We use cookies to improve your experience, some are essential for the operation of this site.

Researchers gathering cores on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska.

Researchers gathering cores on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska.
Researchers gathering cores on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska.
Researchers gathering cores on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska.
Researchers gathering cores on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska.
Comments (0)
227196
Maio, Christopher
Researchers gathering cores on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska.
Still Image
09/14/2013
graphics/Chris_Maino/DSC_9076.JPG
These are pictures I took working in saltmarshes on the Kenai Peninsula. It was a USGS funded paleoseismology study looking to develop a record of prehistoric earthquake events based on peat-silt couplets in saltmarsh sediments. I got to tag along to learn about coring in area marshes. The lead scientist was Ian Shennan from Durham University in England. He's in the orange. Next to him on the right is another scientist from Durham who's name I forgot right now. The guy on the far right is Rod Combellick and on the far left Richard Reger both well known geologist formally of the Alaska Geologic Survey.
Edward Berg in the yellow hood is a biologist from the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.
Image Of the Day caption:
During a recent trip to Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, WHOI guest student Chris Maio assisted in the collection of sediment cores from the Beluga Slough salt marsh. The trip was funded by the U.S. Geological Survey and led by Ian Shennan from Durham University in England to gather cores to assess earthquake hazards and decipher local sea-level fluctuations. Salt marshes can also contain valuable records of tsunamis and storms that often stretch back centuries.
Photo by Chris Maio
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Labels
This item includes these files
Image
Image
Collections