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Upcoming Events

  • *PDH Credit*- November 2025 Meeting: Nicholas Warner, PhD (SUNY Geneseo)

    • Wednesday, November 05, 2025
    • 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 246 W. Willow St., Syracuse, NY 13202
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    Presentation Title:  Using ArcGIS to quantify the morphometry of impact craters on Mars

    Learning Objectives:

    1.      Attendees will understand the connection between impact crater morphology, lithology, and surface processes.
    2.      Attendees will gain a better appreciation for geological and remote sensing (e.g., GIS) applications in the planetary sciences.
    3.      Attendees will learn topics associated with Mars science, including information about landing sites, climate, and geologic history.
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  • *No PDH Credit*- November 2025 Meeting: Nicholas Warner, PhD (SUNY Geneseo)

    • Wednesday, November 05, 2025
    • 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 246 W. Willow St., Syracuse, NY 13202
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    Presentation Title:  Using ArcGIS to quantify the morphometry of impact craters on Mars

    Learning Objectives:

    1.      Attendees will understand the connection between impact crater morphology, lithology, and surface processes.
    2.      Attendees will gain a better appreciation for geological and remote sensing (e.g., GIS) applications in the planetary sciences.
    3.      Attendees will learn topics associated with Mars science, including information about landing sites, climate, and geologic history.
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  • *No PDH Credit*- December 2025 Meeting: Nick LaPlant (National Grid) and Todd Bown (GZA)

    • Wednesday, December 03, 2025
    • 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 246 W. Willow St., Syracuse, NY 13202


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  • *PDH Credit*- December 2025 Meeting: Nick LaPlant (National Grid) and Todd Bown (GZA)

    • Wednesday, December 03, 2025
    • 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 246 W. Willow St., Syracuse, NY 13202


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  • *PDH Credit*- January 2026 Meeting: Mark Burger (Onondaga Soil and Water Conservation District)

    • Wednesday, January 07, 2026
    • 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 246 W. Willow St., Syracuse, NY 13202


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  • *No PDH Credit*- January 2026 Meeting: Mark Burger (Onondaga Soil and Water Conservation District)

    • Wednesday, January 07, 2026
    • 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 246 W. Willow St., Syracuse, NY 13202


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  • *PDH Credit*- February 2026 Meeting: Pat Gannon (EA Engineering and Geology, PC)

    • Wednesday, February 04, 2026
    • 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 246 W. Willow St., Syracuse, NY 13202


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  • *No PDH Credit*- February 2026 Meeting: Pat Gannon (EA Engineering and Geology, PC)

    • Wednesday, February 04, 2026
    • 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 246 W. Willow St., Syracuse, NY 13202


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  • *PDH Credit*- March 2026 Meeting: Robert Moucha (Syracuse University)

    • Wednesday, March 04, 2026
    • 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 246 W. Willow St., Syracuse, NY 13202


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  • *No PDH Credit*- March 2026 Meeting: Robert Moucha (Syracuse University)

    • Wednesday, March 04, 2026
    • 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 246 W. Willow St., Syracuse, NY 13202


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  • *PDH Credit*- April 2026 Meeting: Emily Baker (Hamilton University)

    • Wednesday, April 01, 2026
    • 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 246 W. Willow St., Syracuse, NY 13202


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  • *No PDH Credit*- April 2026 Meeting: Emily Baker (Hamilton University)

    • Wednesday, April 01, 2026
    • 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 246 W. Willow St., Syracuse, NY 13202


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  • *PDH Credit*- May 2026 Meeting: Haejo Kim (Syracuse University)

    • Wednesday, May 06, 2026
    • 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 246 W. Willow St., Syracuse, NY 13202


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  • *No PDH Credit*- May 2026 Meeting: Haejo Kim (Syracuse University)

    • Wednesday, May 06, 2026
    • 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 246 W. Willow St., Syracuse, NY 13202


