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    • eMOLT Haul Bottom Temperature

    Metadata Updated: January 27, 2026

    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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    Dates

    Metadata Date January 4, 2026
    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date January 27, 2026
    Reference Date(s) January 4, 2026 (creation)
    Frequency Of Update

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from ioos

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date January 4, 2026
    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date January 27, 2026
    Reference Date(s) January 4, 2026 (creation)
    Responsible Party NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center and the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation (Point of Contact)
    Contact Email
    Guid nefsc_emolt_trawl_temp
    Access Constraints
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    Harvest Source Id 54e15a6e-6dde-4c9c-a8f0-345cc0dfccfb
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    Licence
    Lineage
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    Metadata Type geospatial
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    Progress
    Spatial Data Service Type ERDDAP tabledap
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    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 2015-06-13T13:03:00Z
    Temporal Extent End 2020-12-22T18:23:00Z

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