Freshwater Biodiversity portal added to KnowledgeBase

September 2010 - KnowledgeBase, the online resource for documents and data for the Gulf of Maine watershed, added a significant new portal feature related to freshwater biodiversity in September. Yellahoose developed the site's collections pages with Peter Vaux, at the University of Maine, and a new dynamic species mapper was added to the web site.



Mapping development was done using Google Maps API version 3.0. Yellahoose used the MySQL RDBMS and PHP and Python programming. KnowledgeBase and features used by it and its linked sites are hosted on CentOS and Debian, two versions of Linux.



Web hosting for the KB site is by Packawhallop.

Links:

KnowledgeBase
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/

KnowledgeBase gets face lift

March 2010 - KnowledgeBase, an online repository of bibliographic records and data related to the environment in Maine and northern New England, got a face lift this month.

Yellahoose planned and managed the graphic design redo. Project partner Gordon Holman of SlickFish Studios produced the new art work. After review by Dr. Peter Vaux and team at the Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research, and some minor tweaks, Yellahoose implemented the new skin on the existing website.



The new graphic design is meant to be flexible -- more easily accommodating new data portals, themes features being working on now for implementation later this year. (Stay tuned for these!)

We like the look of the new site a lot!

Links:

KnowledgeBase
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/

Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research
http://www.umaine.edu/waterresearch/

SlickFish Studios
http://www.slickfishstudios.com/