Fifth ACM International Workshop on Underwater Networks (WUWNet'10)-- Student Travel Awards.

海洋是气候调节、营养生产、石油开采和运输不可或缺的组成部分。因此，出于科学、环境、商业、安全和军事原因，人们对监测水环境产生了极大的兴趣。虽然需要对海洋环境进行高精度、实时、细粒度的时空采样，但目前的遥感和顺序本地遥感等方法不能满足当前的要求，更不用说未来的要求了。由于水声通信还不成熟，水下网络的概念相对较新。然而，要实现上述监测目标，网络至关重要。水声通信的物理挑战和多种多样的水生环境的复杂性要求我们彻底重新思考如何在水下环境中部署网络。继2006年、2007年、2008年和2009年举行的第一、第二、第三和第四届ACM国际水下网络研讨会(WUWNet)之后，第五届ACM水下网络国际研讨会-WUWNet 2010-将于2010年9月30日至10月1日在马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔举行。这项提议的主要目标是鼓励研究生参与WUWNet 2010年的研讨会，这些学生通常可能很难参加。这笔资金将用于支持被选中的学生的旅费和出勤费。参加研讨会预计将受益于研究生项目的经验，为学生提供与更多资深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，并参与可能塑造该领域未来的讨论。标准将包括水下通信和网络研究的证据，和/或课程作业和/或项目经验所表明的对水下通信和网络的认真兴趣。在其他资格相似的情况下，妇女和少数族裔将获得优先考虑。

The oceans are integral to climate regulation, nutrient production, oil retrieval and transportation. As such, there is significant interest in monitoring aquatic environments for scientific, environmental, commercial, safety, and military reasons. While there is a need for highly precise, real-time, fine grained spatiotemporal sampling of the ocean environment, current methods such as remote telemetry and sequential local sensing cannot satisfy current requirements, let alone future ones. The notion of an underwater network is relatively new due to the lack of maturity of underwater acoustic communications. However, networks are critical in order to achieve the monitoring goals noted above. The physical challenges of acoustic underwater communication and the complexity of diverse aquatic environments require us to completely re-think how a network should be deployed in underwater environments.Following the First, Second, Third, and Fourth ACM International Workshops on Underwater Networks (WUWNet) that took place in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009, the Fifth ACM WUWNet - WUWNet 2010 - will be held in Woods Hole, MA, September 30 - October 1, 2010. This proposal's main goal is to foment graduate student participation in the WUWNet 2010 workshop by students that might normally find it difficult to attend. The funding will be used to support the travel and attendance costs of the selected students. Participation in the workshop is expected to benefit the experience of a graduate program, 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. Criteria will include evidence of research in underwater communication and networking, and/or a serious interest in underwater communication and networking as demonstrated by coursework and/or project experience. Women and minorities will be given preference when other qualifications are similar.