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): Guy Gelfenbaum, Bruce Jaffe
Affiliate Investigator(s): Kazuhiro Goto, Daisuke Sugawara
Information Specialist(s): SeanPaul La Selle
Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology
Scientific Purpose/Goals: collect core samples of the 2011 tsunami deposit in order to validate tsunami sediment transport modeling
Vehicle(s): None
Start Port/Location: Sendai, Japan
End Port/Location: Sendai, Japan
Start Date: 2014-11-11
End Date: 2014-11-15
Equipment Used: camera, Handheld GPS, Hand-grab sample, Push corer
Information to be Derived: Grain Size
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected 10 push cores and 9 grab samples of sand of the 2011 Tsunami deposit
Staff:
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: submitted after trip by CR; info emailed 11/20/2014 by Seanpaul La Selle.
The main purpose of the trip was to work on developing tsunami models and do site visits, but we unexpectedly had the opportunity to do some field work and collected a number of samples.
Location:
NE Japan
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 41 | South: 36 | West: 140 | East: 143 |
Platform(s):
 on foot |
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| camera | --- | Photo | |
| Handheld GPS | --- | Navigation | |
| Hand-grab sample | --- | Biology Chemistry Geology | |
| Push corer | --- | Surveys (geochemical) Surveys (biological) Biology Geology |
