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HPWREN - California Wolf Center (Image 4)
Almost full grown, this Alaskan wolf puppy was born at the California Wolf Center in April 2005. It was photographed by the High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) automated motion-detector camera. The Wolf Center is home to several captive packs of North American gray wolves, including a spectacular pack of Alaskan gray wolves.
HPWREN, in collaboration with the California Wolf Center, has installed a near real-time Web camera on the grounds to allow researchers and staff the unique opportunity of observing the wolf's behavior, undisturbed.
The recently installed HPWREN connection, as well as a new Web-based digital camera, will allow the center to more broadly share valuable scientific and educational resources. This near real-time feed showing gray wolf interactions will be posted on publicly available Web pages. This will help satisfy the critical component of the Wolf Center's mission to increase awareness and conservation efforts in protecting and understanding the importance of all wildlife and wild lands by focusing on the history, biology and ecology of the North American gray wolf. Awareness is raised through education, exhibition, reproduction of endangered species and studies of captive wolf behavior.
The Wolf Center is a direct educational component of the HPWREN program. HPWREN is based on work sponsored by the National Science Foundation under grant numbers OCI 00-87344 and OCI 04-26879. The HPWREN program also functions as a collaborative cyberinfrastructure for research, education and first responder activities. It includes creating, demonstrating and evaluating a non-commercial, prototype, high-performance, wide-area, wireless network in San Diego, Riverside and Imperial counties. The network includes backbone nodes at the University of California, San Diego, and San Diego State University campuses, and a number of "hard to reach" areas in remote environments.
Further information about HPWREN activity at the Wolf Center is available Here and Here. Or, visit the California Wolf Center website. [Image 4 of 4 related images. Back to Image 1.] (Date of Image: Oct. 15, 2005)
Credit: High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) (http://hpwren.ucsd.edu); University of California, San Diego
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