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Contents 1 Journal Publications: 2 Conference Papers: 3 Posters: 4 Conference Presentations (No Paper) 5 Book Chapters 6 Press Articles 7 Workshops 8 Other 9 Presentations

Journal Publications:

• O. Couach, G. Barrenetxea, B. Le Bocey, M. Krichane, T. Bertholet, V. Luyet, D. Daidie, K. Aberer, J. Medico, M. Vetterli, M. Parlange. Thermal anomaly identification over a rock glacier by a wireless environmental monitoring network. In preparation (2008).

• G. Barrenetxea, O. Couach, F. Ingelrest, M. Krichane, K. Aberer, M. Parlange, M. Vetterli. SensorScope : An Environmental Monitoring Network. To be submitted to Water Resources Research (2008).

• K. Aberer, G. Alonso, G. Barrenetxea, J. Beutel, J. Bovay, H. Dubois-Ferrière, D. Kossmann, M. Parlange, L. Thiele and M. Vetterli, Infrastructures for a Smart Earth - The Swiss NCCR-MICS initiative -, PIK - Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation, Vol. 30. Jahrgang, Nr. Heft 1, pp. 20-25, 2007.

• K. Aberer, G. Alonso and D. Kossmann, Data Management for a Smart Earth - The Swiss NCCR-MICS initiative -, Sigmod Record, Vol. 34, Nr. 4, 2006.

• M. Woehrle, J. Beutel and L. Thiele, Wireless Sensor Networks Test and Validation, Chapter in Handbook of Networked Embedded Systems, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis. (To appear)

• Couach, O., Luyet, V., Ristori, P., Parlange, M., Barrenetxea, G., Ingelrest, F., Vetterli, M., Aberer, K.: SensorScope: a New Environmental Monitoring System. Example of Application in an Alpine Environment, Environmental Modelling & Software Special Issue “Sensors and Environment”, submitted.

• Ingelrest F., Barrenetxea G., Schaefer G., Vetterli M., Couach O., Parlange M.; SensorScope: Application-Specific Sensor Network for Environmental Monitoring: accepted to ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 6, Nr. 2, 2009.

• Barrenetxea G., Ingelrest F., Schaefer G., Vetterli M.: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Successful Wireless Sensor Network Deployments; The 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2008), pp. 43-56, 2008.

• Schäppi, B., Perona P., Schneider P., Burlando P.: Integrating river cross section measurements with DTM models for improved water surface modelling applications; Computers and Geosciences, under review

• Vogt T, Hoehn E, Schneider P, Cirpka OA.: Untersuchungen der Flusswasserinfiltration in voralpinen Schottern mittels Zeitreihenanalyse; Grundwasser (in press).

• Vogt T, Schneider P, Hahn-Woernle L, Cirpka OA.: Estimation of Seepages Rates in a Losing Stream by Fiber-Optic High-Resolution Vertical Temperature Profiling; Journal of Hydrology (in prep.)

Conference Papers:

• Dawes N., Kumar K.A., Michel S., Aberer K., Lehning M.: Sensor Metadata Management and its Application in Large-Scale Environmental Research; 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science. December 2008

• Anmol V. Singh, Andreas Wombacher, Karl Aberer, Personalized Information Access in a Wiki Using Structured Tagging. OTM Workshops (1) 2007: 427-436 [ pdf ]

• Michel S., Salehi A., Luo L., Dawes N., Aberer K., Barrenetxea G., Bavay M., Kansal A., Kumar K.A., Nath S., Parlange M., Tansley S., Van Ingen C., Zhao F., Zhou Y. Environmental Monitoring 2.0; ICDE 2009 (demonstration track)

• Noseda C., Schnyder A., Brand J., Charbon E.: HYDROMON: The First On-Line Water Quality Monitoring System Built in a Public Supply Network; Distribution Systems Symposium, Reno, Aug. 2009.

