Locality:
Bikini Atoll,
Bikini Island.
:
Same 14.
Personnel:
Date:
August 17, 1964.
Weather:
Fair, somewhat cooler,
with a breeze.
Water conditions:
Radiation level(s):
Monday.
A little ripple.
McClin--The maximum average radiation level
for all Bikini Island was 0.14 mr/hr for B-y radiation at
ground level.
Fish were collected just over the sand spit on the seaward
side of the reef.
green coral.
The area was marked by extensive growths of
The usual large number of species were obtained.
This is the most ideal collecting spot.
with no surge.
of fish.
Water is 2-5 feet deep,
Ideal swimming and picking up the great variety
Sneddon photographed the fish collecting and such live
fish as time permitted.
Gessel:
steel tower;
Major morning work was to cut access trail to the
then,
following old road on north to the
side of the island.
seaward
Luxuriant growth of Scaevola along the route,
beyond road burn the forest was largely a regrowth of Cordia,
Pisonia and Pandanus.
The indications were that the old Cordia
forest had burned and new growth was from stump sprouts.
Sampled soil and vegetation at two sites:
1.
Relatively undisturbed
2.
Construction area.
Well points not successful today but will try again tomorrow.
Ants, wasps, and soil insects are plentiful, also spiders and
mosquitoes.