35 Burst results for "National Science Foundation"
Mark Levin
RedState: Federal Judge Destroys Argument in Favor of Censorship
"Now you sort of had an idea where this was going with the opinion starts with Voltaire I may disapprove of what you say but I would defend it to death your right the defendants the list of defendants looks like someone photocopied pages from a phone book in the Biden administration it's clear this judge dug really really deeply into this and wanted to make a point and of course there's Biden Killeen did a good dummy the Sarah goes on and on and on so forth primary agencies involved with the White House CDC FBI National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases cybersecurity infrastructure security agency State Department through the Global Engagement Center National Science Foundation's election integrity project election integrity project National Science Foundation it goes on in this case plaintiffs allege that defendants suppress conservative leaning free speech such as number one suppressing the hunter Biden laptop story prior to the 2020 presidential election number two suppressing speech about the lab leak theory of the covered nineteen's origin number three suppressing speech about the efficiency of risks and covered nineteen lockdowns number four suppressing speech about the nineteen vaccines number five suppressing speech about election integrity in the 2020 presidential number election six suppressing speech about the security of voting by mail number seven suppressing parody content about defendants number eight suppressing
InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
Dr. Adriana Bankston Unpacks the CHIPS and Science Act
"What is the chips and the science act? And can it help boost your global competitiveness in science and technology? Can you please tell our audience what is it and how can it help boost our competition, especially with China coming along, now becoming a competitor? Yeah. So it's a major legislation, as you know, was adopted by Congress last year with bipartisan support and focuses on global competition in science technology. The NSF director actually called it the most important U .S. science and engineering legislation in a generation. It's, of course, a large bill, covers on the one hand a number of technology areas such as artificial intelligence, quantum and others. And for the purposes of the discussion today, we'll be looking at the end science part of the bill, which is focused on enabling federal agencies to support research and development funding broadly, given that, of course, science and engineering drive innovation and economic development in a number of areas. So just to highlight a few aspects, there are a few areas to look at. One is fundamental science, research facilities and instrumentation, so really looking at the basic research support. And on the other hand, applied research through the NSF, the SIP directorate, so this is directorate of technology innovation and partnerships. It's meant to expand regional innovation across the country and also discusses the sort of basic and applied research of the system. And then also has a strong focus on step education and workforce development through skills and experiences for trainees as well as educators and highlights a number of training programs that can help support the future of pipeline. I think as you too, sort of your second question, how it can help boost competitiveness, I think, and we'll talk about this sort of, it focuses on funding for National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, including the Office of Science and the National Institute of Standards and Technology programs to support education in a number of areas. And a few things, of course, for a few years, sorry, the legislation that has undergone a number of iterations and changes in name was a number of programs have been authorized, but not appropriated. So of course, the real question is where the real money comes from to really support these programs and what will happen.
What Bitcoin Did
Economic Risks With Matthew Pines
"Any time. Okay. We were getting some deep topics here today. I know you've been on the show before, but if people are listening now and they haven't listened, we're definitely go back and listen to the other show, but can you just give people an intro to who you are and the work you do? Certainly. So I have a sort of a nontraditional background. My undergrad was in physics and philosophy. I did a master's in philosophy and public policy. I found my way to D.C., worked for the national science foundation for two years, and then stumbled into consulting for the government on sort of range of projects for the past ten years. Generally, the through line is helping the government sort of think through and prepare for bad scenarios. And then assess how they're prepared for those bad scenarios. And then also along the way, do various assessments of emerging technology. And sort of jump around from project to project. I originally shifted last year away from government focused security consulting to private sector security consulting. So I joined a firm called the krebs stamos group, which is a startup focusing on the intersection of geopolitical and cybersecurity risk. And really advising multinationals through their senior business strategy. And so I recently took over as the director for security intelligence there. I'm also affiliate with the Bitcoin policy institute as an security fellow. About a year ago, connected with those guys and really trying to help put out some rigorous long form and insightful analysis, at least I think, on the intersection of Bitcoin and U.S. national security. So yeah, I jump around and try to get myself busy. And what are some of those bad scenarios that we should be worried about right now? Well, right now, well, that's a Pandora's box. So geopolitically, we're entering environment of increasing tension. I think that's pretty obvious. And there's things that are going to be the major flash points. Everyone focuses on. Like Ukraine, like Taiwan, like U.S. U.S. China continued frictions across lots of different policy domains. But there's lots of things that when you have an environment that we're in where folks are trying to challenge the status quo order. You can have volatility erupting places maybe you didn't expect. And lots of interdependencies can cascade. And so there's lots of risks. There's risks from type of security, risks from novel pandemics that these things aren't going to go back in the bottle. Risks just from how modern society is confront the rising risk themselves and sort of reflexivity that
Bloomberg Radio New York
"national science foundation" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Budget and how higher interest rates could really affect what we can afford. And we're going to talk about that with my McGinnis of the committee for a responsible federal budget. This is balance of power on Bloomberg television and on radio. These season is coming. He's bracing for another big earnings season. Everyone is expecting it to be poor at big markdowns on earnings. Bloomberg breaks the numbers first. As far as already been set pretty low. The big question is, can it go lower? We're seeing some pretty bad earnings already from those who have recorded. With exclusive expert analysis. Which aspects of the market are not sufficiently priced. Is this a macro cute headway? There is some really bright light at the end of this tunnel. Is this floor going to come? When can I start by? Bloomberg, television and radio, the fastest number is and analysis you trust. And JIT, New Jersey institute of technology makes innovation happen. The university helped biomedical engineering professor Tara Alvarez launch a startup that may revolutionize vision therapy. Our startup through NG IT is called ocular motor technology. We create virtual reality, vision therapy in a head mounted display. So it's gaming and basically sugarcoating the therapy so that children and young adolescents don't even realize they're doing therapy. To accomplish this, we need biomedical engineers, which are here in on GIT campus, computer scientists, artists, people that are into story development, and then we are collaborating with a lot of the large pediatric medical centers. This idea of a startup culture is extremely important to not just NG IT and the national science foundation, but also to the
Bloomberg Radio New York
"national science foundation" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Journalists and analysts are working on this morning around the world. It's 5 39 on Wall Street. The following is an editorial from Bloomberg opinion. This editorial was written by the Bloomberg editorial board. After months of debate, the $280 billion chips and science act passed both chambers of Congress last week. Some aspects of the bill should be uncontroversial. It's proposal to boost funding for the national science foundation, for instance. Yet the bill also devotes an astonishing amount some $52 billion to propping up the U.S. semiconductor manufacturing industry. It's all too easy to imagine government dependent chip makers demanding yet more handouts a decade down the line. Congress can head off this threat with some pro competitive reforms, including expanding free trade deals and scrapping tariffs. Beyond that lawmakers must be mindful about how all this new cash is being spent, and ensure that a one time splurge doesn't turn into a permanent subsidy. This editorial was written by the Bloomberg editorial board for more Bloomberg opinion, please go to Bloomberg dot com slash opinion or Opie and go on the Bloomberg terminal. These has been Bloomberg opinion. And you can hear Bloomberg opinion editorials every weekday at this time, terminal customers can read more and go. Futures moving lower, S&P futures down 28 points
a16z
"national science foundation" Discussed on a16z
"Based on what you well, there were two things that happened one is when we were at Illinois, we started actually getting people actually using our software. And then we ended up getting lots of customer support calls. And so we applied for an NSF grant to staff a customer support operation. That's hilarious. And very nice people national science foundation explained to us that that was not actually the purpose of pixel content. Whatever research was a gift in retrospect, and that catalyst does in parts and start a company. But then the other thing was we actually wrote everything and after I think the students here, you guys did something very similar. Yeah, yeah. And so you do end up. You end up re-engineering. Putting your paying customers, you do end up having to do a set of things that are not. What I also thought was really interesting. And so my experience was very similar to yours, which I had these academic papers, the academic community liked it, industry hated it. And I found out it was actually much easier to sell somebody something than to give it away. And I don't know what the psychology is about. There's actually happened to me twice where I'm like, oh, like the paper's done, the research has done. I'm going to do the next thing. Now I want to adopt it. And I have the conversation. And then they want to put the effort or whatever. And in both cases, I ended up just selling at them. And in the cases of companies. And I think it does two things. One of the things that does is actually just qualifies, because if you ask somebody for money, if they're actually not interested, they'll say no. And the second one, if you get a transaction to happen, you'll actually have some skin in the game. You actually have something behind it. And so I actually tell this to a lot of academics coming out of industry now. Like, listen, it's hard to give something away.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"national science foundation" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Helped biomedical engineering professor Tara Alvarez launch a startup that may revolutionize vision therapy Our startup through and JIT is called ocular motor technology We create virtual reality vision therapy in a head mounted display So it's gaming and basically sugar coating the therapy so that children and young adolescents don't even realize they're doing therapy to accomplish this We need biomedical engineers which are here on JIT campus a computer scientist artists people that are into story development and then we are collaborating with a lot of the large pediatric medical centers This idea of a startup culture is extremely important to not just IT and the national science foundation but also to the U.S. as a societal hole And JIT New Jersey institute of technology Learn more and JIT dot EDU This is a Bloomberg pursuits look at luxury and online auction of the contents of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's personal library soared 3900% over estimate to total $2.4 million at Bonham's testifying to the cult of personality that surrounds the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Bidders were primarily based in the U.S. the handful of bids came from places as far flung as Hong Kong with a higher proportion of women and younger collectors Blame the bespoke bottles that's what diageo did in explaining the North American supply constraints hitting its bullet brand bourbon executives on the company's earnings call noted that it had a very specific issue around glass that will be resolved in a matter of months Pablo Picasso's granddaughter Marina Picasso and her son florigen Picasso are getting in on crypto that Picasso's excelling 1010 digital art pieces including a ceramic work that has never before been seen publicly Physical Bloomberg pursuits dot com for more Amanda rote Bloomberg radio What's the true value of.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"national science foundation" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Professor Terra Alvarez launch a startup that may revolutionize vision therapy Our startup through and JIT is called ocular motor technology We create virtual reality vision therapy in a head mounted display So it's gaming and basically sugar coating the therapy so that children and young adolescents don't even realize they're doing therapy To accomplish this we need biomedical engineers which are here in on JIT campus of computer scientists artists people that are into story development and then we are collaborating with a lot of the large pediatric medical centers This idea of a startup culture is extremely important to not just IT and the national science foundation but also to the U.S. as a societal And JIT New Jersey institute of technology Learn more at NJ IT EDU When was the last time you felt fully informed on world that economic affairs Is GDP catching up with a zeitgeist Are we going to have to catch up with a boom economy That might have been it Is that a move this company by better bank stock performance Dumb game Jonathan perro and Lisa Abramovich It strikes me the degree of policy uncertainty for economists to factor in Bloomberg surveillance Weekday mornings at 7 eastern on Bloomberg radio the Bloomberg business app and Bloomberg radio dot com Seen through the eyes of experts gives you a better view So let's talk about the paint trade And at Bloomberg our market vision is 2020 I am.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"national science foundation" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Biomedical engineering professor Tara Alvarez launch a startup that may revolutionize vision therapy Our startup through and JIT is called ocular motor technology We create virtual reality vision therapy in a head mounted display So it's gaming and basically sugar coating the therapy so that children and young adolescents don't even realize they're doing therapy To accomplish this we need biomedical engineers which are here on GIT campus computer scientists artists people that are into story development and then we are collaborating with a lot of the large pediatric medical centers This idea of a startup culture is extremely important to not just IT and the national science foundation but also to the U.S. as a societal whole And JIT New Jersey institute of technology Learn more and JIT dot EDU With a Bloomberg business of sports report I'm Michael Barr Spring training from Major League Baseball could be delayed and industry labor dispute is dragging on and team owners and the players union are still apart The two sides met last week in their first big meeting since the management started to lock out 6 weeks ago Pitchers and catchers are supposed to report next month A blank check company backed by professional golfer Tiger Woods filed to raise $150 million and an initial public offering Sports and health tech acquisition based in Orlando Florida said in its filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it plans to seek a merger target in the sports or health technology sectors with an enterprise value of 600 million to a $1 billion Woods who has been involved in an array of business ventures is the lead.
Encyclopedia Womannica
Influential Educators: College President Mary Bunting
"Than a year. After henry's death. Mary was offered a new opportunity to become dean of douglass college. The women's college of rutgers university where she was a professor in nineteen fifty eight. Mary was invited to a national. Science foundation. committee created to improve the nation's performance in the field of science in a series of tests designed to figure out what blocked strong students from continuing into careers in science. Mary saw a big problem of all of the sixteen to nineteen year olds who scored in the top ten percent on aptitude tests and then did not go onto college. Ninety eight percent were women. The time women had serious. Barriers to access college education endowments for women's colleges were much lower than those of their male counterparts. Perhaps most importantly curriculum requirements didn't accommodate the different societal expectations for women. For example many universities made it nearly impossible for students to attend part time as a result women who had to care for children during the day at home could not attend mary. It her mission to redesign the education system to accommodate and encourage women to study. She got her first chance at serious reform. When in nineteen sixty she became president of radcliffe college the undergraduate women's college at harvard university there. She saw the stark differences between the ways. Men and women were treated on the same campus. Women were given bunk beds in assigned rooms rather than harvard's how system and they were excluded from harvard's libraries and dining halls. Mary set about changing the campus. She organized the dorms into a house. System built radcliffe. Its own library and created search committees to go into low income neighborhoods and offer scholarships to potential
Lex Fridman Podcast
"national science foundation" Discussed on Lex Fridman Podcast
"Always the hardest. And so there's that's an art not a science thing I think the fact here that combined. There's a rosa romantic goal that we had to do something that people hadn't done before which was Important scientifically and and a huge challenge Enabled us to say take and get I mean what we did. Take an example. We as the light to go on this thing comes from lasers. We need a certain kind of laser so The kind of laser that we used there were three different institutions in the world that had the experts that do this maybe in competition with each other so we got all three to join together and work with us To work on this as an example so that you had And they had the thing that they were working together on a kind of objects that they wouldn't have otherwise and Were part of a bigger team where they could discover something. That isn't even engineers. These are engineers that do laser. So and they're part of our laser physicists. And could you describe the moment or the period of time when finally this incredible creation of human beings led to a detection of gravitational waves. It's a long story. Unfortunately this part that we started way kind of thing or all failures. That's all that's built into it. Okay if you're not a if. He's not mechanical engineer. You build on your failures. That's expected so we're trying things that no one's done before so it's technically not just additional ways and so it's built on failures but anyway we before me and they're a people did are in d. on the concepts but starting in one thousand nine hundred ninety four. We got money from the national science foundation to build that thing It took about five years to build it so by nineteen ninety nine we built the basic unit. It did not have active seismic isolation at that stage. Didn't have some other things that we have now. What we did at that at the beginning was stick to technologies that we had at least enough knowledge that we could make work or tested in our laboratories and so then we put together the instrument we made. It work didn't work very well. But it worked and We'd in santa gravitational waves than we figured what limited us and we went through this every year for almost ten years never seen gravitational ways we would Rhonette looking for gravitational ways for months. Learn what the major does fix it for months. Then run it again eventually. We knew we had to take another big step. And that's when we made several changes including going adding these active seismic isolation was out to be a key And we fortunately got the national science foundation to give us another couple hundred million dollars..