• Froidevaux M., Serikov I., Burgos S., Ristori P., Simeonov V., Van den Bergh H., Parlange M.: A new lidar for water vapor and temperature measurements in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer; AsiaFlux Newsletter Issue No.28 pp.13-17, , March 2009

• Nadeau D. F., Brutsaert W., Parlange M. B., Bou-Zeid E., Barrenetxea G., Couach O., Boldi M.-O., Selker J. S., Vetterli M.: Estimation of urban sensible heat flux using a dense wireless network of observations; accepted to Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 2009.

• Zhou Y., Salehi A., Aberer K.: Scalable Delivery of Stream Query Result; In proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), July 2009.

• Salehi A., Riahi M., Michel S., Aberer K.: Knowing When to Slide - Efficient Scheduling for Sliding Window Processing; In proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), May 2009.

• Salehi A., Riahi M., Michel S., Aberer K.: GSN, Middleware for Stream World; In proceedings of the10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), May 2009 (demonstration track).

• Haghani P., Michel S., Aberer K.: Evaluating Top-k Queries over Incomplete Data Streams; In proceedings of the18th ACM conference on Information and Knowledge Management, to appear, November 2009

• Jurca O., Michel S., Herrmann A., Aberer K.: Processing Publish/Subscribe Queries over Distributed Data Streams; In proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems, 2009

• Wu J., Zhou Y., Aberer K., and Tan L.: Towards Integrated and Efficient Scientific Sensor Data Processing: A Database Approach; In proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, 2009

• Zhou Y., Aberer K., Tan L.: Toward Massive Query Optimization in Large-Scale Distributed Stream Systems; In proceedings of the 9th International Middleware Conference, 2008

• Jurca O., Michel S., Herrmann A., Aberer K.: Query Driven Operator Placement for Complex Event Detection over Data Streams; In proceedings of the 3rd IEEE European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context, 2008

• Beutel J., Lim R., Meier A., Thiele L., Walser C., Woehrle M., Yuecel M.: The FlockLab Testbed Architecture; Proc. 7th ACM Conf. Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2009), ACM, New York, pages to appear, November 2009.

• Keller M., Beutel J., Meier A., Lim R., Thiele L.: Learning from Sensor Network Data; Proc. 7th ACM Conf. Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2009), ACM, New York, pages to appear, November 2009.

• Beutel J., Keller M.: High Resolution Imaging for Environmental Monitoring Applications; Proc. International Snow Science Workshop (ISSW 09 Europe), Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, pages 197-201, September 2009.

• Beutel J., Gruber S.: The PermaSense Remote Monitoring Infrastructure; Proc. International Snow Science Workshop (ISSW 09 Europe), Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, pages 187-191, September 2009.

• Dawes N., Lehning M., Aberer K., Parlange M., Bavay M., Berne M.: Swiss Experiment: Providing diverse snow research data sets when and where they are required; Proc. International Snow Science Workshop (ISSW 09 Europe), Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, September 2009.

• Meier A., Woehrle M., Weise M., Beutel J., Thiele L.: NoSE: Efficient Maintenance and Initialization of Wireless Sensor Networks; Proc. 6th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conf. on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2009), IEEE Piscataway, NJ, pages 1-9, June 2009.

• Beutel J., Gruber S., Hasler A., Lim R., Meier A., Plessl C., Talzi I., Thiele L., Tschudin C., Woehrle M., M. Yuecel: Operating a Sensor Network at 3500 m Above Sea Level; Proc. 8th ACM/IEEE Int'l Conf. on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN/SPOTS '09), ACM Press, New York, pages 405-406, April 2009.

• Beutel J., Gruber S., Hasler A., Lim R., Meier A., Plessl C., Talzi I., Thiele L., Tschudin C., Woehrle M., M. Yuecel: PermaDAQ: A Scientific Instrument for Precision Sensing and Data Recovery under Extreme Conditions; Proc. 8th ACM/IEEE Int'l Conf. on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN/SPOTS '09), ACM Press, New York, pages 265-276, April 2009.

