• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1981-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

This data set contains records of all individually identified Hawaiian monk seals since 1981. These seals were identified by PSD personnel and cooperating scientists as part of the ongoing monk...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

Database of seal counts from aerial photography. Counts by image, site, species, and date are stored in the database along with information on entanglements and other human interactions.

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2018-02-28T00:00:00.000+00:00

Currently ~2,400 Hawaiian monk seal specimens have been analyzed genetically, providing genotypes at 18 microsatellite loci. These data are organized by individual, identified by the Seal ID...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2018-02-26T00:00:00.000+00:00

This data set contains information on Hawaiian monk seal gross necropsy (in some cases only field notes or minimal information) and histopathology results beginning in 1964. Data includes...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-07-16T14:19:39.000+00:00

This data layer represents the 12 uniquely identified stocks of harbor seals found in Alaskan waters. Stocks were identified by NMFS and their co-management partners, the Alaska Native Harbor Seal...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1982-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

This data set contains records of Hawaiian monk seal and green turtle sightings in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) since 1982 at Lisianski Island, and since 1983 for most other...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1981-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

This data set contains records for all tags applied to Hawaiian monk seals since 1981. These tags were applied by PSD personnel and cooperating scientists as part of the ongoing monk seal...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2026-01-04T00:00:00.000+00:00

Timeseries data from 'JWS Seal Rocks' (jws-seal-rocks)

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1982-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

This data set contains records of survival factors recorded by PSD personnel and cooperating scientists as part of the ongoing monk seal population assessment efforts, and some miscellaneous...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-07-16T14:20:00.000+00:00

Aerial surveys of coastal Alaska are the primary method for estimating abundance of harbor seals. A particular challenge associated with aerial surveys of harbor seals is maintaining consistent...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:16:03.000+00:00

Floating glacial ice serves as a haul-out substrate for a significant number (10-15%) of Alaskan harbor seals, and thus surveying tidewater glacial fjords is an important component of statewide...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2015-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Aerial surveys of coastal Alaska are the primary method for estimating abundance of harbor seals. A particular challenge associated with aerial surveys of harbor seals is maintaining consistent...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-04-17T22:34:36.000+00:00

Aerial surveys were flown during the spring of 2012 and 2013 as part of the Bering Okhotsk Seal Surveys (BOSS) project to gather data on distribution and abundance of ice-associated seals in the...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2023-02-09T00:00:00.000+00:00

This dataset includes bathythermograph (XBT) data from BALTIC SEAL, BLACK SEAL, NOAA Ship Oregon II, NORTH SEAL, ROSS SEAL, and USS JOUETT in the Bering Sea, East China Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Japan...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2014-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

A Cape-wide census of Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) pups (live and dead) occurs every year once pupping is over. The census occurs in the last days of December, on a day when...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1981-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

This data set contains records of all individually identified Hawaiian monk seals since 1981. These seals were identified by PSD personnel and cooperating scientists as part of the ongoing monk...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2018-02-26T00:00:00.000+00:00

This data set documents locations and location codes used in monk seal data collection as part of the ongoing monk seal population assessment efforts. Information includes atolls, islets within...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1981-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

This data set contains records for all handling and measurement of Hawaiian monk seals since 1981. Live seals are handled and measured during a variety of events including tagging, instrumenting,...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2018-02-23T00:00:00.000+00:00

As social media platforms develop, they potentially provide valuable information for wildlife researchers and managers. NOAA’s Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program (HMSRP) is exploring how social...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2018-02-23T00:00:00.000+00:00

Data on direct sightings of large sharks around monk seal pupping sites and shark incidents on preweaned and newly weaned pups at French Frigate Shoals are entered on a standardized form in the...

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