Artificial Intelligence (AI Podcast) with Lex Fridman
"national science foundation" Discussed on Artificial Intelligence (AI Podcast) with Lex Fridman
"Hardest. And so there's that's an art not a science thing I think the fact here that combined. There's a rosa romantic goal that we had to do something that people hadn't done before which was Important scientifically and and a huge challenge Enabled us to say take and get I mean what we did. Take an example. We as the light to go on this thing comes from lasers. We need a certain kind of laser so The kind of laser that we used there were three different institutions in the world that had the experts that do this maybe in competition with each other so we got all three to join together and work with us To work on this as an example so that you had And they had the thing that they were working together on a kind of objects that they wouldn't have otherwise and Were part of a bigger team where they could discover something. That isn't even engineers. These are engineers that do laser. So and they're part of our laser physicists. And could you describe the moment or the period of time when finally this incredible creation of human beings led to a detection of gravitational waves story. Unfortunately this is the part that we started way kind of thing or all failures. That's all that's built into it. Okay if you're not a if. He's not mechanical engineer. You build on your failures. That's expected so we're trying things that no one's done before so it's technically not just additional ways and so it's built on failures but anyway we before me and they're a people did are in d. on the concepts but starting in one thousand nine hundred ninety four. We got money from the national science foundation to build that thing It took about five years to build it so by nine thousand nine hundred eighty nine we had built the basic unit. It did not have active seismic isolation at that stage. Didn't have some other things that we have now. What we did at that at the beginning was stick to technologies that we had at least enough knowledge that we could make work or tested in our laboratories and so then we put together the instrument. We made it work. Didn't work very well. But it worked and We'd in santa gravitational waves than we figured what limited us and we went through this every year for almost ten years never seen gravitational ways we would Rhonette looking for gravitational waves for months. Learn what the major does fix it for months. Then run it again eventually. We knew we had to take another big step. And that's when we made several changes including going adding these active seismic isolation was out to be a key And we fortunately got the national science foundation to give us another couple hundred million dollars..
Antibuddies
"national science foundation" Discussed on Antibuddies
"Oh so Can you tell us how you got into immunology and research in general. Yeah sure my major in cameras three. When i was a college student so during the summer funds sophomore junior i enrolled in summer program supported by a government agency in taiwan and this institute is similar to the national science foundation in the united states so i woke with in immunology left and that was my first experience performing experiments related biological signs. Once in really surprised me is that i always full gotcha Appropriate controls interns all. I have to repeat it. Thanks firm on again. So nevertheless i was fascinated by the complexity of the immune orange so i took several coaches religious balloting signs such as Biology genetics fundamentally immunology after some program. Yes well what has been your experience in academia like do you have any advice so i will say it's very similar to fishing so the moment you've got fish of course you're exciting ever. If old that you have feel you probably feel frustrated and you have to figure out all the possibilities you. Why don't want to buy your bait bright and for the advice. I think you need to know yourself in all how to get on with yourself. So most of the time walks in lab is quite lonely and of course. You have your mandarin now. The you the only person who knows your own project sorely so stubborn in most cases like the negative word to describe person here in signs this is now the basle sometimes been sterban and perspective Colts also been immunologist. Say fascinating you should read frustrating. Because that's actually what. You're trusting work with fascinating. I mean i didn't mean well. Let's go over some terminology before we go into the paper of. I think our audiences primarily people who are of course interested in immunology so they don't know anything about brains So i we're gonna talk about the cns which is of course the central nervous system. And i think we're all taught you know that there's this blood brain barrier that no immune cells are going to get into your brain because you know they kill all your brain cells or whatever but We've recently finding out that that's not necessarily true We'll do you wanna elaborate on the rule of the immune system you know in the brain how it's different. Well actually. it's now dad different phone okay..
Climate Cast
The Literal Uncharted Waters of Climate Change
"Edwards druidic wrote in yale environment. Three sixty about the new danger of shrinking ice cover in the arctic. It's created an arctic shipping. Boom that's literally sailing into uncharted waters. So is less but more radic sea ice a recipe for arctic shipping disasters edward strategic welcome to climate cast. Thank you for having me on. So we know from the satellite records that climate change has dramatically changed arctic ice cover since one thousand nine hundred seventy nine. That's opened up new routes. How many of these shipping routes have reliable navigation charts in the arctic in say alaska. We've got only four percent of the region is charted in candidates. A little bit better. It's fourteen percent so not a lot and some areas. They're just no charting at all. You wrote about this russian ship that grounded in twenty eighteen. Tell us what happened there. Well i was aboard the ship. I was on. Us national science foundation expedition. We were supposed to begin in a place called resolute in the high arctic but The ship couldn't get in there so we had to board further south in the boothia peninsula. Which is entirely uncharted. And we within twelve hours Ran into a shoal Very violently and the ship was listing and We didn't really know what was going on at the time. Although we did know that we were spilling some fuel and that the ship must have been damaged but For about twenty four. Thirty six hours. We just didn't know what was going on. And it took that long for rescue to get to you. How did that play out. Fortunately the canadian coast guard ship was about twenty two hours away and another one was thirty. Six hours away they could easily have been five or six or seven days away. had we've begun to sink and had to man the lifeboats. We could have been in serious trouble. Had there been a lot of ice in the area or to storm. Come up
Aviation Week's Check 6 Podcast
What Can Companies and Individuals Do to Encourage Equity?
"Today. We're going to be talking about how to make race and gender equity standard business practices in aviation joining me. Today are bird guests. Who's the president and ceo of the racial equity group. And dr rebecca kaiser who is the chief of research security strategy and policy at the national science foundation burden rebecca. Welcome and thrilled to have you on this podcast. Thank you thank you so much to get us started bird you recently used. The term escalators at the women in aviation program on race and gender equity. Would you please explain what that is and how it works absolutely are so. Our society is composed of social structures and these social structures like just the the core components of our society that allow us to function families and social structure. Housing is a social structure educational system. These are all social structures. They're really allow us to advance life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Now you know. In a racially society how we are positioned in the social structures unfortunately is based on race and a lot of it has to do with pass discriminatory policies and practices. But even in today a lot of present policies is still kind of maintain that just not an a an openly acknowledged way where it seems like people are being raised or discriminatory as let me give you one example in our housing social structure which is very very critical. Let's think about how did people become positioned or situated in the social structure. I'll give you one so let's go to one example White americans today typically live in communities we know based on research that about seventy percent white blacks living community about fifty percent black. Now why is that well. Some of that we know is personal preference. Some of it is income people. Just don't have the money to live in certain communities but a lot of that has been discriminatory policies such as red lining the beginning of the nineteen thirties. They significantly Shaped in and and situated our cities and our communities all across the country along racial divides
AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
"national science foundation" Discussed on AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
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AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
"national science foundation" Discussed on AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
"That those resources can be can be made available to the to the community and to the public at large Broadly written as well so so there. Is you know there are. There was an administration transition absolutely. But i think that it's fair to say that i End in sort of these emerging technology areas continue to be pervasive areas of interest irrespective of Democrat republican irrespective of party in these areas. That we're all seeing as ones that are going to help shape. Us competitiveness and competitiveness on a global stage for years and years to come in so we continue to be focused on those all right. Well that's great to hear. I know that some people are keeping an eye on that and it's nice to hear that it's a it continues to be driver in the government and that you know people are paying attention to it and focusing on it so you know this. Podcast has been incredible. It's provided some great insights. I always love when you bring in Use cases and you brought in a lot of them on various ways that national science foundation is funding different initiatives. And helping the youth. So thank you for that. But i'd like to end this podcast with the final question that we ask all of our guests because i always love to hear the varied answers that we get as a final note. What do you believe the future of. Ai is in general and its application to governments organizations and beyond while it's a great question kathleen so i'll say an perhaps it's not surprising given my role at nsf. ics as having a clear pressing need to invest in fundamental research to ensure that our ai systems are to ensure the us leadership in artificial intelligence and data science and automated systems. Going forward and and i guess one of the things. I briefly touched on in an earlier question that you pose to come back to ensuring that we design these systems fairly and we're cognizant of any bias these that are introduced into these systems that affect the outputs of these systems. I think increasingly that is.
AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
"national science foundation" Discussed on AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
"Of fair. Where we still as a society reconciling with what that definition of fairness like we have some investments in basic research by the way out of nsf. That are that are looking at at this very issue as speak so. I think that there are a whole stream of opportunities in the public sector a where we have the ability to predicting flight delays for example. That's another one that Has been talked about a bid particularly in the context of of weather events or other kinds of situations that might present themselves. So i think there's a tremendous opportunity with respect to how we can really leverage based approaches to be able to Advanced whole range of sectors are supported by the federal government from agriculture to healthcare. And beyond. I'll give you one example of something that we're doing internally within the national science foundation because i think it's it's germane to this notion of judge. How do we develop approaches. That can save save time and make us more efficient and effective really focusing on higher order tasks and so for the last year so We have Actually deployed a capability. That allows us to leverage the treasure trove of data that we have within our organization about awards that we've made research awards that we made over the years to try to automate. What is one of the most time. Intensive processes for our workforce which is trying to identify qualified reviewers for the many research proposals that we received so just as a little bit of detail on this every year. nsf receives about fifty thousand proposals for the research. Community in our job is to bring in outside experts. Who are not conflicted with those puzzles folks. Who wrote proposals reviewing their own proposals. So they can't be conflicted with those proposals but we want them to lend their subject matter expertise and provide us with reviews so that they can form which projects we ought to be funding once the best science. That's gonna have the most transformative in going forward that we should be funding will finding those reviewers particularly folks who have the right expertise for given set of proposals at are not conflicted with them is very difficult. Is sometimes trying to find a needle in a haystack. Because you might have thousand proposals in an area and you're trying to figure out who's not conflicted and yet who has the expertise of and yet at the same time will have within our enterprise systems within the foundation. All the awards all the grants in agreement that we've issued over the years and so what we've done over the last couple of years is deploy a tool on a pilot basis that does some natural language processing it allows us to be able to match new proposal with past awards as well as with journal articles in public databases and other resources. That are out there so that we can potentially surface reviewers for our staff were leading the review process and so that that that innovation right can free up a significant amount of time for the staff that can allow them to think about higher order task. What are the higher order. Research areas that we should be investing in as agency. What are the gaps in the research spaces that were funding that we should be potentially exploring. Those are the types of questions that we'd love to have our phd trained scientists and engineers focused on within the foundation in this tool allows us to be able to relieve some of the time intensive pressures that they face on a day-to-day basis. Just executing their job. So that's an illustration to think of how we're seeing opportunity and potential but we also..
AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
"national science foundation" Discussed on AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
"A i'm here in the dc area but one of the one of the sort of like the silver lining of this pandemic was that you know you make something that was local international by basically removing the borders and making virtual and as a result we've actually had worldwide participation in conversations that would have otherwise been very local. And it's also something that you know that we have done quite a bit in our training we used to do. We still do a lot of training on a machine learning and cognitive technology We especially focus on a methodology for doing fine called. Cpi may i which is the best in class methodology. Best practice methodology for implementing. Large-scale ai and machine learning projects because walls even smaller ones. But if you wanted especially if you want to do something that's gonna start small and iterative often and grow big. Then you're gonna wanna get the right methodology in place and That training has also gone fully virtual and on demand And i think one of the great things about this is that it's giving more people the opportunity to learn and put into practice And i think that that's one of the other. I think the university is also learned this that you know if you can move beyond sort of the lecture hall and take your your education. Virtually all of a sudden. You're you're the world. Is your student population. Which i think is great so bringing it to the public sector here you know. How what do you see as some of the unique opportunities that the public sector has around artificial intelligence and and some of the areas where we're seeing. Ai effectively being used saying the us federal government specifically and perhaps in other governments as well. Yes great question. Ron so i think that we've really been witness over the course of the last several years right to this this Focused attention on. How can we leverage a sheet learning and other types of emerging technologies. Like this to really be able to advance the capabilities of the federal government. Enterprise and for that matter i would say the state and local level as well r- anything state and local governments are just as much thinking about these sorts of issues and as i just think about some of the capabilities that have been deployed across the landscape. You know we've seen how. Ai has been brought to us in terms of cybersecurity. Trying to be able to do threat detection trying to be able to do filtering of spam and malware attempts at at various government agencies and organizations. I think some of the Detections of recent hacks for example Recent cybersecurity challenges have really come out of the innovations in ai machine learning that have been deployed in that context. We've seen a lot of discussion by armored transportation and colleagues elsewhere. Across the agency at the state and local level around thomas vehicles unmanned aerial vehicles for example is is is a great illustration of how there's opportunity to be able to leverage that technology to deliver deliver on some of the Missions that the various agencies have whether it be transportation whether it be agriculture and so forth We've also seen and some of this has gone both ways right but we've seen a lot of talk in the in the in the public sector about a judicial decisions and how and machine machine learning algorithms have been introduced in those contexts in the challenges associated with that. And i actually think that that that brings me to something that we haven't really talked about so far today around fairness and bias end the ethics of ai systems Right how do we ensure that we are designing systems. That are probably fair.
AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
"national science foundation" Discussed on AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
"Languages going forward to say that we funded seven of these institutes and your they span over a hundred thirty organizations in nearly half the states in the us so this was really an all hands on deck approach trying to bring together many different institution types minority serving institutions companies state and local governments even other federal agencies. That i didn't mention we partnered with directly. They partnered with some of the teams that we funded on their own. And and this program continues right so we are running a competition as i speak right now for this next round of institutes and this time around. We're doing so in collaboration with colleagues in the private sector. so for companies amazon google intel and accenture have Stepped up in are contributing resources to support the next round of a institutes as well. I hope that gives you a sense for sort of the breadth in the diversity of topics that we try to cover across our portfolio through the lens of one of our programs day eye institute. Yeah i think is really great insight. I think this is a good education for a lot of our listeners. Here you know. I think both for those inside the us and who may deal with nsf directly or indirectly or as part of the research community but also internationally because a lot of this. Research does impact overall a develop. No matter where you are in the world one industry you're in and went application. You're doing whether you're a startup entrepreneur working on a product or a researcher or an enterprise looking to put into practice or a government organization our agency or nonprofits. i think this is really very widespread. Maybe even more so than a lot of the conversations we've had which have been more focused on a particular aspect of of a implementation so hopefully listeners are getting a lot of great education so i'm focusing a little bit. You know in terms of applying ai now to government you know to public sector This is something that we spent a lot of time looking at this both in terms. Of course here on the today podcast but also on in our ai in government community so For those on the podcast may know that we also run these online communities which have featured presenters and topics that we have Do on a regular monthly basis. That actually started as an in person. Meet up back in the day when we had in person meet ups..
AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
Interview With Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, National Science Foundation
"And we're fortunate to have with us today. Irwin gancheng donny. Deputy assistant director computer and information science and engineering at the national science foundation. So high irwin and thanks so much for joining us today. Thanks so much for having me a pleasure to be here. We'd like to start by having you introduce yourself to our listeners and tell them a little bit about your background your current role at national science foundation. I know you've recently taken on an additional one as well and maybe just explain what. The national science foundation is for some of our listeners. That may not be familiar with it. Sure happy to do that again. For having me kathleen in ron. It's a pleasure to be on this podcast today. So as you said Money and for the last five and a half years or so. I have served as the deputy for the computer and information science and engineering director at the national science foundation. So you might hear me over the course of this podcast Accidentally say size ci se. That's short for the acronym of art director the computing and information science engineering director. And as you sort of alluded to kathleen in the last few months. I've actually gone on detail to the office of the director of the national science foundation. Serving as an acting senior adviser there specifically focused on translation innovation in partnership. So i'm coming to you really Perspective in this podcast today. But i've taken on sedition role in a package sale of more about bad if the opportunity presents itself to So as you may know as some of your listeners may know the national science foundation is really a research funding agency within the federal government so in particular we support research and education in all areas of science and engineering from astronomy to biology chemistry to mathematics. Physics social won't be april sciences as well really any discipline of science and engineering and technology and mathematics and is a funder of that in the federal government. Now we have a vast. We have a budget of about eight point. Five billion dollars in the current fiscal year fiscal year twenty twenty one and the vast vast majority of about ninety three percent goes out the door in the form of grants cooperative agreements primarily to colleges and universities throughout the us but some also small businesses. That are just starting up as well
AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
"national science foundation" Discussed on AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
"And we're fortunate to have with us today. Irwin gancheng donny. Deputy assistant director computer and information science and engineering at the national science foundation. So high irwin and thanks so much for joining us today. Thanks so much for having me a pleasure to be here. We'd like to start by having you introduce yourself to our listeners and tell them a little bit about your background your current role at national science foundation. I know you've recently taken on an additional one as well and maybe just explain what. The national science foundation is for some of our listeners. That may not be familiar with it. Sure happy to do that again. For having me kathleen in ron. It's a pleasure to be on this podcast today. So as you said Money and for the last five and a half years or so. I have served as the deputy for the computer and information science and engineering director at the national science foundation. So you might hear me over the course of this podcast Accidentally say size ci se. That's short for the acronym of art director the computing and information science engineering director. And as you sort of alluded to kathleen in the last few months. I've actually gone on detail to the office of the director of the national science foundation. Serving as an acting senior adviser there specifically focused on translation innovation in partnership. So i'm coming to you really Perspective in this podcast today. But i've taken on sedition role in a package sale of more about bad if the opportunity presents itself to So as you may know as some of your listeners may know the national science foundation is really a research funding agency within the federal government so in particular we support research and education in all areas of science and engineering from astronomy to biology chemistry to mathematics. Physics social won't be april sciences as well really any discipline of science and engineering and technology and mathematics and is a funder of that in the federal government. Now we have a vast. We have a budget of about eight point. Five billion dollars in the current fiscal year fiscal year twenty twenty one and the vast vast majority of about ninety three percent goes out the door in the form of grants cooperative agreements primarily to colleges and universities throughout the us but some also small businesses. That are just starting up as well
WBEZ Chicago
"national science foundation" Discussed on WBEZ Chicago
"Energy plants. Yes, That's right. I mean, the U. S. Has rejoined the Paris agreement. Now, thanks to the Biden administration, which sets targets for reducing carbon emissions dramatically. Biden has his own ambitious goal of getting to 100% clean energy across the country in the next 15 years. As you said, these projects. This goal is now to power about 10 million homes, so that really won't get us all the way there. Offshore wind. There's about 140 million homes in the U. S. So it's just part of the picture here, and both Biden's economic in climate agenda really dressed on creating new jobs, and the wind industry is definitely one where the administration's hoping to create a lot more manufacturing an installation jobs. Let's talk a bit about the Biden proposed infrastructure budget, large budget that includes funds for scientific research. Do you have any idea yet? What's inside there? We have a bit of an idea. Yes, I mean, it was a huge spending plan, announced on Wednesday called the American Jobs Act really meant to stimulate the economy helped the U. S to recover from the pandemic. All in all, it's more than $2 trillion, and it's got a lot of stuff in there. A lot of money toward infrastructure projects, things like bridges and roads, but there's a good chunk many billions of dollars to support. Directly support new scientific research and projects that would help translate scientific discoveries into new technologies. So that money would go toward doing things like upgrading federal labs in creating new academic centers of excellence for early stage research. There's about $15 billion that would go toward climate related demonstration projects, so things like carbon capture and storage, advanced nuclear power and electric vehicles. So this is more than just making up for what Trump took out of the science budget. This is really adding more stuff on Yeah, it really is. I mean, in the case of the National Science Foundation, which funds a lot of basic research through grants, they would get about $50 billion over a period of a couple of years. Under this plan, their budget was actually pretty steady over the last few years. It wasn't cut dramatically under Trump largely because Congress didn't allow that to happen, but they're currently at about $8.5 billion. This would still be a good increase for them. Let's turn now to some vaccine news. Lots of states are opening up vaccines to more age groups. Fizer is now getting data on how vaccines work and adolescents and it's pretty good news, isn't it? It's very good news. Yes, Visor said on Wednesday. It's covert vaccine had 100% efficacy and adolescence and that's good because vaccine young adults and Children is going to be necessary for us to really reach herd immunity. Currently their vaccine is authorized for people who are at least 16 years old. And so they've submitted this data that they announced on Wednesday to the FDA to get an expanded authorization to allow their vaccine to be used in younger people, and so if they get that that could be in place before the beginning of next school year. And our Madonna and Johnson and Johnson running similar kinds of trials on kids. Yes, they are. We should have results from a modernist study later this year. That's in 12 to 17 year olds. And then all the companies are also doing trials to test the vaccine and even younger Children. And states are opening up aged requirements to younger people. Now, something they're going down to what 16 year olds? Yeah, there's more and more states that are allowing everybody over the age of 16 to be vaccinated and no longer restricting it to people of a certain age group. Your next story looks at a union voted and important union vote in an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, and this might be a major turning point. Because we're now talking about the tech industry. Absolutely. I mean workers in the tech industry. They've been more and more interested in unionizing in the last two years for a variety of different reasons. And in the last few weeks, thousands of Amazon workers in Alabama at a warehouse there have been Voting on whether or not they want to unionize, and if they vote for it, this would be the first Amazon Union in the company's history. So voting closed on Monday. The votes are now being tallied, which could take a few more days or maybe even weeks. But no matter which way this goes, labor organizers are already considering this a win. Because it's gotten so much attention, and it's just raised awareness of unions more generally in the tech industry, and they're thinking Amazon workers and tech industry workers elsewhere will probably be much more interested in holding union drives, wherever they are. After this. And if they do succeed here, that doesn't mean they have a contract yet then the bargaining as the first begin Right? Absolutely. It's the first step. This could be a very, very long process that we know what we're what basics they're asking for, and why it's important to unionize Tech. Yeah, they're asking for things common in union drives and other industries as well. So they're asking for just being able to collectively bargain for contracts negotiate for job security protection so they would just be able to be fired at well. There's also some safety conditions that they've expressed concern about, so they're hoping that forming union will give them more of a say in these questions. And as you say, others will be looking at what happens here. For example, Google and Facebook have also had moves by workers to unionize it. Would this be the same type of union? Yeah, they're all it all these unionization efforts are very different from each other. So there is the alphabet Workers Union. As you mentioned, it's a few 100 Google employees Listen. It was a minority union and its it was primarily formed kind of around. Values driven efforts to have give employees more of a say, and ghouls decisions like about which products are made or who gets to use them..
