 | | |  | NASA GPM Study
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, co-Director of NCED, along with Bill Dietrich, PI at the University of Berkeley, were awarded funding this past fall from NASA. They will be studying how Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) observations over steep mountainous terrains can be coupled with earth-surface models to predict rainfall-induced landslide hazards. GPM is a multi-satellite mission, through an international partnership of space agencies led by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, aimed at monitoring global precipitation from space at the unprecedented resolution of 4 kilometers and 3 hours.
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| Angelo Reserve wireless network online | | Located at the Angelo Coast Range Reserve, the Angelo Wireless Network Infrastructure (ANWI) is a high-speed broadband wireless network that functions as an environmental sensor observatory. ANWI, designed and implemented by NCED for field research and communication, is available for use by researchers with two operational microwave relays and two more relays to be operational this summer. This network includes not only high-speed microwave relays but also point-to-point river uplink sites. These uplink sites allow researchers to download their data, obtained from any set of sensor devices that use a data logger, to a central server via the network. In addition, researchers can be up to 0.4 kilometers from an uplink site and still access the network. Another benefit of the uplink sites will be the Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) phones at these locations, which increases researcher safety: Angelo is too remote and rugged for cell phone reception. For further information on NCED and the Angelo Coast Range Reserve, please click here. |  |  | | Left photo: Collin Bode, Desktop Watersheds Project Manager, performing extreme computing at 37 meters up a redwood. Right photo: Robotic security camera with wireless connection taking daily photographs of stream conditions on the South Fork Eel River. | |
| | Bill Dietrich on the move | | Bill Dietrich, NCED PI, with the help of several able graduate students, organized and hosted the Luna Leopold memorial dinner as well as the 22nd Annual Gilbert Club meeting. The memorial, held December 14th at the Berkeley Faculty Club, was in honor of Leopold and his significant contributions to the theory and practice of modern river science. Leopold was 90 years old when he died on February 23, 2006. Colleagues (including Dave Rosgen, Wildland Hydrology, and M. Gordon "Reds" Wolman, B. Howard Griswold Professor, The John Hopkins University), former students, and family attended the memorial. Subsequently, the Gilbert Club meeting on December 16th at the Lawrence Hall of Science brought together students, postdoctoral associates, NCED PIs, and visitors for an opportunity to share current and upcoming developments in geomorphology. Chris Paola, Director of NCED, gave a presentation. The National Science Foundation sponsored the meeting. | | New Project Manager for Subsurface Architecture Integrated Project | | NCED welcomes James Buttles as the new Project Manager for the Subsurface Architecture Integrated Project. Buttles, formerly with MIT as a Research Scientist, will be working at the Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, at The University of Texas at Austin. Buttles will be working with Subsurface Architecture Project Leader David Mohrig. | | |
