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the expedition 40 crew is uh now

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busy throughout the middle of their uh

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work days they're aboard the space

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station meanwhile a heco or hyper

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spectral imager for the coastal ocean on

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the space station is an ongoing

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experiment that uses a special camera

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that separates light into hundreds of

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wavelength channels which reveals

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information about the composition of

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water and land along the coast and today

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we learn

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how the

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environmental protection agency is

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working with nasa to use this

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information let's head out to the

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payload operations integration center at

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the marshall space flight center where

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lori meigs is there to tell us more

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about this unique

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partnership lori

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imagine being able to take your

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smartphone and check the water quality

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and say your favorite fishing spot or

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boating location or even being able to

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check to see if there's algae in the

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water if you want to go for a swim well

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it's all in the works i recently spoke

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with an epa oceanographer who tells us

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how that organization is using the hico

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sensors from the iss and how it could

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eventually help us with say deciding on

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we've been using

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data from the international space

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station from the hico sensor

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to do water quality modeling along the

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florida coastline up in

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the florida panhandle area

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why do you do that

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well we wanted to because of the high

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resolution capability of feiko we are

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now able to look into estuaries as well

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as into the theater streams to the

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estuaries to determine water quality

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parameters such as chlorophyll suspended

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solids concentration and light

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attenuation

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what have you learned from this

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well one of the things we've learned is

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we've been able to take the data from

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the space station

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processed into models

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that gives us information and then send

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that information to epa managers in the

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form of an uh phone application

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and now with that phone application epa

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managers as well as we hope other the

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general public primarily

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will be able to take that data

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and see it on their phones

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what would i use that data for

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well if you wanted to go spend the day

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in an estuary either sailing boating or

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fishing now you would have the

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capability of calling up an image of

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your favorite location and you could

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determine for yourself what your water

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quality parameters are and if they're if

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if they're clean enough for you to go

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play or fish in

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is this all new from when we talked last

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i know you were wanting to do that maybe

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last time and now it's in stone you can

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do that yeah this is new because last

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time we talked we were able to create

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the models to get the data now we've

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been able to take that data and

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create a phone app and now that phone

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app is in will be soon in testing

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so that now and then after that the idea

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is to make it available to the public

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and to

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water quality managers

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the prototype app was well received with

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an epa

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and now we've evolved

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that prototype app

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into we've added another parameter to it

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and now we'll able you'll be able to

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pull up

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green scum you pretty much see

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around ponds and in estuaries but the

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and generally they're pretty

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innocuous

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algae but sometimes they can turn toxic

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for whatever reason and as such

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small animals depending on the

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concentration of cyano cells

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small animals

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can can be at risk for being sick and at

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high concentrations there's a

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risk for humans getting sick

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so now to have it we've evolved the

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our data as well as the app into

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just general water quality information

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to now

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looking at environmental health and

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human health how much does this excite

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you personally as a oceanographer as an

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oceanographer i think it's really

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exciting because one we get to i i enjoy

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working with the space station data and

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with all the personnel involved so

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that's exciting in itself but then the

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data itself because it's

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really and i keep using the word high

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resolution i mean 95 meter resolution is

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incredible for

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remotely send satellite data so now i

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can really look at the dynamics of

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processes and the estuaries and from a

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personal standpoint to now be able to

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have that information available on a

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phone app

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that i could pull up at any time to see

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if i want to go with my family to the

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beach or to the lakes that's that's

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and taking a live look at the payload

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operations integration center brian

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blair is the pod today the payload

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operations director he's being assisted

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by jason norwood and then you see over

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there the pacom cody jones that's the

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one who relays

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all of the information to and from the

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astronauts so

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they're busy at work today helping those