Finding Undersea Munitions Lecture

Hawai‘i Institute for Geophysics and Planetology Researcher Margo Edwards describes recent surveys identifying discarded military munitions dumped in the ocean south of Pearl Harbor since the late 1940s.

Using submersibles and a remotely operated vehicle, the group identified various types of conventional and chemical munitions and collected water, sediment and sea life samples for analysis.

Edwards, who is the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists–Honolulu 2009 Scientist of the Year, talks about her group's work on the Army-funded Hawai'i Undersea Military Munitions Assessment project.

She is the former director of the Hawai'i Mapping Research Group, which develops and operates sidescan sonar and other tools to map the ocean floor, providing data on geologic processes from volcanism at mid-ocean ridges to ice sheet drainage on the Arctic sea floor.

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