By Jenny Ta and Joshua Viers | Reposted from http://californiawaterblog.com It seems inevitable that increasing numbers of California farmers will see their claims to surface […]
Sustainable Infrastructures
Enduring Summer’s Deep Freeze
Summer’s Deep Freeze: New York Time reporter Kate Murphy discusses over-air-conditioned offices and apps like Comfy which let users control the temperature of their offices. […]
Research Scientists to Use Network Much Faster Than Internet
A series of ultra-high-speed fiber-optic cables will weave a cluster of West Coast university laboratories and supercomputer centers into a network called the Pacific Research […]
eMotorWerks and WattTime Reveal First EV Charging Solution that Minimizes Emissions
Editor’s Note: Congratulations to Gavin, Anna, and the growing WattTime team for reaching this significant milestone. WattTime won the top prize in the 2014 CITRIS […]
UC Merced Connect: Fulbright scholar to study Himalayan hydropower
Reposted from UC Merced University Communications | June 9, 2015UC Merced researcher David Rheinheimer has seen the Himalayas from many angles – from his home […]
Former Michigan Gov. Granholm Announces American Jobs Project
Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm Announces American Jobs Project, a National Initiative to Spur Job Creation in the Advanced Energy Sector Berkeley, CA. (March 19, […]
Resilience Seminar Series Brings Together ITS, TRUST and CITRIS Strengths
Highlighting the cross-disciplinary aspects of resilience, The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), and […]
UC Merced Water Project Rewarded with Competitive UC Grant
CITRIS Researcher Roger Bales has won a UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI) award for the UC Water Security and Sustainability Research Initiative, which […]
Human Impacts Bay Area: Innovations for the Climate Breakthrough
Join us for an evening of engaging discussion from a diversity of Bay Area’s community leaders, thinkers, and artists. This event will be free and […]
Distributed Infrastructure of Small Urban Places
A digital tool helps coordinate unused parcels of urban public land to alleviate the need for expensive infrastructure projects, revive depressed and blighted neighborhoods, and […]
Improving Access to Public Resources for Everyone
The work of CITRIS researchers on all four of our campuses reflects a similar commitment to improving access to public resources for everyone. Dear Friends […]
Bringing Building Automation to Small and Mid-Size Commercial Properties
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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?