HRC RIMPAC Small Vessel-Based Monitoring Surveys July 2010

Kristen Ampela; Cathy Bacon; Cathy Bacon

doi:10.15468/huw8f4

HRC RIMPAC Small Vessel-Based Monitoring Surveys July 2010

Citation

Spontak, D. and T. Mcconchie. 2013. HRC RIMPAC Small Vessel-Based Monitoring Surveys July 2010. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/920) on yyyy-mm-dd. https://doi.org/10.15468/huw8f4 accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-05-17.

Description

Original provider: HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc. Dataset credits: The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program Abstract: During 23 June through 1 August 2010, the 22nd Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC 2010) exercise was conducted in the Hawaii Range Complex (HRC). RIMPAC is a biennial, multinational exercise designed to strengthen regional partnerships and improve interoperability. It is an exercise designed to bring multinational military assets together to train towards bettering the Navy’s capabilities. Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) was the exercise's main feature. As part of compliance requirements with the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) of 1972 and the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973, the Navy developed the HRC Monitoring Plan to provide marine mammal and sea turtle monitoring (DoN 2008). In order to effectively meet the goals outlined in this Plan, it was determined that one example of training events recommended for monitoring should contain one or more surface combatants conducting ASW during a regularly scheduled training event. Research elements of that Plan include visual surveys and passive acoustic monitoring.
The monitoring effort for RIMPAC 2010 consisted of the following:
- Vessel-based line transect surveys to assess the diversity, distribution, and behavior of target species (e.g., marine mammals and sea turtles)
- Installation of one shallow- and one deep-water passive acoustic monitors (PAMs) in waters off Ni'ihau. Purpose: not provided Supplemental information: [2017-10-12] Data fields are changed so that they follow the other Navy datasets. This dataset includes the data from the vessel-based line transect surveys. The sighting of short-finned pilot whales and spinner dolphins on 7/19/10 was an aggregation of the two species and recorded as a single record. This sighting was split into each species in this dataset.

Purpose

not provided

Sampling Description

Study Extent

NA

Sampling

NA

Method steps

NA

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

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

Globicephala macrorhynchus
common name: Short-finned Pilot Whale rank: species
Monachus schauinslandi
common name: Hawaiian Monk Seal rank: species
Steno bredanensis
common name: Rough-toothed Dolphin rank: species
Stenella longirostris
common name: Spinner Dolphin rank: species
Mammalia
common name: mammals rank: class

Geographic Coverages

Pacific

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Kristen Ampela
originator
position: Primary contact
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.
email: Kristen.Ampela@hdrinc.com

Cathy Bacon
originator
position: Secondary contact
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.
email: catherine.bacon@hdrinc.com

OBIS-SEAMAP
metadata author
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
Durham
27708
NC
US
email: seamap-contact@duke.edu
homepage: http://seamap.env.duke.edu

OBIS-SEAMAP
distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
Durham
27708
NC
US
email: seamap-contact@duke.edu
homepage: http://seamap.env.duke.edu

Kristen Ampela
owner
position: Primary contact
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.
email: Kristen.Ampela@hdrinc.com

Cathy Bacon
originator
position: Secondary contact
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.
email: catherine.bacon@hdrinc.com

Kristen Ampela
administrative point of contact
position: Primary contact
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.
email: Kristen.Ampela@hdrinc.com