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Field Activity Details for field activity A0412BI

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AKA: none

Other ID: A-04-12-BI

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, National Park Service, Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park

Funding Program(s): Paleo-Hydroclimatological (ZP00FRV)

Principal Investigator(s): Nancy Prouty

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Nancy Prouty

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Time Series: Geochemical Monitoring

Scientific Purpose/Goals: to collect coral cores for geochemical analysis; to collect seawater samples for paleo hydrological proxy study

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: KAHO Harbor

End Port/Location: KAHO Harbor

Start Date: 2012-10-23

End Date: 2012-10-28

Equipment Used: navigation, coral_core, CTD, Other

Information to be Derived: geochemical time-series providing historic record of land-use change (sediment input) and climate change parameters (sea surface temperature), collect seawater samples along a freshwater-salinity gradient to measure rare earth elements

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Peter Dal Ferro, Melissa Foley, Jeremy Merckling, Nancy Prouty, Thomas Reiss

Affiliate Staff:
Pete Swarzenski
Karen Johannesson

Notes: CTD data exists off line at: /rawdata1/2012/A-04-12-BI/CTD

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Nancy Prouty
Pete Dal Ferro
Melissa Foley
Tom Reiss
Pete Swarzenski
Karen Johannesson
Jeremy Merckling

Location:

Kona (Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park (KAHO))

Boundaries
North: 19.68723 South: 19.66788 West: -156.036 East: -156.02902

Platform(s):

photo of Alyce C
Alyce C

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
navigation --- Navigation
sample_cores (infobank link)
core location (InfoBank link)
coral_core --- Biology
CTD --- Surveys (geochemical)
Experiments (geochemical)
CTD
Other --- --- ---

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