About
The Maine Water Temperature Working Group is a collaborative network focused on improving water temperature monitoring across Maine.
Water temperature affects fish, aquatic organisms, stream habitat, and the long-term condition of Maine watersheds. Coordinated monitoring helps partners collect comparable data, identify coldwater resources, understand changing conditions, and support conservation and management decisions.
What the Group Does
The working group supports:
- Shared monitoring protocols and standard operating procedures.
- Coordination among state, tribal, federal, university, nonprofit, and public partners.
- Access to meeting materials, technical guidance, and public documents.
- Connections to data systems, maps, models, and related tools.
- Consistent data storage and discovery through EcoSHEDS.
Monitoring Network Context
The working group grew from Maine’s broader stream temperature monitoring and modeling efforts. Those efforts emphasized statewide sensor coverage, standardized field methods, public data access, and regional modeling that can support fisheries and habitat planning.
This website serves as the working group’s public home for documents, meeting information, data access guidance, and participation information.