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June 29, 2001
San Diego's Black's Beach Receives Wireless Network Connectivity via Scripps Pier HPWREN Participates in Demonstration with UCSD Telecomm and SIO's Center for Coastal Studies The HPWREN team recently worked with UCSD Telecommunications and SIO's Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) to conduct a wireless network feasibility demonstration from Scripps Pier to Black's Beach. By extending a fiber optics network connection across the beach via a wireless ethernet bridge, scientists from CCS and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will soon have the ability to relay real-time data from ocean sensors to their laboratories.
Specifically, this demonstration is part of CCS' preparation for the 2003 Nearshore Canyon Experiment (NCEX), which has been proposed to the Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation. When completed, the NCEX will encompass a nearshore processes community model that allows scientists to study better the evolution of surface gravity waves propagating across the continental shelf through the shoaling region and surf zone. The NCEX will also concentrate on corresponding inner shelf and breaking-wave driven nearshore circulation, sediment transport, and subsequent bathymetric change.
Additional photographs regarding this activity are available at https://cdn.hpwren.ucsd.edu/images/20010628/.
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