PROJECT REPORT NOAA Ship Hi‘ialakai, Project HA-17-01, Leg 1 Hi‘ialakai, Project HA-17-01, Leg 1

Personnel from the Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) and Scientific Operations Division of the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM), Scripps Oceanographic Institution (SIO), San Diego State University (SDSU) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) conducted interdisciplinary surveys of benthos, fishes, and oceanographic parameters related to climate change in coastal waters Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM). All activities described in this report were covered by the following permits and authorizations: Environmental Assessment (PIFSC-20100901); Endangered Species Act, Section 7 consultation (PIR-2015-9580). 2017 NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) PIFSC (Pacific Islands Science Center) Submitted https://doi.org/10.25923/wkxy-qh94 Public Domain 1862