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Field Activity Details for field activity 2016-617-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: none

Status: Cancelled

Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Tsunami Hazards, Modeling, and the Sedimentary Record (ZP00ES5)

Principal Investigator(s): Bruce Jaffe

Affiliate Investigator(s): Brian Atwater, Bob Halley

Information Specialist(s): Bruce Jaffe

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect tsunami and hurricane samples and investigate boulders from extreme wave events.

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location:

End Port/Location:

Start Date: 2016-03-04

End Date: 2016-03-11

Equipment Used: Handheld GPS, Push corer

Information to be Derived: Grain size, deposit thickness, composition, investigating boulders from extreme wave events

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Santa Cruz, CA starting and ending ports have been removed

Location:

Anegada, BVI

Boundaries
North: 18.78566096 South: 18.66701252 West: -64.463 East: -64.22236023

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Other

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Handheld GPS --- Navigation
Push corer --- Surveys (geochemical)
Surveys (biological)
Biology
Geology

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