Conference: 2022 Underwater Ideas Lab

美国的海洋和海岸线为国民经济做出了巨大贡献，支持数十万依赖海洋的企业，每年数千亿美元的经济活动和数百万个就业机会。 因此，增进对海洋和海岸线的了解对国民经济至关重要。提高海洋、淡水和极地环境中的传感和通信能力，对于取得重大的基于发现和使用启发的研究进展至关重要，这些进展可以更准确地预测地质灾害和有害藻类大量繁殖，提高沿海地区的复原力，更好地缓解气候变化，以及更具复原力的沿海基础设施。在海洋和淡水环境中，特别是在恶劣的极地环境中，不能轻易采用典型的地面传感和通信技术。这一挑战极大地限制了这些环境中的科学研究和工程开发。这个想法实验室研讨会的目的是促进创造变革性的想法和跨学科团队，将推进工程技术，以解决最紧迫的传感，通信和数据传输挑战在不同的水下环境。这些新的工程技术不仅将促进对多样化水下环境的科学研究，而且还将有助于经济的增长和造福社会。这个想法实验室研讨会的设计与合作，以行动为导向的议程，以促进创新的团队建设和促进新的跨学科的建议与变革性的方法，以解决进行研究和建设网络基础设施的水和冰环境，特别是在传感，通信，本地化，能源收集，同时考虑小型化和最小化环境影响。本次研讨会的预期成果是在工程师、数据科学家和跨学科领域专家之间建立新的合作，以解决水下、冰下、海底以及冰-水-空气界面的关键传感和通信挑战。本次研讨会的使命与NSF的战略目标保持一致，即通过对思想、人员和基础设施的战略投资，创造关于我们世界的新知识，推进研究前沿，加速发现，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过利用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响进行评估，被认为值得支持审查标准。

America’s oceans and coastlines contribute greatly to the national economy, supporting several hundred thousand ocean-dependent businesses, several hundred billion U.S. dollars in economic activity annually, and millions of jobs. Therefore, advancing understanding of our oceans and coastlines is important for the national economy. Improving sensing and communication capabilities in marine, freshwater, as well as polar environments is critical for making significant discovery-based and use-inspired research advances that can lead to more accurate predictions of geohazards and harmful algae blooms, improved coastal resilience, better mitigation of climate change, and more resilient coastal infrastructure. Typical terrestrial sensing and communication technologies cannot be readily deployed in marine and freshwater environments and especially in harsh polar environments. This challenge significantly limits the scientific research and engineering developments in these environments. The objective of this Ideas Lab workshop is to foster the creation of transformative ideas and interdisciplinary teams that will advance engineering technologies to address the most pressing sensing, communication, and data transmission challenges in diverse underwater environments. These new engineering technologies will not only advance the scientific research of the diverse underwater environments, but also contribute to the growth of the economy and benefit the society. This Ideas Lab workshop is designed with a collaborative, action-oriented agenda to facilitate innovative team-building and foster the development of novel interdisciplinary proposals with transformative approaches to address the technological challenges of conducting research and building cyberinfrastructure for water and ice environments, specifically in the areas of sensing, communications, localization, energy harvesting, while considering miniaturization and minimizing environmental impacts. The expected outcome of this workshop is to create new collaborations between engineers, data scientists and domain experts across disciplinary boundaries to address critical sensing and communication challenges underwater, under-ice, below the seafloor, and across the ice-water-air interfaces. The mission of this workshop aligns well with the NSF’s strategic goal of creating new knowledge about our world, advancing the frontiers of research and accelerating discovery through strategic investments in ideas, people and infrastructure, and with the United Nation's Ocean Decade initiative.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.