Work in Progress - Multi-Campus and Multi-Disciplinary Student-Led Testbed at UPRM

As part of the Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) Engineering Research Center a testbed coordinated by students (SLT) has been proposed. The students belong to four different institutions: University of Massachusetts, University of Oklahoma, Colorado State University, and University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. They meet in a weekly basis via videoconferences to discuss details concerning their projects. This multicampus project has evolved in a multidisciplinary research initiative that includes areas from electrical engineering, computer engineering, meteorology, atmospheric sciences, and social sciences. The project consist in developing a network of high frequency, low power, and low range radars in Puerto Rico that will densely sample the lower atmosphere. In contrast with the other full system testbed within the center, the students are leading this effort and they will find in Puerto Rico challenges in the mountainous topography and tropical clime of the Island.