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Past Events

Wednesday, October 01, 2025 *PDH Credit*- October 2025 Meeting: Will Hackett (National Grid), "Syracuse Utility Thermal Energy Network - Design Challenges and Solutions"
Wednesday, October 01, 2025 *No PDH Credit*- October 2025 Meeting: Will Hackett (National Grid), "Syracuse Utility Thermal Energy Network - Design Challenges and Solutions"
Saturday, September 27, 2025 CNYAPG 2025 Rock Quarries Field Trip
Wednesday, September 03, 2025 *PDH Credit*- September 2025 Meeting: Andrew Kozlowski, Ph.D. (NYSGS), "Unglued: The Pleistocene Legacy and Climate Change Future of New York State's Landscape"
Wednesday, September 03, 2025 *No PDH Credit*- September 2025 Meeting: Andrew Kozlowski, Ph.D. (NYSGS), "Unglued: The Pleistocene Legacy and Climate Change Future of New York State's Landscape"
Wednesday, May 07, 2025 * NO PDH CREDIT*- May 2025 Meeting: Connor Hanington (2024 CNYAPG Grant Award Winner): Evaluating Micronutrients and Toxic Elements in Rice (Oryza sativa) Under Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) Using Controlled Growth Chamber Experiments.
Wednesday, May 07, 2025 *PDH Credit*- May 2025 Meeting: Connor Hanington (2024 CNYAPG Grant Award Winner): Evaluating Micronutrients and Toxic Elements in Rice (Oryza sativa) Under Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) Using Controlled Growth Chamber Experiments.
Wednesday, April 02, 2025 *PDH Credit*- April 2025 Meeting: Gladys Pantoja (Clarkson PhD student): Uncovering the Impact of Ancient Earthquakes on Past Civilizations: A Study of Archaeology and Paleoseismology in the Chincha Valley, Perú
Wednesday, April 02, 2025 * NO PDH CREDIT*- April 2025 Meeting: Gladys Pantoja (Clarkson PhD student): Uncovering the Impact of Ancient Earthquakes on Past Civilizations: A Study of Archaeology and Paleoseismology in the Chincha Valley, Perú
Wednesday, March 05, 2025 * NO PDH CREDIT*- March 2025 Meeting: Ethics with John Nadeau P.G.
Wednesday, March 05, 2025 *PDH Credit*- March 2025 Meeting: Ethics with John Nadeau P.G.
Wednesday, February 05, 2025 *PDH Credit*- February 2025 Meeting: Kevin Warner (ERM)
Wednesday, February 05, 2025 * NO PDH CREDIT*- February 2025 Meeting: Kevin Warner (ERM)
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 *PDH Credit*- January 2025 Meeting: Amanda Campbell (SUNY Oswego)
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 * NO PDH CREDIT*- January 2025 Meeting: Amanda Campbell (SUNY Oswego)
Wednesday, December 04, 2024 * NO PDH CREDIT*- December 2024 Meeting: Jim Rhea (Anchor QEA). Forensic Geochemistry of a Former WW2 Naval Station
Wednesday, December 04, 2024 *PDH Credit*- December 2024 Meeting: Jim Rhea (Anchor QEA). Forensic Geochemistry of a Former WW2 Naval Station
Wednesday, November 06, 2024 *PDH Credit*- November 2024 Meeting: J.R. Slosson (SUNY Oswego), "Western Waters: Solute Loading in Colorado's Rivers from Landslides to Road Deicer”
Wednesday, November 06, 2024 * NO PDH CREDIT*- November 2024 Meeting: J.R. Slosson (SUNY Oswego), "Western Waters: Solute Loading in Colorado's Rivers from Landslides to Road Deicer”
Wednesday, October 02, 2024 * NO PDH CREDIT* October 2024 Meeting: Aaron Mohammed (SU), "Groundwater Dynamics in Changing Cold Regions "
Wednesday, October 02, 2024 *PDH Credit*- October 2024 Meeting: Aaron Mohammed (SU), "Groundwater Dynamics in Changing Cold Regions"
Wednesday, September 04, 2024 *PDH Credit*- September 2024 Meeting: Dan Walker (EAEST): Environmental Sequence Stratigraphy and its use in contaminated site characterization and remediation
Wednesday, September 04, 2024 * NO PDH CREDIT* September 2024 Meeting: Dan Walker (EAEST): Environmental Sequence Stratigraphy and its use in contaminated site characterization and remediation
Wednesday, May 01, 2024 *PDH Credit*- May 2024 Meeting: Dr. Maddy Nyblade, SUNY ESF "Geoscience, Colonialism, and Just Ways Forward: A Minnesota Case-Study"
Wednesday, May 01, 2024 *NO PDH Credit*- May 2024 Meeting: Dr. Maddy Nyblade, SUNY ESF "Geoscience, Colonialism, and Just Ways Forward: A Minnesota Case-Study"
Friday, April 26, 2024 CNYAPG/AIPG 2024 Field Day!
Wednesday, April 03, 2024 April 2024 Meeting: Dr. Scott Maguffin, SUNY Oneonta. "Redox Dynamics: Shaping the Fate of Nutrients and Contaminants in Water, Wetlands, and Agriculture"
Wednesday, March 06, 2024 *PDH Credit*- March 2024 Meeting: Bill Kappel & John Williams, USGS. "Challenges of Geothermal drilling/installation across Central and Western New York"
