Characterizing a Foraging Hotspot for Short-Finned Pilot Whales and Blainville’s Beaked Whales Located off the West Side of Hawai‘i Island by Using Tagging and Oceanographic Data

• Melanie Abecassis ,

  * E-mail: melanie.abecassis@noaa.gov

  Affiliation Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI, United States of America

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• Jeffrey Polovina,

  Affiliation Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, Honolulu, HI, United States of America

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• Robin W. Baird,

  Affiliation Cascadia Research Collective, Olympia, WA, United States of America

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• Adrienne Copeland,

  Affiliation Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai’i, Kāne’ohe, HI, United States of America

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• Jeffrey C. Drazen,

  Affiliation Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI, United States of America

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• Reka Domokos,

  Affiliation Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, Honolulu, HI, United States of America

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• Erin Oleson,

  Affiliation Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, Honolulu, HI, United States of America

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• Yanli Jia,

  Affiliation International Pacific Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI, United States of America

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• Gregory S. Schorr,

  Affiliation Cascadia Research Collective, Olympia, WA, United States of America

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• Daniel L. Webster,

  Affiliation Cascadia Research Collective, Olympia, WA, United States of America

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• Russel D. Andrews

  Affiliations Alaska SeaLife Center, Seward, AK, United States of America, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States of America

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