Franklin Automobile Company - G. Stein (The Encyclopedia of New York, 2005)
Keywords: history

Good Roads Movement - G. Stein (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: history

Help is Here: How the Ambulances Came to the State Museum - G. Stein (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: history

League of American Wheelmen - G. Stein (The Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: history

Motor Vehicle Industry - G. Stein (Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: history

Motorcycling - G. Stein (Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: history

A New Home for a Prized Possession - G. Stein (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: history

Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company - G. Stein (Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: history

Railroad Grade Crossings - G. Stein (Encyclopedia of New York State, 2005)
Keywords: history

Into Africa - J. M. Urban (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: biology

A Look Back: James Hall 1811-1898 - L. VanAller Hernick (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: history paleontology

Devonian Stratigraphy and K-bentonites in the Cherry Valley-Schoharie Valley Region - C. A. Ver Straeten; Ebert, J.R.; Bartholomew, L.J.; Benedict, L.J.; Matterson, D.K.; Shaw, G.H. (Fieldtrip Guidebook, 2005)
Keywords: geology

History in Every Place - Williams, C. (Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum, 2005)
Keywords: history

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1247.08.121, Route 9P/Saratoga Lake, City of Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, New York - L. J. Xinakes; N. L. Davis; M.S. LoRusso (New York State Department of Transportation, 2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

A Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 1247.08.121, Route 9P/Saratoga Lake, City of Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, New York - L. J. Xinakes; N. L. Davis; M.S. LoRusso (2005)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Adair's 'Marsh-mallows': An Eighteenth-Century Native American Cornfield Crop in the Southeastern United States - Asch, D. L. (Aboriginal Ritual and Economy in the Eastern Woodlands: Essays in Memory of Howard Dalton Winters, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Master Lansing Prouty: An Individual Death Reveals the Trials of Everyday Life in 1840s Greenwich - Barbagallo, T. (Annual Journal of the Washington County Historical Society, 2004)
Keywords: history

The Bakehouse - J. Bollen ('The Most Advantageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Bridge Replacement with Culvert at Whalen Hill Rd (Johnny Cake Hill Rd) at Edumar Lane, Town of Madison, Madison County, New York - Boyle, M. (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report, Phase I Archaeological and Architectural Survey Addendum of PIN 1001.28.121, BIN 1-00020-0, NY Route 2 over the Poestenkill, Hamlet of Eagle Mills, Town of Brunswick, Rensselaer County, New York - Boyle, M.; M.S. LoRusso (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Eurypterids, Phyllocarids, and Ostracodes - Braddy, S. J.; V. P. Tollerton Jr.; Racheboeuf, P. R.; Schallreuter, R. (The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, 2004)
Keywords: paleontology

New York Glacial Geology - D. H. Cadwell; Muller, E. H. (Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology, Part II: North America, 2004)
Keywords: geology

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 8039.94.122. Route 9W, Village of Port Ewen, Ulster County, New York - J. S. Cardinal; M.S. LoRusso (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN8177.41.122/BIN 1-04066-0, Route 209 over Neversink River Bridge Replacement, Town of Deerpark, Orange County, New York - J. S. Cardinal (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resource Site Examination Report for NYSM # 11553, The Van Aken Farm II Site, Route 9W, Clay Road to North Broadway and Salem Street Intersection, Village of Port Ewen, Town of Esopus, Ulster County, New York - J. S. Cardinal (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Spatial Distribution Plots - J. S. Cardinal; Whelan, L. ('The Most Advantageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site., 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Where Have all the Rotifers Gone: Long Term Patterns in Lake Champlain Zooplankton Communities 1990-2001 - Carling, K. J.; Mihuc, T. B.; C. A. Siegfried; Bonham, R.E.; Dunlap, F. (Lake Champlain Partnerships and Research in the New Millennium, 2004)
Keywords: biology

Status of Fishes in New York: Increases, Declines and Homogenization of Watersheds - Carlson, D.M.; R. A. Daniels (American Midland Naturalist, 2004)
Fishes present in 19 watersheds in New York are inventoried. One hundred seventy-six taxa (171 species) reside in these watersheds. Eighteen taxa are extra-limital exotic fishes, that is, they are not native to any New York watershed. The remaining 158 taxa are native in at least one New York watershed, although transfer of species among watersheds within the state is, and has been, widespread. Sixteen species are diadromous or estuarine and eight of these species support land-locked populations, so 150 taxa are strictly freshwater and native. Watersheds differed markedly in richness and composition. Over 100 taxa are reported from five watersheds and seven have fewer than 75 taxa. Twelve species are now extirpated from all New York watersheds and 28 other species have disappeared from at least one of their historic watersheds. Fifty-seven native species are infrequently caught, are considered rare and are candidates for special consideration. Within the state, patterns of species distribution are complex and are affected by environmental differences among the watersheds, the presence of suitable dispersal routes and widespread introductions.
Keywords: fish assemblages; New York; species distribution; watersheds

From the Earth: Minerals and Meaning in the Hopewellian World - Charles, D. K.; Van Nest, J.; Buikstra, J.E. (Soils, Stones and Symbols: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on the Mineral World, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Initial Deglaciation of the Adirondack Mountains and Development of the Fulton Chain Lakes - Connally, G. G.; D. H. Cadwell (2004)

Species Profiles Aquatic Nuisance Species Research Program - Crosier, D. M.; D. P. Molloy (2004)
Keywords: biology

Discovery Now - J. R. Cryan (Members Update, 2004)
Keywords: biology

Treehopper Trees: Phylogeny of Membracidae (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Membracoidea) Based on Molecules and Morphology - J. R. Cryan; Wiegmann, B. M.; Deitz, L. L.; Dietrich, C. H.; Whiting, M. F. (Systematic Entomology, 2004)
Recent independent phylogenetic analyses of membracid relationships based on molecular and morphological data have identified monophyletic lineages within the family. However, the results of these studies have not fully resolved treehopper phylogeny, and relationships among some higher membracid lineages remain in doubt. Portions of three datasets (958 aligned nucleotides from elongation factor-1α, 2363 aligned nucleotides from 28S ribosomal DNA, and eighty-three morphological features of adults and nymphs) introduced in recent studies were reanalysed separately and in combination with two new molecular datasets (321 aligned nucleotides from wingless and 1829 aligned nucleotides from 18S ribosomal DNA). The results of the combined data analyses, contrary to previous analyses of morphological data alone, grouped membracids into two well-supported lineages, one comprising Stegaspidinae and Centrotinae, the other comprising Membracinae, Darninae and Smiliinae. The analyses recovered Centrotinae, Membracinae and Darninae as monophyletic groups, but Stegaspidinae was paraphyletic with respect to Centrotinae, and Smiliinae was polyphyletic with Micrutalini placed as a sister group to the clade comprising Membracinae, Darninae and Smiliinae. These results are consistent with the following hypotheses, proposed previously based on an analysis of morphological data: (1) the posterior pronotal process was derived and lost multiple times during the evolution of Membracidae; (2) Membracidae originated in the New World and reached the Old World subsequently via dispersal; (3) maternal care evolved independently multiple times and may or may not have been preceded by the acquisition of ant mutualism.
Keywords: membracid; Phylogenetic analyses; treehopper phylogeny

Decapods of Inland Waters - R. A. Daniels (New York State Biodiversity Clearinghouse http://www.nybiodiversity.org/summaries/decapods/index.html, 2004)
Keywords: biology

Freshwater and Estuarine Fish - R. A. Daniels (New York State Biodiversity Clearinghouse http://www.nybiodiversity.org/summaries/fish/index.html, 2004)
Keywords: biology

Petrogenesis of Prismatine-bearing Metapelitic Gneisses Along the Moose River, West-central Adirondacks, New York - Darling, R. S.; Florence, F. P.; Lester, G. W.; P. R. Whitney (Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Grenville Orogen in North America, 2004)
Keywords: geology

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey of PIN 1306.70.101, Route 7, Town of Pittstown, Rensselaer County, New York - N. L. Davis (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

