ERMAEnvironmental Response Management Application

Purpose

ERMA® is a web-based Geographic Information System (GIS) tool

Designed to assist both emergency responders and environmental resource managers who deal with incidents that may adversely impact the environment

Development

Facilitated and funded by the Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC)

Partnership between the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and NOAA’sOffice of Response and Restoration (OR&R)

What Can Be Displayed?

Real-time observations and monitoring data Observation buoys:

What is being collected? Re-direct to the data

source

What Can Be Displayed?

Data links to documents and websites Restoration Project Summary PDFs Websites

What Can Be Displayed?

Field data & georeferenced photos International Coastal

Clean-up Surveys Specific data marine

debris items Photos collected during

survey

ERMA Prototype

https://portsmouth.erma.unh.edu/erma.html

Developed for the Portsmouth, NH region in 2008

The data sets contained within thePortsmouth Harbor ERMA were identified by the local and regional response community

Other ERMA Sites

Caribbean ERMA was developed in the fall of 2009 https://www.erma.unh.edu/caribbean/erma.html

ERMA® in the Gulf with Deepwater Horizon Spill, 2010 http://gomex.erma.noaa.gov/erma.html

Future ERMA Sites

Broader New England site based off the Portsmouth pilot

Puget Sound site focusing on climate change

Pacific Island

Arctic area sites