State of the Environment Report is published

June 2010 - Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment launched their State of the Environment Report this month. Yellahoose provided web design, support and IT management services.



The report represents a cumulative effort by Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) Canada, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES), Environmental Protections Agency (EPA) and Gulf of Maine Councilors from different agencies and stakeholder organizations in the U.S. and Canada. The site is built to evolve over the coming years, with new papers and reports added as they become available.



Thanks to everyone involved with this project, up to this launch and beyond, including Jay, Jazmine, Peter, Theresa and Lorraine!

Links:

Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment and
State of the Environment Report
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/state-of-the-gulf/

Yellahoose helps Crossroads, Gulf of Maine Council (ESIP, Times, Restoration), PDT Architects, Shannondell, HolzCreative and Cradock Woodworking

February 2010 - February was a busy one for Yellahoose and its current and new customers!

Crossroads for Women began billing from its new clinical tracking software, implemented in 2009, with Yellahoose's help customizing claims and tweaking claim data for the Agency's specific needs. Remote computer management solutions were also rolled-out in the Agency's Kennebunk, Windham, Portland (Back Cove and Old Port) locations.

The Gulf of Maine Times published monthly updates to the online newspaper. These include news about Nova Scotia's recently published state of the coast report as well as a study on climate change and its measured affect on Casco Bay.

Ecosystem Indicator Partnership published its March/April 2010 journal.

Gulf of Maine Council's Habitat restoration program (in partnership with NOAA and Maine State Planning Office) made significant updates to and launched its online grant application tool on March 1.

PDT Architects, the Portland, Maine-based community-focused architecture and design firm, relocated its web presence to Yellahoose partner Packawhallop's servers... with Yellahoose help managing the technical aspects of the uneventful relocation.

Yellahoose helped Atlanta, Georgia-based King & Moore and HolzCreative move, make necessary programming and database updates and relaunch the Shannondell at Valley Forge website.

And Boston, Massachusetts-based Kevin Cradock Woodworking moved its website, including database and CMS systems, with Yellahoose's expert analysis and assistance.

Links:

Crossroads for Women
http://www.crossroadsforwomen.org

Gulf of Maine Times
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/gomt/

ESIP (Ecosystem Indicator Partnership)
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/esip/

Gulf of Maine Council's Habitat Restoration Subcommittee
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/habitat-restoration/

National Marine Fisheries Service's Community-based Restoration Program
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/restoration/projects_programs/crp/

PDT Architects
http://www.pdtarch.com/

Shannondell at Valley Forge
http://www.shannondell.com

HolzCreative
http://www.holzcreative.com/cory/

Kevin Cradock Woodworking
http://www.cradockwoodworking.com

Winter 2009-2010 Gulf of Maine Times is launched

December 2009 - The winter 2009-2010 Gulf of Maine Times was launched using a re-vamped information architecture and user interactivity focus developed and implemented by Yellahoose.



The new Times uses blog software for content management, comments and RSS feeds. The software's an excellent choice for the Times, because content is easily manageable by editors, writers and web masters. Tools for tracking how the site and content are used were also made part of the upgrade.



The new issue of the Times is thematically focused on ocean issues (wild-life, sustainable development, science and research) in the Gulf of Maine region: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.



The site is hosted by Packawhallop.

Links:

Gulf of Maine Times
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/gomt/

Muise Design – original graphic design for the Times based on work by Michelle Muise
http://www.popgraphics.net

Packawhallop
http://www.packwhallop.com

Gulf of Maine Times publishes Fall/Winter 2008 issue with Yellahoose help

December 2008 - The online and printed editions of the Gulf of Maine Times, the newspaper of the bi-national Gulf of Maine Council, were published. The new issue includes articles on renewable energy in the Gulf, the impact of high energy prices on lobstermen in the region, and other stories. More content will be added to the web edition over the coming weeks and months.

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Yellahoose worked with Times editor, Nancy Griffin, GOMC committee members and other contractors, including David Keeley (The Keeley Group), Michele Tremblay (naturesource communications), Michelle Muise (popgraphics.net) and Peter Alexander (Talking Conservation) to build this issue.