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

Cultural Resources Data Recovery Plan for the Champlain Canal/Bemis Heights Site. PIN 1089.70.101, Town of Stillwater, Saratoga County, New York - R. Dean; C. B. Rieth (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Lake George Battlefield Park Collection at the New York State Museum - P. B. Drooker (Fort George Advice: The Newsletter of the Lake George Battlefield (Fort George) Alliance, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

The Making of a Postage Stamp - P. B. Drooker (Members Update, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Perishable Material Culture in the Northeast - P. B. Drooker (New York State Museum Bulletin, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Perishables in the Northeast - P. B. Drooker (Perishable Material Culture in the Northeast, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Pipes, Leadership, and Interregional Interaction in Protohistoric Midwestern and Northeastern North America - P. B. Drooker (Smoking and Culture: Recent Developments in the Archaeology of Tobacco Pipes, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Susannah Swan's Wampum Bag - P. B. Drooker; G. R. Hamell (Perishable Material Culture in the Northeast, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

The William Tompkins Collection - P. B. Drooker (Members Update, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Water Quality Impacts and Indicators of Metabolic Activity of the Zebra Mussel Invasion of the Seneca River - Effler, S. W.; Matthews, D. A.; Brooks-Matthews, C. A.; Perkins, M.; C. A. Siegfried; Hassett, J. M. (Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 2004)
ABSTRACT: The conspicuous shifts in summertime values of common measures of water qualify that have persisted for 10 years (1993 to 2002) in the Seneca River, New York, as a result of the zebra mussel invasion are documented. Resolution of patterns in time and space is supported by water quality monitoring that extends back to the late 1970s. Patterns are evaluated to describe the stability of impacts and quantify metabolic activity of the invader. The water quality impacts that have persisted unabated for 10 years since the invasion are the most severe documented for a river in North America. Changes in summer median conditions since the invasion include: (1) a 16-fold decrease in chlorophyll concentration (Chi), (2) a 2.5-fold increase in Secchi disc transparency, (3) a 17-fold increase in soluble reactive phosphorus concentration, (4) a 3.7-fold increase in total ammonia concentration, (5) a greater than 25 percent decrease in dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration, and (6) a decrease in pH of 0.55 units. The strength of these signatures has been driven by anthropogenic influences that include upstream nutrient loading and morphometric modifications of the river, and the functioning of Cross Lake, through which the river flows. This hypereutrophic lake sustains dense zebra mussel populations and related water quality impacts in the river downstream of the lake outflow by acting as a source of veligers and suitable food for this bivalve. Evidence is presented that levels of metabolic activity of the zebra mussel in this river have been resource limited, manifested through increased consumption of Chl and DO with increased delivery of these constituents in the lake's outflow.
Keywords: aquatic ecosystem; dissolved oxygen; Dreissena polymorpha; metabolic activity indicators; waste assimilative capacity; water quality impacts

Cypripedium xherae: A Remarkable Natural Cypripedium Hybrid from Central Canada - Ewacha, B.; C. J. Sheviak (Orchids, 2004)
Keywords: biology

Delineation of Tectonic Provinces of New York State as a Component of Seismic-Hazard Evaluation - R. H. Fakundiny (Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, 2004)
Seismic-hazard evaluations in the eastern United States must be based on interpretations of the composition and form of Proterozoic basement-rock terranes and overlying Paleozoic strata, and on factors that can cause relative movements among their units, rather than Phanerozoic orogenic structures, which may be independent of modern tectonics. The tectonic-province concept is a major part of both probabilistic and deterministic seismic-hazard evaluations, yet those that have been proposed to date have not attempted to geographically correlate modern earthquakes with regional basement structure. Comparison of basement terrane (megablock) boundaries with the spatial pattern of modern seismicity may lead to the mechanically sound definition of tectonic provinces, and thus, better seismic-hazard evaluation capability than is currently available. Delineation of megablock boundaries will require research on the many factors that affect their structure and movement. This paper discusses and groups these factors into two broad categories-megablock tectonics in relation to seismicity and regional horizontal-compressive stresses, with megablock tectonics divided into subcategories of basement, overlying strata, regional lineaments, basement tectonic terranes, earthquake epicenter distribution, and epeirogeny, and compressive stresses divided into pop-ups and the contemporary maximum horizontal-compressive stress field. A list presenting four to nine proposed research topics for each of these categories is given at the end.
Keywords: eastern United States; Paleozoic strata; Proterozoic basement-rock terranes; Seismic-hazard evaluations

Acrimony in Albany - J. R. Finley (New York State Archives, 2004)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Archaeological Study - C. L. Fisher ('The Most Adventageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Cultural Resource Survey Archaeological Monitoring and Data Recovery Plan for PIN 2029.52.121, Addendum, Routes 5S, 10, and 920T, Village of Canajoharie, Montgomery County, New York - C. L. Fisher (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Grand Battery - C. L. Fisher ('The Most Adventageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

The Guardhouse - C. L. Fisher ('The Most Adventageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

The Material World of the Soldiers - C. L. Fisher ('The Most Adventageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

'The Most Advantageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site - C. L. Fisher (New York State Museum Cultural Resources Survey Program Series, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

The Powder Magazine - C. L. Fisher ('The Most Adventageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

The Soldier's Necessary - C. L. Fisher ('The Most Adventageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

The Storehouse - C. L. Fisher ('The Most Adventageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

An Ice Age Quarry Workshop: The West Athens Hill Site Revisited - Funk, R.E. (New York State Museum Bulletin, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Geochemistry and Structural Setting of the Cortlandt Igneous Complex, Stony Point, NY - Gates, A.; M. V. Lupulescu (2004)
Keywords: geology

A Unified Lower-Middle Cambrian Chronostratigraphy for West Gondwana - G. Geyer; E. Landing (Acta Geologica Polonica, 2004)
Similarities in biotic successions support a unified, composite chronostratigraphy for the Lower-Middle Cambrian of the Iberian and Moroccan margins of West Gondwana. The Cordubian Series (emended from an Iberian stage-level unit) comprises the sub-trilobitic Lower Cambrian of West Gondwana. This series represents ca. half of the Cambrian (ca. 25 m.y.), has a base defined at the lowest occurrence of diagnostic Cambrian ichnogenera in central Spain, and is comparable to the Placentian Series of Avalon. The overlying trilobite-bearing Lower Cambrian (ca. 9 m.y. duration), or Atlasian Series (new), of West Gondwana consists of two stages originally defined in highly fossiliferous (trilobites and archaeocyaths) Moroccan sections where they have great potential for precise U-Pb geochronology. The penultimate Lower Cambrian stage, the Issendalenian, with the near-joint lowest occurrence of trilobites and archaeocyaths, is approximately comparable with the sparsely fossiliferous, Iberian "Ovetian Stage" (designation abandoned). The "Ovetian" as currently revised is invalid because it is an objective homonym of SDZUY’s original “Ovetian.” The "Ovetian" is not a practically applicable unit as its basal stratotype horizon lacks any identified fossils, and its trilobites are so rare that it cannot serve as a standard for interregional correlation. By contrast, the Banian Stage as defined in Morocco is suitable as the terminal Lower Cambrian stage of West Gondwana. It is based on very fossiliferous successions that allow recognition of three successive trilobite zones and is similar in concept to the Iberian “Marianian Stage” (designation abandoned). The “Marianian” lacks a designated lower boundary stratotype locality, lacks a biostratigraphically defined base at a stratotype, and is so sparsely fossiliferous that no biostratigraphic zonation exists. Long-term problems involving regional definition of the West Gondwanan Lower–Middle Cambrian boundary are resolved. The lowest occurrence of paradoxidid trilobites, the classic index for the base of the Middle Cambrian, is diachronous in West Gondwana and other regions, with the group showing a delayed appearance in Iberia, Sweden, and Bohemia, by comparison with Morocco. Taxonomic revision of Iberian trilobites and new documentation of their ranges in Morocco show that the Iberian terminal “Lower Cambrian” “Bilbilian Stage” (designation abandoned) correlates with the Moroccan upper Banian and lower and middle “Tissafinian” Stages and with the Siberian upper Toyonian (traditionally assigned to the Lower Cambrian in Siberia) and lower Amgan (assigned to the Middle Cambrian in Siberia) Stages. The “Bilbilian” thus includes Middle Cambrian strata in a traditional international concept. Faunas from the base of the Iberian “lowest” Middle Cambrian “Leonian Stage” (designation abandoned) correlate largely into the second trilobite zone of the “Tissafinian” and are now understood to appear above an intra-Middle Cambrian faunal break. This faunal break is still poorly understood and may be an artifact of collection failure immediately above the sparsely fossiliferous, problematical “Valdemiedes event” interval. The base of this “Middle Cambrian”, now termed Celtiberian Series (new designation), in West Gondwana is best defined by the base of the lower Middle Cambrian Agdzian Stage (new designation). The Agdzian includes the “Tissafinian” and overlying lower “Toushamian Stage” designations abandoned) of Morocco, and has its top defined by the base of the middle Middle Cambrian Caesaraugustian Stage, as defined in Spain at the lowest occurrence of Badulesia tenera. The Languedocian, originally defined at the lowest occurrence of Solenopleuropsis (Manublesia) thorali in the southern Montagne Noire of France comprises the third, and terminal stage of the Celtiberian Series. We suggest that the designations “Lower Cambrian” and “Middle Cambrian” be regarded as descriptive and nonchronostratigraphic terms in discussions of the Cambrian.
Keywords: Agdzian Stage; Atlasian Series; Australia; Cambrian; Celtiberian Series; chronostratigraphy; Cordubian Series; Israel; Jordan; Morocco; Poland; Siberia; South China; Spain; Trilobita

