http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Wed, 22 May 2013 23:00:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.lastcallattheoasis.com/ http://www.lastcallattheoasis.com/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 19:39:29 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=30125 Integrative biology professor Tyrone Hayes joins Erin Brockovich in a documentary, "Last Call at the Oasis," that's already getting praise for its discussion of a coming global water crisis. Directed by Jessica Yu & produced by the same people who created "An Inconvenient Truth," the documentary opened May 4 in New York and Los Angeles and comes to the Bay Area May 11.]]> http://www.lastcallattheoasis.com/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/04/floating-sensor-network-field-test/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/04/floating-sensor-network-field-test/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 20:08:37 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=29823 UC Berkeley engineers will conduct their inaugural field test of the Floating Sensor Network project on Wednesday, May 9, in Walnut Grove, Calif. They developed floating sensors that can be rapidly deployed in response to emergencies such as levee breaches or oil spills. The fleet includes robotic sensors that can swim around obstacles to target areas of interest and transmit live data to researchers using GPS receivers and mobile phone technology. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/04/floating-sensor-network-field-test/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/03/2m-nsf-grant-expands-sierra-water-sensor-network/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/03/2m-nsf-grant-expands-sierra-water-sensor-network/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:14:15 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=17277 CITRIS researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Merced have received a $2 million NSF grant to expand their network of wireless sensors in the Sierra Nevada. The sensors enable remote monitoring of snow depth, stream flow, water content in soil and use of water in vegetation – data that will be used to help manage one of the most precious resources in the state.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/03/2m-nsf-grant-expands-sierra-water-sensor-network/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/07/25/nsf-erc-urban-water-center/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/07/25/nsf-erc-urban-water-center/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:43:30 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=14272 The NSF has announced a five-year, $18.5 million grant to fund a new Engineering Research Center (ERC) to re-invent the country's urban water infrastructure, which is seeing increasing challenges from age, population growth and the effects of climate change. The new center will be led by Stanford University in partnership with UC Berkeley, Colorado School of Mines and New Mexico State University. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/07/25/nsf-erc-urban-water-center/feed/ 0 http://citris-uc.org/news/2011/water_sense http://citris-uc.org/news/2011/water_sense#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:04:51 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=6301 While more than half of California’s water comes from snow in the Sierra Nevada, it is difficult for water managers to measure and track through the year. Now, scientists at UC Berkeley and UC Merced — supported by the multi-campus Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) — are using networks of wireless sensors to measure snow depth and other environmental factors.]]> http://citris-uc.org/news/2011/water_sense/feed/ 0