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Field Activity L1511CA

Identifier L1511CA
Alternate names L-15-11-CA
Purpose Paleotsunami field mapping Central CA
Description United States Geological Survey, Pacific Science Center,California Geologic Survey,Humboldt State,California State University Fullerton. Chief Scientist: Bruce Richmond. Field mapping, sampling data of field activity L-15-11-CA in Morro Bay, Carmel Rivermouth, Pillar Point from 10/22/2011 to 10/26/2011
Location Pillar Point
Info derived Determine the possibility of paleotsunami deposits in selected sites.
Comments We plan on going to additional sites in California later this year and next year . Sat., Oct 22: travel day to Cayucos (overnight in Cayucos), Sun, Oct 23, Morro Bay State Parks marshes (overnight in Cayucos), Mon, Oct 24, Morro Bay Audubon preserve (overnight in Cayucos). Note: Audubon access restricted to Mondays and Wednesdays, Note: the low tides for Oct 23 and 24 are in the afternoon, so a visit to Avila Beach to confer with the golf course manager could happen during the morning of either day., Tues, Oct 25, Carmel River (travel from Cayucos in morning, field work in afternoon) , Wed., Oct 26, Pillar Point (no tide constraints; start work early to be able to spend as much time as possible. Staff information imported from InfoBank Bruce Richmond Bruce Jaffe Bob Peters Steve Watt Eileen Hemphill - Haley Nick Graehl Robert Leeper Rick Wilson
Projects
Itinerary
Start Morro Bay 2011-10-22
End Pillar Pt 2011-10-26
Bounds
West -126.75
East -114.25
North 42.75
South 32.25
Activity Field mapping, sampling

Personnel

Organization
California Geologic Survey
, CA
Organization
California State University, Fullerton
Fullerton, CA
Organization
Humboldt State
Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Bruce M Richmond
Crew members
Steve Watt
Scientist, Staff
Bruce M Richmond
Scientist, Staff
Bruce E Jaffe
Scientist, Staff
Hemphill, Eileen
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Steve Watt
Specialist, Information
Affiliate staff Bob Peters,Nick Graehl,Robert Leeper,Rick Wilson

Data types and categories

Data category: Sampling, Visual Identification
Data type: Geology, Ground Truthing

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
samples Biology, Chemistry, Geology (no data reported)
Ground truthing obsvervations Ground Truthing (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity