Environmental Monitoring for Public Health and Disaster Recovery

This workshop aims to promote and sustain mutually beneficial research and education collaboration between the U.S. and China in the field of environmental monitoring for public health and disaster recovery. The workshop serves as an international forum on recent developments in theoretical and applied aspects of the field of environmental monitoring using sensing, computing, and communications technologies. The workshop took place in Yellow Mountains, China on August 7--8, 2012. Attendees included about 20 leading researchers from University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), The Pennsylvania State University (PSU), University of Florida (UFL), Emory University (Emory U.), The University of Kansas (KU), University of Pittsburgh (UPitt), College of William and Mary (WM), George Washington University (GWU), Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), University of Connecticut (UConn), The Ohio State University (OSU), etc. at the U.S. side and 25 researchers from Tsinghua University (Tsinghua U.), National Chaio-Tung University (National Chiao-Tung U.), Zhejiang University (Zhejiang U.), Tongji University (Tongji U.), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU of HK), City University of Hong Kong (CityU of HK), University of Macau (UMacau), and Chinese Academy of Sciences --- Institute for Computing Technology (ICT) at the China side. The researchers are from the areas of networking, sensing, large data management, public health, etc. Several officers from both the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) also attended the workshop.