• Lim R., Woehrle M., Meier A., Beutel J.: Harvester - Energy Savings Through Synchronized Low-power Listening; Proc. 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2009), pages 29-30, February, 2009.

• Keller M., Beutel J., Thiele L.: Mountainview - Precision Image Sensing on High-Alpine Locations; Proc. 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2009), February 2009.

• Meier A., Weise M., Beutel J., Thiele L.: NoSE: Neighbor Search and Link Estimation for a Fast and Energy Efficient Initialization of WSNs; Proc. 6th ACM Conf. Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2008), ACM Press, New York, pages 397-398, November 2008.

• Y. Zhou, K. Aberer, A. Salehi and K.-L. Tan, Rethinking the Design of Distributed Stream Processing Systems, accepted to Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, 2008.

• Dawes N., Kumar K.A., Michel S., Aberer K., Lehning M. 'Sensor Metadata Management and its Application in Large-Scale Environmental Research; 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science.

• Karl Aberer, Smart Earth: From Pervasive Observation to Trusted Information. MDM 2007: 3-7

• Anmol V. Singh, Andreas Wombacher, Karl Aberer, Personalized Information Access in a Wiki Using Structured Tagging. OTM Workshops (1) 2007: 427-436 [ pdf ]

• W. Woehrle, C. Plessl, R. Lim, J. Beutel and L. Thiele, EvAnT: Analysis and Checking of event traces for Wireless Sensor Networks. Proc. IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC 2008), June 2008.

• A. Hasler, I. Talzi, J. Beutel, C. Tschudin and S. Gruber, Wireless Sensor Networks in Permafrost Research Concept, Requirements, Implementation and Challenges. Proc. 9th International Conference on Permafrost (NICOP), vol. 1, pages 669-674, June, 2008.

• A. Meier, T. Rein, J. Beutel and L. Thiele: Coping with Unreliable Channels, Efficient Link Estimation for Low-Power Wireless Sensor Networks. Proc. 5th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS2008), June, 2008.

• A. Meier, M. Weise, J. Beutel, and L. Thiele, NoSE: Neighbor Search and Link Estimation for a Fast and Energy Efficient Initialization of WSNs. Proc. 6th ACM Conf. Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2008), pages to appear, November 2008.

• O. Couach, G. Barrenetxea, V. Luyet, B. Le Bocey, M. Krichane, T. Bertholet, T. Varidel, M. Bystranowski, K. Aberer, J. Medico, M. Parlange, M. Vetterli. SensorScope: a New Environmental Monitoring System. Example of Application in an Alpine Environment. International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (IEMSS 2008), Barcelona, Catalonia, 6-10 July 2008.

• G. Barrenetxea, F. Ingelrest, G. Schaefer, M. Vetterli, O. Couach and M. Parlange. SensorScope: Out-of-the-Box Environmental Monitoring. The 7th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2008). St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 22-24 April 2008.

• G. Barrenetxea, F. Ingelrest, Y. M. Lu and M. Vetterli. Assessing the Challenges of Environmental Signal Processing through the SensorScope Project. The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008). Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 30 March - 4 April 2008.

• F. Ingelrest, G. Barrenetxea and M. Vetterli. SensorScope, un système clef en main de surveillance de l'environnement. 13ème Colloque Francophone sur l'Ingénierie des Protocoles (CFIP 2008). Les Arcs, France,25 - 28 March 2008.

• G. Barrenetxea, F. Ingelrest, G. Schaefer and M. Vetterli, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Successful Wireless Sensor Network Deployments, accepted to The 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2008).

• G. Barrenetxea, F. Ingelrest, G. Schaefer and M. Vetterli. Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring: The SensorScope Experience. The 20th IEEE International Zurich Seminar on Communications (IZS 2008). Zurich, Switzerland, 12-14 March 2008.

