{"id":1407,"date":"2012-07-18T17:38:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T17:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nishiko55.com\/eq\/wordpress\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2018-05-17T12:20:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T10:20:59","slug":"18-july-2012-search-for-tsunami-debris-moves-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nishiko55.com\/eq\/?p=1407","title":{"rendered":"18 July 2012 Search for tsunami debris moves north"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA scientists are combing Alaska beaches again in their search for marine debris from the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msa=0&amp;msid=215969028569991696468.0004c51b78932aa24d84e&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=p&amp;source=embed&amp;ll=49.61071,177.011719&amp;spn=40.0891,105.46875&amp;z=3&amp;output=embed\" width=\"550\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small>View <a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left;\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msa=0&amp;msid=215969028569991696468.0004c51b78932aa24d84e&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=p&amp;source=embed&amp;ll=49.61071,177.011719&amp;spn=40.0891,105.46875&amp;z=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Search for tsunami debris moves north<\/a> in a larger map<\/small><\/p>\n<p>LOCAL NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Search for tsunami debris moves north<br \/>\nby Rosemarie Alexander<br \/>\nJuly 18, 2012 6:00 am<\/p>\n<p>NOAA scientists are combing Alaska beaches again in their search for marine debris from the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Five scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are in the Yakutat area this week, where they will be walking several miles each day before going on to a new segment of beach.<\/p>\n<p>After Yakutat, they\u2019ll head to the Cordova area, Kayak Island, and Montague Island in Southcentral Alaska.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jacek Maselko<\/span> is the lead scientist. In an interview before the group left, he said NOAA has previous data from many of the beaches, so they will be able to see how things change over time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to specific spots that we surveyed in 2008, 1998 and then \u201992 and prior years. So those are the exact specific beaches, shoreline segments, that we have surveyed in the past,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have a pretty good long term distribution of the density and the composition of the debris that\u2019s found on those specific beaches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In June the NOAA scientists visited 36 Southeast Alaska sites on the outer coast, from Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s so much variability between each segment that you cannot use one to predict what\u2019s going to be on the next one. So really what we found here in Southeast in our last survey, the densities, the quantities, we can\u2019t really use that to say what we\u2019re going to find up north. Even on adjacent segments they can have quite different densities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Maselko plans to look for tsunami debris over as much of the Gulf of Alaska shoreline as possible this summer, and revisit many of the same areas next year.<\/p>\n<p>So far most of what the scientists have catalogued is common stuff, but in the June survey they found a number of large black, yellow and orange oval buoys, which they believe to be part of the Japanese fish farming industry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktoonews.org\/2012\/07\/18\/search-for-tsunami-debris-moves-north\/\">http:\/\/www.ktoonews.org\/2012\/07\/18\/search-for-tsunami-debris-moves-north\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA scientists are combing Alaska beaches again in their search for marine debris from the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan. 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