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Alan Willner, USC
Harvey Newman, Caltech
Pierre Thiry, CCSF
Dennis Davino, Cypress
Richard Weinberg, USC
John Avakian
Ed Johanson
Radhika Mysore, UCSD
Tom DeFanti, UCSD/Calit2
Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA
Rich Wolski, UCSB
Steve Vogt, UCSB
Shaya Fainman, UCSB
Tim Calhoon, CCC Tech Ctr.
Brian Shepard, USC
John Orcutt, UCSD/SIO
David Lassner, U Hawaii
Amin Vahdat, UCSD
Blaine Morrow, CCC Confer
Holger Schmidt, UCSC
Paul Wright, CITRIS
Lee Thompson, CSU EB
Ruzena Bajcsy, UCB
Laurin Herr, Pacific Interface
G. P. Li, Calit2@UCI
Lee Belarmino, SJ Delta Coll.
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, UCSB
Kevin Patrick, UCSD
Roger Bales
UC Merced Sierra Nevada Research Institute
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The UC Merced Sierra Nevada Research Institute is creating distributed natural-world laboratory in a pilot project undertaken by researchers both at UC Merced and UC Berkeley and directed by UCM's Roger Bales. The collaboration is supported by Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), one of the four California Institutes for Science and Innovation.

Through this pilot project, an extensive network of wireless sensors will be installed in the Sierra Nevada to measure variables such as soil moisture and snow depth in order to understand and better predict the area's behavior and future as a critical source of water for California, among other aspects. Once again, the real-time interaction -- provided by wireless broadband -- will enable experiments and collaborations to take place that would otherwise not be possible, and with colleagues spread around the nation and even the world.