Main Hawaiian Islands Monk Seal Foraging Ecology, 2003 – 2019

This dataset includes Argos satellite telemetry and/or GPS satellite locations for 94 Hawaiian monk seals throughout the main Hawaiian Islands (MHI; Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, Lanai, Kohoolawe, Hawaii). Seals were instrumented to track space use to understand basic parameters such as home range and distance of foraging trips. 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).