1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 2026-628-FA

Identifier 2026-628-FA
Alternate names Prince William Sound paleotsunami 2026
Purpose To collect sedimentary evidence of tsunami inundation from past earthquakes and landslides
Location Kings Bay and Port Wells Prince William Sound
Info derived grain size, tides, sediment thickness, depth to bedrock, radiometric age dating
Comments Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2025-643-FA.
Projects
Platform
Alaskan Gyre
Itinerary
Start Whittier, AK 2026-07-27
End Whittier, AK 2026-08-03
Days in the field 8
Bounds
West -148.86474609
East -147.54638672
North 61.19356636
South 60.37314467

Personnel

Organization
4210 University Dr.
Anchorage, AK99508
(907) 786-7000
Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators SeanPaul M La Selle
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
SeanPaul M La Selle
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Rob Witter ASC, Nikita Avdievitch AVO, Alena Giesche ASC

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Sampling
Data type: Tide, Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
RBR Virtuoso Mooring (physical oceanography), Tide, Wave, Turbidity, pH, ORP, Fluorescence, Dissolved Oxygen, Temperature, Pressure, CTD (no data reported)
hand auger Chemistry, Geology (no data reported)
Russian peat corer Geology, Surveys (geochemical) (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity