October 12, 2004
San Diego Sheriff's Department Hosts HPWREN Annual Users Meeting
On September 24, 2004, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department
hosted the HPWREN Annual Users Meeting at the County Emergency Operations
Center. The conference room was connected to HPWREN.
Presenters were (in approximate order of appearance):
Chris Hinshaw, Assistant Manager of the Sheriff's Wireless Services
Division, and meeting host
Tom Gardner, CDF's Monte Vista Unit Emergency Command Center Chief
Frieder Seible, UCSD College of Engineering Dean
Ron Serabia, retired CDF Fire Captain, now working with HPWREN
Priscilla Hernandez, California Wolf Center
Frank Vernon, UCSD/SIO geophysicist and HPWREN Co-PI
Hal Holmerud, SPAWAR retiree, now on Lummi Island, WA
Andrew Pickles, Caltech Optical Observatories, Associate Director
Scott Kardel, Palomar Observatory, Public Affairs Coordinator
Daniel Zieber, Palomar Observatory, Network Administrator
Claudia Luke, SDSU, Director, Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve
Pablo Bryant, SDSU Field Station Programs
Dan Cayan, UCSD/SIO, Climate Research Division
Peter Arzberger, UCSD
Douglas Alden, UCSD/SIO, Integrative Oceanography Division
Jamison Steidl, UCSB, Institute for Crustal Studies
Christopher Latham, UCSD, Technical Manager, Charles Lee
Powell Structural Research Laboratories
Jeff Genrich, UCSD/SIO, SOPAC
Paul Etzel, SDSU, Astronomy Department Chair and Director, Mt.
Laguna Observatory
Hans-Werner Braun, UCSD/SDSC, HPWREN Principal Investigator
Via a phone connection, the National Science Foundation was
represented by Kevin Thompson, Program Director in the CISE/SCI
Division and responsible for the HPWREN grants. This phone connection
used Voice over IP technology between the Emergency Operations
Center conference room and UCSD, where it connected to the telephone
system.
Some of the presentations are available at
/2004haum.
During the lunch break, the Sheriff's Department hosted tours of the
Emergency Operations Center. In addition, Frank Vernon presented a
Cedar Fire DVD.
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