• M. Woehrle, J. Beutel, R. Lim, M. Yuecel and L. Thiele, Power monitoring and testing in Wireless Sensor Network Development, Workshop on Energy in Wireless Sensor Networks (WEWSN 2008), June, 2008.

Posters:

• Dawes N., Lehning M.: Swiss Experiment; SwissNex dinner, AGU Conference, San Francisco, US, December 2008.

• Dawes N., Michel S.: Swiss Experiment; Microsoft All Hands meeting, San Francisco, US, March 2009.

• Bavay M., Dawes N.: Swiss Experiment: Advanced interdisciplinary network infrastructure ready to provide interpolation validation; ICAM Conference, Rastatt, Germany, May 2009.

• Luyet V., Sornette A. et. al: The O3E project; AGU 2008 (December San Francisco)

• Nouta S., Perona P., Schneider P., Wombacher A., Burlando P.: First steps toward automatic patterns recognition from sequences of a restored river corridor photographs; EGU General Assembly, Vienna, April 2009

• Vogt T, Cirpka OA, Schneider P.: Temperaturmessungen zur Untersuchung des Austausches zwischen Fluss- und Grundwasser; Jahrestagung der Fachsektion Hydrogeologie in der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, 21.-25.5.2008, Göttingen.

• Vogt T, Hoehn E, Schneider P, Cirpka OA.: Investigation of Bank Filtration in Gravel and Sand Aquifers using Time-Series Analysis; EGU General Assembly, April 19-24, 2009, Vienna.

• Vogt T., Hahn-Woernle L., Sunarjo B., Thum T., Schneider P., Schirmer M., Cirpka OA.: Distributed Temperature Sensing – a useful tool for investigation of surface water – groundwater interaction; EGU General Assembly, April 19-24, 2009, Vienna.

• Sarni S., Aberer K.: SwissEx and SensorMap; I & C welcome day, EPFL, September 2009.

• Sarni S., Aberer K.: SwissEx and SensorMap; MICS Site Visit, EPFL, September 2009.

• Salehi A., Aberer K.: Swiss Experiment; MICS Site Visit, EPFL, September 2009.

• Charbon E. et al.: Hydromon; MICS3 2009

• Swiss Experiment: a New Environmental Monitoring Platform in Alpine Environment; AGU Conference, San Francisco, California, USA, 10–14 December 2007. SwissEx_AGU_2007.pdf‎

• Swiss Experiment: a New Environmental Monitoring Platform for the Alpine Environment; COST Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, 08 April 2008.

• Swiss Experiment; SwissNex dinner, AGU Conference, San Francisco, US, December 2008.

• Swiss Experiment; Microsoft All Hands meeting, San Francisco, US, March 2009.

• Swiss Experiment: Advanced interdisciplinary network infrastructure ready to provide interpolation validation, ICAM Conference, Rastatt, Germany, May 2009. [1]

Conference Presentations (No Paper)

• Lehning M., Dawes N.: ALPS; EGU 2009

• Simoni, S., Porporato, A., Huwald, H., Padoan, S., Parlange, M.: Understanding the hydrological behavior of a steep watershed in the Swiss Alps through a time series analysis of river flow data; EGU 2009. Vienna.

• Froidevaux M., Higgins C., Simeonov V., Ristori P., Serikov I., van den Bergh H., Parlange M. B.: High resolution scanning Raman lidar validation field campaign and internal boundary layer measurement; Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 11, EGU2009-8804, 2009.

• Luyet V., Sornette A. et. al: O3E; Rimini International conference 2009.

• Berenguer J.-L.: Seismo at School: French, Italian and Swiss network; AGU; 15.-19. December 2008.

• Solarino, S., Luyet V., Sornette A.: The O3E project: Building Knowledge on natural risks prevention in schools; Lambescq European Conference,  6.-7. July 2009, Aix en Provence, France.

