Turn field observations into evidence you can trace

Driftwise is environmental monitoring software. It records field observations and turns them into a reviewed, traceable monitoring record for three kinds of program: mark-recapture fisheries monitoring, habitat restoration and invasive species response, and waterway conditions.

Yes — it is built for exactly that. Driftwise is the system of record agencies and conservation organizations use to capture waterway hazards and conditions in the field and act on them. Crews log hazards offline, and Driftwise watches them alongside live and modeled readings from more than a dozen federal sources, so every river reach carries one clear state — Critical, Warning, Watch or All clear — and the readings that put it there, with a public conditions map and one-click PDF for agencies and funders.

Driftwise uses PIT tag and mark-recapture matching to link a capture to a known individual. A reviewer confirms each match in a QA queue before it enters the population record, so individuals are not double-counted.

For every river reach, Driftwise pulls live and modeled readings from more than a dozen federal data sources and watches each one against its own healthy range, set from scientific thresholds. A reading that leaves its range crosses an edge, and the reach takes the state of the worst edge crossed — Critical, Warning or Watch — never an average, so one lethal reading is never diluted by a dozen benign ones. The state arrives with the readings that caused it. Corridors roll up the reaches they pass through, with a 90-day trend and one-click PDF export. Environmental Risk is one of four intelligence engines — alongside Water Quantity & Flow, Fisheries Risk, and Terrestrial Habitat Restoration — and every engine reports Partial data or Not evaluated where it could not see enough, instead of quietly passing a reach as clear.

Live and modeled readings from federal sources including USGS stream gauges, NOAA's National Water Model and flood forecasts, EPA water-quality and watershed data, FEMA flood zones, U.S. Fish & Wildlife and NOAA Fisheries critical habitat, NIFC wildfire, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam data.

Yes. A built-in connector imports ArcGIS feature layers and hosted tables directly. File imports accept CSV, GeoJSON, KML, GPX, and Shapefile, with automatic field mapping for exports from ArcGIS Survey123, EDDMapS, and iMapInvasives.

A Hazard Pulse timeline of closures and advisories with time-to-resolution, treatment work reports that roll up crew hours and costs, and a full audit log of every change. Corridor and reach reports export to a branded PDF — led by the reach or corridor's state and the readings behind it; treatment work reports, audit logs, and research rounds export to CSV.

Yes. The mobile companion captures photos, GPS, species, and measurements without a signal and syncs automatically when reception returns.

Yes. Invasive species and restoration programs work off one shared map of every infestation, treatment, and re-survey, with privacy and partner controls so each organization sees what it should. Organizations can also form partnerships to share specific maps with each other, and fisheries programs can share catch data across organizations — tagged fish link across programs with opt-in controls and anonymized attribution.

Yes. Crews and members are scheduled from the platform, and each member gets a my-schedule view. Treatment methods carry weather rules — wind, temperature, and precipitation caps that gate the schedule — and every treatment record logs chemicals with EPA registration numbers, volumes, and concentrations, plus labor, materials, equipment, and contractor costs.

Yes. The research module runs structured field studies: custom forms, collection rounds, and participant cohorts who join through a public link with no account setup by staff. Each round's submissions export to CSV or PDF.

Pricing is still in development. Programs typically start with a single pilot season and expand from there. Contact us to scope a pilot.