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I love being out in the field coming out

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to the field keeps me in touch with

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reality I'm Mark Simard I'm a SWAT

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principal investigator and I studied a

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dance between the tides and the rivers

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I'm from Quebec Canada from a city

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called Joker I started studying physics

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with specialization in astrophysics and

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became enamored with the environment and

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I actually became president of the

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environmental Club I did a switch and I

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started to apply what I learned in

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physics to the environment so here is a

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water level gauge water level gauges you

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know our spouse points here and there

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SWAT on the other end will give us these

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same types of measurement on the ocean

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the lakes and rivers of the entire globe

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the Mississippi River delta currently is

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losing land at the rhythm of about one

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football field every hour there are

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about 350 million people living on

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Deltas around the world they live from

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the Fisheries the agriculture the

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aquaculture from those Deltas so if we

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lose those Deltas we're not only talking

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about losing land we're also talking

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about losing livelihood for millions of

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people

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SWOT data it will give us a global

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perspective of how these Deltas can

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survive and keep up with sea level rise

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and other impacts of climate change

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looking at the Deltas around the world

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it's an extremely Dynamic area

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it's like the river is Dancing with the

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ocean

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this work is Meaningful to me it has a

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direct impact on those millions of

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people that live from the resources of