• Savina M., Molnar P., Burlando P.: The space-time structure of radar rainfall in complex terrain; European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU) in Vienna (19 – 24 April 2009)

• Mächler, L., Kipfer, R.: Oxygen consumption determined by noble gases as an indicator for groundwater quality; Eawag Action Field Symposium 2008.

• Aberer K.: Infrastructures for a smart earth; ASUT Seminar at SWISS TELECOMMUNICATION SUMMIT, Bern, 2009

• Aberer K.: Swiss Experiment - From Wireless Sensor Networks to Sensor Data Management; Invited Talk at DMSN Workshop, 2009

• Aberer K.: Swiss Experiment – From Wireless Sensor Networks to E-Science; BDA, Valence, France, October 2008

• Aberer K.: Swiss Experiment: a collaborative cyberinfrastructure for environmental scientists; JHU workshop on environmental monitoring networks, Baltimore, USA, September 2008

• Aberer K.: Swiss Experiment – From Wireless Sensor Networks to E-Science; Ringvorlesung - Wintersemester 2008/2009, Aachen, Germany, January 2009

• Luyet V., Sornette A. et. al: O3E; La science ça m’interesse, September 2009

• Luyet V., Sornette A. et. al: O3E; Informatica 08-09, September 2009

Book Chapters

• Beutel J., Ringwald M., Römer K., Wöhrle M.: Deployment of Sensor Networks; Chapter in Sensor Networks: Where Theory Meets Practice. Springer, Berlin, to appear, 2009.

• Wöhrle M., Beutel J., Thiele L.: Wireless Sensor Networks Test and Validation; Chapter in Handbook of Networked Embedded Systems. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2009.

• Michael Lehning, Nicholas Dawes, Mathias Bavay, Marc Parlange, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao: Instrumenting the earth: next-generation sensor networks and environmental science; Chapter in The Fourth Paradigm: Data Intensive Scientific Discovery (www.thefourthparadigm.org), 2009

Press Articles

• Dawes N., Aberer K., Lehning M, Parlange M: Swiss Experiment; MRI Europe Newsflash, April 2008

• Dawes N., Aberer K., Lehning M., Parlange M.: Swiss Experiment: an e-science platform for interdisciplinary collaboration in environmental research; MRI Europe Newsletter, Autumn 2008.

• Parlange M. et al.: Flash, EPFL journal , September 2008.

• Dawes N., Wirz V. Introductions for programmes on TV Romansch, SF1 (filmed August 2009 for transmission from November 2009)

• Parlange M. et. al.: Des ingénieurs à l’école; Le Nouvelliste, 27 November 2008

• Luyet V.: climAtscope, un programme d’éducation à l’environnement; Flash, EPFL journal , September 2008

• Parlange M. et. al.: Les précipitations reniflées dans les Alpes ,Revue Technique Suisse, August 2009

• K. Aberer: Made for measure; Public Service Review: Science and Technology 4, August 2009

• K. Aberer et al.: The Swiss Experiment - Environmental Monitoring 2.0, CONET Newsletter, April 2009

• Beutel J. et al.: Sensoren am Matterhorn und auf dem Jungfraujoch; Tages Anzeiger, March 2009

• Beutel J. et al.: Züritipp, the weekly newspaper reports on the “Nacht der Forschung 2009” featuring the PermaSense project: “Wissenschaft zum Anfassen”, Züritipp No. 36, September 2009.

• Beutel J. et al.: The project “Students Sail Autonomously” (ETH Zurich Autonomous Systems Lab) aims at sending an unmanned sailboat on a transatlantic crossing. The first prototype sailboat Avalon was co-developed with technology derived from the

• PermaSense project. Media reports about the boat, the challenge and the first regatta in Portugal made it to numerous media like SF DRS, NZZ, CNN and others, see http://www.ssa.ethz.ch, August 2009.

