Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects of Cost Effective,

Sensor-Based Infrastructure for Tsunami Monitoring and Detection

Berkeley, California, November 16-17, 2006

S-CITI Project

Sponsored By:

National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, USA

Organized By:            

Louise Comfort, Daniel Mosse and Taieb Znati

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA

 

Schedule of Events

Thursday, November 16, 2006:

7:30:

Breakfast

8:30:

Welcome

8:45:

Summary of 1 st Workshop on Exploratory Sensor Based Infrastructure for Early Tsunami Detection

9:00:

Session I: Low-cost Sensing Technology for Tsunami Disaster Management

  • Feasibility, and
  • Challenges

10:30:

Coffee Break

11:00:

Session II: Architectural Design Alternatives for Resilient, Low-Cost Sensor-based IT Infrastructure for Tsunami Disaster Management

  • Reliability and Timeliness

12:30:

Lunch

1:30:

Session III: Translating Research into Practice

Socio-technical approaches to integration of sensor-based IT infrastructure into usable Tsunami Disaster Management Systems

2:30:

Breakout Logistics and Charge

2:45:

Breakout Sessions:

  • Theme I - Feasibility of low-cost sensing technology for tsunami detection,
  • Theme II - Architectural design issues for a underwater, wireless sensor network architectures,
  • Theme III - Seamless integration of low-cost sensor-based IT architecture into a socially-aware tsunami disaster management system

4:00:

Visit to CITRIS Laboratory (Center for Information Technology Research