Dr. Andrew Kozlowski

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

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

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

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

My Research Project (new)

Publications

2012

Landing, E., 2012. Extended Abstract—The Great American Carbonate Bank in Eastern Laurentia: Its Births, Deaths, and Linkage to Paleooceanic Oxygenation (Early Cambrian), in: Derby, J., Fritz, R., Longacre, S., Morgan, W., Sternbach, C. (Eds.), The Great American Carbonate Bank: The Geology and Economic Resources of the Cambrian. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, Oklahoma, pp. 253a-260a.
Landing, E., 2012. The Great American Carbonate Bank in Eastern Laurentia: Its Births, Deaths, and Linkage to Paleooceanic Oxygenation (Early Cambrian, in: Derby, J., Fritz, R., Longacre, S., Morgan, W., Sternbach, C. (Eds.), The Great American Carbonate Bank: The Geology and Economic Resources of the Cambrian. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, Oklahoma, pp. 451-492.
E. Landing, B. Kroger 2012, Cephalopod Ancestry and Ecology of the Hyolith ’Allatheca’ degeeri s.l. in the Cambrian Evolutionary Radiation, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 353-355, 21-30. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.06.023
E. Landing 2012, Correction: Proposal of the Four Global Series of the Cambrian, Bulletin of Geosciences 87, 625-627. 10.3140/bull.geosci.1332
E. Landing, S. Bowser, S. Reyes, A. Andreas 2012, First Discovery of Early Palaeozoic Bathysiphon (Foraminifera) - Test Structure and Habitat of a ’Living Fossil’, Geological Magazine 149, 1013-1022. 10.1017/S0016756812000155
E. Landing 2012, Time-specific Black Mudstones and Global Hyperwarming on the Cambrian-Ordovician Slope and Shelf of the Laurentia Palaeocontinent, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 367-368, 256-272. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.09.005
E. Landing, S. Westrop, B. Kroger, J. Adrian 2012, Tribes Hill-Rochdale Formations in East Laurentia: Proxies for Early Ordovician (Tremadocian) Eustasy on a Tropical Passive Margin (New York and West Vermont), Geological Magazine 149, 93-123. 10.1017/S0016756811000598

2011

E. Landing, M. Moczydlowska, W. Zang, T. Palacio 2011, Proterozoic Phytoplankton and Timing of Chlorophyte Algae Origins, Palaeontology 54, 721-733. 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01054.x
E. Landing, J. Keppie, M. Streng, B. Melbin 2011, Linguliform Brachiopods from the Terminal Cambrian and Lowest Ordovician of the Oaxaquia Microcontinent (Southern Mexico), Journal of Paleontology 85, 122-155. 10.1666/10-074.1
E. Landing, S. Westrop, J. Adrain 2011, The Cambrian (Sunwaptan, Furongian) Agnostoid Arthropod Lotagnostus Whitehouse, 1936, in Laurentian and Avalonian North America: Systematics and Biostratigraphic Significance, Bulletin of Geosciences 86, 569-594.