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)

This dataset 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 BOEMâs needs, and to fit within BOEMâ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 Hawaiâi processes to evaluate offshore renewable energy proposals around the MHI.

Tags: acanthopathes, aerial survyes, anous minutus, anous stolidus, anthoptilum, antipatharia, antipathella, antipathes, aphanipathes, balaenoptera borealis, balaenoptera edeni, balaenoptera physalus, bamboo coral, band rumped storm petrel, basking locations, bathypathes, benthic habitat type, black footed albatross, black noddy, black winged petrel, blainvilleâs beaked whale, blue gray noddy, botcam, bottom temperature (annual mean), brown booby, brown noddy, brydeâs whale, bubblegum coral, bulweria bulwerii, bulwerâs petrel, calcaxonia, calibelemnon, caretta caretta, catch-per-unit-effort (cpue), chelonia mydas, christmas shearwater, chrysopathes, cirrhipathes, coastal ocean, common bottlenose dolphin, cookâs petrel, coral reefs, coral richness (mean and by year), corallium spp., curvature platform (mean), curvature profile (mean), curvature total (mean), cuvierâs beaked whale, deep sea, dendropathes, derived data product, dermochelys coriacea, dwarf sperm whale, ecological and biogeographic assessments, elevation, enallopsammia rostrata, environmental predictors, eretmochelys imbricata, euphotic depth, false killer whale, feresa attenuata, field observation, fin whale, fish aggregating devices (fads), framework forming scleractinia, fraserâs dolphin, fregata minor, geographic areas, geospatial, globicephala macrorhynchus, gold corals, gorgonian alcyonacea, grampus griseus, great frigatebird, green turtles, gygis alba, habitat mapping, hawaii, hawaiian monk seal, hawaiian petrel, hawksbill, hj6hf2, holaxonia, humpback whale, indopacetus pacificus, isididae, juan fernandez petrel, kaua'i, killer whale, kogia breviceps, kogia sima, kulamanamana haumeaae, lagenodelphis hosei, laysan albatross, leatherback, leiopathes, lepidochelys olivacea, leptoseris spp., loggerhead, longmanâs beaked whale, madracis kauaiensis, madrepora oculata, marine protected areas, marine spatial ecology, masked booby, maui nui, megaptera novaeangliae, melon headed whale, mesophotic, mesoplodon densirostris, model, montipora spp., mottled petrel, myriopathes, national marine monuments, national marine sanctuaries, national parks, neomonachus schauinslandi, newellâs shearwater, non framework forming scleractinia, non gorgonian alcyonacea includes suborders alcyoniina, number of species present/absence, o'ahu, oceanodroma castro, oceanography, olive ridley, onychoprion fuscatus, orcinus orca, pantropical spotted dolphin, paragorgiidae, parantipathes, pennatulacea, peponocephala electra, percent biological cover, phaethon lepturus, phaethon rubricauda, phoebastria immutabilis, phoebastria nigripes, physeter macrocephalus, porites spp., predictive/spatial modeling, 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, raster navigational charts, 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, red and pink coral, red footed booby, red tailed tropicbird, reef fish communities, relative abundance, remote sensing, remotely operated camera, rissoâs dolphin, rough toothed dolphin, rugosity (mean), scleractinia "bramble", scleraxonia, seafloor depth, sei whale, ship tracklines multibeam sonars (1956 to 2009), ship tracklines multibeam sonars (1984 to 2014), short finned pilot whale, slope rate of change (mean), soft substrate, sooty shearwater, sooty tern, sperm whale, spinner dolphin, sst anomaly frequency (summer/winter mean), sst front frequency (summer/winter mean), sst front persistence (summer/winter mean), sst front strength (summer/winter mean), stauropathes, stenella attenuata, stenella coeruleoalba, stenella longirostris, steno bredanensis, stichopathes, stolonifera, stranding locations, striped dolphin, sula dactylatra, sula leucogaster, sula sula, telemetry tracking, thermal stress anomaly frequency (summer/winter mean), total species richness, trissopathes, tursiops truncatus, turtle species, u.s. states and territories, umbellapathes, upwelling, visual land-based surveys, visual ship-based surveys, waves, wedge tailed shearwater, white tailed tropicbird, white tern, wind data (summer/winter mean), ziphius cavirostris
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce