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Field Activity Details for field activity 2017-603-FA

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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):

Information Specialist(s): SeanPaul La Selle

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect sediment cores in coastal wetland environments that may record evidence of historic and pre-historic tsunamis.

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Honolulu, HI

End Port/Location: Honolulu, HI

Start Date: 2017-01-03

End Date: 2018-01-06

Equipment Used: camera, Handheld GPS Nomad, GPS, handsamplegrab, Peat Auger, pistoncore

Information to be Derived: Deposit thickness, grain size, organic material for radiocarbon dating, CT scans, XRF

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: sample locations submitted to FAD by Seanpaul Laselle on 6/6/2017

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Kauaʻi, Oʻahu

Boundaries
North: 22.49606365 South: 21.13712962 West: -160.48828125 East: -157.5032552

Platform(s):

photo of on foot
on foot

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
camera --- Photo
Handheld GPS Nomad --- Benchmarks
LIDAR
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
GPS --- Navigation
handsamplegrab --- Geology
Peat Auger --- Geology
pistoncore --- Geology

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