Calit2: The Path ForwardEnvironmental Technical Working Group

Environmental Technical Working Group Kick-Off

September 25, 2009

Dr. Larry Smarr

Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

Harry E. Gruber Professor,

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering

Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD

Today’s Meeting Agenda

• 10:00-10:30 Roundtable Introductions– Who Are You, What Do You Do, How Does it Relate to Environmental thrust.

– Each person limited to 1 minutes!

• 10:30-11:00 Planning Process Overview– Overview of Strategic Planning Process, Desired Output, Timeline

– Questions and Answers on Process

• 11:00-11:45 Technical Brainstorming [Initial Discussion]– What are the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities for Calit2 in Env?

– What are the application opportunities in this thrust in next 5-10 years?

– What technologies are needed to realize the application opportunities?

• 11:45-12:00 Leadership of Technical Working Group– Nominations/Volunteer for leadership of TWG

– Decisions on leadership will be made after the meeting and communicated to the working group prior to the next meeting.

Calit2 Continues to Pursue Its Initial Mission:

Envisioning How the Extension of Innovative Telecommunications and Information Technologies

Throughout the Physical World will Transform Critical Applications

Important to the California Economy and its Citizens’ Quality Of Life.

Calit2 is a University of California “Institutional Innovation” Experiment on How to Invent

a Persistent Collaborative Research and Education Environment that Provides Insight into How the UC,

a Major Research University, Might Evolve in the Future.

Calit2 Review Report: p.1

Calit2 Must Update Its Vision for the Next Decadeand Answer the President’s Call

“We need to do a better job of telling our story in Sacramento

— and beyond. I've made some 20 trips to the capital

in the past year and will continue my advocacy.

But frankly, I could use some help.”

--UC President Yudof

The Components on Which Calit2Can Build the Next 5-10 Years

Principles for Developing the Path Forward

• Responsive to LARGE-SCALE SOCIETAL CHALLENGES in California and Beyond

• Articulates a Clear Five-Ten Year Vision of Significant Scientific or Technical Challenges

• Builds on Strength of Both Campuses and Expands as Needed to External Partners (Other Universities, National Laboratories, Etc)

• Engages Existing Centers, Large Grants, & Large Scale Calit2 Infrastructure

• Anchored in One Application Area, but Draws from The Institute’s Other Seven Application and Enabling Technologies

• Creates “At Scale” Living Laboratory Prototype that Demonstrates the Feasibility of Addressing the CHALLENGE

Visual Timeline for Developing The Path Forward

Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri

31 SEPT 1

2 3 4

*7 8 ALL HANDS

9 10 11

14 15 16 17 18

Planning and Kick-OffSeptember 2009

October-November 2009

A total of 48 working days for Technical Working Group Activities

Campus Working Group Meetings

Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri

7 8 9 10 11

14 15 16 17 18

*21 *22 *23 *24 *25

*28 *29 *30 *31 JAN *1

December 2009

Target for Reverse Town Hall

Review of Technical Input

January 2010Review Cycle

CALIT2 Gov & AB COUNCIL

CALit 2 DiV Councils

What Output Do We Want for the TWG?

• Technical White Paper of Calit2 Opportunities in Environment– Maximum of 10 pages, high level vision, major stakeholders, needed

technologies, Calit2 unique efforts, gap analysis (what do we have, what do we need to realize vision).

• Executive Summary of Technical White Paper for Path Forward Document– Maximum of 3 pages, summarizes details of more technical oriented white paper.

• Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats, Gap Analysis– Maximum 2 page document that summarizes SWOT and Gap conversation.

– SWOT’s will be kept internal, not shared in public document.

The Digital Transformation of Environment

• Water, Fire, & Changing California Climate– Global Climate Change Drives Regional Climate Disruption

– Common “Mirror World” of Southern California for Fire and Water Management

– 3D Detailed Natural and Human Modified Environment

– Wide-Spread Sensor Nets

– Emergency Response to Disasters

– Policy and Decision Support Tools

Climate Change Will Pose Major Challenges to California in Water and Wildfires

“It is likely that the changes in climate that San Diego is experiencing due to the warming of the region will increase the frequency and intensity of fires even more,

making the region more vulnerable to devastating fires like the ones seen in 2003 and 2007.”

California Applications Program (CAP) & The California Climate Change Center (CCCC) CAP/CCCC is directed from the Climate Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Dan Cayan SIO and USGSAlan Sanstadt LLNL

Mary Tyree SIOEd Maurer Santa Clara UniversityMike Dettinger USGS, SIO Hugo Hidalgo Univ. Costa Rica

Tapash Das SIO

Nick Graham HRC, SIOPeter Bromirski SIOReinhard Flick Calif Boating and Waterways,

SIO

sponsors:California Energy Commission PIER programCalifornia Ocean Protection CouncilNOAA OGP RISA element

http://meteora.ucsd.edu/cap

Climate and Sea Level Scenarios for California: 2008-2009 State Assessment

Assessment Science Mtg, SIO 4/20/2009

Creating a Proposal Addressing a Major Challenge to California

UCSD

UCI

LANL

UCSB

Creating a Digital Model of Southern California and Coupled Codes to Simulate Wildfires

Start with Sophisticated Los Alamos Wildfire Simulator Rodman Linn, Los Alamos

Coupling FIRETEC/HIGRAD to the Rest of the Environment

UCI

UCI

LANL

UCSB

1/3 Billion Pixel OptIPortal Linked to NASA GoddardEarth Satellite Images of October 2007 Wildfires

Source: Falko Kuester, Calit2@UCSD

HPWREN Topology, August 2008

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Backbone/relay nodeAstronomy science siteBiology science siteEarth science siteUniversity siteResearcher locationNative American siteFirst Responder site

NSSS

SDSU

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DESC

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POTR P066

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CE

155Mbps FDX 6 GHz FCC licensed155Mbps FDX 11 GHz FCC licensed 45Mbps FDX 6 GHz FCC licensed 45Mbps FDX 11 GHz FCC licensed 45Mbps FDX 5.8 GHz unlicensed 45Mbps-class HDX 4.9GHz 45Mbps-class HDX 5.8GHz unlicensed ~8Mbps HDX 2.4/5.8 GHz unlicensed ~3Mbps HDX 2.4 GHz unlicensed 115kbps HDX 900 MHz unlicensed 56kbps via RCS network

dashed = planned

Hans-Werner Braun, HPWREN PI

Firefighters from the SkyFirefighters from the Sky

Ron SerabiaFire CaptainSemi-Retired

Talk to Ron in the

Calit2 Theatre

Calit2 Added Live Feeds From HPWREN Cameras to KPBS Google Map