Integrating Science Needs with Advanced Seafloor Sensor Engineering to Provide Early Warning of Geohazards: Visioning Workshop and Roadmap for the Future

PI要求提供资金，以支持一个研讨会，重点是了解当前的海底和海底下的传感，以及未来对海底仪器的需求，以提供实时数据和地质灾害和预警的工程需求。他们提议在俄勒冈州的海滨举办一个为期两天的研讨会。拟议的讲习班将汇集来自学术界、政府和私营部门的海洋地质学和海洋物理学、海洋学、传感器、通信、可视化、计算机科学、机器人技术、岩土工程和海洋地理信息学领域的主要科学和工程专家，以制定应对海底传感器挑战的有力计划。最后交付的成果将包括一份最后报告和一份提交给美国地球物理学联合会《地球观测系统》杂志的论文，涉及的具体专题包括地质灾害和预警的工程需要、开发传感器以测量海底变形和温度以及大面积高分辨率的流体流动。将传感器数据快速有效地传输到陆地的策略（包括先进的现场数据处理和数据压缩算法）以及使用来自环境的能源为台站供电的方法也将被考虑。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The PIs request funding to support a workshop focused on understanding current seafloor and subseafloor sensing, and future needs for instrumenting the seafloor to provide real-time data and engineering needs for geohazards and early warning. They propose a two-day workshop is Seaside, Oregon. The proposed workshop will bring together leading science and engineering experts within the fields of marine geology and geophysics, oceanography, sensors, communications, visualization, computer science, robotics, geotechnical engineering, and marine geomatics from the academic, government, and private sectors to develop a robust plan for addressing seafloor sensor challenges. The final deliverables will include a final report and a paper for submission to the American Geophysical Union's EOS journal.Specific topics to be addressed include engineering needs for geohazards and early warning, development of sensors to measure seafloor deformation and temperature and fluid flow with high resolution over a large area. Strategies for transmitting data from the sensors to land quickly and efficiently (including advanced in situ data processing and data compression algorithms) will also be considered as well as methods for powering the stations using energy derived from the environment.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.