AKA: none
Other ID: Prince William Sound paleotsunami 2025
Status: Pending
Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Coastal and marine earthquake, tsunami, and landslide active margin field studies (ZP00EQV)
Principal Investigator(s): SeanPaul La Selle
Affiliate Investigator(s): Rob Witter ASC, Nikita Avdievitch AVO, Alena Giesche ASC
Information Specialist(s): SeanPaul La Selle
Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology, Environmental Data: Tide
Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect sedimentary evidence of tsunami inundation from past earthquakes and landslides
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Whittier, AK
End Port/Location: Whittier, AK
Start Date: 2025-08-05
End Date: 2025-08-14
Equipment Used: Russian peat corer, hand auger, RBR Virtuoso
Information to be Derived: grain size, tides, sediment thickness, depth to bedrock, radiometric age dating
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:
Staff:
Affiliate Staff:
Notes:
Location:
Kings Bay and Port Fidalgo in Prince William Sound
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 60.90052575 | South: 60.3929619 | West: -148.88562022 | East: -146.02587864 |
Platform(s):
 Alaskan Gyre |
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russian peat corer | --- | Geology Surveys (geochemical) | |
| hand auger | --- | Chemistry Geology | |
| RBR Virtuoso | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) Tide Wave Turbidity pH ORP Fluorescence Dissolved Oxygen Temperature Pressure CTD |
