AKA: none
Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Tsunami Hazards, Modeling, and the Sedimentary Record (ZP00ES5)
Principal Investigator(s): Bruce Richmond
Affiliate Investigator(s): James Goof, UNSW; Catherine Chague-Goff, UNSW; gerard Fryer, NOAA, Chip Fletcher, UH
Information Specialist(s): Brent Lunghino
Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Transects, Sampling: Geology
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect core samples for paleotsunami studies.
Vehicle(s): None
Start Port/Location: Hilo, HI
End Port/Location: Hilo, HI
Start Date: 2014-08-15
End Date: 2014-08-25
Equipment Used: Camera-still, Handheld GPS Nomad, Push corer, Vibracore, Other
Information to be Derived: Frequency and inundation of past tsunamis.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected 8 Vibracores at two study sites. Also collected stratigraphic data from push cores.
Staff: Bruce Jaffe, SeanPaul La Selle, Brent Lunghino, Bruce Richmond
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: 9/4/2014 Updating staffing status.
4 wheel drive rental. Possible small boat hire for adjacent valley (weather permitting).
Location:
Waipio Valley, Hawaii; Pololu Valley, Hawaii
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 20.21677761 | South: 20.0558379 | West: -155.7728 | East: -155.55950928 |
Platform(s):
 on foot |
La Selle, S.M., Richmond, B.M., Griswold, F.R., Lunghino, B.D., Jaffe, B.E., Kane, H.H., Bellanova, P., Arcos, M.E.M., Nelson, A.R., Chague, C., Bishop, J.M., and Gelfenbaum, G.R., Core logs, scans, photographs, grain size, and radiocarbon data from coastal wetlands on the Hawaiian islands of Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, and Hawaiʻi: doi: 10.5066/P9X4STJM.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camera-still | --- | Photo | |
| Handheld GPS Nomad | --- | Benchmarks LIDAR Navigation Profiles Transects | |
| Push corer | --- | Surveys (geochemical) Surveys (biological) Biology Geology | |
| Vibracore | --- | Geology | Vibracore photographs, computed tomography scans, and core-log descriptions from Pololu Valley, Island of Hawaii (This portion of the data release contains information on vibracores that were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in Pololu Valley, Island of Hawai'i in 2014. Five sites were cored in order to describe wetland stratigraphy and to identify potential tsunami deposits. These vibracores contain mud, peat, fluvial sands, and marine volcanic sands, reflecting deposition in a variety of coastal environments. ) |
| Other | --- | --- | --- |