Abstracts Northeast Natural History Conference VIII - R. J. Gill; Kolozsvary, M.B. (New York State Museum Circular, 2004)
Keywords: biology

Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey Report for PIN 7130.19.121, Route 22, Route 374-Haynes Road, Towns of Plattsburgh and Beekmantown, Clinton County, New York - A. Gore; V. A. Schmitt (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Seneca Iroquois Carved Wooden Ladles - G. R. Hamell (Members Update, 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Can Cucurbita pepo Gourd Seeds be Made Edible? - J. P. Hart (Journal of Archaeological Science, 2004)
The earliest pre-maize indigenous crop in eastern North America are gourds of the species Cucurbita pepo; C. pepo gourd remains are found on mid-Holocene archaeological sites throughout the East. The C. pepo gourds of modern, natural populations produce high levels of extremely bitter cucurbitacins, chemicals which make both the flesh and the seeds inedible. It is assumed that the fruits and seed coats of the ancient C. pepo gourds were equally bitter and inedible. The major question regarding C. pepo gourds is how they would have been used. A series of recent experiments show that the seeds of dried C. pepo gourds can be processed to make them edible.
Keywords: Cucurbita pepo; Eastern North America; Gourd seed edibility; Seed crop processing

Do Cucurbita pepo Gourds Float Fish Nets? - J. P. Hart; R. A. Daniels; C. J. Sheviak (American Antiquity, 2004)
Among the various pre-maize indigenous crops of eastern North America, Cucurbita pepo gourd is the most enigmatic. C. pepo gourd remains have been found on mid-Holocene (8000-4000 B.P.) archaeological sites as far north and east as Maine. Their presumably extremely bitter flesh would have made the fruits inedible. Two not mutually exclusive hypotheses for use of the fruit are currently being debated: (1) the nutritious seeds were processed to remove bitterness and consumed and (2) dried fruits were used as fishnet floats and/or containers for general use. We report on a series of experiments that demonstrate the gourds function extremely well as fishnet floats. These results lend support to the second hypothesis, but do not conclusively prove they were used for this purpose.
Keywords: crop dispersals; Cucurbita pepo; fishnet floats; gourds

Faunal Analysis for the Main Barracks, Officer's Commisary, and Gaurdhouse - Horton, B. ('The Most Advantageous Situation in the Highlands': An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site., 2004)
Keywords: anthropology

Archaeological Pre-Reconnaissance Survey and Architectural Reconnaissance Survey of PIN 1460.42.121/BIN 1-02250-0, NY 32 over the Mohawk River, City of Cohoes and Town of Waterford, Albany and Saratoga Counties, New York - Kahn, B. A.; M.S. LoRusso (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report of PIN 111.23.121, Route 20 over Trout Creek, Town of Richfield Springs, Otsego County, New York - Kahn, B. A.; B. R. Dale (2004)
Keywords: Cultural Resources

The Ecological Impact of Inside/Outside House Cats Around a Suburban Nature Preserve - R. W. Kays; DeWan, A. A. (Animal Conservation, 2004)
While subsidised populations of feral cats are known to impact their prey populations, little is known about the ecological impact of inside/outside hunting cats (IOHC). We studied IOHC around a suburban nature preserve. Mail surveys indicated an average of 0.275 IOHC/house, leading to a regional density estimate of 0.32 IOHC/ha. A geographical model of cat density was created based on local house density and distance from forest/neighbourhood edge. IOHC hunted mostly small mammals, averaging 1.67 prey brought home/cat/month and a kill rate of 13%. Predation rates based on kills brought home was lower than the estimate from observing hunting cats (5.54 kills/cat/month). IOHC spent most outside time in their or their immediate neighbours' garden/yard, or in the nearby forest edge; 80% of observed hunts occurred in a garden/yard or in the first 10 m of forest. Radio-tracked IOHC averaged 0.24 ha in home-range size (95% minimum convex polygon (MCP)) and rarely entered forest. Confirming this, scent stations detected cats more often near the edge and more cats were detected in smaller forest fragments. There was no relationship between the number of cats detected in an area and the local small mammal abundance or rodent seed predation rates. Cold weather and healthy cat predator populations are speculated to minimise the ecological impact of IOHC on this area.
Keywords: ferel cats; house cats; hunting; wildlife impacts

Focus on Nature VIII: Natural History Illustration Exhibition Catalog - Kernan, P. (New York State Museum, 2004)
Keywords: biology

Environmental Patterns in the Origin and Evolution and Diversification Loci of Early Cambrian Skeletalized Metazoa: Evidence from the Avalon Microcontinent - E. Landing; Westrop, S. R. (Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Biological Revolutions, 2004)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Fossils and "Deep Time" In New York - E. Landing (New York State Museum Educational Leaflet, 2004)
Keywords: geology paleontology

Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary Interval Deposition and the Marginal Platform of the Avalon Microcontinent - E. Landing (Journal of Geodynamics, 2004)
Thick terminal Proterozoic–lowest Cambrian successions allow reference of the Saint John, New Brunswick, and MacCodrum Brook, southern Cape Breton Island, areas to the marginal platform of the Avalon microcontinent. Marginal-platform siliciclastic-dominated sequences form a cover on Late Precambrian arc successions from southern New Brunswick to North Wales. Their deposition in fault-bounded basins began with the origin of the Avalon microcontinent and development of a persistent transtensional regime in the latest Precambrian. The terminal Proterozoic–lowest Cambrian on the Avalonian marginal platform consists of three successive lithofacies associations: lower subaerial rift to marginal-marine facies; overlying cool-water, wave-influenced, marine platform sandstones and shales; and higher macrotidal quartz arenites (=Avalonian depositional sequences 1–2). Only the Lower Cambrian macrotidal quartz arenites onlap southeast, where they form the oldest Cambrian unit on the inner platform. These major lithofacies are the Rencontre, Chapel Island, and Random formations, respectively, in Avalonian North America. Southwest thinning of the Rencontre–Chapel Island–Random interval in southern New Brunswick reflects slower subsidence of a fault-bounded area in the city of Saint John. The depositional sequence 1–2 unconformity, which falls in the sub-trilobitic Lower Cambrian Watsonella crosbyi Zone of the Chapel Island Formation, persists for 650 km along the marginal platform from southeastern Newfoundland to southern New Brunswick and, potentially, appears in Cape Breton Island. Latest Precambrian-earliest Cambrian epeirogenic and depositional history was very uniform along the marginal platform, and a unified lithostratigraphic nomenclature is appropriate.
Keywords: Avalon microcontinent; MacCodrum Brook; New Brunswick; Saint John; southern Cape Breton Island; terminal Proterozoic–lowest Cambrian successions

Separated at Birth: Albany, New York and Shubuta, Mississippi - J. A. Lemak (Members Update, 2004)
Keywords: history

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