The High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) is a National Science Foundation funded network research project, which also functions as a collaborative cyberinfrastructure on research, education, and first responder activities. It includes creating, demonstrating, and evaluating a non-commercial, prototype, high-performance, wide-area, wireless network in San Diego, Riverside, and Imperial counties. The network includes backbone nodes at the UC San Diego and San Diego State University campuses, and a number of "hard to reach" areas in remote environments.

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2008 summary video
2006 brochure
2003 brochure

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Moon over Cuyamaca, as seen from an NPS network camera at Point Loma

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Recent highlights


Ocean Terracing LIVE December 19, 2008
HPWREN and StSS Teams Collaborate with Mountain Empire Middle School for Ocean Terracing LIVE

Mountain Empire Middle School science students participated in "Ocean Terracing LIVE" with Marine Biologist Benjamin Pister at the Cabrillo National Monument intertidal area. Dr. Pister shared information regarding ocean terracing and then fielded an array of questions posed by the middle school students.


HPWREN activities in Google Earth December 11, 2008
Experimental representation of HPWREN activities in Google Earth

To demonstrate some of the scope of HPWREN and its use via project partners, an attempt was made to map some of the activities via multiple approaches into geographical information via the kml format which Google Earth utilizes.


NPS Tech Transfer Workshop November 22, 2008
Technology Transfer Workshop for National Park Service staff and educators led by HPWREN and SDSU Field Stations Program staff

HPWREN and SDSU Field Stations Program led a two-day Technology Transfer Workshop and Live Interactive Virtual Exploration (LIVE) backpack system training for National Park Service staff and educators.


2008 HPWREN Users Meeting November 21, 2008
7th Annual HPWREN Users meeting held at the Pala Native American Reservation

The 7th Annual HPWREN Users meeting was hosted by the Pala Band of Mission Indians on November 19, 2008 in their Administration building.


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  Acknowledgments and Disclaimer

HPWREN is an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional UC San Diego research and education project, led by Principal Investigator Hans-Werner Braun at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. A Co-Principal Investigator, Frank Vernon, is with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

HPWREN is funded by the National Science Foundation: Grant Numbers 0087344 and 0426879. The U.S. government has certain rights to the related material presented on this web site. If you use the HPWREN network or data from this server, your derivative publications or other information materials must make a credit reference to the National Science Foundation Grant Numbers 0087344 and 0426879, as well as the HPWREN project at the University of California, San Diego.
Minimum credit line: http://hpwren.ucsd.edu

HPWREN is an NSF funded research project, which intends to research the feasibility of wireless data networking technologies. As such, HPWREN offers no guarantees regarding network services. In addition, network security and privacy, as well as the appropriateness of Internet data, are the sole responsibility of the connected entities. HPWREN monitors traffic for research and network management purposes, and usage details may become publicly available. Should the network be used inappropriately, HPWREN reserves the right to disconnect sites.
The Usage Conditions document governs acceptable use of the network.

Any opinions, findings and conclusions, or recommendations expressed on the HPWREN web site are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or anyone else.

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