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Good afternoon everyone.

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My name is Messod Bendayan and
I'm with the communications team

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here at NASA's Kennedy Space
Center.

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Welcome to Next Gen.

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Stems 2024 Earth Day Briefing, a
unique opportunity for students

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to immerse themselves in NASA's
work and spark their interest in

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STEM related careers.

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We have experts from NASA and
the United States Fish and

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Wildlife Service talking about
why it's important to protect

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our environment and how we work
together to do just that.

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They'll be answering questions
from our audience in the room,

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which is made-up of students
from Andrew Jackson Middle

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School in Titusville, FL.

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We also have more students from
Andrew Jackson Middle watching

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from a press site here at
Kennedy.

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They and everyone else who's
watching us online can join us

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by putting their questions in
the chat starting right now, and

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we'll have our experts answer as
many of them as we possibly can

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before we sign off.

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Before you give us your
questions, please make sure you

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let us know who the questions
are meant for.

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And Speaking of our experts,
let's go ahead and introduce

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them.

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Kelly McCarthy is a program
specialist with the Office of

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STEM Engagement at NASA Stennis
Space Center in Mississippi.

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She'll tell you about Earthrise,
a project NASA is doing with

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other federal agencies that
elevate Earth and climate

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science in classrooms across the
United States.

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Bob Klein is the acting chief of
Kennedy's Environmental

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Assurance Branch.

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His team helps make sure that
anything NASA does at Kennedy

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Space Center is safe for humans,
animals and the environment, and

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that does include the Rockets
that NASA uses to send

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astronauts in the space.

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Spencer Davis is part of a team
that will be recognized by the

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White House this coming summer
for creating 56 electric vehicle

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charging stations throughout
Kennedy Space Center.

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They help power our government
vehicle fleet, which saves

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taxpayers money and creates a
future with 0 carbon emission

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vehicles.

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And at the very end, we have Kim
King Wren.

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She's a park Ranger at the
Merritt Island National Wildlife

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Refuge, which includes all of
Kennedy Space Center.

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Inside, it's over 140,000 acres.

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It's also one of the most
biologically diverse places in

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the world, providing a habitat
for 14 different endangered

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species of plants and animals.

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Thank you all for joining us
today.

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And Kelly, let's start with you.

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Let's talk about this new
Earthrise collaboration you're

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working on and how it can
benefit students everywhere,

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including right here in this
room and online.

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Thanks Masad.

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So my name is Kelly McCarthy.

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I work with our office of STEM
Engagement and I'm really

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excited to be here to talk about
an initiative from our next Gen.

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STEM project called Earthrise.

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If you all go to to the first
slide, I'll I'll share the the

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graphic that was put out to
represent this effort.

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What is exciting about this is
that NASA partnered with nine

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other federal agencies including
Department of Education, NOAA,

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the US Geological Society,
Environmental Protection Agency,

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Department of Defense, STEM,
Smithsonian, as well as the

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GLOBE program.

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Some of you might be familiar
with to put out a resource that

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allowed us to to make sure that
we were working together to

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elevate Earth and climate
science resources for educators

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and for K12 students.

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So this effort was launched in
January with an inaugural

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monthly connection collection of
resources that was focused on

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the importance of Earth
observation.

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The, the actual development of
the activity involved our

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partners and we were really
coming together to think about

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what was available, what data
resources were out there, what

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solution based resources were
out there that that we have

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heard that students and and
educators in our communities

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have been using.

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And how can we locate resources
that that you all might not have

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heard of already or or been
using already?

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The name, if if you're not
familiar about the, the actual

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name, Earthrise.

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This came from an iconic photo
that was taken on Christmas Eve

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in 1968 during the Apollo 8
mission.

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And it was that first picture of
the Earth rising in the distance

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from from a a lunar mission from
the perspective of the Moon.

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And that launched us into this
effort that that we saw across

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the US that was focused on
environmental stewardship,

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global stewardship and really
making sure that we're looking

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at how we can build solutions
and protect our planet and and

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serve the greater good.

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And so that's kind of one of the
focal points of the theme of

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this collaborative effort.

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What it looks like is a a
collection that comes in the

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form of of an E newsletter to
educator inboxes every single

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month.

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That QR code that was on the
screen just a moment ago, I I

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invite those folks that are
online to to take a snapshot of

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that and and join the community
that's using it already.

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We've got about 3000 educators
in classrooms that are already

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engaging with the resources that
have been coming out since

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January.

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We put out a collection every
single month focused around a

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specific earth science and
climate science topic.

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February, we focused on air
quality solutions, March we

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focused on water resources and
we're really excited.

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The reason you all are here
today is, is because we are

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starting the celebration around
Earth Day.

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So our issue that comes out to
educator inboxes on April 17th

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is going to focus on Earth
science to action and something

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really cool that just came out
from the agency this past well

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in mid March is our Earth
science to action strategy.

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And that says that over the next
decade we are are going to be

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focusing on advancing and
integrating earth science

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knowledge to empower humanity
and create a more resilient

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world.

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And that that statement it is
really going to drive forward

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how a lot of the scientists and
engineers that are working

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across the agency and with our
partners are really focusing on

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building solutions.

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So what can you find in in this
at this collection month to

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month.

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If you go ahead to that next
slide, this is a quick snapshot

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of some of the types of
resources that exist.

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They range from multimedia
resources that are tied to data,

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the snapshot in the middle of
the screen.

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It is a data visualization from
an instrument called Jedi, which

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is the Global Ecosystems Dynamic
Investigation that measures a

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lot of different variables on a
global scope around our planet.

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But what you're looking at on
the screen is a visualization of

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our global forest cover, and
that's really important for

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weather forecasting.

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It's really important for
understanding our changing land

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cover.

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And this is collected from an
instrument that's based on the

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International Space Station.

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There are resources in these
monthly collections that tie

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visualizations like that to
Interactive Data mapping tools

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and we'll put it be putting out
as each monthly collection

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continues, we'll be putting out
some calls to action and

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challenges that we really want
our students to get involved in

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that are participating in the
effort.

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So we really hope after today's
discussion to invite more of you

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to join the community that's
working with those resources.

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Like I said, it's a collective
effort from a number of federal

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agencies who are all putting out
resources and tools and even

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those folks on our NASA team
have found some really exciting

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data resources from USGS focused
on water and and it's a really

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good way to kind of find out
what's the most relevant and

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useful and solutions based
resources that exist right now.

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Sometimes you can get lost in
the ether if you're trying to to

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find something in our database.

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So it's a really cool way to to
to get involved in learning more

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about how the federal government
is working to collect

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information about our planet to
build solutions.

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And we hope that you won't get
involved with the effort at at

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some point in the near future,
definitely before the April

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collection comes out.

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So, so looking forward to to
inviting you all to join.

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Thanks, Mesab.

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Thanks, Kelly.

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Appreciate it.

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Bob Klein, Let's go to you, Sir.

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Your team is dedicated to
keeping Kennedy's environment

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safe for every living creature
inside its borders while NASA

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explores the universe at the
same time.

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How do you do it?

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That's correct.

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Thanks, Masad.

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First of all, welcome to KSEI.

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Appreciate you all coming out
here and participating in this

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panel discussion.

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I'm excited to talk about what I
do.

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I like what I do.

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It's, I find it interesting.

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Hopefully you'll find at least a
little bit interesting as well.

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So I'm the acting branch chief
for the Environmental assurance

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branch, and we're 1/3 of the
people in the Environmental and

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medical division here at at KSC
within the Spaceport Integration

5682c3b4-c86a-4b75-bdaf-0b6eb48d92cc-3
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and Services Directorate, if you
could flip to that first slide.

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So what do we do and how do we
protect the environment?

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Go go on to the next slide.

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I've got two groups within my
branch.

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The first one is remediation.

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If you probably know what a
remediation is, basically it's

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clean up.

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So the remediation group does
the investigations and then the

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resulting cleanups of past
releases of pollutants,

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chemicals, commit contaminants.

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You probably are aware and you
know science and stuff that

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there's there's like chemicals
and things we've used in the

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past, you know that we didn't
know at the time.

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We're not good for the
environment and maybe they got

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dumped or disposed of and not
the best way.

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Well, our remediation group is
the group that attacks those.

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They go out and investigate
sites and and clean them up and

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then the other group is
permitting and compliance.

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So you know there's a just a ton
of environmental regulations to

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do with air and water and other
resources and environmental

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media.

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Our permitting compliance group
assist with all those permitting

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actions.

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And then they also make sure and
enforce those regulations on

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KSC.

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So they make sure that all our
organizations and contractors

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are doing what they they're
supposed to do correctly.

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So I flip to the next slide
please.

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OK.

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So permitting compliance is I
think I just said this, we

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assist with getting necessary
environmental permits.

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Important part is that
compliance activity.

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So we have people that go out
and look for problems.

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They also do compliance
assistance with organizations.

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So they they help kind of train
and teach and teach the

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organizations the proper way to
do go about doing things on the

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right side of that slide.