Links:

Gulf of Maine Times (includes archive of past issues)
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/times/

Gulf of Maine Council
http://www.gulfofmaine.org

The Keeley Group
http://www.thekeeleygroup.com

naturesource communications
http://www.naturesource.net

popgraphics.net
http://www.popgraphics.net

Talking Conservation
http://www.talkingconservation.com

Gulf of Maine Council renews contract for IT services with Yellahoose

July 2008 - The Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment has renewed its contract for information technology services with Yellahoose.

Yellahoose provides a range of IT services to GOMC, including:

• UNIX and Windows server administration


• Relational database design


• Programming


• Data visualization and web mapping


• Web development and design


• Needs assessments and IT Consulting

Recent successful projects develivered to GOMC by Yellahoose have included a server hardware and software systems upgrade, and the launch of Ecosystem Indicator Partnership monitoring maps, data management tools and a collaboration portal.

Links:

Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment
http://www.gulfofmaine.org

Gulf of Maine Council to upgrade IT infrastructure and web presence with Yellahoose help

June 2008 - Yellahoose made a needs assessments and submitted recommendations for upgrading the Gulf of Maine Council's IT infrastructure and web presence. Once the recommendations were agreed upon Yellahoose worked with the Gulf of Maine Association to negotiate contracts for leased server space with the identified hosting provider, DataPipe of New York, California, Shanghai and London.

The upgraded infrastructure will mean the Council will be able to continue serving its data to members, researchers, decisions makers and anyone interested in the Gulf of Maine marine environment. The Council will be able to maintain its innovative, online applications. And the upgraded hardware and software will provide the Council with additional tools and software for other great products.

Links:

Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment
http://www.gulfofmaine.org

DataPipe
http://www.datapipe.net

Gulf of Maine Council issues winter '08 Gulf of Maine Times, publishes salt marsh ecology booklet, and launches project progress report tool

March 2008 - March was a busy month for product and information updates from the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment! And Yellahoose provided critical IS and consulting services.

The Spring / Winter 2008 edition of the Gulf of Maine Times was released. This edition includes new web features for Times readers, including tools to share articles with others, and on the back-end a new (to the Times!) template system to improve workflow and reduce the effort and cost it takes to release the online paper. JavaScript, CSS and PHP were all used in this edition.

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The Council also published Salt Marshes in the Gulf of Maine, a 42 page booklet on salt marsh monitoring and restoration in the Gulf. The publication was edited by Peter Taylor of Waterview Consulting.

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Yellahoose developed a number of easy-to-use, web-based applications for the Council to track users interested in Salt Marshes in the Gulf of Maine, including capturing key demographic and professional information, and Yellahoose developed tools for users to request hard-copy versions of the booklet.

Data are managed in PostgreSQL, and the web application was written using PHP and JavaScript.

Habitat restoration grants were awarded also, and part of this year's grant monitoring process is the implementation of an online tool for awardees to use to document progress. Yellahoose developed the tool, with Jon Kachmar of the Maine Coastal Program and Peter Taylor of Waterview Consulting, using technologies, tools, methodologies and best practices already developed for and in use by the Council.

And we don't have nice screenshots for work did for the Christine Tilburg in the Council's Ecosystem Indicator Partnership (ESIP) and Christian Krahforst in the Gulfwatch Contaminants Monitoring committees, but that doesn't mean the services provided weren't fundamentally enabling — or, to be honest, terribly time intensive:

Yellahoose implemented PostgreSQL databases for Christine and Christian to use to manage and massage ESIP and contaminants data. The databases are password-protected. Christine and Christian can import data, tweak tables, and they can even link data to other data the Council already has at its disposal. They the good, cross-platform software, DbVisualizer, to manage their databases.

Links:

Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment
http://www.gulfofmaine.org
Gulf of Maine Times
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/times/
Salt Marshes in the Gulf of Maine
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/saltmarsh/
Habitat Restoration
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/habitatrestoration/
Ecosystem Indicator Partnership
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/esip/
Gulfwatch Contaminants Monitoring
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/gulfwatch/

Waterview Consulting
http://www.waterviewconsulting.com

Maine Coastal Program
http://maine.gov/spo/coastal

PostgreSQL
http://www.postgresql.org

DbVisualizer
http://www.minq.se/products/dbvis

PHP
http://www.php.net

MapServer
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu