HRC SCC Aerial-based Ship-follow Surveys February 2011
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.

The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program

Aerial surveys to monitor marine mammals and sea turtles (MM/ST) were conducted in
conjunction with two training events during the period February 16 to March 5, 2011, including

(a) U.S. Navy Submarine Commander’s Course (SCC) naval training event in the Hawaii Range
Complex (HRC) on the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) instrumented range between Kauai
and Niihau, Hawaii; and

(b) Undersea Warfare Exercise (USWEX) training event south of Oahu
and Molokai.
Surveys in support of the SCC event occurred on 4 consecutive days from
February 16 to 19, 2011, in waters adjoining Kauai and Niihau where the missile destroyer (DDG)
and other ships were operating, followed by shoreline surveys of Kauai and Niihau on 2 separate
days thereafter: February 24 and 26, 2011.
This was followed by shoreline surveys of the Four
Islands region in support of the USWEX event on 2 separate days, February 28 and March 5, 2011.
The survey methods and sampling design were submitted and approved in advance, per the
statement of work (SOW), to the Navy Technical Representative (NTR) and followed previously
established protocol (Mobley and Milette 2010; Smultea et al. 2009a,b).

N/A

This dataset includes humpback whale sightings during the ship-follow surveys.

Sightings during the transect surveys is available:
HRC SCC Aerial-based Transect Surveys February 2011


Datasets for the shoreline surveys are available:
HRC SCC Aerial-based Shoreline Surveys February 2011

HRC USWEX Aerial-based Shoreline Surveys February and March 2011

Overview

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
Only minimum required attributes are visible and downlodable online. Other attributes may be obtained upon provider's permission unless otherwise noted below.

This section explains attributes included in the original dataset. OBIS-SEAMAP restricts the attributes available to the public to date/time, lat/lon and species names/counts only. Should you need other attributes described here, you are encouraged to contact the data provider.

Attributes in dataset provided

Attribute (table column)	Description
oid	definition not provided
sighting_id	Sighting ID
obs_date	Date of the sighting (local time zone)
obs_time	Time of the sighting (local time zone)
sp_obs	Species name recorded
sp_tsn	Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
latitude	Latitude in decimal degrees
longitude	Longitude in decimal degrees
obs_count	best estimate of number of animals
grp_high	High estimate of number of animals (not recorded in this dataset)
grp_low	Low estimate of number of animals (not recorded in this dataset)
calves	Number of calves
beaufort	Beaufort Sea State (not recorded in this dataset)
vert_angle	Vertical angle (not recorded in this dataset)
bearing	Bearing (°)
behavior	Behavioral summary
geom	definition not provided