The Ecosystem Indicator Partnership (ESIP) is a committee of the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment. ESIP is developing indicators for the Gulf of Maine and integrating regional data for a new Web-based reporting system for marine ecosystem monitoring. Activities of ESIP initially center on convening regional practitioners in six indicator areas: coastal development, contaminants and pathogens, eutrophication, aquatic habitat, fisheries and aquaculture, and climate change.
Read more on the ESIP page on www.gulfofmaine.org
ESIP site data are available for download and via web services. Currently available download formats are CSV (suitable for opening in MS Excel, OpenOffice Calc and desktop database software), and ESRI shapefile (for use in desktop and server-based GIS). Web services currently include WFS and KML.
Click here to access ESIP site data from www.gulfofmaine.org