Cyber Security Weekly Podcast
Quantum technology and implications for security in todays computer infrastructure
"Welcome to the cybersecurity weekly podcast. I'm jay lewis podcasting from singapore today joining us today. We have a very special guests from switzerland who is based in zurich. And he's a doctor khumalo. Got the donnie. Who is the security researcher. We've could ask security so thank you very much for joining us today jane. I'm very happy to be here with you today. To be honest to it's quite difficult. Also for ricardian super announced. So don't worry about that. So so the first question. I think many of our listeners will be quite keen to know is is quantum computing a high. Because when you read the news and media nowadays we see a lot of investments that have been announced by governments for example the us national science foundation and the department of energy announced. I think with more than one billion over. The next five years in quantum information systems and russia and germany also not far behind announced close to seven to eight hundred million investment china as well spending time billion on the effort. In the private sector's google and ibm are also spending in excess of one hundred million and even bangs like j. p. Morgan is also looking at developing quantum lonzo banking but on data hen. Also some in saying that quantum states are not reliable stable or quite understood well enough to replace the traditional classical computers and some believe that they will never be able to do so. So my question to you is is quantum computing a hype well All these people you mentioned are very smart so if they spend all this money it must be true right now. Kidding apart we have seen tremendous tremendous advancements in this technology in the in the latest ears. So just put it into perspective. So people started discussing about quantum computing. Already more than fifty years ago but it became interesting. I would say nineteen ninety-four with the discovery your applications for cyber security now. At the beginning people were thinking. Okay this is something very interesting from a theoretical point of view. It will never be real. You know it's it's kind of Would be something like Science fiction like however then after that we have seen continues continues progress on the on the research and development and we especially in the last few years we have weakness a situation from you know we can be really controlled. One beat of quantum information to prototypes. That are actually working. So they are still prototype so they are still not powerful enough to tackle Real world problems. But i wouldn't call it to hype this point so from my personal point of view. The trend is quite clear. So you mentioned the difficulties. In controlling information and the related technology so from from a theoretical perspective the technologies well-understood now. There is engineering challenges into building. Something that is working but this is the case we any brand new technology. I mean justice I transistors. They were big bulky. They were barring city You remember the famous quotes like sixty four. Kilobytes of memory should be enough for an anyone. That's right so like every new technology. There is challenges. So what i see is that from a technological point of view the the tuition is progressing much more rapidly than many expected to ten years ago. Now the question. Everybody's asking his okay. But when are we going to have computers. That are not prototypes anymore. That are something that can solve real world problems My impression is that we are very close to the point but there is a difference in what you consider useful because a lot of people say like okay when we'll quantum computers break cryptography. Well i i think that's not a good measure of progress for quantum computer because quantum computers can do much more than that.
710 WOR
"national science foundation" Discussed on 710 WOR
"Revolution Radio. And so right now, you got millions Americans. We're going to be watching Super Bowl 55 tonight. But it's nothing but a farce. And then the reason why I say it's a farce because you have American people that are dying. You got politicians in D C playing politics with people's lives. The last two weeks, I've been exposing the policy of Bill back better and when all of this over $54 billion Pork spending that was spent last year that was exposed by Senator Rand. Paul. The great senator of the Great State of Kentucky, had said and exposed this pork belly mess. In December. Last year. A month ago. Two months ago. Millions and millions of dollars are being spent. And given The Department of Defense to the military. The National Science Foundation to predetermine how fast Eliza runs on a treadmill on you kidding me? This is the problem. With Washington, D C today. And now tonight Don't be surprised if you see some NFL players take the knee. I don't understand you owners out there of the NFL. This is your team. These are your team's owners. You had the responsibility to tell your players to stand for the national anthem. But most if not all of you, and that their owners or so weak You have no spine. You're going alone together Long? Why? Because you're nothing but a slave owner. And now you have the NFL. And hiring the activist, Dr Harry Dr Harry Edwards. Who formerly worked with this and for sexual San Francisco 49. I believe back in the late eighties early nineties doctor Harry Edwards. I believe he is a clinical psychologist out of California. You also helped. Who is helping the Los Angeles Rams is working with Roger Goodell. In the NFL, along with Adam Silver. The MBA and Gary Bet men The National Hockey League, including the commissioner's there in major league Baseball. To promote diverse city. Teach Americans about the victim Hood of the Black Man, This is a farce. I'm so sick and tired. People like Stephen A. Smith, Max Kellerman and ESPN. I'm so sick and tired of people like Skip Bayliss and Shannon Sharpe at undisputed. They don't talk about black lives, man, destroying them. Their concern is burning down American cities. What they calling US Patriots funds and domestic terrorists. But said absolutely nothing concerning black lives matter. Burning down D c. Baltimore, Chicago, Minneapolis, ST Louis, Portland and Seattle. And where's Joe Biden? Joe Biden hasn't said a word about black lives matter. Burning down Portland in Seattle, It's total hypocrisy. And you NFL players. You have an obligation. As an American to stand for the national anthem. Because if you don't you're nothing but a communist to me. And my conclusion. As you guys are going to be watching the Super Bowl tonight. I'm not gonna watch it, but you can watch it. If you see any NFL player Either side of the sign line. In the Kansas City Chiefs Sign line. On the table Bay Buccaneers sideline, Take a knee. You need to call them out on social media. And my conclusion. Of us, exposing the American sports and entertainment and destroy complex here. The W. R 17 and Network, The Voice of New York..
