eMOLT Haul Bottom Temperature

The Environmental Monitors on Lobster Traps and Large Trawlers (eMOLT) project is a collaboration of fishing industry, NOAA, and academics devoted to monitoring of the physical environment of the Gulf of Maine and the Southern New England shelf. In a series of NOAA-related funding beginning in 2001 including a) Northeast Consortium, b) NEFSC's Northeast Cooperative Research Program, and, most recently, c) IOOS-Ocean Technology Transition Program, we developed low-cost strategies to measure bottom temperature, salinity, and current velocity with the help of over 100 fixed and mobile gear fishermen dispersed along the entire New England coast. The current system utilizes a wireless water temperature & depth sensor on the gear, a micro-computer with a screen in the wheelhouse, and deck-mounted satellite transmitter in order to get bottom temperatures in real-time as fishermen haul their gear. The objective in the long run is to routinely assimilate this data into numerical ocean models in both hindcast and forecast modes.

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2024-09-12

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Distributor NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center and the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation
Point of Contact Jim Manning
NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center and the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation
james.manning@noaa.gov
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Originator Jim Manning
NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center and the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation
james.manning@noaa.gov
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Dataset Point of Contact Ru Morrison
NERACOOS
603-319-1785
info@neracoos.org
General Documentation
Associated Documentation NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center and the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation
Date(s) creation: 2024-09-12
creation: 2024-09-12
creation: 2024-09-12
creation: 2024-09-12
Use Limitations The data may be used and redistributed for free but is not intended for legal use, since it may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data Contributor, ERD, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness, of this information.
Time Period 2015-06-13T13:03:00Z to 2020-12-22T18:23:00Z
Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates N: 44.65695° S: -31.52031° E: 44.67564° W: -76.3783°
Theme keywords Uncategorized
  • data
  • flag
  • hours
  • mean
  • salinity
  • salinity-temperature-depth
  • std
  • temperature
  • vessel

CF Standard Name Table v29
  • time
  • latitude
  • longitude
  • depth
  • depth
Project keywords Uncategorized
  • NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center and the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation
Use Constraints The data may be used and redistributed for free but is not intended for legal use, since it may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data Contributor, ERD, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness, of this information.
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infoUrl http://www.emolt.org/
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standard_name_vocabulary CF Standard Name Table v29