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Ocean Futures Under Ocean Acidification, Marine Protection, and Changing Fishing Pressures Explored Using a Worldwide Suite of Ecosystem Models

Scientists from Norway, the United States, France, and Australia evaluated the effects of ocean acidification, marine protected areas, and fishing pressure on eight different marine ecosystems.
March 01, 2018 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
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Evaluating Management Strategies to Optimize Coral Reef Ecosystem Services

Scientists from NOAA’s Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Hawai‘i Division of Aquatic Resources, and The Nature Conservancy evaluated how different management strategies would benefit the coastal marine ecosystem and coral reef health at Puakō in Hawai‘i.
February 21, 2018 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
Pacific Islands

Implementation and Evaluation of a Network-Informed Vaccination Effort for Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seals

We evaluate the efficacy of model recommendations in this real-world vaccination project to aid the endangered Hawaiian monk seal.
January 10, 2018 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
Pacific Islands

Comparative Application of Trophic Ecosystem Models To Evaluate Drivers of Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal Populations

Trophic models compare ecosystem structure and energy flow that supports two subpopulations (on Laysan Island and French Frigate Shoals atoll), each with varied rates of decline (1998–2015).
November 06, 2017 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
Pacific Islands

Gunshot Call Production by the North Pacific Right Whale Eubalaena Japonica in the Southeastern Bering Sea

During dedicated surveys for the Critically Endangered eastern stock of North Pacific right whales (Eubalaena japonica) in the Bering Sea, focal follows (FFs) were combined with passive acoustic monitoring to correlate vocal activity with dive behavior.
September 26, 2017 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
Alaska

Estimating Population Size for Hawaiian Monk Seals Using Haulout Data

A new method for obtaining abundance estimates of Hawaiian monk seals that relies upon the proportion of the non-pup population observed in standardized counts at other sites with known abundance.
July 21, 2017 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
Pacific Islands

Movements and Home Ranges of Monk Seals in the Main Hawaiian Islands

From 2007 to 2014 we deployed GPS phone tags on three of the main Hawaiian Islands to study movements and dive behavior of Hawaiian monk seals.
June 27, 2017 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
Pacific Islands

Integrating Multiple Technologies To Understand the Foraging Behaviour of Hawaiian Monk Seals

Investigation and description of the foraging behavior of monk seals in the main Hawaiian Islands, including a metric to classify foraging behavior from telemetry instruments.
March 08, 2017 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
Pacific Islands

An Integrated Approach for Assessing Translocation as an Effective Conservation Tool for Hawaiian Monk Seals

To assess the efficacy of translocating seals to areas of greater prey availability, 12 weanling monk seals were translocated with pre-release health screening and post-release monitoring.
February 07, 2017 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
Pacific Islands

Estimating Hawaiian Monk Seal Range-Wide Abundance and Associated Uncertainty

Combining disparate data and methods to estimate the range-wide abundance of this species, along with associated uncertainty.
December 06, 2016 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
Pacific Islands