Investigators: Harmon (Merced), Estrin, Potkonjak, Rundel (UCLA) Saez (LMU), Hamilton, Allen, Allen (UCR)

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Contaminant Transport Observation

• Investigators Harmon (Merced), Estrin,
  Potkonjak, Rundel (UCLA) Saez (LMU), Hamilton,
  Allen, Allen (UCR)
• Emphasis on nitrate sensing in water or soil
  moisture
• Current projects
• Sensor group interactions packaging, testing,
  calibration for in situ conditions
• Palmdale water reuse in irrigation
• rolling out 10-node (80 sensors) design (spr 05)
• coupling design to geospatial soil properties
• integrating simulation models and feedback
  control algorithms (precision irrigation and
  fertilization)
• Merced River agriculture-river nitrate fluxes
• pilot phase javelin housed nitrate sensor
  installed in Merced River bed
• results feeding into regional river monitoring
  efforts

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Contaminant Transport Observationnew/emerging
efforts

• Synergize with other applications and technology
  thrusts
• Promote CENSs leadership role in large-scale
  observatory efforts CENS-in-a-Box
• Planning grant California water cycle from the
  Sierra Nevada snowpack to the reservoirs and
  rivers, to the coastal waters.
• UC Merced, UCLA, UCD, UCR, Caltech, LLNL, LBNL,
  USBR, USGS, NPS, CA DWR
• Multiscale observing capabilities
• Interoperability with an attractive suite of
  sensors
• Integration techniques fusing remote sensing data
  and ground-based sensor networks
• Creating the cyberinfrastructure to visualize,
  simulate, forecast, and adaptively manage
  resources