Projects : Hawaiʻi & Pacific Islands King Tides Project
Overview
The University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program’s Hawaiʻi and Pacific Islands King Tides Project documents the impact of King Tides on coastal resources and infrastructure across Hawaiʻi and other Pacific islands, such as Guam, American Samoa, and Majuro. King Tides are the highest astronomical tides of the year. Though a naturally occurring and predictable occurrence, these extreme high water level events provide us with a glimpse of what our coasts may look like in the future due to sea level rise and other coastal hazards. Members of the general public, or “community scientists”, can add to this free, publicly-accessible and crowd-sourced dataset by photographing King Tides at places important to them, providing a critical resource for researchers, policy makers, and community members to understand and adapt to rising seas.
Example photos submitted by the public during King Tides events.
For more information, please visit http://pacificislandskingtides.org .
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Submit Photos
Please follow the link below to submit your King Tides photographs and observations. Visit the Hawaiʻi Sea Grant website for dates and helpful tips to find out when the next King Tides will occur in your area. Mahalo for your participation!
Map Viewer
Please follow the link below to view all submitted King Tides photos in an interactive map viewer, which date back to 2015. Zoom into your area of interest and explore how fellow community scientists have contributed to this effort.
Data
Data for this project— including photo URLs, map locations, dates, and other attributes—are archived in the following geographic information system (GIS) layer via GeoServer. Click below for links to access these data in Shapefile and other formats:
id: pac_uhsg_usa_kingtides_photos
Data access: Shapefile • WMS • WFS • CSV • GeoJSON • metadata
Image Files
Photographs and pre-generated thumbnail images can also be downloaded directly from the following web-accessible folders linked below. Note that all photos are JPEG image files and contain Exif metadata fields that record information like date taken, latitude, longitude, creator, and other useful information.
Full-resolution: http://pacioos.org/king-tides/photos/
Photo: Maya Walton; May 26, 2017; Waikīkī, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi.
Thumbnails: http://pacioos.org/king-tides/thumbs/
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Thumbnails provided at maximum dimension sizes of 640px, 320px, and 160px.
Credits
When using these photographs, please cite the project with the following attribution:
Suggested citation: © Hawaii Sea Grant King Tides Project, <year of photo>. Some rights reserved. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
Acknowledgements
The Hawaiʻi and Pacific Islands King Tides Project is managed by the University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program (Hawaiʻi Sea Grant), a partnership between the University of Hawaiʻi School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA):
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This mapping platform and accompanying photo submission utility were developed by the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS), a member of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS):
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