True Mysteries of the Pacific Northwest
Modern Oracles and Astrology
"Welcome to kids myths and mystery signer host. Kit chrome with this podcast. I begin a month long examination of modern oracle's and their methods of divination last friday. I mentioned how not all forms of designation demand a psychic or even a sensitive one. Such form of discrimination astrology as common popular astrology is today is complex but as mentioned does not rely on the reader having psychic abilities instead relies heavily on planets and stars. Initially you might scoff at the idea of pulling any kind of prophecy from the heavenly bodies. But let's take a look at the history of astrology. Mayan astrology is a variation of mesoamerican astrology. One of the most forward thinking kinds of astrology of times. Mayan calendar's comprised of twenty day signs and thirteen galactic numbers. Making two hundred sixty day. Calendar year the mayan study of the moon planets milky way son was some of the most accurate pre telescope astronomy in the world. Mayan astrology goes back to around the fifth century bc. Then we have england stonehenge. Gerald hawkins work on stonehenge was first published in nature magazine in nineteen sixty three following analysis. He had carried out using a harvard. Smithsonian ibm computer. Hawkins found. Not one or two alignments but dozens. He had studied one hundred. Sixty five significant features at the monument and use the computer to check every alignment between them against every rising and setting point for the sun moon planets and bright stars the position say would have been in in fifteen hundred bc so has astrology around for a while no doubt but let's go back to present to find out how astrology works. Here's a simple answer. Astrology works on many levels at the simplest level. It is not unlike a complex clock the uses the motions of the planets in a similar way to the movement to the hands on the face of a clock. Now let's dig a little deeper. Astrology is the belief that the alignment of stars and planets affects every individual mu personality and environment depending on when he or she was born. Astrologers print horoscopes and newspapers that are personalized by birthday. These horoscopes make predictions in people's personal. Lives describe their personalities and give them advice. All according to the position of astronomical bodies a survey conducted by the national science foundation found that forty one percent of respondents to their poll. Believe that astrology is very scientific. This begs the question astronomical bodies affect our lives. Solar flares cost electro magnetic disturbances on earth. That can disrupt satellites and even caused blackouts. The position of the moon costs us ocean tides. If you're a fisherman that position of the moon can have a significant effect on your livelihood. The solar wind causes beautiful aurora and sunlight itself is the main source of energy for our planet. Still the question. How is strategy as a tool of divination astrology uses a set of rules about the relative positions and movements of heavenly bodies to generate predictions and explanations for events on earth and human personality traits. Some used astrology to generate very specific expectations. It could be verified against outcomes. What does science have to say about astrology. Simply that it's not scientific yet. Hundreds of thousands of people have been influenced by designation nation provided by astrologers millions across america. No there astra logical sign and read their horoscope in the newspaper. Daily get this j pierpoint morgan. One of the world's greatest fight answers was suspicious of accepting planetary advice but ended up applying astrology to all of his personal affairs. John adams famous second president of the united states refused to sign the declaration of independence until the exact moment planetary indications were most auspicious. And this will really get ya jay. Jacob stout jeff pierpoint morgan and seymour cromwell comprised a bracket of three successive presidents of the new york stock exchange who utilized astronaut. Advice implanted their operations. They scoffed at this. However upon the arrival of the wall street crash these men had been warned by their astrologers and thus averted disaster disci- support astrology is a form of give nation. No has astrology affected millions of individuals over the centuries the answer is a resounding yes
Science Magazine Podcast
An elegy for Arecibo
"So air cbo. We've been calling this a post mortem which is pretty depressing. What's the status of the observatory. Now the observatory is still open but its main reason for being which is this enormous radio telescope which three hundred and five meters across is no more. It had a instrument platform suspended above it on cables that collapsed on or december and effectively destroyed the telescope and this is the culmination of a number of structural failures that happened to the telescope in twenty twenty. Yeah that's right. The first bowl broke in august. This was own auxiliary cable which had been added in nineteen ninety-seven when they added new instruments to this platform above the dish. So it needed more support so they added extra cables and it was one of these new ones not one the ones from its original construction which was fifty seven years ago or fifty eight. Now i guess and that cable pulled out of its socket. The soccer is the structure of the end of the cable that allows it to be attached to something and they just pulled out. We surprised everyone. No one expects a cable to fail in that way you went into a suspension while they investigated and ordered new cables to replace. Does hilary cables of which are six and then a second cable broke and then it was already perilous situation and the national science foundation which owns the telescope decided. It was too dangerous. The structure was not safe for people to work on and so they decided to have to be m decommissioned but before that could happen only a couple of weeks off to the second cable broke. More cables broke the whole thing. Came crashing down yeah. There's some kind of striking video of that. They're on the internet taken from a drone. I asked you before the interview if you've ever visited this site and he said no very sad about that now. I'm not going to get a chance to see it you know. It was a very spectacular instrument which was very beloved of astronomers and puerto ricans in particular but also filmmakers. You know it was used in two feature films. And i think the x. files as well used it as a backdrop. I always think of contact. This is such a striking image The way they show it in that movie and this is obviously a platform for a lot of science. What are some of the big accomplishments some of the highlights from astronomy at no. It's an interesting co scoop. Because it was used by lots of different sorts of scientists it was originally designed to be used as a radar instruments to look at the upper atmosphere so would send out pulses of radio waves and then receive the signal that was bounced back off the sphere. Which is upon the upper atmosphere where the air molecules are ionized by the sun. This is the first instance of its use and it wasn't even really for it was more for defense than anything else. The pentagon was looking for ways to track incoming ballistic missiles which you know in the late fifties and sixties was very new issue for them and so they built this telescope to try and understand the ionosphere better to see whether warheads trails that they could track them by. And that didn't really work out. And so it transitioned into being a a scientific facilities so people have continued using it to look at the ionosphere to this day. But they've also used things. Nasa used the radar to track objects in space that are near the up and could be threatening such as asteroids and also to look at other planets. It's been used to map. The surface of venus be seen with a normal telescope because it's surrounded by clouds and it can look far as saturn and then astrophysicists could use it to look at much more distant objects such as pulsars. Which are little dead stars that out a very regular metronome signal in radio waves and gas in galaxies in between the planets and it has a hundred uses and some of which made it very famous. People have won nobel prizes with work that they did. Don't aris the
Frank Beckmann
The Coronavirus Has Reached Every Continent After Positive Cases In Antarctica
"Boxes, Tanya J. Powers explains Wired to this week, Antarctica was the only continent in the world that did not have any reported cases of the Corona virus. That's no longer the case. Hundreds of scientists and researchers live there. And now three dozen people at a Chilean bass have tested positive for covered 19. The U. S National Science Foundation told USA Today that it's Antarctic personnel stations don't have contact with Chile and stations. Those who live in Antarctica have tried hard to keep the virus out because it's a remote region where medical capabilities are limited and people shelter from the elements in close quarters. No other country that has people in Antarctica has reported any cases there. Tanya J. Powers. Fox News. The people The number of people following
Scientific Sense
Prof. Jack Burns, Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado in Boulder - burst 01
"Welcome to the site of accents. Podcast where we explore emerging ideas from signs policy economics and technology. My name is gill. Eappen we talk with woods leading academics and experts about the recent research or generally of topical interest scientific senses at unstructured conversation with no agenda or preparation be color a wide variety of domains. Rare new discoveries are made and new technologies are developed on a daily basis. The most interested in how new ideas affect society and help educate the world how to pursue rewarding and enjoyable life rooted in signs logic at inflammation v seek knowledge without boundaries or constraints and provide edited content of conversations bit researchers and leaders who low what they do a companion blog to this podcast can be found at scientific sense dot com and displayed guest is available on over a dozen platforms and directly at scientific sense dot net. If you have suggestions for topics guests at other ideas please send up to info at scientific sense dot com and i can be reached at gil at eappen dot info mike. Yesterday's a jack boone's who's a professor in the department of ece fisa goal in planetary sciences unto colorado boulder. He is also vice president images for academic affairs in blue sage for disuse system system. Jack while thank you. Joe is good to be with you. Thanks for doing this so you at your team. On deeply involved in the upcoming nasa missions to the moon including The designed to place radiofrequency absolutely on the far side of the moon and be kevin deemed really back there for almost fifty years. Now i know that china s landed. I was actually looking at some photographs that just gained today from From their lander. I israel in india. Almost got there but Fleas land properly. And so so. What's our interest. What's sudden interest in going back to the moon after fifty years. Yeah i don't know that. I would characterize as a sudden interest i think on the part of the science community and really the exploration community interest has been there for