June 17, 2008HPWREN Collaborates with National Park Service for the 2008 National Geographic Bioblitz Species Inventory in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California The HPWREN team participated in the annual National Geographic Bioblitz Species Inventory on May 30-31 with collaborators from the National Park Service (NPS) California Mediterranean Research Learning Center, Santa Monica Mountains Recreation Area, and the Cabrillo National Monument. 
June 4, 2008Super-luminous stellar explosion observed via the Palomar Observatory, possibly resulting in a quark star Astronomers recently announced that they have found a novel explanation for a rare type of super-luminous stellar explosion that may have produced a new type of object known as a quark star. 
June 2, 2008Activation of the dedicated HPWREN backbone connection with Piñon Flats Observatory On May 21, 2008, a dedicated HPWREN backbone connection was established between Toro Peak and the Piñon Flats Observatory. 
June 1, 2008How Does HPWREN help the Global Seismographic Network? Project IDA (International Deployment of Accelerometers) is currently funded by NSF via a subaward from the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) to operate 40 stations of the Global Seismographic Network (GSN). 
May 22, 2008HPWREN and the Infrasound Project at the Piñon Flat Observatory The Laboratory for Atmospheric Acoustics group at UCSD has used the HPWREN network since November 2004, with data coming from an array of microbarometers at the observatory. 
May 20, 2008How Does HPWREN Help the Optical Fiber Infrasound Sensor (OFIS) Development Team? HPWREN connects OFIS facilities at the Piñon Flat Observatory in the Southern California high desert, and at Camp Elliott, located in San Diego county. 
May 16, 2008AmeriFlux Intercomparison at HPWREN-connected SDSU Sky Oaks Field Station An AmeriFlux intercomparison was conducted by Dr. Hongyan Luo at the Sky Oaks Field Station's Old Stand site from April 18th to 28th, 2008. 
May 14, 2008HPWREN Collaborates with Reuben H. Fleet Science Center for Astronomy Day 2008: Palomar Observatory Hosts Live Interactive Virtual Exploration for Participants On May 10, the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center hosted an HPWREN Live Interactive Virtual Exploration (LIVE) activity featuring the Palomar Observatory in conjunction with their annual Astronomy Day. 
May 13, 2008Upgrade of the HPWREN/RoadNet capabilities between Mount Laguna and Superstition Mountain across the Anza Borrego Desert The HPWREN/RoadNet segment between Mount Laguna and Superstition Mountain, which extends the HPWREN backbone east of Mount Laguna, was upgraded to accommodate additional capacity at a different radio frequency. 
April 4, 2008Caltech's Palomar Observatory now upgraded to 155Mbps connectivity via HPWREN An upgrade of major parts of the HPWREN backbone from 45 megabits per second to 155 Mbps terrestrial microwave links is now boosting the network performance of the California Institute of Technology's Palomar Observatory. 
March 18, 2008HPWREN collaborates in Florida James Hale describes experiences from when he was drafted for HPWREN purposes during some of his Florida vacation time. 
March 16, 2008HPWREN creates a project summary video for NSF The HPWREN team and its collaborators created a high-definition video, requested by the National Science Foundation, which summarizes some of the project, and its interdisciplinary and multi-institutional nature. 
February 20, 2008HPWREN camera observes more than four years of post-fire plant regrowth An incidental benefit of a fire camp connection in 2003 is the availability of a fixed digital still camera for environmental monitoring. A time-lapse animation illustrates more than four years of post-fire regrowth behavior. 
February 15, 2008Pala Native American Youth Explore Tidepools via HPWREN LIVE The HPWREN team worked with staff at the Pala Learning Center, the National Park Service (NPS), and the NSF-funded Indigenous Earth Sciences Project for a Live Interactive Virtual Exploration (LIVE) activity. 
January 7, 2008HPWREN establishes its first OC3-capacity link During the first week of January 2008, HPWREN established its first OC3-capacity (about 155 megabits per second each direction at full-duplex) wireless link across about 12 miles between the Cuyamaca and Laguna mountains in San Diego County. 
January 1, 2008New large-size digital images available from visibility cameras at the Cabrillo National Monument HPWREN collaborated with Cabrillo National Monument and the California Mediterranean Research Learning Center (CMRLC) on high-resolution cameras to show the San Diego sky line from Point Loma. |