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You probably can't see them
really well.

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But those are some of the
there's a lot of agencies on the

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state and local and federal
level that we work with like the

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water management districts, the
Department of Health, the

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Department of Environmental
Protection, US Fish and Wildlife

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and all.

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So they all, we all have a hand
in that environmental regulation

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00:11:28.593 --> 00:11:29.080
out here.

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And then of course, my group
acts as the primary interface

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between those agencies and NASA
here at here at KSC.

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Next slide please.

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So apologize, these slides are
kind of dull, I admit, but these

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are the permitting compliance
areas and you can see there's a

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00:11:49.114 --> 00:11:49.880
lot of them.

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There's, I think I ran through a
couple of them before but

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regulated waste is a big one.

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Hazardous and controlled waste,
things that you can't dispose of

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00:12:00.018 --> 00:12:03.320
in your garbage safely are those
kind of things.

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You know we use a lot of
chemicals and fuels and

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oxidizers and that sort of
thing.

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They'll have to be handled
properly.

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My group make sure that happens.

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Air emissions, we have what's
known as a Title 5 air permit to

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like a medium level of
complexity in the air permitting

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world.

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All the different water, storm
water, drinking water,

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wastewater is all managed very
heavily.

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We have a landfill on KSCA.

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Lot of people don't know that,
but we have a construction and

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demolition debris landfill that
we operate.

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Things as mundane as storage
tanks for petroleum products

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00:12:38.171 --> 00:12:39.760
like you have at a gas station.

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We have a couple of gas stations
on center.

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We have a lot of other storage
tanks that support our

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operations and then even things
all the way down to like

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pesticide management.

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So that's kind of us in a
nutshell.

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I hope you have will have some
good questions for me.

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Please don't hesitate to ask
anything you might it that pops

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00:13:01.002 --> 00:13:01.600
in your mind.

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I know a little bit about a lot
of stuff, so hopefully I I can

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00:13:05.613 --> 00:13:07.000
answer whatever you have.

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But I'm looking forward to
hearing what you have to say,

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you might think best thing on
that one, Bob.

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I hope so.

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All right.

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Thanks, Bob.

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Spencer, it's your turn, Sir.

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Let's talk about electric
vehicles.

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00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:19.107
Walk us through why Kennedy
Space Center uses the 0 emission

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00:13:19.107 --> 00:13:21.400
vehicles and what it took to
make it happen.

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Thanks, Masad.

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So my name is Spencer Davis.

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I'm formerly in the NASA
Transportation office here at

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Kennedy Space Center.

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And as Masad mentioned earlier,
we were actually lucky enough

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that we're going to be honored
at the White House later this

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00:13:34.723 --> 00:13:35.120
summer.

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It was all in part with a big
project that we put together.

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We partnered with FPL.

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They brought in a bunch of
electric chargers.

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They installed them at 0 cost of
government.

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It was roughly about a $1
million project.

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They installed 56 different
chargers on center.

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So we kind of been building up
this big infrastructure and this

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big push towards E VS on center.

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If you could go to the first
slide, please.

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So these are just three
different types of EV chargers

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that you might find on center.

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Level one is kind of like your
basic outlet.

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You know the outlet you have at
home, you plug your Xbox into

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00:14:10.025 --> 00:14:13.302
right Level 2, that's a little
bit more power, that's 40 amps,

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that's kind of like what your
dryer uses for electricity.

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And then Level 3 is ADC power.

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We actually don't have any level
threes right now, but it is in

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the plans we're looking at a
couple years from now we'll

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probably be installing our first
one.

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They're very cost prohibitive.

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So we kind of we stick with
those level twos, they keep the

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the fleet going and they keep
everyone charged and happy.

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So next slide, please.

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So this is going electric.

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So the federal government as a
whole, there are 35 agencies

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00:14:43.108 --> 00:14:43.880
that have EVs.

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NASA is one of them.

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00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:48.700
And there's like this big push
from within the federal

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00:14:48.700 --> 00:14:51.000
government and we'll see that on
the next slide.

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And we have an executive order
that basically says we have to

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have 100% acquisition of light
duty vehicles by 2027.

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Next slide, please.

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And all other vehicles, it's by
2035, they have all acquisitions

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00:15:07.821 --> 00:15:10.240
have to be electric vehicles.

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00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:14.548
So we're making this big push
towards 0 emission vehicles,

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00:15:14.548 --> 00:15:18.240
battery electric, that's E VS,
that's the big push.

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00:15:18.400 --> 00:15:21.972
We can get there with plug in
hybrid electric vehicles as

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00:15:21.972 --> 00:15:22.280
well.

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You may have seen those before.

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That's when you have a gas
vehicle that you can also plug

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00:15:26.071 --> 00:15:27.280
in and charge the battery up on.

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But those are kind of our two
big things that we're pushing

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00:15:29.929 --> 00:15:30.240
towards.

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Next slide please.

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So this is just kind of a
historical timeline of E VS in

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00:15:35.900 --> 00:15:38.746
the federal government, right,
2010, that was the first time

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00:15:38.746 --> 00:15:40.800
that we saw E VS in the federal
government.

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00:15:40.800 --> 00:15:44.047
That's when GSA who provides us
with our vehicles, that's when

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00:15:44.047 --> 00:15:45.800
they first started offering
them.

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And then through the years,
we've had different executive

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00:15:48.967 --> 00:15:51.912
orders that have kind of pushed
us along towards a net zero

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00:15:51.912 --> 00:15:52.599
vehicle fleet.

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00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:56.298
And the most important thing I
want to point out here is in

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2019, the fleet cards were
finally being accepted at EV

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00:15:59.414 --> 00:16:00.360
charging station.

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00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:02.480
So that kind of unlocked those
vehicles.

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You could grab a vehicle from
Kennedy Space Center, drive to

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00:16:05.740 --> 00:16:08.574
Orlando, charge up in Orlando
and make it back to Kennedy

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00:16:08.574 --> 00:16:10.920
Space Center if you had a
meeting or something.

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00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:14.650
So that's kind of our first step
towards, you know, a big

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00:16:14.650 --> 00:16:16.120
electric fleet on center.

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Next slide please.

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So these four different types of
vehicles, if you could kind of

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guess the federal government's
entire fleet of roughly half of

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00:16:25.944 --> 00:16:27.640
it is light duty pickup trucks.

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00:16:27.880 --> 00:16:31.703
So the big push is get towards
those electric pickup trucks,

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00:16:31.703 --> 00:16:32.080
right.

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00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:36.204
So the Ford Lightning will
probably be the most prevalent

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00:16:36.204 --> 00:16:38.800
pickup truck that you'll see on
Centre.

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00:16:39.280 --> 00:16:42.080
The Hummer H1 is also available
through GSA right now.

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We haven't procured any of
those.

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They're a little bit too
expensive for us.

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00:16:46.040 --> 00:16:48.981
And then the Rivian and the
Cyber Truck are actually

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00:16:48.981 --> 00:16:50.480
starting to pop up as well.

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00:16:50.680 --> 00:16:53.600
The Cyber Truck, you can
actually see one on Centre.

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00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:56.840
I believe they work over in
SpaceX, but you'll see it

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00:16:56.840 --> 00:16:58.920
driving around on Centre
occasionally.

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Next slide.

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And so that brings me to the
Chevy Bolt.

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So that's the most common
electric vehicle that you will

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00:17:08.205 --> 00:17:10.080
see on center relatively cheap.

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00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:12.440
You can get them for under
$40,000.

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00:17:13.120 --> 00:17:15.480
They've got a pretty good range
for an economy car.

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It's about 259 miles.

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But the big thing to take away
from here is in order to charge

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00:17:21.872 --> 00:17:25.280
up to drive 100 miles, it only
costs you $2.80.

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00:17:25.480 --> 00:17:28.000
So it's basically the price of a
Coca-Cola, right?

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00:17:28.280 --> 00:17:30.878
You could grab a Coke or you
could charge up 100 miles and

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00:17:30.878 --> 00:17:32.200
drive wherever you want to go.

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00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:34.080
That would get you to Tampa if
you wanted to.

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00:17:34.440 --> 00:17:37.452
So that's just kind of the
different things that are going

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00:17:37.452 --> 00:17:40.618
on, on center right now for EV
charging and kind of where the

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00:17:40.618 --> 00:17:41.640
future is taking us.

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Thanks.

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Thanks, Spencer.

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00:17:43.320 --> 00:17:43.960
Appreciate it.

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Now let's bring in Kim here.

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We talked a little bit earlier
about the Merritt Island

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00:17:47.975 --> 00:17:50.028
National Wildlife Refuge, It
being one of the most

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00:17:50.028 --> 00:17:51.720
biologically diverse places in
the world.

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00:17:51.720 --> 00:17:53.440
And that's something you know
all about, Kim.

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So tell us about these
endangered plants and animals

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00:17:56.180 --> 00:17:59.541
and why so many of them call the
refuge and Kennedy Space Center

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00:17:59.541 --> 00:17:59.800
home.

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Thanks, Mossad.

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Well, the reason why there's so
many different kinds of plants

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00:18:05.691 --> 00:18:09.447
and animals on the refuge is
because right here in Central

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00:18:09.447 --> 00:18:13.395
Florida is where the northern
zone, called temperate were all

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00:18:13.395 --> 00:18:15.560
like the pine trees and such
are.

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00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:19.624
And the southern zone, the
subtropical zone come together

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00:18:19.624 --> 00:18:21.520
right here in Central Florida.

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And so there's a tremendous
amount of habitat diversity.

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And the more different kinds of
habitats there are, then that

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00:18:27.850 --> 00:18:30.654
means more different kinds of
homes for more different kinds

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00:18:30.654 --> 00:18:31.160
of animals.

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Let's take a look at the first
slide.

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This map shows you all the
different habitats that are here

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00:18:37.180 --> 00:18:37.960
on the refuge.

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There's eight different kinds of
upland habitats and seven

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00:18:41.171 --> 00:18:43.160
different kinds of wetland
habitats.

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And a lot of the animals that
live here are actually

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endangered because of the lack
of habitat outside the Wildlife

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00:18:51.124 --> 00:18:52.960
Refuge and the Space Center.

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When you look at this map, you
can see a lot of bright green,

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00:18:56.385 --> 00:18:56.640
right?

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That bright green is called the
oak scrub, and it's a really

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00:19:01.231 --> 00:19:05.440
important habitat for a bird
called the Florida scrub Jay.

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00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:08.504
And you can see that there's a
lot of it here on the Space

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00:19:08.504 --> 00:19:08.840
Center.

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Next slide This is the Florida
Scrub Jay.

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It's a really rare bird and it's
listed as threatened on the

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00:19:16.731 --> 00:19:18.200
endangered species list.

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It loves this oak scrub habitat
because it likes the wide open

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00:19:23.215 --> 00:19:24.160
sandy spaces.

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Those sandy patches let it see
its predators, one of which is

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00:19:27.761 --> 00:19:28.520
the rat snake.

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00:19:28.840 --> 00:19:33.474
It can see the rat snake if it's
coming to attack its nest, and

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00:19:33.474 --> 00:19:37.240
it has one bird in its family
that is the Sentinel.

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00:19:37.600 --> 00:19:40.440
It watches out for predators and
it sounds the alarm.

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00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:44.338
It has a different call for the
rat snake and also for the red

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00:19:44.338 --> 00:19:47.680
shouldered hawk, which is one of
its other predators.

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00:19:48.080 --> 00:19:51.518
The other thing about this scrub
is that it has small trees and

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the trees are widely scattered
apart.

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Scrub Jays aren't going to fly
through the forest because they

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know there's Hawks in there and
Hawks are danger, so they like

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00:20:00.060 --> 00:20:03.022
this habitat with little short
trees that are only about as

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tall as probably a middle
schooler.

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And it has lots of wide open
spaces between the trees.

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Unfortunately for the scrub Jay,
people also like the scrub

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because there's not many trees
and they're scattered wide

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00:20:16.531 --> 00:20:16.880
apart.

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It's real easy to clear them out
when you want to build a new

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neighborhood.

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And also the scrub is an upland
habitat, so it's high and dry

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and it's safe from flooding.

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So we love to build on the scrub
habitat, and the more we build

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00:20:32.052 --> 00:20:36.409
and the more humans use the
scrub, the less habitat that

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there is for the scrub J.

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But if you remember the map,
there's a lot of scrub habitat

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that's protected here inside the
Kennedy Space Center.

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That's one of the things the
Space Center did when it was

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created.

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It has a lot of extra land
that's used as buffer zones

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around the launch pads and the
work areas, and that extra land

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00:20:56.816 --> 00:20:58.520
is managed for wildlife.

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00:20:58.800 --> 00:21:02.412
So it actually has the largest
population of Florida scrub Jays

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00:21:02.412 --> 00:21:05.800
in the whole world living here
on the Kennedy Space Center.

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Next slide please.

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Another habitat that we all love
in Florida are is the beach.

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A lot of us live close to the
beach and people who don't live

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00:21:15.994 --> 00:21:17.920
close to the beach like to come
to the beach.

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In fact, people come from all
over the United States to come

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00:21:20.637 --> 00:21:21.200
to the beach.

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And here at Kennedy Space
Center, there's a lot of beach.

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There's 6 miles of beach inside
the secure area, but it's closed

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00:21:28.934 --> 00:21:32.240
to the public and that's great
news for sea turtles.

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This is a green sea turtle in
this slide and sea turtles,

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00:21:35.676 --> 00:21:37.440
including the green sea turtles.

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They like wild beaches.

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They want the beach to be dark
and quiet.

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They come ashore at night to lay
their eggs under the cover of

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darkness.

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00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:51.688
The females need the darkness to
protect them from predators who

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00:21:51.688 --> 00:21:54.680
might dig up their nests and eat
all their eggs.

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So when people come and live at
the beach and we build our homes

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00:21:59.697 --> 00:22:03.817
and our towns, we put hotels,
restaurants, fishing Piers,

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00:22:03.817 --> 00:22:07.440
everything as close to the beach
as we can get it.

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That means a lot of noise
pollution, a lot of light

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00:22:10.522 --> 00:22:13.756
pollution, and those beaches
aren't any good for sea turtle

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00:22:13.756 --> 00:22:14.080
nests.

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00:22:14.520 --> 00:22:18.084
Luckily, with the Kennedy Space
Center being here, the beach is

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00:22:18.084 --> 00:22:18.920
dark and quiet.

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If it wasn't for the Kennedy
Space Center, it'd be just like

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00:22:22.271 --> 00:22:24.080
Cocoa Beach or Daytona Beach
here.

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But because of the Space Center,
there's a lot of space for sea

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turtles.

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00:22:28.680 --> 00:22:32.097
When the refuge was established
and biologists went out and

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00:22:32.097 --> 00:22:35.628
started surveying the beach for
turtle nests, there were only

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00:22:35.628 --> 00:22:39.159
about 30 green turtle nests each
summer on the beach, and the

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00:22:39.159 --> 00:22:42.747
green sea turtle was put on the
endangered species list pretty

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00:22:42.747 --> 00:22:45.879
much as soon as the Endangered
Species Act was passed.

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00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:48.160
So it's been on there a good 45
years.

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00:22:48.600 --> 00:22:52.235
And now, because of the
Endangered Species Act, when we

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00:22:52.235 --> 00:22:56.260
go out and survey for turtles,
which will start in May, we're

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00:22:56.260 --> 00:23:00.026
finding 600 green sea turtle
nests on these Kennedy Space

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00:23:00.026 --> 00:23:01.000
Center beaches.

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00:23:01.240 --> 00:23:04.600
And that's all because they're
wild and dark and quiet.

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00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:08.160
Because it's the Space Center
and it's not Cocoa Beach.

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00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:09.320
Next slide, please.

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00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:15.123
Another animal that loves the
beach is the Southeastern Beach

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00:23:15.123 --> 00:23:15.480
Mouse.

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00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:19.186
Now, the green sea turtles like
the fact that the beaches are

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00:23:19.186 --> 00:23:22.037
wild, but actually the
Southeastern Beach mouse is

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00:23:22.037 --> 00:23:25.559
thriving on a part of the beach
that's been altered by people.

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00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:29.400
Normally when people move to the
beach, the dunes get flattened.

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00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:32.880
And that's bad for beach mice
because that's where they live.

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00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:35.000
They live in the dunes and the
dunes are flattened.

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00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:36.280
People trample on them.

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00:23:36.560 --> 00:23:38.960
You've probably seen signs stay
off the dunes.

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00:23:39.320 --> 00:23:42.962
The beach mice dig their Burrows
in the dunes and they eat the

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00:23:42.962 --> 00:23:45.680
seeds from the grasses that grow
on the dunes.

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00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:48.135
So when you trample over the
dunes, you're ruining their

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00:23:48.135 --> 00:23:48.480
habitat.

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00:23:48.760 --> 00:23:51.708
And that's why all the different
kinds of beach mice in Florida

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00:23:51.708 --> 00:23:52.400
are endangered.

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00:23:52.800 --> 00:23:55.655
The Southeast beach mouse lives
here on the Kennedy Space

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00:23:55.655 --> 00:23:56.000
Center.

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00:23:56.240 --> 00:24:00.337
And it is actually thriving
because NASA built this

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00:24:00.337 --> 00:24:01.520
ginormous dune.

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That's a scientific term, you
know, Ginormous, right?

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00:24:05.320 --> 00:24:05.840
It is, yeah.

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And the dune is like 2 stories
tall.

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00:24:09.080 --> 00:24:12.685
And they built it to protect the
launch pads from flooding from

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00:24:12.685 --> 00:24:13.080
oceans.

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00:24:13.480 --> 00:24:15.360
But the beach mice love it.

