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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)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: January 29, 2026 | Last Modified: 2016-08-29T00:00:00.000+00:00
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 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.

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0155189 ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES BENTHIC COMMUNITIES BENTHIC SPECIES biological data BIRDS cetacean FISH - CORAL REEF FISH SPECIES HABITAT - BENTHIC MARINE MAMMALS REPTILES AVHRR camera MODIS swimmer/diver visual observation in situ model output satellite data NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Coastal Waters of Hawaii North Pacific Ocean oceanography DOC/NOAA/NOS/NCCOS > National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MARINE MAMMALS EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > REPTILES EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC Coral Reefs Predictive/Spatial Modeling Remote Sensing Marine Spatial Ecology > Ecological and Biogeographic Assessments Marine Spatial Ecology > Habitat Mapping Derived Data Product Field Observation Geospatial Model 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 CAMERA > CAMERA MODIS > Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer VISUAL OBSERVATIONS > 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 > CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN > HAWAIIAN ISLANDS OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN Geographic Areas > Coastal Ocean Geographic Areas > Coral Reefs Geographic Areas > Deep Sea Marine Protected Areas > National Marine Monuments Marine Protected Areas > National Marine Sanctuaries Marine Protected Areas > National Parks U.S. States and Territories > Hawaii Kaua'i Maui Nui O'ahu HJ6HF2

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