Jacob, Jen, and Andrew made the trip out to NAU’s Historic Hat Ranch property, west of Williams, AZ, to participate in the WildWEST project’s 2025 Summer Camp. WildWEST (Wild-area-networks Wireless Enabling Science Team) is a $5m infrastructure project funded by NSF’s Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure and led by PI Scotty Strachan (a long-time PhenoCam collaborator) of the Nevada System of Higher Education. WildWEST aims to develop the infrastructure, and train workforces, needed to implement “end-to-end data transport solutions for science in remote and challenging environments.” Andrew is a collaborator on the project and serves as a member of the Science Stakeholder Use Case team; his talk focused on some of the challenges the lab has faced in developing two-way communications solutions for projects at the Bartlett AmeriFlux site, the Sevilleta LTER’s Mean-Variance Experiment, and redwood groves at Santa Lucia Preserve. Jen and Jacob had the opportunity to learn about current infrastructure technology and network with WildWEST project leads from Arizona, Utah, and Nevada.
Thanks to Scotty for inviting Andrew and lab members to participate! See you all again in 2026!
The photo shows Andrew, Jen, and Jacob outside of the HHR Straw Bale House.
