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

现在比以往任何时候都更需要了解地球环境由于与人类文明和其他自然生态系统的相互关系而发生的变化。这些都是复杂的、全球规模的问题，挑战是多重的，首先是支撑多个尺度（空间、时间以及生物多样性）环境进程的基本科学问题。预测气候变化及其与环境监测的交叉是当今的重大挑战，也是我们地球未来面临的一个迫在眉睫的问题。在这方面，海洋的勘探和监测（其中90%尚未勘探）是一个关键组成部分。虽然需要对海洋环境进行高度精确、实时、细粒度的时空采样，但目前的方法，如遥感遥测和连续局部感测，无法满足目前的要求。由于水声通信技术尚不成熟，水下网络的概念相对较新。因此，本次水下网络会议（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将于2015年10月22日至24日在华盛顿举行的第十届ACM水下网络和系统国际会议（WUWNet'15）。WUWNet已经确立了自己作为该领域首要技术场所的地位。在过去九年中，参加世界大学妇女网的人数增加了一倍，会议次数也增加了一倍。第十届ACM WUWNet承诺继续其前任的成功脚步，并进一步将本次会议提高到一个新的水平，接近一个小型会议。会议组委会的组成充分反映了会议的广泛范围，并汇集了一个非常强大的技术计划，包括技术会议，小组讨论，主题演讲以及海报和演示会议（见http：//wuwnet.acm.org/2015/）。参与这些类型的技术活动是研究生院体验的一个极其重要的部分，为学生提供与更高级的研究人员和同行研究生互动的机会，接触该领域的前沿工作，并参加可能塑造该领域未来的讨论（例如，在技术、标准等方面）。该奖项将用于为可能无法参加会议的学生提供旅行支持。

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.