genera, Deiroderes Ramos and Holdgatiella Evans, are revised and redescribed based on adult morphology. The Caribbean genus Deiroderes (unplaced within the subfamily Stegaspidinae) has three valid species including D. inornatus, new species (Jamaica). The Neotropical genus Holdgatiella (currently unplaced within Membracidae) has two valid species including H. stria, new species (Venezuela). In addition, a previously unknown Caribbean genus is here described, Togotolania, new genus, with two species: T. longicorna, new species (Dominican Republic) and T. brachycorna, new species (Guadeloupe). All species included in these three genera are illustrated, and keys are given for the identification of adults.
Keywords: Deiroderes Ramos; Holdgatiella Evans; Neotropical; species; Togotolania brachycorna; Togotolania longicorna; treehopper

A Redescription of Caribbean Treehopper Genus Antillotalinia Ramos (Hemiptera: Membracidae), and Two New Species - J. R. Cryan; Bartlett, C. R. (Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 2002)
he Caribbean treehopper genus Antillotolania Ramos, classified in the subfamily Stegaspidinae, is redescribed based on adult morphology. Antillotolania doramariae Ramos, the type species, is redescribed and illustrated; descriptions and illustrations are also given for A. microcentroides, new species from Guadeloupe and the British Virgin Islands, and A. extrema, new species from Puerto Rico. A key for the identification of adults is provided for the genus.
Keywords: Antillotolania; Caribbean; Hemiptera; Membracidae; taxonomy; treehopper

An Index of Biological Integrity for Northern Mid-Atlantic Slope Drainages - R. A. Daniels; Riva-Murray, K.; Halliwell, D. B.; Vana-Miller, D. L.; Bilger, M. D. (Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 2002)
An index of biological integrity (IBI) was developed for streams in the Hudson, Delaware, and Susquehanna River drainages in the northeastern United States based on fish assemblage data from the Mohawk River drainage of New York. The original IBI, developed for streams in the U.S. Midwest, was modified to reflect the assemblage composition and structure present in Mid-Atlantic Slope drainages. We replaced several of the Midwestern IBI metrics and criteria scores because fishes common to the Midwest are absent from or poorly represented in the Northeast and because stream fish assemblages in the Northeast are less rich than those in the Midwest. For all replacement metrics we followed the ecology-based rationale used in the development of each of the metrics of the Midwestern IBI so that the basic theoretical underpinnings of the IBI remained unchanged. The validity of this modified IBI is demonstrated by examining the quality of streams in the Hudson, Delaware, and lower Susquehanna River basins. The relationships between the IBI and other indicators of environmental quality are examined using data on assemblages of fish and benthic macroinvertebrates and on chemical and physical stream characteristics obtained during 1993-2000 by the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water Quality Assessment Program in these three river basins. A principal components analysis (PCA) of chemical and physical variables from 27 sites resulted in an environmental quality gradient as the primary PCA axis (eigenvalue, 0.41). Principal components analysis site scores were significantly correlated with such benthic macroinvertebrate metrics as the percentage of Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera taxa (Spearman R = −0.66, P < 0.001). Index of biological integrity scores for sites in these three river basins were significantly correlated with this environmental quality gradient (Spearman R = −0.78, P = 0.0001). The northern Mid-Atlantic Slope IBI appears to be sensitive to environmental degradation in all three of the river basins addressed in this study. Adjustment of metric scoring criteria may be warranted, depending on composition of fish species in streams in the study area and on the relative effort used in the collection of fish assemblage data.
Keywords: Delaware; fish assemblages; Hudson; index of biological integrity (IBI); northeastern United States; Susquehanna River drainages

Archaeological Monitoring and Data Recovery Plan for PIN 1089.58.101, US 4 and Route 29, Village of Schuylerville, Town of Saratoga, Saratoga County, New York (PR # 01PR2149) - N. L. Davis (2002)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 2017.14.221, Oertle Parcel Wetland Restoration Project, Town of Marcy, Oneida County, New York - N. L. Davis (2002)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resources Survey Report for an Archeological Reconnaissance Survey / Architectural Survey of PIN 1097.04.101, NY 9J and NY 150, Village of Castleton, Rensselaer County - N. L. Davis; M.S. LoRusso (2002)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resources Survey Report of PIN 2801.27.123, River Street Stream Restoration, Oriskany Flats Wildlife Management Area, Town of Whitestown, Oneida County, New York - N. L. Davis (2002)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey of PIN 9111.18.121, NYS Route 145, US 20, and County Route 5A, Reconstruction and Realignment within the Towns of Sharon and Seward, Schoharie County, New York - R. Dean; M.S. LoRusso; C. L. Fisher (2002)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1041.04.102, NY 372 Bridge Replacement of BIN 1-04691-0. Village of Greenwich, Town of Easton Washington County, New York (MCD 11547 and 11504) - R. Dean; C. L. Fisher (2002)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1089.58.101, US 4/Broad Street Liberty Street & Walnut Lane/Curtis Lumber Drainage Easements,Village of Schuylerville, Town of Saratoga, Saratoga County, New York (MCD 09147)Addendum - R. Dean; C. L. Fisher (2002)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1806.37.101 New York State Route 32 and 4 Y Intersection Replacement And Abandon Culvert under NY 32, Town of Stillwater, Saratoga County, New York (MCD ) - R. Dean; C. L. Fisher (2002)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Site Examination Report of PIN 9044.39.122, Partridge King Site,Town of Blenheim, Schoharie County, New York - R. Dean (2002)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Ohio Valley, 1550-1750: Patterns of Sociopolitical Coalescence and Dispersal - P. B. Drooker (The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760, 2002)
Keywords: anthropology

A History of Neotectonics Studies in Ontario - R. H. Fakundiny; Lewis, C. F. M.; Jacobi, R. D. (Neotectonics and Seismicity in the Eastern Great Lakes Basin, 2002)
First observations of geologically young rock faults and folds in New York in the late nineteenth century were shortly followed by others in Ontario. Remapping of the Paleozoic rocks began in the 1930s, and Quaternary geology mapping became organized in the 1950s, leading to further discoveries of faults and folds in the bedrock. Engineering works in the Niagara and Hamilton areas from the 1890s to the 1970s encountered repeated problems of rock squeeze. The separate geological and engineering experiences were linked in the 1970s, and with heightened awareness, discoveries of rock disturbances (mainly popups) greatly increased in the 1970s and 1980s. Understanding centered on high horizontal stress in the bedrock, which became quantified through rock testing and modeling. The creation of the Multi-Agency Group for Neotectonics in Eastern Canada (MAGNEC) in 1986 brought together a diverse group interested in all aspects of neotectonics, including the distribution and causes of rock stress and the potential implications for seismic risk. The existence of nuclear power plants sensitive to variations in the stress environment and high population densities near the Great Lakes provided motivation for further attention, and Prince Edward County was designated for special study. Recent suggestions of reduced seismic activity under ice sheets and increased activity associated with isostatic uplift during their retreat lead to the question whether seismic risk is slowly decreasing as uplift rates decline.
Keywords: Glacioisostacy; Neotectonics; Ontario; Popups; Seismicity

Neotectonics and Seismicity in the Eastern Great Lakes Basin - R. H. Fakundiny; Jacobi, R. D.; Lewis, C. F. M. (Special Issue Tectonophysics, 2002)
Keywords: geology

Seismic-reflection profiles of the central part of the Clarendon–Linden fault system of western New York in relation to regional seismicity - R. H. Fakundiny; Pomeroy, P. W. (Neotectonics and Seismicity in the Eastern Great Lakes Basin, 2002)
Keywords: Basement megablocks; Clarendon–Linden fault system; Eastern Great Lakes Basin; Lineaments; Neotectonics; Seismic-reflection profiles; Seismicity

An Artifact of Safe Drinking Water - C. L. Fisher; A. Gore; N. L. Davis (Archaeology On Line News, 2002)
Keywords: anthropology

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report of NYSDOT PIN 8758.78.101, Riverview Street over CSXT and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Hudson River Day-Use Boat Launch Area - C. L. Fisher; J. S. Cardinal (2002)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Abstracts, Natural History Conference VII - R. J. Gill (New York State Museum Circular, 2002)
Keywords: biology

Digital Survey Forms for 160 Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Battlefields and Associated Properties for the American Battlefield Protection Program - A. Gore; Sastry, S. (2002)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Age of the Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) in the Northern Eastern Woodlands of North America - J. P. Hart; Asch, D. L.; Scarry, C. M.; Crawford, G. W. (Antiquity, 2002)
This study addresses the lack of chronometric research on the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) to establish precisely the timing of its adoption and spread across the northern Eastern Woodlands of North America. Bean and directly associated maize samples were subjected to accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating. The results show that the common bean apparently spread rapidly upon its introduction to the region, becoming archaeologically visible from the Illinois River valley to southern New England in the calibrated late 13th century AD, some 200–300 years later than previously thought.
Keywords: AMS dating; common bean; crop history; northeastern North America; Phaseolus vulgaris

Darwin and Archaeology: A Handbook of Key Concepts - J. P. Hart; Terrell, J. E. (Bergin & Garvey, 2002)
Keywords: Archaeology; Darwin; evolutionary theory

Maize and Villages: A Summary and Critical Assessment of Current Northeast Early Late Prehistoric Evidence - J. P. Hart; Means, B. K. (Northeast Subsistence-Settlement Change: A.D. 700-1300, 2002)
The early Late Prehistoric period (A.D. 700 to A.D. 1300) is the time when evidence for subsistence and settlement traits of native societies described by early European explorers first appear in the archaeological record throughout much of the Northeast. Except in the far north, these traits include maize-based agriculture and large, nucleated villages. Our knowledge of these traits grew considerably during the last few decades of the twentieth century, the result of the increased use of flotation recovery for macrobotanical remains,the development of paleoethnobotany, accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating on crop remains, stable carbon isotope analysis (SCIA) of human bone, large-scale cultural resource management excavations, a renewed interest in museum collections, and developments in method and theory. All of these are reflected in the chapters of the present volume.
Keywords: maize; northeastern North America; villages

Northeast Subsistence-Settlement Change: A.D. 700 1300 - J. P. Hart; C. B. Rieth (New York State Museum Bulletin, 2002)
Keywords: anthropology

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1001.28.121: NY 2 Over the Postenkill in the Town of Rensselaer, New York - Horton, B.; M.S. LoRusso (2002)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1004.05.101, Addendum, PR#99PR4302, NY 140 / Kenwood Avenue, Town of Bethlehem (MCD 00102), Albany County, New York - Horton, B. (2002)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 1046.13.101: NY 385 Over Murderer's Creek in the Town of Athens, New York - Horton, B.; M.S. LoRusso (2002)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 3013.07.121 and Addendum: NY 174 From North Street to Scotch Hill Road in the Village of Marcellus, Town of Marcellus, New York - Horton, B.; M.S. LoRusso (2002)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

End of Fieldwork Report, Data Recovery, NYSM 11165 Bailey Site & NYSM 11166 Thomas-Kahn Site, PIN 3037.56.121 NY 31 Over Seneca River in the Hamlet of Belgium, Towns of Clay (MCD 06703) and Lysander (MCD 06709), Onondaga County, New York - Horton, B. (2002)
Keywords: Cultural Resources