Drink, swim, fish the fresh coast safely with real-time lake conditions from the Great Lakes Observing System
A powerful, cloud-based platform
✅ Free to use and open to everyone
✅ User-inspired design
✅ The IOOS-certified data source for the Great Lakes
The platform was launched on April 28, 2022 at Glosapalooza in Chicago.
Check live conditions
Discover lake trends
Download data
Check forecast models
Connecting your data to Seagull is easy and free.
Staff are here to help!
Deploying the Grand Marais buoy. Photo by Superior Watershed Partnership and Land Conservancy.
🕊️ Interested in bringing Seagull to your community?
We’re looking for people who are connected with their local communities, whether that’s the boat shop, conservation group, or beach, to help bring Seagull to more people.
This could mean putting up a QR code sign, or a flier, or just connecting us with other observers.
Interested or have ideas?
Seagull Vision
Some features described here are still in development. Subscribe to hear what we are working on.
Observe
Deploy a wide variety of monitoring platforms and sensors with ease, complete with metadata.
Measure a range of parameters in real-time or delayed mode, from wave height to chlorophyll to bathymetry, and more.
Transmit authenticated data to the secure Seagull cloud, directly from the monitoring platform.
Connect
Check that applicable data satisfies US federal standards with Seagull’s IOOS-certified data infrastructure.
Integrate with Seagull using flexible API’s to send and receive data from models, platforms, or other data streams, joining them to the wider network.
Distribute trusted data to other publicly discoverable services automatically, including to secure government archives and data hubs.
Discover
Visualize monitoring and model data via user-friendly graphs, an interactive map, and more.
Analyze historical, real-time, and forecast data trends. Dive deep into complementary data, or get a bird’s-eye view of diverse platforms, all in one place.
Configure the Seagull experience with filters, favorites, measurement units, and more. Join a group of other observers to further tailor the experience.
Engage
Notify via text message, in-app notifications, or email as conditions change. Set automatic alerts based on custom thresholds.
Report observations about the water or trends in the data to keep the rest of the community informed.
Share insights directly to social media by posting links, beautiful maps, simple graphics, and more.
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