eMOLT - Environmental Monitors on Lobster Traps
Credits
eMOLT Program
eMOLT is a collaborative effort between scientists and lobstermen to collect environmental data about the Gulf of Maine.
MapServer
MapServer is the Internet mapping tool used for this site. It is an Open Source development environment for building spatially enabled Internet applications that was originally designed by the University of Minnesota.
Maine Geological Survey
http://www.state.me.us/doc/nrimc/pubedinf/pubs/ics.htm
The marine branch of the Maine geological survey provided the coastal surficial geology layer. Please visit the Maine geological survey website for more information about this data.
United States Geological Survey
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/oracle/gomaine/bathy/
The bathymetric and shaded relief layers used in this mapping tool were created by Ed Roworth and Rich Signell of the United States Geographical Survey.
DODS/OPeNDAP
http://unidata.ucar.edu/packages/dods/
The eMOLT data is served by DODS or OPeNDAP, which is a software framework that simplifies all aspects of scientific data networking, allowing simple access to remote data.