In November 2006, the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services applied for an EPA Exchange Network grant on behalf of the Gulf of Maine Ocean Data Partnership (GoMODP). All partners were offered the opportunity to participate in the grant application process. A total of 9 partners officially joined in. In October 2007, the grant application was approved and work is expected to begin in earnest in the summer of 2008. All partners are encouraged to participate in the project as their time and resources permit.
 
The purpose of this project is to enable exchange of monitoring data between the partners in the GoMODP according to the Environmental Data Standards Council (EDSC) standards and in alignment with the Water Quality Exchange (WQX) schema using Exchange Network protocols. After a schema is developed and agreed upon by the partners, data from the partners would be sent via a node or node client to a host node to be developed by GoMOOS, the host of the GoMODP. GoMOOS would also develop the back end database to accept data from these various sources and incorporate their own data to be used in a custom built web application. This application will be useful in displaying where monitoring has occurred and for what parameters; thereby enabling determination of where monitoring gaps exist and sampling collaboration is possible.

Rough Timeline:

Status:

• Kickoff webinar to discuss web application development (held 8/28/08 - view webinar | download PPT | download  podcast)
  
• Data schema webinar (held 10/9/08 - view webinar | download PPT | download podcast)
• Data schema development meeting (Was held 10/28 and 10/29 in Portland, ME) - *meeting notes to be posted shortly
• Follow-up data schema development webinars:
• First held 11/1708 - view webinar | download podcast
• Second held 12/16/08 - view webinar | download podcast
  
• Third and final - (to be held in early January) - let us know your availability
  

For more information on the project:

• Project Management Website (Basecamp) - email Riley Young Morse (riley@gomoos.org) for access
• GoMODP Exchange Network Project Plan
• Sign up for email list

• Exchange Network Home Page
• Data Standards
• Water Quality Exchange