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00:24:15.560 --> 00:24:19.160
NASA hauled in truckload after
truckload, after truckload.

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00:24:19.160 --> 00:24:21.641
So if you're wondering why
there's potholes in the road,

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00:24:21.641 --> 00:24:22.120
that's why.

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00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:25.905
From the endless stream of dump
trucks bringing sand in, and

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00:24:25.905 --> 00:24:27.400
they built this huge dune.

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00:24:27.400 --> 00:24:28.760
And then they had to shape it.

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00:24:28.760 --> 00:24:31.520
And then they planted it with
native grasses and plants.

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00:24:31.720 --> 00:24:35.086
And as soon as the construction
crews moved out, the beach mice

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00:24:35.086 --> 00:24:35.560
moved in.

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00:24:35.760 --> 00:24:38.520
And now this dune, it's like
beach Mouse City.

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00:24:38.520 --> 00:24:40.080
I mean, they love it there.

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00:24:40.080 --> 00:24:41.760
They dig their little Burrows in
the dune.

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00:24:41.760 --> 00:24:45.850
They eat the grass seeds, and we
don't know a lot about the beach

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00:24:45.850 --> 00:24:46.160
mice.

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00:24:46.160 --> 00:24:47.360
We're still studying them.

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00:24:47.760 --> 00:24:50.713
But here on the Kennedy Space
Center is one of the most

387ef7e3-6a12-49e4-827d-3a8518229d8a-1
00:24:50.713 --> 00:24:53.720
important study years for this
southeastern beach mouse.

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00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:55.200
Next slide, please.

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00:24:56.520 --> 00:25:00.141
So those were three endangered
species that I could highlight,

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00:25:00.141 --> 00:25:03.475
but actually there's about a
dozen more of them that make

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00:25:03.475 --> 00:25:07.212
their homes here on the National
Wildlife Refuge and the Kennedy

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00:25:07.212 --> 00:25:07.960
Space Center.

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00:25:08.440 --> 00:25:12.718
And they're here because of the
space that was set aside when

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00:25:12.718 --> 00:25:14.720
the Space Center was created.

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00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:18.271
In other parts of their range,
they're suffering from loss of

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00:25:18.271 --> 00:25:21.543
habitat, and that's why they're
all on the endangered species

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00:25:21.543 --> 00:25:23.759
list, listed as threatened or
endangered.

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00:25:24.120 --> 00:25:28.166
But with the help of the US Fish
and Wildlife Service that runs

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00:25:28.166 --> 00:25:31.832
the refuge and all the space
that's set aside here by the

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00:25:31.832 --> 00:25:35.436
Space Center, a lot of this
wildlife is thriving here on

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00:25:35.436 --> 00:25:37.080
this Kennedy Space Center.

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00:25:39.080 --> 00:25:39.840
Appreciate it.

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00:25:39.840 --> 00:25:42.486
And now that we've heard from
all of our experts, it's time

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00:25:42.486 --> 00:25:44.560
for all of you to join in on the
conversation.

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00:25:44.840 --> 00:25:48.472
If you're in the room, we've got
Serena over there in the white

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00:25:48.472 --> 00:25:51.480
shirt, and we've got Laura
standing right over here.

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00:25:51.960 --> 00:25:53.680
They'll be the ones with the
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00:25:58.751 --> 00:26:01.396
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00:26:01.396 --> 00:26:02.480
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00:26:02.680 --> 00:26:04.040
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press site here at Kennedy, you
can put your questions in the

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00:26:10.121 --> 00:26:10.360
chat.

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I'll read them out to our panel
as we have time here.

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So let's go ahead and start in
the room.

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Do we have anybody in the room
with a question?

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This gentleman right here in the
green, Serena, if you could, All

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right.

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And if you could, my man.

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What's your name, what grade?

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I am Connor Hershey.

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I am an eighth grader.

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And I have a question for Miss
McCarthy.

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How was Earthwise started?

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Good question.

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So Earthrise was started out of
kind of a question that was

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posed to our team last fall or
around you know as the agency is

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moving toward releasing the now
released Earth Science to Action

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strategy, what can we do to to
make sure that we we are, we

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have a regular set of resources
that go out to educators.

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So how can we make sure that
Earth and climate resources are

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included in what we share with
our communities that we work

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with every day?

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We started talking with some of
our our existing partners in the

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government, including, like I
said earlier, Department of Ed,

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Smithsonian, and that
collaboration grew.

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Now we have 9 federal partners
and but I don't know if Y'all

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00:27:15.652 --> 00:27:19.079
are familiar with the Globe
program, but they're also a

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critical collaborator on it and
they do do a lot of work in

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terms of community science,
citizen science and earth

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observation activities for
students.

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And so it really came out out of
a question that we received in

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terms of what is a way that we
could get resources that we know

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00:27:36.613 --> 00:27:40.112
about that are current and
relevant into the hands of

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educators.

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And so the idea around the
monthly collection going out as

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the first piece of that felt
felt like the right first step

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where we could focus efforts
around a specific monthly theme.

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Another layer that I didn't
mention is NASA is working with

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a number of federal partners on
something called the Earth

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Information Center.

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And so you can actually find the
digital version of this at

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earth.gov So, so folks can kind
of look at all of the

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development that's happened so
far.

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But we we came in on the
education side behind that

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effort, recognizing that as a
federal enterprise we're doing a

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lot of work in true solutions
based science and applied

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science, using satellite data,
using airborne science data and

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ground based data and that
there's a lot of resources for

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students to get involved.

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So what we're hoping to add on
to this monthly collection is

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some calls to actions for
students to really help us

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contribute to to the world of
data that exists already.

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But it you'll find out more
about those if if you and your

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teachers can get connected to
the project.

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So I hope that helped answer
your question.

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Thanks for the question.

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Do we have any others here in
the room?

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All right, there we go.

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It's about to say don't be shy.

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Y'all this is for you.

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What's your name?

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00:29:02.520 --> 00:29:05.640
My name is Jakari Davis and I
have a question for Miss Kim.

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What is the hardest thing you
have to do for your job and why?

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Oh, that's a good question.

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I think the hardest thing that
we have to do is rescue wildlife

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that is injured.

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We actually don't have
veterinarians on staff, so we

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have to catch the injured
wildlife and bring it to the

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near by wildlife hospital.

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A lot of times birds get tangled
in fishing line and it's really

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sad.

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They get terrible injuries.

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And if they live, they're
probably not going to be able to

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be released in the wild.

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So that's probably the worst
part of the job.

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All right, Thanks.

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Kim.

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Do we have any other questions
in the room?

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Let's go with that man in the
back.

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We'll get to you since you
already asked one.

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So just go ahead and wait for
Laura there.

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And what's your name?

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00:29:56.040 --> 00:29:56.920
My name is Robert Alonzo.

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I'm in the eighth grade.

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And I was wondering how do you
guys exactly remove the toxins

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from the soil after the
launches?

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Bob, I believe that's for you.

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Yeah.

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Thank you.

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Excuse me.

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So actually there aren't a lot
of toxins in the soil after

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launches.

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If you know and this is speaking
mostly of our vehicle, but you

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00:30:16.350 --> 00:30:19.023
know Artemis is our next
generation, it's a you know, but

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all the Rockets are pretty much
the same.

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They have a fuel and an
oxidizer.

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Ours is a liquid oxygen, liquid
hydrogen.

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When those combust the main
byproduct is water vapor.

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So you know you see the contrail
going up and it's and it's it's

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basically just water.

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Now they do have some effects on
the the very immediate

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environment and it's usually pH.

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So you have a a exhaust cloud it
becomes it's acidic.

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So that kind of deposits in the
immediate area around the the

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launch complex very temporarily
changes.

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It's not the soil as much as you
know the the little the ponds

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and things around there it makes
them slightly acidic for a very

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short period of time.

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Fortunately the soil types in
Florida is, you know it's

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limestone dependent.

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So it's a great buffer.

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So those things return to a
neutral pH really quickly.

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But the also kind of answer your
question, aside from the

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launches, we do have sometimes
soil contamination.

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That's usually historical stuff
from things like PCBS.

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Most of these have been cleaned
up, but it's it's pretty Monday

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and when we have that kind of
stuff, we dig it.

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It's excavated just, you know,
by a mechanical or even

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sometimes as much as just gas
with shovels and it's sent off

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to permitted landfills to be
disposed of safely.

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So we do have some toxics not
really associated with the

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launches.

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It's usually associated with
things past practices that

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00:31:44.106 --> 00:31:47.452
occurred wherever you are,
whether you're the at KSC or

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not, just because some of those
chemicals that were in general

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00:31:51.217 --> 00:31:54.862
use that we didn't, we didn't
find out about like PCBS until

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00:31:54.862 --> 00:31:55.520
much later.

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Thanks, Bob.

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And I know we have some other
questions in the room.

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00:31:59.560 --> 00:32:01.784
If you could just kind of raise
your hand and we'll get our mic

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00:32:01.784 --> 00:32:02.480
handlers out to you.

