Partial support for the Fourth International Conference on Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life

该奖项为将于2016年7月10日至16日在爱尔兰都柏林举行的第四届噪音对水生生物影响国际会议提供了部分支持。本次会议是继在丹麦尼堡（2007年）、爱尔兰科克（2010年）和匈牙利布达佩斯（2013年）就同一主题举行的非常成功的会议之后举行的。会议的主要目标将是确定关于水下噪声影响的知识现状，特别是探讨自上次会议以来的三年里在这一领域取得的进展。可再生能源和石油项目延伸到近海水域，以前的原始水域（如极地地区）的工业发展前景，以及最近开放新的石油租赁区域（如美国大西洋沿岸）的建议，导致监管者、工业界和科学家对水下噪音对水生生物的影响产生了更大的兴趣。这次会议将有助于形成未来对噪音对水生生物影响的研究和理解。根据早期会议的经验，发生的互动和联网导致了研究人员之间的新合作，监管者对他们工作中可以使用的科学有了更广泛的理解，科学家和工业界对监管问题有了更好的理解，研究人员对实验设计和方法有了实质性的交流。

This award provides partial support for The Fourth International Conference on the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life will take place in Dublin, Ireland, July 10-16, 2016. This meeting follows the very successful meetings on the same general topic held in Nyborg, Denmark (2007), Cork,Ireland (2010), and Budapest, Hungary (2013). The major goal of the conference will be to define the current state of knowledge on the impact of underwater noise and, in particular, explore the progress made in this field in the three years since the previous Conference. The extension of renewable energy and petroleum projects to offshore waters, the prospect of industrial development of previously pristine waters (e.g., polar regions), and recent proposals to open new areas for petroleum lease (e.g., US Atlantic coast) has resulted in greater interest in the effects of underwater noise on aquatic life on the part of regulators, industry, and scientists.The meeting should help shape future research and understanding of effects of noise on aquatic life. Based on experience from the earlier meetings, the interactions and networking that took place has resulted in new collaborations between investigators, a broader understanding of the science that can be used in their work by regulators, a better understanding of regulatory issues by scientists and industry, and substantial cross-fertilization of experimental design and approaches by investigators.