1. PEARL: Data Acquisition and Information Summaries for Environmental Education and Outreach in Maine. David Kramar and Peter Vaux

2. Brief History and Overview Recent Developments –On-the-fly plotting –Information summaries –“Windows” into PEARL Science for the Public Integration into education Questions/Comments A Road Map to PEARL

3. The Core of the System Independent Oracle Tables Minimal data requirements Remote data upload via the Data Annex System Consistent geo- referencing

4. Background and History Originally developed in 1997 “Lake” Centric Water Quality Data Major Renovation in 2003-2004 No longer Lakes focused

5. Recent Developments Data by Lake By Stream By Town By Watershed (HUC) Text based retrieval Map based retrieval Subject based retrieval

6. Lake Based Data Retrieval Lakes –Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen –Transparency and Secchi –“on the fly” fish species lists –“on the fly” mussel inventories

7. Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen

8. Transparency and Secchi

9. Fish and Mussel Species

10. Town/County Based Data Retrieval

11. Watershed Based Data Retrieval

12. Subject Based Data Retrieval Subject Based Searches By Resource Type Summaries and References

13. Map Based Data Retrieval Lake Watershed Town

14. Focus Topics –Lakes Guide –Atlantic Salmon –Freshwater Biodiversity –Penobscot River

15. Lakes Guide Water Quality Fish and Anglers Aquatic Plants and Animals

16. Lakes Guide Water Quality

17. Lakes Guide Aquatic Plants and Animals

18. Atlantic Salmon

22. Access to Key Datasets Interactive Mapping of Key Data Key References Multiple Search Capabilities

23. PEARL’s Other Resources Science Guides Teacher Resources General Resources Image Gallery

24. Organizations Using PEARL Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program Links to PEARL Lake Overview page

25. Organizations Using PEARL Maine Lakes Conservancy Institute (MLCI) Student Portal

26. Under Development Spatially Referenced Bibliography In collaboration with the Gulf of Maine Council PEARL and the Knowledgebase Linked Retrieve references based on geography and keywords

27. Questions? http://www.pearl.maine.edu