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00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:06.108
But for right now, I want to
jump ahead to a question that we

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00:32:06.108 --> 00:32:08.800
got in the chat from Deb that is
for Spencer.

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00:32:09.120 --> 00:32:12.512
And the question is about the
electric vehicle chargers, what

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00:32:12.512 --> 00:32:15.686
type of fuel generates the
electricity for the charges on

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00:32:15.686 --> 00:32:15.960
site?

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00:32:16.440 --> 00:32:17.920
So it's actually a great
question.

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00:32:18.600 --> 00:32:23.034
I'm not an expert in solar
panels, but I do know that

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00:32:23.034 --> 00:32:28.125
recently KSC partnered with FPL
and they installed, I believe

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00:32:28.125 --> 00:32:31.000
it's a 74 1/2 MW solar panel
farm.

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00:32:31.360 --> 00:32:35.192
And if I'm not mistaken, that
provides about 75% of the power

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00:32:35.192 --> 00:32:36.120
for the center.

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00:32:36.360 --> 00:32:39.520
I know that we also have
additional solar farms on

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00:32:39.520 --> 00:32:42.680
center, but for the most part,
it is mostly solar.

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00:32:44.320 --> 00:32:45.600
OK, Thanks, Spencer.

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00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:47.960
We have any other questions in
the room right now?

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00:32:48.600 --> 00:32:50.120
All right, let's go to you over
here.

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00:32:50.200 --> 00:32:50.960
We'll get to you in a SEC.

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00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:52.400
What's your name?

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00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:52.880
My name is Sophia.

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00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:55.840
I'm in 8th grade.

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00:32:55.920 --> 00:32:56.160
All right.

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00:32:56.160 --> 00:32:57.040
Sophia, who's your question?

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00:32:57.040 --> 00:33:00.640
For how long do the batteries
and electric cars last?

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00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:03.400
So that's also a great question.

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00:33:04.440 --> 00:33:08.187
The average lifespan that we're
seeing right now, typically 10

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00:33:08.187 --> 00:33:11.280
to 15 years, and that's on a
normal vehicle, right?

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00:33:11.280 --> 00:33:13.120
So that would be one that you
have at home.

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00:33:14.600 --> 00:33:19.044
Vehicles that are used on center
drive much less than the typical

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00:33:19.044 --> 00:33:19.920
vehicle does.

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00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:21.520
Most of the time they're just
idling.

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00:33:21.800 --> 00:33:25.412
So we expect to see a lot longer
battery life come out of those

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00:33:25.412 --> 00:33:25.920
vehicles.

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00:33:26.200 --> 00:33:29.201
And just for instance, when we
replace our vehicles, usually

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00:33:29.201 --> 00:33:32.400
after about 10 years, they only
have about 40,000 miles on them.

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00:33:32.600 --> 00:33:35.656
So they're still relatively, I
mean age wise, they're older,

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00:33:35.656 --> 00:33:37.560
but they haven't been used very
much.

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00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:41.548
So we expect to get much longer
lifespan out of them than what's

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00:33:41.548 --> 00:33:42.000
typical.

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00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:43.280
All right.

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00:33:43.280 --> 00:33:45.520
And I believe we had you wanna
you had a question as well.

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00:33:46.080 --> 00:33:46.880
All right, what's your name?

93e7d6aa-966f-4524-a5d6-ca4b3ff1bb8a-0
00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:48.400
Sophia Garcia.

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00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:50.200
And I had another Sophia, yeah.

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00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:52.280
And I had a question for Mr.

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00:33:52.280 --> 00:33:52.800
Spencer.

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00:33:53.360 --> 00:33:54.680
What is your background name?

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00:33:55.760 --> 00:33:58.765
So my background, I actually was
in the Air Force when I got out

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00:33:58.765 --> 00:34:00.800
of high school and went into the
Air Force.

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00:34:01.800 --> 00:34:05.349
When I got out, I used my GI
Bill to go to UCF and I got

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00:34:05.349 --> 00:34:07.280
bachelor's degree in economics.

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00:34:07.400 --> 00:34:09.560
So it doesn't quite fit with
transportation.

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00:34:10.040 --> 00:34:12.520
But really you can do anything
you want to do out here.

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00:34:12.520 --> 00:34:15.514
If you really apply yourself,
you can get into pretty much any

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00:34:15.514 --> 00:34:15.800
field.

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00:34:16.040 --> 00:34:18.320
I'm actually not in the
transportation office anymore.

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00:34:18.320 --> 00:34:21.640
I've moved over into EGS, which
is the Artemis program.

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00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:25.101
I'm a program analyst now, so I
monitor the budget for

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00:34:25.101 --> 00:34:26.640
propellants, things like that.

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00:34:27.560 --> 00:34:27.960
OK.

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00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:31.365
And as we do, we have another
question here in the room right

23bddcf0-a8ac-4171-adbd-8c04212a1e4b-1
00:34:31.365 --> 00:34:31.640
here.

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00:34:33.200 --> 00:34:33.920
What's your name?

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00:34:33.920 --> 00:34:35.080
My name is Avis Spurt.

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00:34:35.080 --> 00:34:36.440
And my question is for Mr.

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00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:41.119
Spencer is that was the idea of
electric vehicles brought up

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00:34:41.119 --> 00:34:42.040
before 2010.

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00:34:42.640 --> 00:34:47.040
So it was my previous mentor and
my previous predecessor.

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00:34:47.040 --> 00:34:51.840
He started implementing E VS on
center a long time ago.

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00:34:52.040 --> 00:34:55.198
He was partnering with folks who
were just putting electric

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00:34:55.198 --> 00:34:58.514
vehicle engines into standard
gas cars and they would take the

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00:34:58.514 --> 00:35:01.725
gas engine out and just just to
prove that it can be done, I

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00:35:01.725 --> 00:35:04.620
want to say that the first
electric vehicle at Kennedy

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00:35:04.620 --> 00:35:06.200
Space Center was back in 2002.

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00:35:06.520 --> 00:35:11.381
So we've been pioneering that
for years and really for the

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00:35:11.381 --> 00:35:14.760
agency, we've kind of pioneered
EVs, OK.

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00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:17.800
And we have a question here in
the chat real quick for Kim.

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00:35:18.120 --> 00:35:21.232
This is from AJ, who I believe
is out in the in the press side

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00:35:21.232 --> 00:35:21.480
area.

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00:35:22.200 --> 00:35:24.760
What's the hardest part about
being a wildlife manager?

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00:35:27.600 --> 00:35:31.476
Well, at Merritt Island National
Wildlife Refuge, one of our

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00:35:31.476 --> 00:35:34.400
challenges is that we have a lot
of visitors.

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00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:38.498
We have over 2,000,000 visitors
a year, which makes us about the

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00:35:38.498 --> 00:35:41.200
fifth most visited refuge in the
whole country.

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00:35:41.600 --> 00:35:45.395
And so we're trying to balance
how can all these people come

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00:35:45.395 --> 00:35:49.191
and go fishing and look at the
birds and look for alligators

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00:35:49.191 --> 00:35:52.800
without doing anything that
damages the habitat that's so

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00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:54.480
important for the wildlife?

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00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:58.795
So we're always trying to
balance the use by people with

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00:35:58.795 --> 00:36:00.600
the needs of the wildlife.

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00:36:00.600 --> 00:36:03.160
And so that's that's a pretty
big challenge for us.

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00:36:03.800 --> 00:36:05.680
OK Do we have any other
questions in the room?

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00:36:06.080 --> 00:36:06.720
You want to take one?

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00:36:07.200 --> 00:36:07.320
Yeah.

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00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:09.400
Come on, Let's get the adults
involved.

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00:36:09.400 --> 00:36:09.920
What's your name?

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00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:11.080
My name is Mr.

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00:36:11.080 --> 00:36:11.520
Morgan.

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00:36:11.520 --> 00:36:13.920
I'm an educator at Jackson
Middle School.

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00:36:14.080 --> 00:36:17.640
But we noticed the controlled
burn going on outside.

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00:36:18.560 --> 00:36:21.233
And so we're curious what
measures are taken to protect

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00:36:21.233 --> 00:36:24.145
the animals or relocate the
animals in the area that's being

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00:36:24.145 --> 00:36:24.480
burned.

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00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:26.783
I think Kim, that you might be
the best one to answer that

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00:36:26.783 --> 00:36:27.080
question.

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00:36:27.080 --> 00:36:29.154
Cause a lot of times with our
controlled burns, we have to

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00:36:29.154 --> 00:36:30.280
coordinate that with the refuge.

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00:36:31.480 --> 00:36:32.200
Thanks Masad.

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00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:36.884
So the fire managers would
correct my answer and say that

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00:36:36.884 --> 00:36:40.970
the most difficult part about
working on the Wildlife Refuge

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00:36:40.970 --> 00:36:44.320
is actually trying to find a
time to have a burn.

