Much of the focus of the OIRC has been on assessing, maintaining or restoring the terrestrial system and bird fauna of these offshore islets. Most offshore islet reef areas in the main Hawaiian Islands have not yet been assessed for the composition or abundance of the organisms that comprise their marine communities. Therefore, the present project was conceived and conducted to provide this information for selected offshore islets in the main Hawaiian chain where such information has been lacking, and to evaluate the status of these areas in terms of their assumed lack of anthropogenic disturbance and isolation from introduced invasive species.
Resource Description: NODC Accession Number 0042684
INSTRUMENT TYPES: SCUBA underwater paper collection bags Garmin 76 WAAF Global Positioning System (GPS) Olympus 5060 digital camera
REFERENCES: Coles, S.L., L.Giuseffi, and M.Hutchinson, 2008. ASSESSMENT OF SPECIES COMPOSITION, DIVERSITY AND BIOMASS IN MARINE HABITATS AND SUBHABITATS AROUND OFFSHORE ISLETS IN THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI., Hawaii Biological Survey Contribution No. 2008-001, Bishop Museum Technical Report No 39.
The original data are primarily provided as MS Excel spreadsheets. Redundant ASCII CSV-format copies were made, with each unique sheet getting a unique file. The name of the file for each sheet in a spreadsheet is
In other words, the name of each sheet is concatenated onto the name of the spreadsheet for each of the CSV files.
Image files are all given in JPEG format.
Each data file is self descriptive.