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.
Data and resources
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ERDDAP's version of the OPeNDAP .html web page for this dataset. Specify a subset of the dataset and download the data via OPeNDAP or in many different file…ERDDAP Open
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ERDDAP's Make-A-Graph .html web page for this dataset. Create an image with a map or graph of a subset of the data.ERDDAP Open
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Background information from the sourceHTML Open
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Background information from the sourceHTML Open
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Background information from the sourceHTML Open
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ERDDAP's tabledap service (a flavor of OPeNDAP) for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .graph, .das, .dds) to the base URL for…ERDDAP Open
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Background information from the sourceHTML Open
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An OPeNDAP service for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes.ERDDAP Open
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Background information from the sourceHTML Open
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Web page to facilitate selecting subsets of the datasetERDDAP Open
Additional information
| Temporal extent | 2015-06-13 – 2020-12-22 |
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| Date (creation) | 2026-11-04 |
| Status | onGoing |
| Update frequency | asNeeded |
| Metadata language | en |
| License | 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. |
| Source metadata | ISO 19115 XML |
| Last updated | 2026-11-04 |
| Created | 2026-11-04 |
| API | package_show |