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00:36:44.680 --> 00:36:48.712
So we actually use the term
prescribed fire because there's

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00:36:48.712 --> 00:36:49.720
a prescription.

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00:36:49.960 --> 00:36:53.292
So the fire managers have to
look at what's the weather, what

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00:36:53.292 --> 00:36:56.679
is the air temperature, what is
the humidity, what is the wind

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00:36:56.679 --> 00:36:59.636
speed, what is the wind
direction and what is the fuel

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00:36:59.636 --> 00:37:00.120
moisture.

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00:37:00.120 --> 00:37:03.920
So how dry or wet are the plants
in the environment?

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00:37:04.200 --> 00:37:08.131
And if everything is in
prescription, they can start a

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00:37:08.131 --> 00:37:12.491
prescribed fire, except not
here, because after we check all

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00:37:12.491 --> 00:37:16.995
of those things, then we have to
call the Kennedy Space Center

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00:37:16.995 --> 00:37:19.640
and say NASA, can we start our
fire?

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00:37:19.880 --> 00:37:22.200
Because rockets don't like fire.

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00:37:22.560 --> 00:37:23.000
OK.

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00:37:23.680 --> 00:37:27.680
And we already heard that all
that exhaust that you see coming

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00:37:27.680 --> 00:37:31.617
out of the bottom of the rocket
at a launch, it's really, you

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00:37:31.617 --> 00:37:32.760
know, water vapor.

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00:37:32.760 --> 00:37:33.800
It's not smoke.

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00:37:34.080 --> 00:37:37.317
And so if there's a rocket on
the launchpad, we have to make

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00:37:37.317 --> 00:37:40.715
sure the smoke is not going to
go anywhere near that rocket and

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00:37:40.715 --> 00:37:42.520
that makes it really
challenging.

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00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:46.896
The, the refuge and Space Center
are divided into different burn

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00:37:46.896 --> 00:37:50.480
units and we try to burn those
every three to five years.

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00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:54.482
But we have to schedule that
around rocket launches and

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00:37:54.482 --> 00:37:58.236
seeing as you guys are local,
you know those are happening

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00:37:58.236 --> 00:38:00.400
more and more often all the
time.

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00:38:00.640 --> 00:38:04.958
So we have to have all the
factors of weather line up with

9743845a-e653-48a1-a4b5-46cc7c930e9d-1
00:38:04.958 --> 00:38:07.520
the launch schedule and
resources.

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00:38:07.520 --> 00:38:11.027
Like today we had to get a
helicopter on site to start that

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00:38:11.027 --> 00:38:11.320
fire.

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00:38:11.600 --> 00:38:14.974
We don't own a helicopter, we
have to schedule a helicopter

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00:38:14.974 --> 00:38:17.955
and we only have a few
firefighters that work on the

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00:38:17.955 --> 00:38:19.080
refuge all the time.

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00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:22.088
So we have to get extra helpers
to come in and make sure

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00:38:22.088 --> 00:38:23.320
everything goes smoothly.

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00:38:23.560 --> 00:38:27.453
There's a lot of coordination
that happens and it's a big

bd64d205-0c09-4978-8aae-f3c55465b86e-1
00:38:27.453 --> 00:38:31.413
challenge, but it's important
because those scrub JS, they

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00:38:31.413 --> 00:38:35.373
live in the scrub which is a
fire dependent habitat, which

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00:38:35.373 --> 00:38:39.468
means it needs to be burned to
keep the trees small, to keep

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00:38:39.468 --> 00:38:43.160
them widely scattered, to keep
those open sandy spots.

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00:38:43.400 --> 00:38:48.005
So we've got to have those fires
in order to keep quality habitat

5948d07a-e3be-47a8-9b35-71256922f953-1
00:38:48.005 --> 00:38:49.960
for that endangered species.

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00:38:50.920 --> 00:38:53.840
Thanks, Kim, and let's go
quickly here to the chat.

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00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:55.520
We've got a question here for
Bob.

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00:38:56.000 --> 00:38:59.560
And this has to do with launches
and animals.

ebcf3498-7041-42e9-aa84-5c375921e4fc-0
00:38:59.560 --> 00:39:02.935
Specifically, what does NASA do
to prevent animals from getting

ebcf3498-7041-42e9-aa84-5c375921e4fc-1
00:39:02.935 --> 00:39:04.360
hurt when we have launches?

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00:39:04.760 --> 00:39:06.040
Yeah, yeah, good question.

ed121e12-c295-41bb-abf0-1d0309a45996-0
00:39:06.040 --> 00:39:08.440
So actually the animals are
pretty smart all by themselves.

faabf1d6-57aa-44f8-9ae1-88363225271e-0
00:39:08.440 --> 00:39:12.293
They within the launch complex
where you know most of the

faabf1d6-57aa-44f8-9ae1-88363225271e-1
00:39:12.293 --> 00:39:16.280
impacts are pretty much confined
into that fence perimeter.

8d1a7125-f9d7-43b4-a2ea-68e9f2265e66-0
00:39:16.560 --> 00:39:19.847
There aren't really animals in
there for the most part because

8d1a7125-f9d7-43b4-a2ea-68e9f2265e66-1
00:39:19.847 --> 00:39:22.926
it's an operational area and
they they wouldn't want to be

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00:39:22.926 --> 00:39:23.240
there.

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00:39:23.400 --> 00:39:26.857
So mainly you'd only get birds
that come in and you've probably

8a75e6bd-1882-43ee-82c6-0e8cadb426d4-1
00:39:26.857 --> 00:39:30.260
seen this on TV on the launches,
the the rot, you know you you

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00:39:30.260 --> 00:39:33.231
start the igniters and stuff and
everything clears out

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00:39:33.231 --> 00:39:33.880
immediately.

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00:39:34.200 --> 00:39:39.207
So I don't really think from
that standpoint really it's not

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00:39:39.207 --> 00:39:42.080
a very high risk scenario to
have.

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00:39:44.520 --> 00:39:47.469
It doesn't really actually
happen that the animals are

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00:39:47.469 --> 00:39:51.009
really impacted that much by the
launch aside to from leaving you

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00:39:51.009 --> 00:39:51.760
know the area.

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00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:56.051
It's important to know we do
have because we are a Wildlife

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00:39:56.051 --> 00:39:58.921
Refuge, we do have a lot of
times we have not from the

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00:39:58.921 --> 00:40:01.792
launches exactly, but we have
buildings that might get

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00:40:01.792 --> 00:40:03.880
impacted by stuff trying to live
on it.

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00:40:04.240 --> 00:40:06.760
Bats are really common out here.

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00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:10.728
We sometimes during renovations
we've had to do special things

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00:40:10.728 --> 00:40:13.480
because bats live in roofs and
under bridges.

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00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:17.440
We have a ton of vultures out
here.

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00:40:18.120 --> 00:40:20.560
For whatever reason, they love
living on KFC.

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00:40:21.160 --> 00:40:24.596
Sometimes we have to do special
things associated with with with

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00:40:24.596 --> 00:40:27.240
the vultures, but everything we
do is really try.

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00:40:27.240 --> 00:40:30.901
We do be very, very mindful of
the animals, whether they're

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00:40:30.901 --> 00:40:32.000
endangered or not.

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00:40:32.280 --> 00:40:35.887
And we've got a bunch of
dedicated people who are really

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00:40:35.887 --> 00:40:39.621
care about them deeply, no
matter what they are, how small

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00:40:39.621 --> 00:40:41.520
or great or well known or not.

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00:40:41.800 --> 00:40:45.200
And and those people really keep
a real eye on them for sure.

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00:40:45.200 --> 00:40:47.572
And you know, should be noted
the Refuge people also do a

d29c9644-7363-4296-999f-30cea87e0270-1
00:40:47.572 --> 00:40:50.068
really good job in working with
us to help make that kind of

d29c9644-7363-4296-999f-30cea87e0270-2
00:40:50.068 --> 00:40:50.600
thing happen.

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00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:52.520
Do we have any other questions
in the room?

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00:40:53.160 --> 00:40:54.440
Let's go all the way in the back
there.

ed1d6a03-2deb-408d-80e3-463968c51d65-0
00:40:57.160 --> 00:40:58.280
Jetavier Davis.

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00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:00.520
My question is for Mr.

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00:41:00.520 --> 00:41:01.040
Spencer.

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00:41:01.040 --> 00:41:04.191
Do you think in the future we
will be able to incorporate

41cc2826-d9aa-4083-90e8-415c9952757a-1
00:41:04.191 --> 00:41:06.800
solar or electric fueling into
future launches?

60987c84-d492-4622-bef5-3bf0b9b3f8e5-0
00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:10.720
So that's a good question.

3173879c-2931-49a7-930c-f07d45f99e22-0
00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:16.321
I would not be an expert on
electric propulsion for a launch

3173879c-2931-49a7-930c-f07d45f99e22-1
00:41:16.321 --> 00:41:16.920
vehicle.

eaad88f6-552d-47d4-8793-df8e57275780-0
00:41:18.640 --> 00:41:21.240
I know that, you know, there's a
big push right now.

