Professor Greg Niemeyer creates games that can help engage people with serious issues, particularly that of climate change.
The Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod is a micro-robot made of paperboard and off-the-shelf electronics that could assist in recovery from natural disasters by crawling into spaces too dangerous for rescue workers to enter.
On December 7, 2009, representatives of the world’s governments convene
in Copenhagen, Denmark, seeking agreement between nations to regulate
and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions after 2012, when the current
treaty, known as the Kyoto Protocol, expires.
Professor Jay Lund and colleagues at the UC Davis Center for Watershed
Sciences have developed software to model California's water storage
and distribution system.
UC Santa Cruz Professor Andrew Fisher leads the Recharge Initiative, which focuses
efforts to protect, enhance, and improve the availability and
reliability of ground water resource.
Jacob Rosen has developed a robotic arm controlled by the
electrical signals sent by the brain through the nerves to contract the
muscles – signals known as electromyograph (EMG).
A new company, which won second-place in this year's Big Ideas contest, works to connect patients with difficult-to-diagnose symptoms with the right specialists.
A group of biologists at UC Santa Cruz is employing
sensor and communications technology, partially supported by CITRIS,
that they have built into radio collars to better understand the dynamics of the mountain lions that live in
the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Professor Kwan-Liu Ma at
UC Davis takes data sets that can be on the peta or tera scale
and turns them into explorable, workable, and visualizable units
Working on behalf of the city of San Francisco, UC Berkeley and
CITRIS-affiliated researchers recently released a comprehensive
evaluation of the city's public surveillance camera system, completed over seven
months.
