Sand for Students Fieldwork #2, Aomori JPN
The 2nd fieldwork program was carried out in Aomori. The deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu, which was completed in July, 2005, has been undergoing repeated tests in preparation for scientific drilling expeditions that the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) will carry out from 2007 on. In the summer of 2006, the Chikyu was scheduled to do test drilling off the Shimokita Peninsula, during which it would collect geological samples (cores) from beneath the seafloor. For that work, the Hokkaido and Tohoku areas of Japan were a focus of interest, since they are the hinterlands that had provided the sediments now under the sea. To collect sand for analysis, the fieldwork was thus carried out at the Mabechigawa and Niidagawa rivers in Aomori.
The 2nd fieldwork program was carried out in Aomori. The deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu, which was completed in July, 2005, has been undergoing repeated tests in preparation for scientific drilling expeditions that the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) will carry out from 2007 on. In the summer of 2006, the Chikyu was scheduled to do test drilling off the Shimokita Peninsula, during which it would collect geological samples (cores) from beneath the seafloor. For that work, the Hokkaido and Tohoku areas of Japan were a focus of interest, since they are the hinterlands that had provided the sediments now under the sea. To collect sand for analysis, the fieldwork was thus carried out at the Mabechigawa and Niidagawa rivers in Aomori.
| Date | 12 November 2005 |
| Place | Mabechigawa river basin (Fukuchi, Aomori Prefecture) Niidagawa river basin (Niida, Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture) |
| Participating schools | Aomori Prefectural Aomori High School and Aomori Prefectural Aomori Minami High School |
| Instructors | Dr. Kazumi Yokoyama, National Science Museum, Tokyo, and others |
| Organizer | Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) |
