Dr. Andrew Kozlowski

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

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

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

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

My Research Project (new)

Publications

2020

J. Hart, R. Feranec 2020, Using Maize δ15N values to assess soil fertility in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century AD Iroquoian agricultural fields, PLOS ONE 15, e0230952. 10.1371/journal.pone.0230952
R. Feranec, Brandon McDonald, Troi Perkins, Robert Dunn, Jennifer McDonald, Holly Cole, Roland Kays 2020, High variability within pet foods prevents the identification of native species in pet cats’ diets using isotopic evaluation, PeerJ 8, e8337. 10.7717/peerj.8337
R. Feranec, L. DeSantis, T. Tung, T. Dillehay 2020, Early specialized maritime and maize economies on the north coast of Peru, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009121117. 10.1073/pnas.2009121117

2019

R. Feranec, Kena Fox-Dobbs, John Harris, Thure Cerling, Jonathan Crites, Aisling Farrell, Gary Takeuchi, Larisa DeSantis 2019, Causes and Consequences of Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions as Revealed from Rancho La Brea Mammals, Current Biology 29, 2488-2495. 10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.059
J. Hart, R. Feranec 2019, Fish and maize: Bayesian mixing models of fourteenth- through seventeenth-century AD ancestral Wendat diets, Ontario, Canada, Scientific Reports 9, 16658. 10.1038/s41598-019-53076-7
R. Feranec, S. Fiedel, T. Marino, D. Driver 2019, A New AMS Radiocarbon Date for the Ivory Pond Mastodon, Eastern Paleontologist 3, 1-15.
J. Hart, R. Feranec 2019, The Dog That Wasn’t: An Historical Pig Burial on the Sixteenth-Century AD Klock Site, Fulton County, New York, Archaeology of Eastern North America 47, 1-6.
J. Hart, R. Feranec, T. Abel, J. Vavrasek 2019, Freshwater reservoir offsets on radiocarbon-dated dog bone from the headwaters of the St. Lawrence River, USA, PeerJ 7, e7174. 10.7717/peerj.7174
R. Feranec, S. Ledogar, J. Karsten, G. Madden, R. Schmidt, M. Sokohatskyi 2019, New AMS Dates for Verteba Cave and Stable Isotope Evidence of Human Diet in the Holocene Forest-Steppe, Ukraine, Radiocarbon 61, 141-158. 10.1017/RDC.2018.52
R. Feranec, H. McDonald, N. Miller 2019, First record of the extinct ground sloth, Megalonyx jeffersonii, (Xenarthra, Megalonychidae) from New York and contributions to its paleoecology, Quaternary International 530-531, 42-46. 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.11.021