A workshop for researchers and company executives in Massachusetts who are developing and deploying new technologies to monitor the environment.
Monitoring the environment utilizes a large variety of new research techniques and technologies. The combination of new sensors, robotics, communication systems and massive information processing is enabling a new generation of research that can sense and monitor different environments and analyze change.
Massachusetts research institutions have been successful in securing major grant funding to develop and build such systems - on land, in the atmosphere, and in the oceans. Two major projects in this field are the Ocean Sensing project at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Coastal and Global Ocean Observatories and UMass Amherst 's Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA). MIT, Northeastern, Boston University, UMass Boston and UMass Dartmouth also have significant research programs in this area.
The new devices and data sets that result from these research projects also have applications in the commercial world - from homeland security, to placing new clean energy generation plants, and to developing early warning systems for major weather events.
The program will include presentations on new technologies and data analysis tools that are being developed in the Commonwealth, as well as discussions on their applications to the commercial sector and the product needs of both corporate and government users.
10:00 AM
Welcome and Program Overview
Dan Stuermer, Director of Development, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Abigail Barrow, Director, Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center
Introduction and overview of two major environmental research projects
David McLaughlin, Director of the CASA Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere - UMass Amherst
Al Plueddemann, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
10:30 AM
Technology Briefing 1: New Sensor Technologies
Speakers from academia and industry who are developing new sensor technologies to measure temperature, pollutants, water and air quality etc.
Joseph P. Biondi, Vice President of the Advanced Technology Directorate, Raytheon
John Beaty, Director of Technology Programs, Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems, Northeastern University
Neil Cater, Manager, Ocean Instrumentation School of Ocean Technology, Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland
Harry Tuller, Professor, MIT
Moderator: Steven G. Withrow, Project Leader, Cape Cod's Innovation Accelerator for Marine Sciences
11:45 PM
Lunch and Keynote Speaker
David Cash, Assistant Secretary, Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
1:15 PM
Technology Briefing 2: Sensor Networks, Communications and Data Management
Speakers from academia and industry who are developing sensor network technologies, communications technologies for the sensors to talk to each other and to home base, and software to manage and analyze all the data that is collected.
Naïm Batani, President and CEO, ISR Technologies
David McLaughlin, Director of the CASA ERC - UMass Amherst
Michael Chiu, President & CTO of Trophos Energy
Dale Green, Chief Scientist, Teledyne Benthos
Robert Lynch, Senior Electronics Engineer, Naval Undersea Warfare
2:30 PM Break
2:50 PM
Technology Briefing 3: Sensor Deployment
Speakers from academia and industry who are developing novel ways of deploying the sensors and sensor networks and of moving sensors from place to place.
Christopher Wallsmith, CTO, BluefinRobotics
Clayton Jones, Senior Director, Teledyne Webb Research
Francesco Peri, Managing Director, Center for Coastal Environmental Sensing Networks, UMass Boston
Kevin McClurg, Business Development Manager, YSI Inc.
Moderator: John Farrington, Interim Dean, SMAST UMass Dartmouth
4:00 PM Closing by Tom Hopcroft, President, Mass Technology Leadership Council
Presented by the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center, WHOI, and Mass Tech Leadership Councill in collaboration with MOTN
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