The High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN), a University of California San Diego partnership project led by the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, supports Internet-data applications in the research, education, and public safety realms.


HPWREN functions as a collaborative, Internet-connected cyberinfrastructure. The project supports a high-bandwidth wireless backbone and access data network in San Diego, Riverside, and Imperial counties in areas that are typically not well-served by other technologies to reach the Internet. This includes backbone locations, typically sited on mountain tops, to connect often hard-to-reach areas in the remote Southern California back country.

Recent Image

A antenna in the Cuyamaca Mountains showing damage from after recent ice buildup.



Blood Moon Over Sky Oaks


7 March 2026

In the pre-dawn hours of March 3, 2026, the sky above San Diego County's Palomar Mountain region put on a rare celestial performance: the last total lunar eclipse visible from North America until New Year's Eve 2028. At San Diego State University's (SDSU) Sky Oaks Ranch Ecological Reserve - a dark-sky site nestled in the Cleveland National Forest far from city lights - a network of scientific cameras documented every phase of the eclipse from dusk to dawn. The resulting time-lapse record vividly illustrates what happens to a moonlit landscape when the Moon is swallowed by Earth's shadow - and what is revealed when that shadow falls.


HPWREN Time Lapse or

Live Stream Videos

Fires, weather conditions, flooding, and other public safety conditions are scenarios where real-time sensor data distributions can become important aspects for situational awareness. HPWREN can now provide live feeds from most of its cameras, in addition to the post-processed videos shown at:

https://www.youtube.com/user/hpwren/videos



Recent video

20260307 Lunar Eclipse

Lunar eclipse at 3 March 2026 over the SDSU Sky Oaks Fild Station