Main Hawaiian Islands Monk Seal Recovery Activities 2003 – 2019

This dataset includes Argos satellite telemetry and/or GPS satellite locations for 37 Hawaiian monk seals throughout the main Hawaiian Islands (MHI; Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, Lanai, Kohoolawe, Hawaii). Seals were instrumented as part of recovery activities associated with monitoring seals (after veterinary procedures, rehabilitation, translocation), or management concerns (interactions with humans, fisheries). Seals were instrumented opportinistically throughout the year from 2003 – 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).