Marine Biogeographic Assessment of the Main Hawaiian Islands: Synthesized physical and biological data offshore of the Main Hawaiian Islands from 1891-01-01 to 2015-03-01 (NCEI Accession 0155189)

• Main Authors: Bryan Costa, Matthew Kendall
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2017
• Subjects: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NOS/NCCOS > National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 0155189; 155189; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; BENTHIC COMMUNITIES; BENTHIC SPECIES; BIOLOGICAL DATA; BIRDS; cetacean; FISH - CORAL REEF; FISH SPECIES; HABITAT - BENTHIC; MARINE MAMMALS; REPTILES; AVHRR; camera; documentation only - no instrument type; MODIS; swimmer/diver; visual observation; in situ; model output; satellite data; US DOC; NOAA; NOS; National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science; Coastal Waters of Hawaii; North Pacific Ocean; oceanography; Research Data Types > Derived Data Product; Research Data Types > Field Observation; Research Data Types > Geospatial; Research Data Types > Model; Research Priorities > Marine Spatial Ecology (MSE); Research Topics > Coral Reefs; Research Topics > Ecological/Biological Characterization; Research Topics > Habitat Mapping; Research Topics > Predictive/Spatial Modeling; Research Topics > Remote Sensing; Benthic habitat type; Bottom Temperature (Annual Mean); Catch-per-unit-effort (CPUE); Coral richness (mean and by year); Curvature Platform (Mean); Curvature Profile (Mean); Curvature Total (Mean); Elevation; Environmental predictors; Euphotic Depth; Mesophotic; Number of species present/absence; Percent Biological Cover; Raster Navigational Charts 00540; Raster Navigational Charts 10320; Raster Navigational Charts 19004; Raster Navigational Charts 19010; Raster Navigational Charts 19013; Raster Navigational Charts 19340; Raster Navigational Charts 19380; Reef fish communities; Rugosity (Mean); SST Anomaly Frequency (Summer/Winter Mean); SST Front Frequency (Summer/Winter Mean); SST Front Persistence (Summer/Winter Mean); SST Front Strength (Summer/Winter Mean); Seafloor Depth; Slope Rate of Change (Mean); Thermal Stress Anomaly Frequency (Summer/Winter mean); Upwelling; Waves; Wind Data (Summer/Winter Mean); relative abundance; soft substrate; total species richness; Acanthopathes; Anous minutus; Anous stolidus; Anthoptilum; Antipatharia; Antipathella; Antipathes; Aphanipathes; Balaenoptera borealis; Balaenoptera edeni; Balaenoptera physalus; Bamboo coral; Band rumped Storm Petrel; Basking locations; Bathypathes; Black Noddy; Black footed Albatross; Black winged Petrel; Blainville’s beaked whale; Blue gray Noddy; Brown Booby; Brown Noddy; Bryde’s whale; Bubblegum coral; Bulweria bulwerii; Bulwer’s Petrel; Calcaxonia; Calibelemnon; Caretta caretta; Chelonia mydas; Christmas Shearwater; Chrysopathes; Cirrhipathes; Common bottlenose dolphin; Cook’s Petrel; Corallium spp.; Cuvier’s beaked whale; Dendropathes; Dermochelys coriacea; Dwarf sperm whale; Enallopsammia rostrata; Eretmochelys imbricata; False killer whale; Feresa attenuata; Fin whale; Framework forming Scleractinia; Fraser’s dolphin; Fregata minor; Globicephala macrorhynchus; Gold corals; Gorgonian Alcyonacea; Grampus griseus; Great Frigatebird; Green turtles; Gygis alba; Hawaiian Petrel; Hawaiian monk seal; Hawksbill; Holaxonia; Humpback whale; Indopacetus pacificus; Isididae; Juan Fernandez Petrel; Killer whale; Kogia breviceps; Kogia sima; Kulamanamana haumeaae; Lagenodelphis hosei; Laysan Albatross; Leatherback; Leiopathes; Lepidochelys olivacea; Leptoseris spp.; Loggerhead; Longman’s beaked whale; Madracis kauaiensis; Madrepora oculata; Masked Booby; Megaptera novaeangliae; Melon headed whale; Mesoplodon densirostris; Montipora spp.; Mottled