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The ERMA prototype was developed for the Portsmouth, NH region. Portsmouth was chosen for the prototype because of its proximity to the University, the area’s diverse shoreline development (e.g., industry, residential, protected habitats, tourist/ recreational use), and the active partnership among New Hampshire and Maine response agencies, industry, and non-governmental organizations. Through these partnerships, governmental and private entities leveraged existing spatial information including environmental datasets, habitat classifications and species distributions, navigational charts, meteorological observations, and trajectory and forecast models. The ERMA development team packaged these data into a well designed Web-based GIS data management and analysis tool that was used successfully during the June 2008 PREP exercise in Portsmouth. The Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC), a partnership between the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration (ORR), facilitated and funded the development of ERMA. The prototype was developed by NOAA ORR, the UNH Earth Systems Data Collaborative, UNH-NOAA Joint Hydrographic Center, UNH Research Computing Center. The UNH-NOAA Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology provided funding for Portsmouth ERMA. The Portsmouth ERMA site was constructed by: Bobby Braswell, Stanley Glidden, Michele Jacobi, Steven Knight, Kurt Schwehr, and Bob St. Lawrence. OpenLayers, MapServer, Postgres/PostGIS, and FeatureServer Amy A. Merten, Ph.D., NOAA Co-Director of the
Coastal Response Research Center, is managing the ERMA® project
for NOAA ORR as it expands to national venues. Due to support from
the National Response Team and U.S. EPA Region 2 ERMA a Caribbean
ERMA was developed in the fall of 2009. Other sites currently in
development include a broader New England site based off the Portsmouth
pilot, a Puget Sound site focusing on climate change and Pacific
Island and Arctic area sites.
For more information on ERMA®'s capabilities, please contact Amy Merten: amy.merten@noaa.gov See also:
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