Laysan Island inundation area during 2011 tsunami

Publication Date

2018-06-18

Time Period

2011-03-11

Berkowitz, P., Courtot, K.N., and Reynolds, M.H., 2018, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands: Impacts to Avifauna from the Tohoku Tsunami 2011: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F708647F.

Type: Related Primary Publication

These data were collected as part of a large research project that examined the impacts of climate change, sea-level rise, storm waves, and tsunamis on avifauna and their habitat in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Collected data included a wide range of physical data (coastlines, digital elevation models, bathymetry, predicted wave run-up from storm waves, tsunami high water marks), habitat data (land cover classifications, vegetation maps and monitoring plots), and biological survey data (bird abundance and density, nest census, and habitat surveys). The purpose of this dataset was to determine the extent to which avifauna nesting sites and nesting habitat were inundated during the tsunami event. We assumed that all habitat between the high water mark and the shoreline were inundated during the tsunami event.

• Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center

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