Wednesday, March 06, 2024 *NO PDH Credit*- March 2024 Meeting: Bill Kappel & John Williams, USGS. "Challenges of Geothermal drilling/installation across Central and Western New York"
Wednesday, February 07, 2024 *PDH Credit*- February 2024 Meeting: Dr. Mark Holland, St. Lawrence University. "Topic: TBD"
Wednesday, February 07, 2024 *NO PDH Credit*- February 2024 Meeting: Dr. Mark Holland, St. Lawrence University. "Topic: TBD"
Wednesday, January 03, 2024 *PDH Credit*- January 2024 Meeting: Jim Stewart, John P Stopen Engineering, LLP. "Some Significant Engineering Considerations for Facilities in areas of Camillus Shale and Utica Shale"
Wednesday, January 03, 2024 *NO PDH Credit*- January 2024 Meeting: Jim Stewart, John P Stopen Engineering, LLP. "Some Significant Engineering Considerations for Facilities in areas of Camillus Shale and Utica Shale"
Wednesday, December 06, 2023 *NO PDH Credit*- December 2023 Meeting: Dr. Kris Kusnerik, Hamilton College
Wednesday, December 06, 2023 *PDH Credit*- December 2023 Meeting: Dr. Kris Kusnerik, Hamilton College
Wednesday, November 01, 2023 *PDH CREDIT* November 2023 Meeting: Dr. Bryce Hand, Syracuse University. "Syracuse Meltwater Channels."
Wednesday, November 01, 2023 *NO PDH Credit*- November 2023 Meeting: Dr. Bryce Hand, Syracuse University. "Syracuse Meltwater Channels."
Wednesday, October 04, 2023 *NO PDH Credit*- October 2023 Meeting: Dr. David Valentino, SUNY Oswego. "A Neoproterozoic (?) Basin Beneath Ithaca, NY"
Wednesday, September 06, 2023 *PDH CREDIT* September 2023 Meeting: Felicia Bechtel, RETTEW. "How to Find, Map, and Manage What You Want to Hit or Miss Before Digging, Drilling, Or Building"
Wednesday, September 06, 2023 *NO PDH Credit*- September 2023 Meeting: Felicia Bechtel, RETTEW. "How to Find, Map, and Manage What You Want to Hit or Miss Before Digging, Drilling, Or Building"
Wednesday, May 03, 2023 *PDH CREDIT* May 2023 Meeting: David Finkelstein, Hobart and Wm Smith Colleges, Topic TBD
Wednesday, May 03, 2023 *NO PDH Credit*- May 2023 Meeting: David Finkelstein, Hobart and Wm Smith Colleges, Topic TBD
Wednesday, April 05, 2023 *NO PDH Credit*- April 2023 Meeting: Jean Patota: Your PG License and Tips to Keep It
Wednesday, April 05, 2023 *PDH CREDIT*- April 2023 Meeting: Jean Patota: Your PG License and Tips to Keep It
Wednesday, March 01, 2023 March 2023 Meeting: Jesse Lubbers: Horizontal Directional Drills - Identifying & Mitigating Risks
Wednesday, February 01, 2023 February Meeting:Helbert Garcia (CNYAPG 2022 Student Grant Recipient) - The impact of glacial/interglacial cycles on erosion/sedimentation rates in low latitude tropical mountains.
Wednesday, January 04, 2023 January Meeting. Teresa Jordan, Cornell University. Cornell’s Geothermal Heat Aspiration and 2022 Cornell University Borehole Observatory
Wednesday, December 07, 2022 December Meeting: Tao Wen, Syracue University. “Using Machine Learning Approaches To Address Carbon Cycling-Related Questions”
Wednesday, November 02, 2022 November Meeting:David Barclay, SUNY Cortland. Megathrusts and tree-rings: high precision dating of the penultimate great earthquake in southern Alaska
Wednesday, October 05, 2022 October Meeting: Nicholas Metz, Hobart and Wm Smith Colleges- Rivers in the Sky: An Investigation of Atmospheric Rivers over the Northeastern US
Wednesday, September 07, 2022 (NEW) September Meeting: Mr. Derrick Pratt (Erie Canal Museum): The Erie Canal- Then and Now: A Crash Course
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 May Meeting: Mr. Jon Fox (Fox Professional Geology): Environmental Petrography Survey of Selected Upstate New York Bedrock Formations and Applications in Chemical Hydrogeology
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 April Meeting: Dr. Paul Harnick, Colgate Unversity The Ghosts of Populations Past: What Old Shells Reveal about Current and Future Oceans
Wednesday, March 16, 2022 March Meeting: Dr. Andrew Kozlowski (NYS Geologic Survey). Advances in Understanding Late Pleistocene Event-Stratigraphy in Central New York: From Application to Paleoclimate Correlation
Wednesday, February 16, 2022 February Meeting: Bob Darling, SUNY Cortland
Wednesday, January 19, 2022 January Meeting: Robert Titus, Hartwick College - retired The Hudson River School of Art and its Ice Age origins
Wednesday, December 15, 2021 December Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Dave Valentino (SUNY Oswego) Characterization of brittle deformation in Adirondack basement and the link to macroscopic features in the overlying Paleozoic strata
