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Downeast Salmon Federation

Autograff Design for Downeast Salmon Federation is Finalist

The website Autograff designed and programmed for the Downeast Salmon Federation was one of three finalists in the Maine Software Development Association's Best of Web Awards, 2005 non-profit category. The other finalists were the State of Maine and Bowdoin College. We're in good company!

Autograff programmed the entire site and functions using Webdata, a web database application. Downeast Salmon Federation manages all the site pages, news stories, newsletter listings, as well as several Federationn member subsites, each managed separately by the member.

Autograff's Richard Merrill also designed the DSF logo, as well as the EMARC logo for their sister organization, the Eastern Maine Aquatic Research Center.

The jewel in the crown of this fully content-managed conservation, education, and scientific site is the live display of water quality data programmed by Autograff's chief programmer, Bob Merrill. The Downeast Salmon Federation is located on the Pleasant River in Columbia Falls, Maine, where it maintains an in-river data sonde to collection information about the water. Bob designed a data collection system that took data from the sonde, (sonde data formatting programmed by Brian Stewart of Harrison, Maine) sent it to the web every 15 minutes, processed the data into a database, and made it searchable and downloadable. Designer Richard Merrill designed a data visualization interface, and Bob programmed the back end to graph data based on a simple but powerful database search function. The data is graphed in real time on the website, and any grouping of data can be displayed and downloaded for use in Excel. The information is very valuable both in educating the public and informing scientists of current conditions, as well as how specific water quality indicators change over time.

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