The information technology revolution has come slowly to commercial buildings. Until now, piecemeal innovations in automating isolated functions like temperature, security, lighting, and air quality […]
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Launching New Research Platforms for Smarter Buildings and Healthier People
Friends of CITRIS, The collected research of CITRIS faculty shows an amazing range of scale: from micro-electronics and nanotechnology to systems at the level of […]
OMAE 2014 Conference coming to San Francisco
Join your colleagues from industry, academia, and government at the 33rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2014) in San Francisco, California, from […]
Carl Blumstein
Executive Director, CITRIS Climate
David Culler
Professor David Culler is former Faculty Director of the CITRIS Sustainable Infrastructures Initiative. His research addresses networks of small, embedded wireless devices, planetary-scale internet services, parallel computer architecture, parallel programming languages, and high performance communication. This includes TinyOS, Berkeley Motes, PlanetLab, Networks of Workstations (NOW), Internet services, Active Messages, Split-C, and the Threaded Abstract Machine (TAM).
Therese Peffer
Associate Director, California Institute for Energy and Environment and CITRIS Climate
Sierra-Net and American River Basin Installation: Measuring California’s Water Supply
SynopsisCITRIS researchers have received a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to expand on a prototype system that uses a network of wireless […]
Peaceful Apps for a New Generation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Merced’s MESA Lab deploys rugged drones to sample aquatic biodiversity from remote waterways.
Supercharging Our Water-Related Projects
We use water to generate power, to grow half of the nation’s fruits, nuts, and vegetables, to preserve our environment, to prevent wildfires, to make silicon chips…
Snow Net: Joint Berkeley-Merced Snowpack Tracking Project’s Test by Fire
A joint project between UC Berkeley and UC Merced attempts to radically improve the quality and availability of data about the amount of water stored in mountainous parts of the vast American River Basin.
YangQuan Chen
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC Merced
David Culler to receive the Okawa Prize, 2013
Culler selected for “pioneering contributions to the design and development for wireless sensor networks.”
Water Research Facility gets $5M Grant Renewal
The NSF will continue to fund a UC Merced research facility that studies how mountain water flows as the climate changes.
Steve Glaser’s American River Basin Water Supply Project Featured in SF Chronicle
“Smart sensors can measure pretty much anything”
CITRIS helps support new Sustainability Champions Internships
Students will work with four organizations to develop their skills in the business of sustainability.
Professor Steven Glaser interviewed by ScienceLives on Designing Nanoseismic Sensors
Steve Glaser interviewed about his career in designing, making, and using sensors.
Paris and San Francisco chose CITRIS to conduct Smart City research
A new press release on the MoU signed between Paris and San Francisco to support research from INRIA and CITRIS.
CITRIS Co-sponsoring Upcoming Workshop on Smart Cities
The aim of this conference is to tackle the question of “How Smart City approaches can be used to increase city attractiveness and city resilience?
NMO Lab Works with Cisco Engineers to Further Student Experience
Update from the NMO lab at UCSC.
Fall 2012 i4Energy Seminar Series
The Fall 2012 i4Energy Seminar Series
Adura Technologies lets buildings turn on lights efficiently
A CITRIS-supported startup is developing innovative technologies to curb skyrocketing electrical consumption, energy costs and greenhouse emissions.
NSF awards $2 million to expand Sierra Nevada water sensors
A 4-year grant will support CITRIS efforts to monitor our water supply.
Duncan Callaway
Professor of Energy and Resources, UC Berkeley
Sierra Snow Melt
Part of a team effort with the Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory to study snowmelt phenomena using large-scale wireless sensor networks.