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 November Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Dave Eckhardt- USGS Retired "Adventures in Africa"
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 October Meeting: Karen Harpp - Colgate University
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 Bill Kappel, USGS retired - "Return to Retsof – Surface Geophysics Strikes Back"
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 May FREE Virtual Meeting: Dr. Joe Levy – Colgate University
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 April FREE Virtual Meeting: Nicolás Pérez-Consuegra (2020 CNYAPG Scholarship award winner) – Syracuse University
Wednesday, March 17, 2021 March FREE Virtual Meeting: Dr. Alka Singhal– Ramboll
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 February FREE Virtual Meeting: Dr. John Halfman– Hobart & William Smith
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 January FREE Virtual Meeting: John Gartner– Norwich University
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 December FREE Virtual Meeting: Dr. Laura Lautz– National Science Foundation- Legacy effects of cemeteries on groundwater quality and nitrate loads to headwater streams
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 November FREE Virtual Meeting: Dr. Nick Warner– SUNY Geneseo- Update on the InSight mission to Mars
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 October Virtual Meeting (NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED): Dr. Barbara Tewksbury– Hamilton College- From Orbit to Outcrop and Outcrop to Orbit: Teaching Astronauts to Think Like Geologists
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 May Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Speaker to be determined
Wednesday, April 15, 2020 April March Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Speaker to be determined
Wednesday, March 18, 2020 CANCELLED: March Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Dr. David Eckhardt – USGS (retired) - "Investigating Aquifer Sources for Potable Drinking Water in Tanzania, East Africa"
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 February Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Dr. Page Quinton - SUNY Potsdam. "Carbon isotopes in shallow epicontinental seas: lessons from the Late Ordovician"
Wednesday, January 15, 2020 January Dinner Meeting and Speaker: CNYAPG Student Research Scholarship Award Winner
Wednesday, December 18, 2019 December Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Kyle Makovsky – (Doctoral Candidate) Syracuse University. "Rockin’ the Bakken - Life and times of a Wellsite Geologist in North Dakota"
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 November Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Dr. Justin Stroup – Assistant Professor SUNY Oswego. “Understanding the Little Ice Age from the perspective of the Tropics: insights from Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru”
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 October Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Dr. Li Jin – Professor SUNY Cortland. "Applications of INtegrated CAtchment (INCA) models to simulate flow and water quality under changes in future climate and socioeconomics"
Wednesday, September 18, 2019 September Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Dr. Catherine Beck – Professor Hamilton College. "Impact of paleoenvironmental variability on hominin evolution as documented from a multiproxy perspective in the Turkana Basin, Kenya"
Saturday, May 18, 2019 Tug Hill Plateau Field Trip
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 May Dinner Meeting and Speaker: (rescheduled from March) - Dr. Esteban Gazel, Assoc. Professor Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Cornell University. "The rocks that joined the Americas: Is there a connection with climate and evolution of life?"
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 April Dinner Meeting: Scott Samson, Syracuse University. Inherited, enriched, heated, or recycled? The Grenville Orogeny: Examining potential causes of Earth's most zircon fertile magmatic episode
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 March Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Mr. Guy Swenson, P.G. "Hydraulics of Subsurface Injections"
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 February Dinner Meeting: Laura Demott, Syracuse University (CNYAPG 2017-18 scholarship winner) - Assessing Microbial Influence on Deposition of Frondose Lacustrine Carbonate Tufas from Winnemucca Dry Lake, NV, USA