• Beutel J. et al.: The PermaSense project is featured in a television documentary un natural hazards: Gefahr für die Alpen - Abenteuer Wissen, ZDF, August 2009.

• Beutel J. et al.: The Swiss radio features the PermaSense project in a summer series on cutting edge research: Sommerserie Spitzenforschung Schweiz: Mobile Sensoren vermessen die Welt, Radio DRS 1-2-4, July 2009.

• Beutel J. et al.: The Swiss National Science Foundation published a press release and featured the PermaSense project with the picture of the month for March, 2009. Among the media reporting were ZDFheute.de, Tagesanzeiger, News, Le Matin, Computerzeitung (on the title page), Greenpeace and Radio Oberwallis.

• Beutel J. et al.: The PermaSense project is featured in a brochure for prospective undergrad students at ETH Zurich; ITET Maturandenbroschüre 2009.

• Beutel J. et al.: The PermaSense project in Frozen Ground, Frozen Ground, the news bulletin of the International Permafrost Association, Number 32, December 2008.

• Beutel J. et al.: the quarterly magazine of ETH Zurich features the PermaSense project, ETH Globe, April 2008.

• Beutel J. et al.: The Swiss journal Chemie Plus reports on Online Data Gathering on Matterhorn, Chemie Plus, November 2008.

• Beutel J. et al.: ETH Life features the PermaSense project, ETH Life, October 2008.

• Charbon E. et al.: Hydromon Monitors the Water Quality in Ticino - MICS NEWSLETTER Sep. 2008

• Charbon E. et al.: Hydromon Press Release - Nov. 2008

• MRI Europe Newsletter, April 2008

• Dawes N., Aberer K., Lehning M., Parlange M., Swiss Experiment: an e-science platform for interdisciplinary collaboration in environmental research, MRI Europe, Autumn 2008.

• Flash, EPFL journal , September 2008,

• SwissInfo.ch, 8th April 2008,

• China Info, 30th November 2007

• ScienceDaily, 26th November 2007

• Neuen Zürcher Zeitung, 26th November 2007

• SDA/Schweiz, 26th November 2007

• Basler Zeitung, 26th November 2007

Workshops

• Barrenetxea G., Vetterli M.: Hands-on Workshop Distributed Sensing: Taking it to the field; FZJ Juelich, Germany, July 6-8, 2009

• Dawes N., MRI Workshop, Vienna, April 2009

• Luyet V., Sornette A. et. al: O3E workshop in Zurich, May 2009

• Luyet V., Sornette A. et. al: GLOBE international conference, in Zürich May 2009

• Luyet V., Sornette A. et. al: O3E workshop in Genova, January 2009

• Luyet V., Sornette A. et. al: O3E workshop in Nice, September 2008

• Iosifescu I.: Cartographic Web Services with QGIS mapserver; OGRS 2009: workshop, Nantes.

• Schneider P., Schirmer M.: Groundwater modelling in the Thur valley; Conference at Eawag, 23.10.2008

• Schneider P., Schirmer M.: Meeting with Canton Thurgau on optimisation of monitoring networks in the Thur valley, 10.11.2008

• Schneider P., Schirmer M.: Workshop on streaming data and digital image analysis including a field trip with Swiss Experiment partners and students from University Twente (NL), 12-13.02.2009

• Dawes N.: General SwissEx multimedia presentation, Basecamp, Chur, July 2009

• Various: NCCR (National Center of Competence in Research) workshop, EPFL, June 2009.

• Various: COGEAR workshop, EPFL, July 2009.

• Various: SwissEx workshop, Davos, July 2009.

• Various: TRAMM workshop, Davos, June 2009.

• Various: GSN workshop, Galway, February 2009.

• Various: SwissEx Workshop, Davos, November 2008.

• Various: Microsoft Faculty Summit. Redmond, 2008

Other

• Noseda C., Charbon E.: HYDROMON: On-Line Monitoring of Drinking Water Quality within a Supply Network; White Paper

Presentations