Petrel; Myriopathes; Neomonachus schauinslandi; Newell’s Shearwater; Non framework forming Scleractinia; Non gorgonian Alcyonacea includes Suborders Alcyoniina; Oceanodroma castro; Olive Ridley; Onychoprion fuscatus; Orcinus orca; Pantropical spotted dolphin; Paragorgiidae; Parantipathes; Pennatulacea; Peponocephala electra; Phaethon lepturus; Phaethon rubricauda; Phoebastria immutabilis; Phoebastria nigripes; Physeter macrocephalus; Porites spp.; Procelsterna cerulea; Pseudorca crassidens; Pterodroma cookii; Pterodroma externa; Pterodroma inexpectata; Pterodroma nigripennis; Pterodroma sandwichensis; Puffinus griseus; Puffinus nativitatis; Puffinus newelli; Puffinus pacificus; Pygmy killer whale; Pygmy sperm whale; Red and Pink Coral; Red footed Booby; Red tailed Tropicbird; Risso’s dolphin; Rough toothed dolphin; Scleractinia “bramble”; Scleraxonia; Sei whale; Short finned pilot whale; Sooty Shearwater; Sooty Tern; Sperm whale; Spinner dolphin; Stauropathes; Stenella attenuata; Stenella coeruleoalba; Stenella longirostris; Steno bredanensis; Stichopathes; Stolonifera; Stranding locations; Striped dolphin; Sula dactylatra; Sula leucogaster; Sula sula; Trissopathes; Tursiops truncatus; Turtle species; Umbellapathes; Wedge tailed Shearwater; White Tern; White tailed Tropicbird; Ziphius cavirostris; AVHRR > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer; MODIS > Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer; VISUAL OBSERVATIONS; BOTCAM; Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs); Raster Navigational Charts; Ship Tracklines Multibeam SoNARs (1956 to 2009); Ship Tracklines Multibeam SoNARs (1984 to 2014); aerial survyes; remotely operated camera; telemetry tracking; visual land-based surveys; visual ship-based surveys; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; Research Geographic Areas > Coastal Ocean; Research Geographic Areas > Coral Reefs; Research Geographic Areas > Deep Sea; Research Locations > Marine Protected Areas > National Marine Monuments; Research Locations > Marine Protected Areas > National Marine Sanctuaries; Research Locations > Marine Protected Areas > National Parks; Research Locations > Regions > Hawaii; Kaua'i; Maui Nui; O'ahu; Fernandez; Pacific; Humpback Whale; Killer Whale; Orca; Sei Whale
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This accession contains analyses and data products used in a marine biogeographic assessment of the main Hawaiian Islands. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) regulates the leasing, construction and operation of renewable energy projects in federal waters, and is required to evaluate potential human, coastal and marine impacts from these projects. In 2013, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) partnered with BOEM to support their review of renewable energy lease requests offshore of the Main Hawaiian Islands (MHI). Collaborations with a variety of local federal, state, academic and non-governmental organizations were crucial for this work. NCCOS compiled existing, readily-available spatial data and synthesized new products around the MHI, describing the physical and biological marine environment, benthic habitats, fishes, sea turtles, marine mammals, and seabirds. Analyses and data products were specifically tailored to meet BOEM’s needs, and to fit within BOEM’s framework of offshore lease blocks. Data products range from simple animal distribution maps to mathematical models depicting the predicted distributions of animals. For some animals, this assessment marks the first time that their space-use patterns were mapped or modeled in the MHI, and made available online. These datasets are one component of the larger BOEM and State of Hawai‘i processes to evaluate offshore renewable energy proposals around the MHI.