Conference: 2022 Underwater Ideas Lab

美国的海洋和海岸线对国家经济做出了巨大贡献，支持着数十万依赖海洋的企业，每年的经济活动达数千亿美元，以及数百万个就业机会。因此，增进对海洋和海岸线的了解对国民经济非常重要。提高海洋、淡水和极地环境的传感和通信能力对于取得基于发现和基于使用的重大研究进展至关重要，这些进展可导致更准确地预测地质灾害和有害藻华，提高沿海复原力，更好地减缓气候变化，提高沿海基础设施的复原力。典型的陆地传感和通信技术不能在海洋和淡水环境中，特别是在恶劣的极地环境中轻易部署。这一挑战极大地限制了这些环境中的科学研究和工程发展。本次创意实验室研讨会的目标是促进创新思想和跨学科团队的创造，推动工程技术的发展，以解决各种水下环境中最紧迫的传感、通信和数据传输挑战。这些新的工程技术不仅将推动对水下各种环境的科学研究，而且将促进经济发展，造福社会。本次创意实验室研讨会以协作、行动为导向的议程设计，旨在促进创新团队建设，并通过变革性方法促进新颖跨学科建议的发展，以解决在水和冰环境中进行研究和建设网络基础设施的技术挑战，特别是在传感、通信、本地化、能量收集、同时考虑小型化和减少对环境的影响。本次研讨会的预期成果是在工程师、数据科学家和领域专家之间建立跨学科界限的新合作，以解决水下、冰下、海底和冰-水-空气界面的关键传感和通信挑战。本次研讨会的使命与美国国家科学基金会的战略目标是一致的，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，并与联合国海洋十年倡议相一致。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

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.