Products & Services
of the
Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk (HEAR) Project
University of Hawaii Department of Botany/CPSU (webmaster@hear.org)
Room 409 St. John Building, 3190 Maile Way, Honolulu, HI 96822
Oahu: (808) 956-3927 Maui: (808) 572-9306 ext. (5) 5938
Index of HEAR Products & Services
Websites
Databases
- Monitoring database
- for monitoring of natural resource biological inventories
& feral animal damage
- uses standard Taxon Codes (see below)
- currently in use by:
- The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii (Maui, Molokai, Oahu offices)
- State of Hawaii Natural Area Reserves System (NARS) (Big Island)
- Maui Pineapple Co. (Pu'u Kukui Watershed Management Area)
- data maintained by respective organization
- Harmful Non-Indigenous Species (HNIS) database
- species profiles (including distribution, biological, and
control information)
- uses standard Taxon Codes (see below)
- selected data now available on the internet (and more to come!)
- data maintained by HEAR project (HALE)
- USFWS Federal Status/Species of Concern Tracking database
- tracks status of federally endangered/threatened/candidate
species & SOCs
- uses standard Taxon Codes (see below)
- currently in use by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (Honolulu
office)
- selected information to soon be available on the internet
- data maintained by USFWS/HNL
-
Cultivated plants database
- currently in use by Maui County Water Department
- for public education (recommended species to use--and NOT to use--for landscaping in Hawaii)
- will be used to create printed & internet-based publications
- native plant cultivation information
- uses standard Taxon Codes (see below)
- data maintained by Maui County Water Department
- Alien Plant Control & Herbicide Use Log
- tracks alien plant control activities & herbicide use
- uses standard Taxon Codes (see below)
- currently in use by Haleakala National Park (Resources Mgt.
[Vegetation Mgt.])
- data maintained by HALE/RM/VM
- Alien species "Island matrix" database
- allows analysis of island distribution for selected species
- will use standard Taxon Codes (see below)
- information reflected in website (http://www.hear.org/AlienSpeciesInHawaii)
- data maintained by the HEAR project
- Threats to native species database (prototype)
- presented to USFWS (Honolulu)
- based on various "nonstructured" sources (recovery
plans, EISs, etc.)
- data maintained by USFWS/HNL
- Alien & native forest bird tracking database
- created for Ellen VanGelder (USGS/BRD cooperator)
- used for data collection in Waikamoi Preserve (East Maui)
- data maintained by EVG
- Bird banding/observation tracking database
- prototype created for Beth Flint (USFWS)
- to be used in Northwest Hawaiian Island refuges
- [no data--yet!]
Internet e-mail lists
Other products/services
-
Climate zone/vegetation zone map information for Hawaii (in progress)
- may be used to project potential distributions for alien species
- based on published worldwide "Holdridge life zone" system
- documentation and explanatory materials available
- ArcView shapefile format
- available on request
- to eventually be available on the internet
- Template ArcView maps for all main Hawaiian Islands
- available on request
- to eventually be available on the internet
- Facilitation of statewide data exchange
- Active participation in USGS/BRD-hosted Hawaii Database Working Group [
link!]
- Promotion of standard taxonomy (Bishop Museum as authority)
- Standard Taxon Codes
- based on Bishop Museum's standard taxonomy
- flexible scheme, allowing local useage
- information
and data available
on the internet
- Standard Taxon Codes/Hawaii Natural Heritage Program EOCODES
cross-reference
- useful for private, state, and federal agencies
- in progress
- to eventually be available on the internet
- USFWS Federal (Endangered/Threatened) status codes
- USFWS-HNL as authority
- based on standard Taxon Codes
- soon to be available on the internet (scheduled to be online
by 14 January 1997)
- Cooperation with/service providers for other alien species
researchers and conservation organizations
- Lloyd Loope (USGS/BRD)
- Chuck Chimera (USGS/BRD) (Miconia calvescens database & mapping [GPS & ArcView])
- Paul Krushelnycky, Stephanie Joe (USGS/BRD) (Argentine ant database & mapping [GPS & ArcView])
- Nancy Glover (Hawaii Conservation Alliance (then the Secretariat for Conservation Biology)) (Pest ants in Hawaii website)
- Sarah Reichard (U.C. Berkeley) (invasive characteristics of woody species in Hawaii data conversions)
- Ellen VanGelder (USGS/BRD) (alien birds in forest habitats database)
- John Simon (USGS/BRD) (assistance with GPS/mapping in Hanawi Forest Preserve)
- Paul Baker (USGS/BRD) (assistance with GPS/mapping for publications)
- Mahealani Kaiaokamalie (Living Indigenous Forest Ecosystems [LIFE]) (technical assistance)
- Steve Anderson, Patti Welton (Haleakala National Park, Vegetation Management) (database and software design)
- Ted Rodrigues (Haleakala National Park, Feral Animal Control) (database and software design)
- Steve Anderson (graduate student) (technical assistance for axis deer research on Maui)
- Alan Holt (The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, CGAPS) (information and media)
- Coleen Cory (The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii) (monitoring database, other consulting)
- Julie Leialoha, Bryon Stevens (Hawaii DLNR/DOFAW/Natural Area Reserves System) (monitoring database, other consulting)
- Randy Bartlett (Maui Pineapple Co., Pu'u Kukui Watershed Management Area) (monitoring database, other consulting)
- Marie Bruegmann (USFS-Honolulu) (endangered & threatened species monitoring database, other consulting)
- Gary Ray (Center for Plant Conservation) (database consulting)
- Gary Wagonner (USGS/BRD) (participating in the National Atlas Noxious Weed Information Project)
-
Art Medeiros (USGS/BRD) (Auwahi dry forest data [East Maui])
- Development of procedures for georeferencing species locations
from various sources
- prototype project w/ Bishop Museum herbarium specimens
- prototype project w/ endangered/threatened species listing
packages/recovery plans
- prototype project w/ U.H. Environmental Center RE: extraction of species locations from Environmental Impact Assessments
Future products
- Coordination of writeups on selected Harmful Non-Indigenous
Species (identification & control)
- "handbook-style" information
- targeted towards resource managers
- publicly-available (on the internet)
- illustrated (hopefully!)
- Facilitate establishment of procedures and standards for
submission of new information
- current draft info is available in the "Methods, Standards,
and Conventions" section of http://www2.hawaii.edu/~halesci/AlienSpeciesInHawaii)
- Weed control method database/handbook
- Websites will be updated to facilitate 2-way information
flow
- Most current subprojects' products will be available on the internet
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This web page was created on or before 13 May 1988, and was last updated on
20 February 2003
by PT