Having existed for longer than human civilization, the Great Salt Lake is a wondrous place, and within our lifetimes it's going to dry up completely. So what now? How might we understand where the Lake currently stands within the arc of its downfall? Enter The Eye, an autonomous research buoy designed to sit with the Lake and listen to its pained cries, collecting and sending that data to the cloud in real time. From there, simple data processing can help us predict precisely when the Lake's next catastrophic fall will occur, with the results published within minutes for all of Utah to witness. So next time you're wondering how many days we have until the world's largest brine shrimp population goes extinct—or until millions and millions of birds lose their primary food source, or until a billion-dollar industry hosting thousands of jobs vanishes, or until ski conditions languish, or until enough shoreline is exposed to turn Utah's air poisonous—The Eye will be there listening, waiting to give us the answer.
