Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Monk Seal Foraging Ecology 2007 – 2019

This dataset includes Argos satellite telemetry and/or GPS satellite locations for 29 Hawaiian monk seals throughout the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI; Nihoa Island, Mokumanamana Island, French Frigate Shoals, Laysan Island, Lisianski Island, Pearl and Hermes Reef, Midway Atoll, Kure Atoll). Seals were instrumented to track space use to understand basic parameters such as home range and distance of foraging trips. Seals were instrumented in association with field camps or research cruises in the NWHI from 2007 – 2019. Here we provide a Master Deployment Log table with details about each deployment on each seal (across all datasets), as well as dataset-specific Deployment Logs and Location Tables with location data for each seal. These data have been post-processed to remove poor-quality locations (Location quality code Z from Argos satellites, locations based on <5 GPS satellites, or points indicating impossible movement speeds or angles removed using the argos filter routine in R).