NSF Student Travel Grant for the 10th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and System (WUWNet'15)

NSF 学生旅费资助第十届 ACM 国际水下网络和系统会议 (WUWNet15)

• 批准号: 1551297
• 负责人: Yao Xie
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-10-01 至 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1551297&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Student; Travel; Grant; 10th

The need to understand the changes in our planet's environment resulting from its inter-relations with human civilization and other natural eco-systems, has never been stronger. These are complex, global-scale issues and the challenges are many fold, beginning with fundamental scientific questions underpinning environmental processes across multiple scales (in space, time as well as biological diversity). Predictive climate change and its intersection with environmental monitoring is the grand challenge of today and constitutes an imminent problem confronting the future of our planet. Within this context, exploration and monitoring of the ocean (90% of which is still unexplored) is a key component. While there is a need for highly precise, real-time, fine-grained spatial-temporal sampling of the ocean environment, current methods such as remote telemetry and sequential local sensing cannot satisfy current requirements. The notion of an underwater network is relatively new due to the lack of maturity of underwater acoustic communications. Thus, the long-term goal of this conference on underwater networks (WUWNet) is to explore, investigate, monitor, observe, and master the ocean by underwater networking techniques. This award's main goal is to encourage and support graduate student participation in the Tenth ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and System (WUWNet'15) to be held in Washington DC, on October 22-24, 2015. WUWNet has well established itself as the premier technical venue in the field. In the past nine years, the attendees to WUWNet have been doubled and so does the number of sessions. The Tenth ACM WUWNet promises to follow on the successful footsteps of its predecessors and further brings this conference to a new level close to a small conference. The conference organizing committee constituency reflects well the wide scope of the conference, and puts together a very strong technical program, including technical sessions, panels, keynote speeches as well as poster and demo sessions (see http://wuwnet.acm.org/2015/). Participation in these types of technical events is an extremely important part of the graduate school experience, providing students with the opportunity to interact with more senior researchers and peer graduate students, to be exposed to leading edge work in the field, and take part in discussions that are likely to shape the future of the field (e.g., in terms of technology, standards, etc). The award will be used to provide travel support for students who might otherwise be unable to attend the conference.

需要了解我们地球环境中与人类文明和其他自然生态系统的关系所产生的变化的需求，从未如此强大。这些都是复杂的，全球规模的问题，挑战是许多方面的问题，首先是跨多个尺度（在时空，时间和生物多样性）的基本科学问题开始。预测性的气候变化及其与环境监测的交集是当今的巨大挑战，构成了我们地球未来面临的迫在眉睫的问题。在这种情况下，对海洋的探索和监测（其中90％仍未开发）是关键组成部分。虽然需要对海洋环境进行高度精确，实时，细粒度的空间抽样，但是当前的方法（例如远程遥测和顺序局部传感）无法满足当前需求。由于水下声音通信的成熟度缺乏，水下网络的概念相对较新。因此，这次关于水下网络会议（WUWNET）的长期目标是通过水下网络技术探索，调查，监测，观察和掌握海洋。 该奖项的主要目标是鼓励和支持研究生参加第十届ACM国际水下网络和系统会议（WUWNET'15）将于2015年10月22日至24日在华盛顿特区举行。Wuwnet已成为该领域的主要技术场地。在过去的九年中，Wuwnet的与会者增加了一倍，会议的数量也加倍。第十ACM Wuwnet承诺将遵循其前任的成功脚步，并将这次会议进一步带入一个接近小型会议的新层次。会议组织委员会选区很好地反映了会议的广泛范围，并结合了一个非常强大的技术计划，包括技术会议，小组，主题演讲以及海报和演示会议（请参阅http://wuwwnet.acm.org/2015/）。参加这类技术活动是研究生院经验的极其重要的一部分，为学生提供了与更多的高级研究人员和同伴研究生互动的机会，可以接触到该领域的领先工作，并参与可能塑造该领域的未来的讨论（例如，就技术，标准等方面而言）。该奖项将用于为可能无法参加会议的学生提供旅行支持。