PIFSC, Cetacean Survey, HITEC 2016, Cruise 1604, NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center

Occurrence Observation
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Description

Original provider: NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) Dataset credits: NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center Abstract: The Hawaiian Islands Technology for the Ecology of Cetaceans (HI-TEC) survey was a shipboard line-transect survey within 50 nmi of the main Hawaiian Islands (28 June - 27 July 2016). The survey was broken into two legs. Leg 1 (28 June - 4 July) was dedicated to unmanned aerial system (UAS) flight test operations. Leg 2 (4-27 July) included surveys in both leeward and windward water of the islands including offshore seamounts. The ship had to divert from the study area (23-24 July) to avoid Tropical Storm Darby. There were 99 cetacean sightings during which there were 13 species identified and other unidentified dolphins, large whales, and beaked whales.

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Hill, M. 2023. PIFSC, Cetacean Survey, HITEC 2016, Cruise 1604, NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. Version 1.1.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/f230d2d4.

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

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Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; Marine Biology; Visual sighting; Marine Animal Survey; Marine mammals; Visual Sighting; Vessel; Occurrence

External data

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OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2232 UTF-8 Interactive map
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EML Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2232/eml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Marie C. Hill
  • Owner
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Primary contact
NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
  • A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US

Geographic Coverage

Oceans,Hawaii

Bounding Coordinates South West [18.059, -160.09], North East [22.929, -154.871]

Taxonomic Coverage

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Order Cetacea (Cetaceans)
Family Delphinidae (Dolphins), Hyperoodontidae (Beaked whales)
Genus Kogia (Pygmy sperm whales), Mesoplodon (Beaked whales)
Species Feresa attenuata (Pygmy killer whale), Globicephala macrorhynchus (Short-finned pilot whale), Grampus griseus (Risso's dolphin), Kogia sima (Dwarf sperm whale), Orcinus orca (Killer whale), Peponocephala electra (Melon-headed whale), Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm whale), Pseudorca crassidens (False killer whale), Stenella attenuata (Pantropical spotted dolphin), Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped dolphin), Steno bredanensis (Rough-toothed dolphin), Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphin), Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier's beaked whale)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2016-06-30 / 2016-07-26

Project Data

No Description available

Title PIFSC, Cetacean Survey, HITEC 2016, Cruise 1604, NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Marie C. Hill
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_2232
Collection Identifier zd_2232
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS. Data were collected under NMFS permit 15240. The data included here are the sightings and on-effort tracks recorded within WinCruz survey software and extracted from the QA/QC'd DAS file using the R package swfscDAS (https://smwoodman.github.io/swfscDAS). Attributes for fields within the trackline files: Cruise - see description in attribute table below segnum - segment number for continuous on-effort line Date - Local date m/dd/yyyy TimeStart - Local time at start of on-effort segment LatStart - Latitude in decimal degrees at starting point of on-effort segment LongStart - Longitude in decimal degrees at starting point of on-effort segment TimeEnd - Local time at end of on-effort segment LatEnd - Latitude in decimal degrees at end point of on-effort segment LongEnd - Longitude in decimal degrees at end point of on-effort segment Mode - see description in attribute table below EffType - see description in attribute table below avgSpdKt - average speed (knots) of the ship over the on-effort segment traveled avgBft - average Beaufort Sea State over the on-effort segment Other data not included here: Photos and biopsy samples were collected and satellite tags were deployed during some sightings. Acoustic detections were recorded from a towed hydrophone array. Sonobuoys were deployed opportunistically. High-frequency Acoustic Recording Packages (HARP) were recovered and redeployed off the Kona Coast of Hawaii Island, deployed off Kauai and at Cross Seamount. Oceanographic data were collected (CTD, XBT). UAS operations occurred during some sightings.