This new blog will keep you up to date on recent publications and upcoming speaking events along with occasional hikes.

         Contact Titus at titusr@hartwick.edu

See galleries (far below) for photos associated with recent articles

Rtitus 2006   Robert Titus, author at Kaatskill Life, The Columbia County Independent and the Woodstock Times. Also author at Purple Mountain Press

                     New Book

The Other Side of Time is currently available in bookstores. It is an anthology of columns written over the last 16 years.

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Recent publications/events

October 21st, 2007

  

  

Current (winter) issue of Kaatskill Life.

one of the biggest recent paleontological discoveries in the Catskills has been the finding of the “Gilboa Tree” Click Gilboa gallery below.

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Read about it in the current issue

Current and upcoming issues

The Woodstock Times -

        A trip through time

Was Darwin right? beginning a series of articles visiting the deep geological past of the Woodstock vicinity to see if Darwin’s theory holds up hereabouts.

The Independent, Nov. 23- “Parting the Mists of Time”. swimming in a tropical sea half a billion years ago.

The mists will part this month (Jan) with a visit to a tropical reef in Columbia County.

Swim a 400 million year old coral reef

see the fall issue of Kaatskill Life

Fossil Devonian honeycomb coral, click to enlarge
Devonian fossil horn coral   Fossil horn coral, click to enlarge

Welcome to New England

see Oct 26 issue  of the Independent for a visit to the geological past of Beebe Hill in northeastern Columbia Cty.

More images of the Ice Age 

See the Oct 24 issue of the Woodstock Times for the ice age geology of the Zena Corn Field.