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

了解地球与人类文明和其他自然生态系统的相互关系导致的环境变化的必要性从未像现在这样强烈。这些都是复杂的全球范围的问题，挑战是多方面的，首先是支撑多个尺度(空间、时间和生物多样性)环境过程的基本科学问题。预测气候变化及其与环境监测的交集是当今的重大挑战，是我们这个星球未来面临的一个迫在眉睫的问题。在这方面，对海洋的勘探和监测(其中90%仍未开发)是一个关键组成部分。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。由于水声通信还不成熟，水下网络的概念相对较新。因此，这次水下网络会议(WUWNet)的长期目标是通过水下网络技术来探索、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日在华盛顿特区举行的第十届ACM国际水下网络和系统会议(WUWNet‘15)。WUWNet已经确立了自己作为该领域首屈一指的技术场所的地位。在过去的九年里，WUWNet的出席人数翻了一番，会议数量也增加了一倍。第十届ACM WUWNet承诺追随前几届会议的成功脚步，进一步将这次会议提高到一个接近于小型会议的新水平。会议组委会的支持者很好地反映了会议的广泛范围，并汇集了非常强大的技术方案，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/).参加这些类型的技术活动是研究生院经历中极其重要的一部分，为学生提供了与更多资深研究人员和同行研究生互动的机会，接触到该领域的前沿工作，并参与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.