2fa867e4-41b5-4084-a5cd-2e7c8d3c4143-0
00:41:21.400 --> 00:41:22.920
We're doing everything with
Artemis.

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00:41:22.920 --> 00:41:24.520
It's LH2 and LO2.

b9aefc60-a8b5-400a-91ed-3552544cc952-0
00:41:24.880 --> 00:41:27.513
And you know, obviously we
talked about it's water that

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00:41:27.513 --> 00:41:28.360
comes out of that.

dd31317c-5ead-455a-b5a0-4c9e5d8936f8-0
00:41:28.880 --> 00:41:31.322
There's another piece though, I
would like to talk about with

dd31317c-5ead-455a-b5a0-4c9e5d8936f8-1
00:41:31.322 --> 00:41:31.520
that.

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00:41:31.520 --> 00:41:33.160
And that's LH2, right.

645e3b9f-16b2-456b-a0de-b0de42b3a69b-0
00:41:33.160 --> 00:41:34.240
So that's hydrogen.

1bcd23a4-5568-47ed-aef8-7db078aef048-0
00:41:34.240 --> 00:41:35.680
LH two is Spencer for them.

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00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:36.000
Yeah.

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00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:39.733
So LH two is hydrogen and
there's a big push for in the

68c247eb-f343-41eb-b361-4896912e9a47-1
00:41:39.733 --> 00:41:43.600
future hydrogen vehicles, you
may have heard that before.

793facc7-cf21-4119-9de8-a7a08218a76a-0
00:41:44.040 --> 00:41:46.360
What they do is they use a
hydrogen fuel cell.

0437b2fa-0f9c-49d6-95c8-a0f73539536d-0
00:41:46.560 --> 00:41:50.308
So they would fuel them up with
hydrogen and then they use a

0437b2fa-0f9c-49d6-95c8-a0f73539536d-1
00:41:50.308 --> 00:41:53.873
process like kind of like
electrolysis where they turn it

0437b2fa-0f9c-49d6-95c8-a0f73539536d-2
00:41:53.873 --> 00:41:57.806
into fuel, it can power like a
battery electric vehicle and you

0437b2fa-0f9c-49d6-95c8-a0f73539536d-3
00:41:57.806 --> 00:42:01.432
would be able to top your EV off
with hydrogen and then it

0437b2fa-0f9c-49d6-95c8-a0f73539536d-4
00:42:01.432 --> 00:42:05.120
produces water out the tailpipe
much like the launchers do.

113c936c-d59a-4ca7-9ede-ec252ca432cb-0
00:42:06.520 --> 00:42:09.926
I've actually been in a couple
meetings where we had discussed

113c936c-d59a-4ca7-9ede-ec252ca432cb-1
00:42:09.926 --> 00:42:13.009
putting an LH two generation
site out here and what that

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00:42:13.009 --> 00:42:16.362
would do is, you know, we could
produce our own for maybe for

113c936c-d59a-4ca7-9ede-ec252ca432cb-3
00:42:16.362 --> 00:42:19.120
the Rockets, but we could also
do it for vehicles.

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00:42:19.440 --> 00:42:22.600
So you know that's something
that's definitely in the future.

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00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:26.014
I know there's a lot of work
that we're doing with

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00:42:26.014 --> 00:42:30.009
photovoltaic cells for like EVs
and stuff and they use them like

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00:42:30.009 --> 00:42:32.960
the Mars Rover, right, that has
EV cells on it.

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00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:35.600
So I hope that answers your
question.

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00:42:35.800 --> 00:42:36.480
Thanks, Spencer.

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00:42:36.880 --> 00:42:37.640
Do we have any others?

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00:42:37.640 --> 00:42:39.120
I know I saw a few more hands
coming up.

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00:42:40.040 --> 00:42:40.320
Let's.

c0977d20-2702-4e67-8f7d-77ada9007f4a-0
00:42:40.320 --> 00:42:41.480
I don't think we've heard from
you yet.

15eb9197-bf6a-4ecc-af47-51c357eaf35b-0
00:42:41.480 --> 00:42:42.640
Right now let's go to her.

91166e49-642f-4188-a240-d36f0be60fa9-0
00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:44.040
I know we've already heard from
yourself.

3db43d47-7394-4802-9a0a-87a6c2cb9c2f-0
00:42:44.040 --> 00:42:44.760
We'll get to you if we can.

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00:42:44.760 --> 00:42:45.200
What's your name?

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00:42:45.200 --> 00:42:47.320
My name is Anderson Gistel.

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00:42:47.680 --> 00:42:49.080
I'm in 8th grade.

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00:42:49.160 --> 00:42:50.840
And I have a question for Miss
Kim.

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00:42:52.120 --> 00:42:57.035
What species or plant or animal
are you most worried about in,

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00:42:57.035 --> 00:42:58.440
like, your refuge?

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00:43:00.680 --> 00:43:02.000
That's a good question.

549ba416-681a-4306-a3ba-b54b73621ffe-0
00:43:02.360 --> 00:43:07.610
So the Merritt Island National
Wildlife Refuge is actually in a

549ba416-681a-4306-a3ba-b54b73621ffe-1
00:43:07.610 --> 00:43:10.400
a complex with two other
refuges.

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00:43:10.400 --> 00:43:13.320
There's the Lake Woodruff Refuge
and there's the St.

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00:43:13.320 --> 00:43:14.400
John's Refuge.

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00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:15.600
And St.

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00:43:15.600 --> 00:43:18.000
John's is on the West side of
Titusville.

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00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:23.603
Like after you go past I-95 and
you're headed to Orlando and out

42374dac-8282-4f12-813f-b091a217b12a-1
00:43:23.603 --> 00:43:28.000
there there's a little bird
called the black rail.

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00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:32.665
And the black rail was recently
listed on the endangered species

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00:43:32.665 --> 00:43:33.000
list.

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00:43:33.040 --> 00:43:37.434
And the ornithologists surveyed
all the places they thought the

240fcad3-0574-4439-b23b-2daac310ae6c-1
00:43:37.434 --> 00:43:41.760
black rail might live all over
the southeastern United States.

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00:43:42.120 --> 00:43:43.480
And they decided that the St.

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00:43:43.480 --> 00:43:47.477
John's refuge was a really
important place for this bird,

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00:43:47.477 --> 00:43:49.200
for this endangered bird.

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00:43:49.600 --> 00:43:53.517
So we have a critically
endangered bird living out there

b9f15438-7db0-4e2d-be7c-12864c4d9096-1
00:43:53.517 --> 00:43:57.160
on that refuge, which
experiences a lot of trespass.

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00:43:57.440 --> 00:44:01.706
People love to go in there and
like ride their AT VS and set up

8981bc03-c143-45a2-834c-0cdcddb233df-1
00:44:01.706 --> 00:44:05.573
shooting ranges and just all
kinds of things because they

8981bc03-c143-45a2-834c-0cdcddb233df-2
00:44:05.573 --> 00:44:09.706
think that it's just nobody's
land and they don't realize how

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00:44:09.706 --> 00:44:11.640
important it is to this bird.

db95bf39-d469-4eda-97f5-24855f4ef203-0
00:44:11.640 --> 00:44:15.638
So I would say that that worries
us a lot is taking care of the

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00:44:15.638 --> 00:44:17.200
black rail out on the St.

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00:44:17.200 --> 00:44:18.200
John's Refuge.

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00:44:18.800 --> 00:44:21.120
OK, we've got another question
on the chat here.

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00:44:21.120 --> 00:44:22.320
This is actually for all of you.

a7d90def-b1b5-433c-8628-93e2b90d81dd-0
00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:24.780
So we'll just kind of start down
the line here with Kelly

a7d90def-b1b5-433c-8628-93e2b90d81dd-1
00:44:24.780 --> 00:44:27.240
Giovanni, an eighth grader over
at Andrew Jackson Middle.

a992c5da-8574-481c-bf3c-0e72d7ae3fb7-0
00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:31.976
How dedicated do you have to be
to do your jobs, Giovanni, I

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00:44:31.976 --> 00:44:33.240
love that question.

ffc068b4-5afb-451c-a8f3-b096464b87dc-0
00:44:33.240 --> 00:44:36.461
I think it's a combination of
dedication and love and drive

ffc068b4-5afb-451c-a8f3-b096464b87dc-1
00:44:36.461 --> 00:44:37.160
for your job.

e21d40b0-b5cd-42da-a974-7301875ccf76-0
00:44:37.160 --> 00:44:40.840
Whether you're in a field that's
heavier on the technical side or

e21d40b0-b5cd-42da-a974-7301875ccf76-1
00:44:40.840 --> 00:44:44.521
more on some of what I shared on
the STEM engagement or education

e21d40b0-b5cd-42da-a974-7301875ccf76-2
00:44:44.521 --> 00:44:44.799
side.