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 January Dinner Meeting: Dr. Donald I Siegel, Syracuse University, “The Dismissal of Facts in Water-Related Decision Making: Root Causes and What to do About It”
Wednesday, December 19, 2018 December Dinner Meeting: Larry Brown, Cornell University, "3D Seismic Reflection Imaging with Uncontrolled Sources using Large N Arrays."
Friday, November 16, 2018 CANCELED due to weather ±++++++++November Dinner Meeting: Dr. Page Quinton, Assistant Professor, SUNY Potsdam. "Carbon isotopes in shallow epicontinental seas: lessons from the Late Ordovician"
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 October Dinner Meeting: Nick Warner, SUNY Geneseo - "The InSight mission to Mars: A geologist's approach to landing site evaluation"
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 September Dinner Meeting: Dr. Jeff Karson, Syracuse University, “Fire and Ice: Living with Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Glaciers in Iceland ”
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 May Meeting: Jamesville Quarry Field trip
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 April Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Bill Kappel (Retired USGS) & John Williams (Current USGS) "Time-domain electromagnetic soundings for the delineation of saline groundwater in the Genesee River Valley, western New York"
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 March Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Moran (EcoLogic, LLC), "The Cayuga Lake Modeling Project (CLMP) "
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 February Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Joe Gonzales (Syracuse Univ) "Pressure-temperature-time histories across the Burgess Branch Fault Zone, northern Vermont" and Mariana Rhoades (St. John Fisher College), "Historic Quarries and the Stone Industry..."
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 January Dinner Meeting and Speaker: John Nadeau, NYSCPG: "The State of Professional Geology in New York "
Wednesday, December 20, 2017 December Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Keith White (Arcadis) “Winning with Karst: Effectively Managing Contaminated Karst Aquifers”
Wednesday, November 15, 2017 November Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Dr. Richard Young (Emeritus Geneseo Geology), "When did the last, late Wisconsin continental ice sheet actually retreat from West-Central, NY?
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 Joint Meeting with NEAIPG and NYSCPG
Thursday, October 12, 2017 Schweinfurth Art Center Geologists and Friends Reception
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 September Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Dr. Andrew Kozlowski (New York State Geological Survey)
Thursday, August 17, 2017 Summer Break
Thursday, July 20, 2017 Summer Break
Thursday, June 15, 2017 Summer Break
Thursday, May 18, 2017 May Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Dr. Charles Ver Straeten (NYS Museum) Explosive volcanic eruptions, and the fate of volcanic ash in sedimentary environments
Thursday, April 20, 2017 April Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Dr. Rachel Lee (SUNY Oswego) Compositional and Textural Analysis of Maar-Diatreme Volcanic Deposits at Hopi Buttes Volcanic Field (AZ) Using GigaPan and Thermal Infrared Imagery
Thursday, March 16, 2017 March Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Peter Knuepfer (SUNY Binghamton) Evidence for Changing Flood Frequency, Upper Susquehanna River Basin
Thursday, February 16, 2017 February Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Dr. Barbara J. Tewksberry (Dept. of Geosciences, Hamilton College) Karst Development in Western Egypt
Thursday, January 19, 2017 January Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth K. Thomas (SUNY Buffalo) I Can See Clearly Now: Improving our ability to reconstruct past rain and snowfall by monitoring seasonal trends of hydrogen isotopes in environmental water and sedimentary leaf wa
Thursday, December 15, 2016 ** CANCELED **December Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Dr. Andrew Kozlowski (New York State Geological Survey)
Thursday, November 17, 2016 November Dinner Meeting and Speaker: Dr. Jeff Over (SUNY Geneseo)
Thursday, October 20, 2016 October Dinner Meeting and Speaker
Friday, October 07, 2016 2016 High Resolution Site Characterization and Emerging Contaminants Symposium
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