Sixth Internatonal Conference on the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life

该奖项为2022年7月10日至15日在德国柏林举行的第六届国际会议“噪声对水生生物的影响”提供部分支持。这次会议是继2019年在丹麦尼堡(2007年)、爱尔兰科克(2010年)、匈牙利布达佩斯(2013年)、爱尔兰都柏林(2016年)和荷兰登哈格举行的关于同一一般性专题的非常成功的会议之后举行的。本次会议的主要目标是界定水下噪音影响的现有知识状况，并探讨自上次会议以来三年在这一领域取得的进展。可再生能源和石油项目向近海水域的扩展，以前原始水域(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(如美国大西洋海岸)的提议，导致监管机构、行业和科学家对水下噪声对水生生物的影响产生了更大的兴趣。这次会议应该有助于形成对噪声对水生生物影响的未来研究和理解。根据之前会议的经验，发生的互动和联网导致了调查人员之间的新合作，监管机构对可用于他们工作的科学的更广泛的理解，科学家和行业对监管问题的更好理解，以及研究人员对实验设计和方法的实质性交叉。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award provides partial support for the sixth International Conference on "The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life" in Berlin, Germany, July 10-15, 2022. This meeting follows the very successful meetings on the same general topic held in Nyborg, Denmark (2007), Cork, Ireland (2010), Budapest, Hungary (2013), Dublin, Ireland (2016), and Den Haag, Netherlands in 2019 The major goal of this conference would be to define the current state of knowledge on the impact of underwater noise and 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.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.