883fc4d5-57b1-46bf-912c-184439c45389-0
00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:49.069
I I think you have to show up
everyday 100% and that helps if

883fc4d5-57b1-46bf-912c-184439c45389-1
00:44:49.069 --> 00:44:51.480
you really like what you're
doing.

d13a0a34-32b4-4533-ba85-bbeffc03c44c-0
00:44:51.480 --> 00:44:54.880
But showing up asking questions,
offering support, I I think

d13a0a34-32b4-4533-ba85-bbeffc03c44c-1
00:44:54.880 --> 00:44:58.504
that's standard advice that I I
would want to share with you for

d13a0a34-32b4-4533-ba85-bbeffc03c44c-2
00:44:58.504 --> 00:45:01.682
anything that you get involved
in and that will help you

d13a0a34-32b4-4533-ba85-bbeffc03c44c-3
00:45:01.682 --> 00:45:04.859
uncover kind of those pieces
that you you really like in

d13a0a34-32b4-4533-ba85-bbeffc03c44c-4
00:45:04.859 --> 00:45:07.480
different jobs to to to find
your career path.

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00:45:07.520 --> 00:45:10.265
But but showing up every day
coupled with with finding some

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00:45:10.265 --> 00:45:12.600
things that you enjoy I think is
really important.

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Bob.

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Yeah dedication to your job.

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Well, I I think it's important
to, you know, dedication and and

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well, you know, liking your job
kind of go hand in hand.

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And so it does help in the long
run if you do something that you

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enjoy and have some interest in.

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But I would say like everybody I
know out here is very dedicated

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to their job no matter what it
might be.

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And I kind of want to take this
opportunity to give up like a

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little plug for working for
NASA.

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You know, a lot of people assume
that, you know, it's just high

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tech.

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You know, it's just electrical
engineers, Mechanical Engineers,

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aerospace engineers.

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But like, I'm an environmental
engineer and I grew up in this

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area and I didn't.

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I never really thought NASA
would be a place I'd work.

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You know what?

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Who needs an environmental
engineer out here?

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Well, we do because we're a
small city and basically we have

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everything, you know it.

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We have accountants, we have
groundskeepers, you know, so

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00:46:06.439 --> 00:46:09.880
like there's, you know, you
should never, if you're

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00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:13.720
interested in working out here,
there is a place for you.

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And it is a very good place to
work with a lot of really good

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people.

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So I just want to throw that in
there because you're in that

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00:46:20.181 --> 00:46:22.808
stage where you're probably
trying to decide what to do

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00:46:22.808 --> 00:46:23.840
later in life and all.

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00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:27.569
And if you like this area and
and want to stay, this is a

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00:46:27.569 --> 00:46:28.920
great place to do it.

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Spencer Yeah.

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So I think it's a great
question.

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You definitely have to be all
in, right?

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You have to be dedicated.

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You know, when I was younger, I
didn't know what I wanted to do.

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I didn't know where I wanted to
end up.

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But I did want to work for NASA.

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I always thought it was so cool.

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You know all the launches that I
used to watch in the shuttle and

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all that stuff.

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And then I all I did was I kept
thinking I got to find a way to

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get out there.

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So when I was in college, I went
through the Pathways internship

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program.

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I dedicated myself.

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The big thing I think I want to
leave with all of you is don't

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be afraid to step outside of the
box, right?

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Don't be afraid to do something
completely different, even if

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00:47:09.509 --> 00:47:10.040
it's scary.

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I've done so many things that
were completely scary and I

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00:47:13.493 --> 00:47:14.880
thought, I can never do this.

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I never want to do it.

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And you know, one of those
things now is going to end up

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00:47:18.605 --> 00:47:20.720
leading me to the White House
later this year.

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00:47:20.720 --> 00:47:24.045
So definitely, you know, take
every opportunity, seize the

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00:47:24.045 --> 00:47:24.440
moment.

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That's the big thing I would
give you.

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I think that the people who work
for the US Fish and Wildlife

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00:47:31.286 --> 00:47:33.800
Service are really very
dedicated to their job.

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00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:37.948
There's a lot of passionate
people there who really enjoy

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00:47:37.948 --> 00:47:42.240
and are committed to helping
wildlife, helping the wildlife

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00:47:42.240 --> 00:47:45.960
itself and also teaching people
about the wildlife.

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So that's a really great part of
the job, working with a lot of

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00:47:49.722 --> 00:47:50.680
passionate people.

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But it is challenging because we
are a federal agency, which

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00:47:55.798 --> 00:48:00.227
means politics can play a role
and budgets can go up and down

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00:48:00.227 --> 00:48:04.800
and you can get new directives
by depending on who's in charge.

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And that can kind of get kind of
frustrating.

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And you have to be able to stick
with it and focus on your

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00:48:11.064 --> 00:48:15.366
specific area of responsibility
and doing the good work that you

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00:48:15.366 --> 00:48:19.204
can do despite what all the
other craziness that might be

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00:48:19.204 --> 00:48:19.800
going on.

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So you definitely do have to be
dedicated enough to stick with

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it, but you'll be working with a
lot of other people who are

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00:48:27.077 --> 00:48:27.840
dedicated to.

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Thanks, Kim.

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And I just could go back to
something Bob said earlier.

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I definitely second him about
NASA.

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00:48:33.320 --> 00:48:35.896
You're looking at somebody right
now who was not great at science

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00:48:35.896 --> 00:48:38.160
in school and even worse in math
when I was y'all's ages.

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00:48:38.520 --> 00:48:41.720
So you can work here even if
you're not good in those areas.

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00:48:41.720 --> 00:48:42.680
That's really not a joke.

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You really can.

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We're going to have time for one
more question here in the room.

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00:48:46.680 --> 00:48:48.440
Anybody want to be the final
one?

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00:48:49.520 --> 00:48:51.320
All right, my man, you started
us off.

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00:48:51.320 --> 00:48:52.000
What's end with you?

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00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:53.280
Go ahead.

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00:48:53.880 --> 00:48:54.960
So you already know my name.

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00:48:54.960 --> 00:48:56.280
My name is Connor Hershey.

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00:48:56.280 --> 00:48:57.280
I'm an eighth grader.

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00:48:57.920 --> 00:49:03.953
And for Miss Ren, how do you
ensure that the animals you

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00:49:03.953 --> 00:49:06.600
protect don't go extinct?

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Oh, that's a really good
question.

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00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:16.183
You know, we we can't ensure it,
but mostly what we do is protect

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00:49:16.183 --> 00:49:16.880
habitat.

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00:49:17.040 --> 00:49:20.360
So we just dedicated 3 new
National Wildlife refuges.

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00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:22.920
So we're up to 571 now.

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00:49:23.240 --> 00:49:26.600
So we're protecting habitat all
across the country.

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00:49:26.920 --> 00:49:30.970
So the populations won't just be
protected here at Merritt

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00:49:30.970 --> 00:49:35.294
Island, but also up and down the
coast down, you know South of

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00:49:35.294 --> 00:49:39.070
here, there's Hobe Sound,
Pelican Island, Loxahatchee,

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00:49:39.070 --> 00:49:42.776
other places where other
wildlife can be protected as

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00:49:42.776 --> 00:49:43.120
well.

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00:49:43.560 --> 00:49:47.299
And another branch of the
service works with wildlife

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00:49:47.299 --> 00:49:51.592
rules and regulations and that
helps to protect the migratory

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00:49:51.592 --> 00:49:53.600
animals like migratory birds.

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So we have kind of a regulatory
branch as well.

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So we don't just have scientists
and we don't just have land.

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We're working in a lot of
different ways, a variety of

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00:50:03.212 --> 00:50:05.720
ways to try and help them in
every way that we can.

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Well, unfortunately, we have a
lot more questions, but we've

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00:50:09.963 --> 00:50:10.720
run out of time.

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00:50:10.720 --> 00:50:14.011
So Kelly McCarthy, Bob Klein,
Spencer Davis, Kim, King, Rank,

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00:50:14.011 --> 00:50:16.560
Thank you all so much for
dedicating your time.

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00:50:16.560 --> 00:50:19.800
And we hope that Y'all took
something out of the Next Gen.

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00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:22.040
STEM 2024 Earth Day briefing.

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00:50:22.240 --> 00:50:25.531
We hope all of you watching this
both online and in the room are

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00:50:25.531 --> 00:50:28.114
now inspired to become the next
generation of STEM

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00:50:28.114 --> 00:50:31.051
professionals, continuing
America's legacy of exploration

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00:50:31.051 --> 00:50:31.760
and discovery.

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00:50:32.120 --> 00:50:34.320
If you're interested in more
about NASA's Next Gen.

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00:50:34.320 --> 00:50:37.610
STEM project or the Earthrise
project that Kelly was talking

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00:50:37.610 --> 00:50:40.200
about earlier, you can log on to
nasa.gov/stem.

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00:50:40.480 --> 00:50:43.080
That's nasa.gov/stem.

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Have a great day everyone.