Environmental Monitors on Lobster Traps and Large Trawlers (eMOLT)
eMOLT History
eMOLT Staff
Jim Manning
With a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics (1979 UMaine Orono) and Masters in Oceanography (1987 URI’s Grad School of Oceanography), Jim Manning spent 35 years as an oceanographer at NOAA Fisheries Woods Hole Lab. After the first decade of frequently going to sea on NOAA ships, he became largely devoted to building low-cost ocean observing systems with the help of commercial fishermen and, in 2001, founded eMOLT. The data is primarily meant for local ocean modelers to help validate/assimilate simulations and to document the rapidly changing conditions over multiple time scales. While JiM is officially retired, he is still active.
George Maynard
George’s career in fisheries started working in headwater streams in Connecticut with small brook trout. After working on irrigation reservoirs and big lakes farther west, he found his way back to New England, studying fish behavior on rivers and estuaries in Maine. After finishing his PhD at the University of Maine, George began working in the commercial fishing industry in Massachusetts where he was introduced to Jim Manning and the eMOLT program and provided technical support for several eMOLT partner vessels on Cape Cod. In 2020, George began working at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center and with Jim’s retirement, has taken a leadership role in eMOLT.
Erin Pelletier
Huanxin Xu
eMOLT Partner Organizations
