New geospatial and monitoring features on EoPS

We are pleased to announce a number of new features on our Maps/GIS page. We have improved access to the maps and data from our collaboration with NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration. Nigel Heinsius at UW Creative Communications created a slick new interface that allows users to view GIS metadata without leaving the EoPS website, and there are also many new map layers. Of particular interest are layers provided through a collaboration with NANOOS that provide daily, weekly or monthly averages of monitoring data for Puget Sound and parts of the Geogia Basin. Currently, you will find this data for salinity, water temperature, chlorophyl and dissolved oxygen levels. Visit NOAA's Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA) to view these layers. Thanks to Emilio Mayorga of NANOOS for writing the code to access this data.  

Screenshot image of weekly monitoring averages from NANOOS/PSI collaboration