If a tree falls in the forest of the future, something is bound to hear it and know why.

California Connected visits the James Reserve field research station in the San Jacinto Mountains, where a network of robots and sensors developed by the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing monitor the forest’s vital signs, such as temperature, humidity and who’s living there.

These eyes and ears of the forest are everywhere, from high in the tree-top canopy to below ground and even in the middle of lakes.

Moreover, this is just the beginning. Continental-scale observation networks are already in the planning stages. Others are planned for large swaths of the ocean floor. Much like a medical MRI of the body, these embedded networks can give a super detailed analysis of what’s happening in any ecosystem.

The complete story and the video are available here.

The 2007 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GlobeCom 2007) is currently inviting prospective authors to submit original technical papers for oral or poster presentations for their conference that will take place 26-30 November 2007 in Washington, DC.

GlobeCom 2007 is specifically calling for papers on the topics of their nine specific symposia that include Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking, Communications Software and Services, Communications Theory, Internet Protocol, Optical Networks and Systems, Performance Modeling, QoS and Reliability, Signal Processing, Wireless Communications and Wireless Networking. The deadline for submission is 15 March 2007.

The call for papers is available here.

Moteiv has launched our new website this week, with new logo, content, and cleaner look. All of the existing content, including the community pages, are still here in the same place they were before.

There are a number of other developments that we’ll be announcing for our website and our products this year. We’re excited to start the year off with a new look, because there are many exciting things being cooked up in Moteiv’s World Headquarters that we can’t wait to share with you. We started last year by becoming the first wireless sensor company to have a blog and promote what’s going on in the industry.

Moteiv welcomes a number of new faces to the company, and we intend to continue building out our killer team. If you’ve been looking for a job with a startup working on completely new, novel technology, please drop us a line. No email goes unanswered.

Furthermore, if something is exciting to you in the sensor network arena, please send those suggestions to us too. Hope everyone had a happy new year, and here’s to great strides forward for wireless sensors in 2007.

Moteiv’s address is http://www.moteiv.com