Sensor networks have emerged from research on low power, networked, and embedded systems and are now being applied to important scientific issues. Networked Infomechanical Systems, or NIMS, has been developed to exploit infrastructure assisted mobility. With the ability to move and precise knowledge of its own location, NIMS nodes will be able to tackle new areas such as sensing uncertainty, event aware fidelity driven sampling, and active fusion. A brief introduction to each of these fields will be presented. Also included will be a description of the second generation NIMS prototype node currently deployed at the James San Jacinto Mountain Reserve in Idyllwild California and some of the current field biology experiments being undertaken with this technology