Projects
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CENS – Center for Embedded Networked Sensing
UCLA’s Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) is a major research enterprise focused on developing wireless sensing systems and applying this revolutionary technology to critical scientific and societal pursuits. In the same way that the development of the Internet transformed our ability to communicate, the ever decreasing size and cost of computing components is setting the stage for detection, processing, and communication technology to be embedded throughout the physical world and, thereby, fostering both a deeper understanding of the natural and built environment and, ultimately, enhancing our ability to design and control these complex systems.
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ESMF – Earth System Modeling Framework
The Earth System Modeling Framework is an effort to develop a software framework that allows climate modelers to couple components together, facilitating greater interoperability between modeling groups. For instance, it allows one group’s ocean model to be coupled with another group’s atmosphere model. A group of about 10 software engineers is developing the framework, with about 10 different modeling groups currently using the framework. In addition to ESMF, we are also studying the Earth System Grid, which provides services for distributing datasets from model runs, and the Earth System Curator, which is building a metadata system to help climate scientists discover and compare datasets.
