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The Lake Pulse Toolbox

Everything that turns your lake into a measurement.

Produce new data of high spatiotemporal resolution — only the tools your lake needs.

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Mostly DIY Testing & Monitoring solutions for your lake.

Whether proving how pristine your lake is, or understanding a concerning trend, the Toolbox will help you manage your lake.

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Lab Testing

Send a sample. Get numbers you can defend.

Lab testing, without the hassle Lake Pulse offers a curated selection of tests for nutrients, oxygen levels, pollutants, and pathogens—providing clear, science-backed data to guide your decisions. Whether you’re working toward compliance, better lake management, or peace of mind, lab testing through Lake Pulse is a smart, proactive step in realizing your lake health & safety goals. All the tests Lake Pulse offers are processed at EPA certified laboratories, except the eDNA tests. Learn more about certified vs non-certified labs here

Total phosphorus kit
E. coli / swim safety
Cyanotoxin screen
eDNA species screen
Chloride & salt load

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Best when you need results that hold up in a meeting.

Real Time Monitoring

Sensors that never take a weekend off.

Easy to install 24/7 monitoring of your lake Lake Pulse offers a menu of real-time monitoring solutions, including in-situ instruments that deliver high-frequency measurements of key parameters like temperature, oxygen, turbidity, chlorophyll, weather, and lake level—giving you accurate, up-to-the-minute lake health & safety insights you need to manage risks proactively.

Solar monitoring buoy
Dock-mounted station
Cellular telemetry kit
Groundwater well monitoring
Sensor service coverage

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Best for lakes with blooms, hypoxia, a busy landing, or a groundwater story nobody has measured.

Lake data analysis and environnmental insights

Data & Services

Someone to make sense of what you collected.

Your lake's historic data plays an important role Lake Pulse offers flexible data upload options along with tiered support to match your needs—from basic file sharing and formatting help to advanced integration with cloud platforms and dashboards. Our support team is here to ensure your data gets where it needs to go—clean, complete, and ready for analysis. Whether you’re a small lake association or managing a full watershed, we help turn raw data, or historic surveys and studies, into valuable data that can be used for analytics.

Historical data import
Annual trend report
Board-ready summary
Expert data review

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Best when you have data but not the time to interpret it.

Satellite

Your whole lake, every pass, going back years.

We help you monitor your lake from space Lake Pulse makes satellite monitoring simple and accessible for managing your lake's health and safety. Snapshot offers an affordable way to view current bloom, turbidity conditions, or high res imagery for the most recent or historical date. Historic Survey provides storytelling capabilities that analyze your lake’s impairment history over months, years, or even decades. Together, these 2 tools create a powerful, easy-to-use system that enables smarter, faster, and more informed decision-making.

Bloom extent mapping
Clarity time series
Historical data pull
Whole-basin snapshots

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Best when the problem is spatial — one cove versus another.

Drone imagery for lake health & safety monitoring

Drones

Aerial and surface detail where satellites blur.

Drones are now part of your lake's toolbox Lake Pulse offers subscribers the ability to utilize drone technology to deliver fast, targeted, and time-stamped data across lakes of all sizes, including or hard-to-reach areas. This approach reduces manual labor while improving accuracy, helping Lake Pulse subscribers track invasive species, assess nutrient loading, and measure the effectiveness of interventions. For your lake to get started with drone solutions, Lake Pulse recommends a 30 min exploratory call, which we charge $10 for.

Aquatic plant survey
Shoreline erosion mapping
Bloom edge flight
Bathymetric survey
Flight service booking

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Best for documenting a specific shoreline, bay, weed bed, or the lake bed beneath the surface.

Convenient lake testing & monitoring solutions, bundled up

Bundles

A whole season, in one box.

Bundled solutions for complex challenges By combining the most relevant testing and monitoring technologies, Lake Pulse Bundles make it easier to decide what your lake actually needs. Instead of piecing together individual solutions, you get a targeted, streamlined package that removes the guesswork and supports more informed, effective lake management. IMPORTANT NOTE: All bundles start with a $50 expert scoping session — because every lake is different. This step provides a customized sampling plan, defined scope of work, and clear pricing tailored to your lake’s specific conditions and goals. The $50 fee covers the discovery call only — no testing or monitoring is included. The purpose of the 30-min call is to ensure any fieldwork or analysis that follows is targeted, defensible, and not wasted on unnecessary or misdirected efforts.

First-season starter bundle
Summer sampling season
Association program kit
Bloom-response bundle

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Best if you're starting out and don't want to guess.

I’m-site lake water testing in the field

Field Testing

The gear you use off your own dock.

Field tools that anyone can use Lake Pulse offers you portable, easy-to-use field testing and monitoring solutions that allow you to measure key parameters such as turbidity and bacteria levels right in the field, or observations of health & safety risks around the lake. While not a replacement for lab precision, field testing is cost-effective, ideal for frequent sampling, and powerful for identifying pollution hotspots and tracking water quality trends over time. It’s a practical, first-response tool for fast, informed lake management. * More offerings coming soon *

Secchi disk & line
Temp / DO profiler
pH & conductivity meter
Field logbook

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Best for building a weekly habit and a long timeline.

Best place to start

Download the Lake Pulse app

The fastest way in: find your lake, see what's already known about it, and decide what to monitor next — free, in about two minutes.

See activity and status of the lake you care about
Your dock, your cove, your landing — know what's happening in the part of the lake you actually use.
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Get notified about conditions, closures, projects, and activity from your lake and your neighbors.
Contribute with higher tiers of paid subscription
Add field notes, photos, and measurements. Higher tiers unlock tools that turn your observations into shared data.

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