ROADNet is made possible by grants from the National Science Foundation (OCE-0121726), the Office of Naval Research (N00014-98-1-0772),  and with matching funds from the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego State University, and the Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics.

If you or your organization are interested in providing additional support for the ROADNet project, please contact John Orcutt at jorcutt@ucsd.edu.

The National Science Foundation funds research and education in science and engineering. It does this through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements to more than 2,000 colleges, universities, and other research and/or education institutions in all parts of the United States. The Foundation accounts for about 20 percent of federal support to academic institutions for basic research.

Calit2 is one of four institutes established through the California Institutes for Science and Innovation initiative proposed in the year 2000 by Governor Gray Davis. Calit2, a partnership between UC San Diego and UC Irvine, seeks to ensure that California maintains its leadership in the telecommunications and information technology marketplace. The instituteÕs mission is simple: Extend the reach of the current information infrastructure throughout the physical world to enable anytime/anywhere access. This, complemented by research and development in related information technologies, will help the State provide new capabilities to important market segments poised to be transformed by the new Internet and prototype ways to monitor and manage growth anticipated in the coming years.

There are more than 300 active research projects at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Scripps scientists can be found on every continent and in every ocean as they collaborate on research with colleagues throughout the United States and in 63 nations.

SDSU is geographically located in a region that has virtually unlimited opportunities and a serious need for research directed at the restoration and conservation of native species and habitats in the face of continuing population encroachment, environmental pollution, and land mismanagement, and climate change. Most of the Ecology faculty and several part-time faculty are currently engaged in research focused on problems related to conservation or restoration ecology. Furthermore, there is access to a diversity of both natural and restored habitats that is unmatched by any institution in the country. The various natural ecosystems present in southern California make it one of the richest regions of the country with respect to biodiversity. The program maintains field stations and marine facilities to support research in several critical habitats to support research in these habitats.

The Cecil H. and Ida M. Green branch of the University of California Systemwide Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) is located in La Jolla and is strongly linked to Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) through joint faculty appointments, research interests, and shared facilities. Other IGPP branches can be found at the Los Angeles and Riverside campuses and at the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.

IGPP research in La Jolla covers many fields including global seismology, marine seismology and geodesy, geodynamics, high frequency seismology and arrays, geomagnetism, nonlinear dynamics, sea floor electromagnetic sounding, geodesy including satellite geodesy, geophysical fluid dynamics, geophysical inverse methods, acoustical oceanography, marine acoustics, planetary physics, and physical oceanography.

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is a national laboratory whose mission is to develop and apply high-performance information technologies for science and society. SDSC is a research unit of the University of California, San Diego , and the leading-edge site of the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure .