About the Workshop
Environmental monitoring has emerged as a major application of wireless sensor networks. At the same time, more domain scientists are starting to use them for their research in a diverse set of settings.
This workshop is intended to bring together leading researchers from multiple disciplines to discuss all aspects related to environmental monitoring networks. Its goal is to present past experience from field deployments of these networks, future challenges, and requirements from the domain scientists' perspective. Workshop participants will give short presentations but considerable time will be allocated for free-form discussion.
Updates
- 10/04/08 Presentations are now available.
- 09/04/08 Updated schedule.
- 08/20/08 List of talks is now available.
- 07/25/08 Added preliminary schedule.
- 07/22/08 Added information on location, dates, and participants.
Participants
- Nirupama Bulusu, Portland State University
- Thomas Harmon, UC Merced
- Alan Broad, Crossbow
- Rob Fatland, Microsoft
- Karl Aberer, EPFL
- Liqian Luo, Microsoft Research
- Amol Deshpande, University of Maryland, College Park
- Joel Johnson, USGS
- Deepak Ganesan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Frederica Darema, NSF
- Tom Schoellhammer, UCLA
- Akos Ledeczi Vanderbilt
- Chris Swarth, Jug Bay Sanctuary
- Mikhail Zhizhin
- Bora Beran, Microsoft Research
- Chris Mentzel, Moore Foundation
- Michel Cavigelli, USDA
- Yafeng Wu, University of Virginia
- Marcus Chang, University of Copenhagen
- Katalin Szlavecz, JHU
- Alex Szalay, JHU
- Andreas Terzis, JHU
- Gerard Wysocki, Princeton
- Janet Raloff, New Scientist
Organization
- Katalin Szlavecz, Johns Hopkins University
- Alex Szalay, Johns Hopkins University
- Andreas Terzis, Johns Hopkins University
Dates and Location
The workshop will be held on the campus of the Johns Hopkins University on September 5th and 6th. All sessions will be held in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy room 462. The closest airport to Baltimore is BWI, located 15 miles south of the Homewood campus. You can find information about how to get to the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University using this link.
Parking
You can park at the Colonnade and then walk to the Physics building (#58 on the map). Alternatively, there is visitor parking at location #2 on the map. The Colonnade is directly across the street from the stadium (#61) on the map.
Schedule
| Time | Friday | Saturday |
|---|---|---|
| 8-9am | Breakfast | Breakfast |
| 9:00-10:30 | Session I (Platforms) | Session IV (Applications) |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break | Break |
| 11:00-12:30 | Session II (Science) | Session V (Services) |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch | Lunch |
| 1:30-3:00 | Session III (Deployments) | Breakout Groups |
| 3:00-3:30 | Break | End |
| 3:30-6:00 | Breakout Group | |
| 6:00-7:00 | Reception | |
| 7:00-8:00 | Group Dinner |
Each talk will be 20 minutes long and there are four talks per session.
Talks
| Speaker | Session | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Liqian Luo | Platforms | SenseWeb: Wikipedia of Sensors PDF |
| Alan Broad | Platforms | Overview of the eKo Environmental Monitoring System PDF |
| Rob Fatland | Platforms | Philosophy, design, deployment and preliminary results from SEAMONSTER, an environmental sensor web in Southeast Alaska PDF |
| Karl Aberer | Platforms | Swiss Experiment: a collaborative cyberinfrastructure for environmental scientists PDF |
| Joel Johnson | Science | Sensor Double Feature: Hillslope hydrology, arroyo incision / Cobble accelerations in experimental debris flows PDF |
| Chris Swarth | Science | Using environmental sensing probes to monitor box turtle nest and over-wintering sites PDF |
| Michel Cavigelli | Science | Potential Application of Wireless Sensor Network: Factors Regulating Soil N20 Flux PDF |
| Andreas Terzis | Science | Life Under Your Feet:Environmental Sensing for Soil Ecology PDF |
| Akos Ledeczi | Deployments | Mobile Air Pollution Monitoring Network PDF |
| Thomas Harmon | Deployments | Developing and Testing Scalable ion Selective Electrodes for Observing Nitrate Cycling in Soils: Successes and Failures PDF |
| Deepak Ganesan | Deployments | RiverNet: A River Sensor Network for Water Quality and Habitat Monitoring PDF |
| Yafeng Wu | Deployments | Luster: measuring the light factor on shrub growth PDF |
| Marcus Chang | Applications | MANA - Monitoring remote environments with Autonomous sensor network-based data Acquisition system PDF |
| Amol Deshpande | Applications | Uncertain Data Management for Sensor Networks PDF |
| Bora Beran | Applications | Beyond Sensors: Experiences from CUAHSI and FLUXNET PDF |
| Nirupama Bulusu | Applications | Monitoring Cane Toads with Acoustic Sensor Networks PDF |
| Tom Schoellhammer | Services | Understanding Fault Severity and the Affect of Missing Data PDF |
| Mikhail Zhizhin | Services | Grid services for environmental data store, processing, mining and visualization PDF |
| Gerard Wysocki | Services | Mid-IR Laser Spectroscopic Sensing -Towards Environmental Trace-gas Sensor Networks PDF |
| Alex Szalay | Services | Solar synchronization of mote clocks PDF |
| Frederica Darema | Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems (DDDAS) PDF |
Hotel
Attendees will stay at the Inn at The Colonnade Baltimore, located directly across from the Homewood campus. If you would like to book a hotel room you should contact Sadie Lingham or Felicia Moore.
Contact
For further information about the workshop contact:
- Andreas Terzis: terzis at cs dot jhu dot edu
- Felicia Moore: fmoore at pha dot jhu dot edu
- Sadie Lingham: slingham at pha dot jhu dot edu
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