Field Trips

Northeast Big Island Hawaii Soils

Friday 19th June 19:00 - Sunday 21st June 05:00
Contacts: Oliver Chadwick, Louis Derry
Price: US$673

**This field trip is cancelled and we are currently ascertaining if this fied trip can be run at all in a virtual format. Any updates will be included here. If you have booked and paid for this field trip you will be refunded in full in due course.**

This two-day, pre-meeting trip (Friday and Saturday, June 19-20) will focus on the surface processes leading to the development of weathering profiles on Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea and Kohala. The trip will highlight changes in hydrological flow and hence pathways by which weathering products are delivered to the ocean, development of pedogenic thresholds and partitioning of soils into different process domains and the role that soil nutrient supply played in guiding the development of pre-contact Polynesian agriculture. The trip starts at 8 AM on Friday and ends about 6 PM on Saturday. The exertion level is mild. More detailed information and updates are available at:

http://www.geo.cornell.edu/eas/PeoplePlaces/Faculty/derry-new/hawaii/KohalaSoils.html

The cost is $673/person which includes lodging for 3 nights (Thursday, Friday and Saturday), ground transport (SUVs) and most meals. NOTE although the field trip will take place on Friday and Saturday, we expect the delegates to arrive on Thursday, and not leave until Sunday. Lodging will be in Waikoloa Village which is reasonably close to the Kona airport (~ $50 Uber ride) or if you arrive at Kona airport on Thursday late afternoon or early evening, we may be able to pick you up at the airport in groups. We will deliver everyone to the Kona Airport by about 10 AM on Sunday so you can plan on booking flights to Honolulu starting after about 11:30 AM.

Difficulty: Mild Exertion/Strenuous.

PLEASE NOTE: delegates attending this field trip will need to book their own flights in addition to their place on the trip.

Koolau/East Oahu Koolau Geology (Pre-Conference)

Saturday 20th June 19:00 - Sunday 21st June 05:00
Contacts: Mike Garcia
Website
Price: US$61

**This field trip is cancelled and we are currently ascertaining if this fied trip can be run at all in a virtual format. Any updates will be included here. If you have booked and paid for this field trip you will be refunded in full in due course.**

The East Oahu field trip will visit the eroded remains of the Koolau volcano including its caldera dike complex and dissected flanks (3 stops), and the explosive and effusive products of the Honolulu Volcanics along the Koko fissure and near Diamond (two stops). Lunch will be on the beach along the windward Oahu shore. Bring your bathing suit and towel. Pickup/drop-off in Honolulu.

Difficulty: Mild Exertion/Strenuous.

BOOKING CLOSED

Big Island Volcanology of Kilauea

Saturday 27th June 19:00 - Sunday 28th June 05:00
Contacts: Bruce Houghton, Brett Walker
Website
Price: US$124

**This field trip is cancelled and we are currently ascertaining if this fied trip can be run at all in a virtual format. Any updates will be included here. If you have booked and paid for this field trip you will be refunded in full in due course.**

Places on this trip are now full and bookings are closed.

This trip will focus on the physical volcanology and societal impacts of very recent eruptions of Kīlauea, particularly in 2014-2015 and 2018. We will visit both the summit of the volcano, to see the 2018 caldera, and selected localities on the lower East Rift Zone.

The trip begins and ends outside the Hawaiian baggage claim in Hilo airport.

The trip is now full, but check back in case of cancellations.

Start time: 8:00 am Sat, 27 June (fly on HA 102, 5:00 am; or HA 132, 6:40 am. NOT on HA 162)

End time: 5:00 pm Sat, 27 June (depart HA381, 6:11 pm or any later flight)

There is no possibility to meet people from any later flight (e.g. Ha 162) or to return people to Hilo airport before 5:00 pm).

We will be travelling in three 7-seater passenger vans. We should be able to accommodate ONLY one moderate-sized bag per person in these vehicles.

You should plan to eat breakfast in Honolulu airport and drink lots of coffee there as there are no dining options at Hilo airport. Lunch will be provided.

Difficulty: Mild/Strenuous

BOOKING CLOSED

Koolau/East Oahu Koolau Geology (Post-Conference)

Saturday 27th June 19:00 - Sunday 28th June 05:00
Contacts: Julia Hammer
Website
Price: US$61

**This field trip is cancelled and we are currently ascertaining if this fied trip can be run at all in a virtual format. Any updates will be included here. If you have booked and paid for this field trip you will be refunded in full in due course.**

The East Oahu field trip will visit the eroded remains of the Koolau volcano including its caldera dike complex and dissected flanks (3 stops), and the explosive and effusive products of the Honolulu Volcanics along the Koko fissure and near Diamond (two stops). Lunch will be on the beach along the windward Oahu shore. Bring your bathing suit and towel.

Difficulty: Mild Exertion/Strenuous.

BOOKING CLOSED

Maui Maui Geology

Saturday 27th June 19:00 - Monday 29th June 05:00
Contacts: Tom Shea, John Sinton
Website
Price: US$380/US$540

**This field trip is cancelled and we are currently ascertaining if this fied trip can be run at all in a virtual format. Any updates will be included here. If you have booked and paid for this field trip you will be refunded in full in due course.**

A multi-island field trip covering Haleakala and West Maui.

PLEASE NOTE: Delegates attending this field trip will be required to book their own flights. Suggestions for travel arrangements (times and flights) to Kahului (Maui) are the following:

- Southwest SW 564 arrives at 7:50am

- Any of Hawaiian Airlines HA 106, 126, 136, HA 146 arriving at 5:42, 6:51, 7:14 am

- Any other flight arriving the Friday before

Most importantly, the field trip starts at 8:30am on Saturday June 27th sharp, so everyone's arrangements have to account for a meeting time at the airport in front of the Hawaiian Airlines baggage claim by 8:30am. Lodging will be at the Marriott Courtyard. Two options are available: (1) share a room (lower cost) or (2) have your own room (higher cost). The organizers will help distribute shared room participants.

End time: 7:00 pm Sun, 28 June. Please schedule your flight back to Honolulu (or the mainland) AFTER 8.00 PM, there will not be any possibility to drop delegates off at the airport prior to 7.00 PM.

Difficulty: Mild Exertion.

Waianae/West Oahu Waianae Geology

Saturday 27th June 19:00 - Sunday 28th June 05:00
Contacts: Scott Rowland
Website
Price: US$61

**This field trip is cancelled and we are currently ascertaining if this fied trip can be run at all in a virtual format. Any updates will be included here. If you have booked and paid for this field trip you will be refunded in full in due course.**

This trip will provide an overview of Wai‘anae volcano, the older of the two that make up the island of O‘ahu (there is a third volcano in the cluster, Ka‘ena, but it is all below sea level). We will examine lava flows, dikes, sills, basalt, rhyodacite, evidence of changes in relative sea level, and get a sense for the structure of this very well-exposed Hawaiian shield volcano. Hiking will be minimal, but it will be hot. Pickup/drop-off in Honolulu.

Difficulty: Mild Exertion/Strenuous.

BOOKING CLOSED