Tuesday, Sept 15th, 2009

8:00am Registration

8:45am Opening Remarks  Workshop Chair D. Joachim [video]

9:00am Session I:  Sensor Fusion and Integration

Joseph Paradiso:   From Sensing People to Sensing Nature - Lessons Learned from Pervasive Computing [video]

9:00am

Yogesh Gianchandani: Wireless Integrated MicroSystems [video]

9:20am

John Burt: Sensing the Social Network: Using Wireless Tech to Monitor Animal Social Behavior [video]

9:40am

Discussion

10:00am 

 

Break                                                                                         10:30–11:00am

11:00am Session II:  Marine Environments

 

Ari Shapiro: Killer Whales Underwater and on Air: Science in and Beyond the Tower [video]

11:00am

Robert Stevenson:  Wireless Sensor Networks in Coastal Environments Integrating Technologies and Sciences Across Disciplines [video]

11:20am

Discussion

11:40am

 

Lunch, Posters and Student Presentations                                                                         noon - 1:20pm

1:30pm  Session III:  Robotics and Nature

 

Dezhen Song:  Collaborative Observation of Natural Environments [video]

1:30pm

Nikolaus Correll:  Building a Robotic Garden [video]

1:50pm

Greg Marshall:  Crittercam:  Can You See Me Now? [video]

2:10pm

Discussion

2:20pm

 

Break                                                                                        2:40 – 3:00pm

3:00pm  Session IV:  Instrumentation 

 

Judy Cushing:   Visualization of Terrestrial-Aquatic Systems [video]

3:00pm

Carlos Corrada-Bravo: Towards an Automated Remote Biodiversity Monitoring Network [video]

3:20pm

Rich Fletcher:  Scalable, Low-Cost Instrumentation for Environmental Mapping [video]

3:40pm

Discussion

4:00pm

 

Evening Program

8:00pm Screening of the film Home from the internationally recognized photographer and writer
Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Narrated by Glenn Close, the film is a travel notebook, comprised of
mesmerizing shots of landscapes, water currents, and roads, captured from above.  

 

 

Wednesday Sept 16th, 2009

8:45am  Opening Remarks  F. Moss (Media Lab Director) [video]

 

9:00am  Session V:  Conservation

 

Glorianna Davenport:   Evolving Nature Stories [video]

9:00am

Mike Saunders:  The Anatomy of a Plant Identification Tool for Mobile Devices [video]

9:20am

Stephen Brown:  Making Arctic Shorebirds and Their Habitats Virtually Accessible to the Public [video]

9:40am

John Pickering:  Discover Life

10:00am

Discussion

10:20am 

 

Break                                                                                          10:40–10:50am

10:50am   Session VI:  Acoustic Interactions and Citizen Science

 

Dale Joachim:  Interactive Cellphone Playback Surveys [video]

10:50am

Dave Potter:  Cell Phones, Owls, and Citizen Science at Unity College [video]

11:10 am

Eric Klopfer:  Community Science Investigators  [video]

11:30am

Discussion

11:50pm 

 

Lunch, Posters and Student Presentations                                                                       12:10-1:00pm

1:00pm  Session VII:  Visualization

 

Fernanda Viegas: Transforming data access through public visualization [video]

1:00pm

Kate Beard-Tisdale: Visualizing and Exploring Events from Sensor Networks [video]

1:20pm

Peggy Agouris [video]

1:40pm

Discussion 

2:00pm

 

Break 2:20-2:40pm

2:40pm  Special topics HEMBI

 

Bruce Walker:  Sonification Assistive Technology, and Accessible Aquaria [video]

2:40pm

Myriel Milicevic: Neighbourhood Satellites [video]

3:00pm

Natalie Jeremijenko: Texting Fish, Wrestling Beetles, Translating Birds, and Other Cross-Species Adventures

3:20pm

Discussion

3:40pm

 

 

4:00pm Wrap-up: Where do we go from here? Dale Joachim 4:00-4:30pm