Water Resources Research Act Program

Details for Project ID 2007ME107B

Key attributes for sustainable water use: a map-based bulletin board

Institute: Maine
Year Established: 2007 Start Date: 2007-03-01 End Date: 2008-12-31
Total Federal Funds: $15,530 Total Non-Federal Funds: $27,871

Principal Investigators: Peter Vaux, Roy Bouchard

Project Summary: This project develops a user-friendly, map-based, on-line Bulletin Board to broadly disseminate a diverse array of key information associated with sustainable water use in Maine. Integration of information from multiple resource types is essential for an effective ecosystem-based approach to sustainable water use. The Bulletin Board includes the following core components: (i) Interactive mapping, (ii) a user-developed wiki catalogue of experience-based knowledge, and (iii) an on-line geo-referenced bibliographic database. The project focuses on a set of diverse watersheds in Maine, including catchments important to Atlantic salmon. The project will involve university and agency researchers, college and high school students, and NGOs. The generic nature of the infrastructure developed by this project will ensure that this Bulletin Board can be readily extended to other watersheds in the future.