Hawaii Coastal Zone Data Bank 1977 microfiche collection (NCEI Accession 0000033)

The HCZDB grew out of the Seagrant study of Kaneohe Bay starting in 1968 (Atlast of Kaneohe Bay, UNIHI-Seagrant TR-72-01) & the subsequent Army Corps of Engineers study (Waikiki Beach Erosion

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Marine Environmental Study, HIG-73-12). There was an obvious need to store verified field data from these studies and from other surveys in the coastal zone so that they would be available for future comparison & analysis. Since this type of data is not suitable for publication in scientific journals, & since ease of retrieval was equally as important as storage, a system using the University of Hawaii's computer (IBM 370, Model 158) was established in 1972 as the HCZDB.

A special account was set up with the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii (RCUH) & users of the HCZDB are charged by RCUH for computer services plus a small overhead charge (5%). In addition to various individuals on the University campus, current HCZDB users include: The Navy (Marine Environmental Management Office) and the Hawaiian Electric Company. The Navy's use of the HCZDB has expanded the system to include survey data from areas other than Hawaii, including Canton Island, Fanning Island, Enewetak, Puget Sound, & the Southern California Bight.

The HCZDB presently maintains about 1100 datasets on some 350,000 records, a system of storage, retrieval and analysis computer programs and texonomic list containing 9000 species entries. West Coast species listings are being continuously increased; at present they account for about 2000 of these entries. This dataset is a physical collection of microfiche filmed circa 1977 for the Hawaii Coastal Zone Data Bank.

The microfiche has been scanned to PDF as part of the Climate Database Modernization Program (CDMP).