Earth Tools
Earth Tools — Scientific instruments
for the natural world.
Measurement across disciplines.
Earth Tools is a scientific-instruments company working across optics, microfluidics, molecular biology, and ecology. The measurement problems we focus on often require capabilities from more than one of these fields.
Our instruments are designed around specific measurement targets and integrate optical, fluidic, biological, and electronic components into single systems.
Measurement with light.
Light is the most direct route to many of the measurements that matter — molecular composition, cellular structure, the concentration of an analyte in solution.
Imaging systems, spectrometers, and custom detector configurations sit at the heart of how Earth Tools makes those measurements.
Small volumes, precise control.
Some experiments only become tractable when the volumes shrink. Flow cells, microchannels, and droplet-based compartments handle samples at scales conventional liquid handling can't reach.
They fit naturally where high throughput, controlled chemistry, or direct integration with optical or electronic readout matters.
Biology, quantified.
Strain engineering, assay development, and the characterization of reference biological systems live close to the instruments themselves.
A well-characterized biological reference is often what makes a new measurement method reproducible across experiments, operators, and laboratories — so the same group designs both what's measured and how.
Outside the lab.
Outside the laboratory, conditions don't hold still. Studies and instruments run across soil, water, air, and canopy — environments that demand both accuracy under non-laboratory conditions and study designs that account for natural variability.
The hardware and the methodology get scoped together, so data coming out of the field is reliable end to end.
Who we are.
At Earth Tools, scientists work alongside engineers and designers, all with prior research, industry, and publication records across the fields the company works in.
Work with us.
We welcome inquiries from scientists, engineers, and organizations whose work relates to ours.