Welcome!
The Strawberry Creek Monitoring Group was founded in 2024, as an off-branch of the Strawberry Creek Restoration Project.
We create course content, conduct community outreach and build monitoring solutions for water systems through the use of open-source hardware and software!
Our Works
🌿 Chemical Detection Development
In 2013, the Stanley Hall diesel spill wiped out Strawberry Creek’s native fish populations and triggered a seven-figure cleanup bill—damage that could have been largely avoided with earlier detection.
With support from UC Berkeley’s Office of Environment, Health & Safety and the Strawberry Creek Restoration Program, we installed a real-time sensor network and now offer our systems at a fraction of the cost of commercial alternatives.
We design data models and sensor stacks around open source software and low-cost hardware so that communities with similar needs can adopt the technology easily.
🖥️ Live Data Alerts
To make environmental monitoring more accessible, we build smart alert systems that operate off grid and in real-time. We use Machine Learning (ML) and advanced modeling techniques to improve how we gather and combine differnet types of environmental data. Current data sources include purpleair.com, monitormywatershed.org, balancehydro.com, and sensor data sent directly to strawberrycreek.org servers.
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🙋 Community Outreach
We integrate sensor data into UC Berkeley coursework to foster interdisciplinary learning.
We host demonstration days on and off campus to showcase sensors and gather participant feedback.
📡 Build with Our Creek Data API
Want to create tools using real-time creek data or host your own sensor data on our site? We offer free, token-authenticated API access to our platform.
Query by sensor site, date range, and variable — and build on top of our work however you’d like!
For developers, students, researchers, and community scientists.
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