a while but what has changed in the last decade is the cost doing missions And the accessibility of the moon in this new era in which we have now. Private companies like spacex and like the blue origin company. Jeff bezos company They've put considerable private resources in developing new rockets of with reusability to lower the launch costs and also technology which was extreme in the nineteen sixties to try to get to the moon. All hannity vetted from scratch now is relatively straightforward at gill as you mentioned Even a small countries like israel Private companies have contracts with nasa to fly payloads. Now it's it's it's realizable to Envision going to the moon at a relatively modest cost certainly in comparison to the sixties and seventies. Yes so that's a. It's a very interesting phenomenon. Now it's it's almost like a business model question. Space is Blue blue horizon blue origin. Laura gin and that is another company. Lakers peterson things. Well lockheed you ally the united launch alliance which is the lockheed and boeing Company as well they all have these new generation of launch vehicles that are capable of going to so nasa in some sense outsourcing Some of the transportation right to so captain made a selection or are they going to do essentially multiple companies. Do it the the plan is to have monk multiple companies just like the commercial crew program To the space station there's boeing and spacex And for the case of the moon for the un crude landers that Landers that are just carrying payloads nasa has identified a out a dozen companies To be able to transport a payloads to the moon and at the same time. They're also undergoing competition right now. They selected three companies to design as part of a public private partnership the next generation of human landers. So that's the same. Mostly the same group that has spacex blue origin and the third one is is dynamic which is a company in huntsville alabama rate. So it's nassar's goal here is They are they going to take contracts from other other countries do send pedal to the moon in these companies. The the way this is working now is nasa is buying services so they're no longer buying rockets or landers which they will then own operate Instead the philosophy is To buy a ride for example a seat On a human land or or by space for a payload so these companies that are responsible for indemnifying Making sure they have a proper insurance for losses They take A bit of the risk and and then proceed along those lots now. What that means is that the companies then they own the intellectual property they owned landers they rockets they own the The other transportation devices. So that means they can sell seats. They can sell payloads to for example a european space agency Or the russian space agency or individual companies. That might want to puts a payload on the moon Investigation in this kind of a lower gravity environment so it's much more entrepreneurial than what we had before and it lowers the cost to the taxpayer for doing all these things by the artist program. Which is the new human programs. The moon the Recently released cost to get the first woman in the next man to the moon by twenty twenty four is a factor of ten less than the apollo program. Yeah it's interesting. I remember jack I was involved a little bit on the economic side of the next generation. Space legal program two thousand two thousand one two thousand two timeframe and this was a program was supposed to replace the shuttle and we did not go forward with it and i guess so. What was the arranged with the russian system to get their astronauts into space station. Yeah the the problem was that you might recall The shuttle accident that occurred in two thousand three And then president. George w bush declared that the shuttle really wasn't safe And that needed to be replaced and it took a while. We're still in the process of of fully replacing it. The last shuttle launch was twenty eleven If i remember correctly so in the meantime in order to get to the space station What we did is contract with the russians to use their soyuz spacecraft to go back and forth the space station so we. What we did is the buy seats. Those seats cost about seventy five or eighty million dollars so they weren't cheap but eventually got us back and forth. He said before we get the details of the Admission stack help philisophical question so way we have technology advancing the about conflict. Television's really taking off machines. Getting lot smarter What does sort of the basis for sending humans Could be not accomplished thing that human could do with machines if that's a good question i'm glad you answered that you ask that question because Excuse me i think what we're looking for now is is Really different mode for doing work on services like the moon or mars. Excuse me in that. We unlike apollo you had a single astronaut. Geologists such as astronaut harrison schmitt on all seventeen doing classic field geology. With a shovel to now advance unit twenty-first-century. We're gonna to do. Is i like to say we're going to bring Silicon valley with us to the moon. So we're going to bring advanced robotics. Be telly operated. That will use a machine. Learning artificial intelligence And will team with the astronauts so that they will these. These rovers advance scouting. They will identify interesting places and then the role of the astronaut is to make critical decisions on what to investigate What the samples. Look like i. i still think it's true. I've been told from my colleagues who are geologists stromer But who are uninsured. Scientists in that the difference for example between. Let's say the The curiosity rover on mars. And what it's been doing and having a human on mars that the work that the curiosity rover has done last seven years could be done in two days by geologists. a that's the difference and to also bring back. You know better selected samples and so forth. So there's no replacing humans and that's not going to happen anytime soon but you you do your point being. You only wanna use humans when you actually have to. Because their time is valuable and they're expensive and also Walking around even on the surface of the moon is dangerous. Because the you know the a space where the asian micrometeorites another possible dangerous but going into this new environment. I think what we're going to be able to do is reduced risk and improved efficiency. The i don't remember the numbers but a human Mission is about ten x the cost of a non human mission. Obviously the the efficiency and like you say what begin out of it different but guess on the cost side. It's about the fact of a magnitude different you know. That's hard to say because robots still are very limited in what they can do. They're just so many things that only humans can do is a little bit of apples and oranges but yet you're probably right that on the ballpark about a factor of ten. Maybe even more. But there's also much more than a factor of ten improvement in efficiency. So you know. Those costs will balance out and obviously the advantage of a human is You know they've been. The unexpected happens in michigan learning in As long as you have heard of data to teach a machine but then the unexpected happens machines. noel exactly. The rover gets stuck. It suffers a mechanical problem. That If you have a human there at least in the vicinity can help fix it. And move orders you know i think about for example servicing of the hubble space telescope and that was done five times by human astronauts and The astronauts such as john grunsfeld did to the servicing missions was very clear that the telescope could not have been repaired in upgraded by anything other than humans because the tab the complexity of the task the ability to be able to get in and To make repairs Make on the spot. Decisions just You know there was no replacing that so hopefully humans have a few more years of Do i think we've got many years to tell you the truth. I think it's going to be you know in reading some of the literature. I think it's going to be a quite a long time if ever that. We have truly Intelligent self aware machines can operate with the same decision making kick be very good at repetitive calculations outstanding job of there but You know making creative innovative entrepreneurial. Decisions were We're nowhere close to that yet So i do that. A multiple missions being planned An international collaboration so he's the first one that is supposed to take off as leave. Yeah artists is the new name for the human missions to the moon Artemis in greek mythology was the sister of apollo The twin sister of apollo. She's the goddess of the moon. So that's very appropriate. Since nasa has already declared bet up for that first landing which nasa has been planning for twenty twenty four would Would have that first woman in the next man on the surface the first expedition by humans to the moon in the twenty first century. So optimistic applaud. Its name the program programming program. Yeah exactly right so so andrade damasio multiple things going on And so do we have sort of a space station like that is going to orbit the out. Yeah in fact. That's honored design. And we'll be under construction in the next few years has called the gateway lunar gateway. And it's it's not like the space station in the sense of being gigantic And being really limited to that single orbit the gateway is really more of a spacecraft is going to have a pulse in system using a new generation of solar electric bad is ion propulsion That will be piloted for potential for optometry use in going to mars. I have just a couple of modules that will be there it will be a place where astronauts coming from the earth on on the orion spacecraft which is a it plus the space launch system is a heavy lift vehicle that will take astronauts the moon they will dock at the gateway and then they will get into a reusable lander go to the surface. Come back in that lander and then the next crew that comes in will do the same thing so you don't throw everything away like we did during hollow in the nineteen sixties again. The reusability idea is Is key to keeping the costs down so so it is more dealer so can't be attached as as alright right. Ds change in the future. Cab edge more against it. We can in fact The japanese space agency jaksa recently committed to fly a module And nasa has invited others such as the russian space agency to think about them attaching A module as well so it definitely is modular. That way you can add habitats you can add laboratories And can can grow over time. But it's also the the idea is that it's going to be long duration spaceflight and it's away way from the earth's magnetic field so you've got the full range environment of what you would have going to mars. So i think nasa all also looks at. This is a prototype of the vehicle that would be sent to mars. Lucchese david some Conversations yet again. Remember that To go to mars you would rather start off. Start off from the moon. Is that still thinking or that. Exchange i don't think that's been decided but there's this potential real advantages of a loon. First of all launching from the moon versus the earth requires much less thrust. What what we call delta the. That's the change in velocity to Get off there. Because there's only one sixth gravity on the moon and secondly if we're successful in mining water from the minute we know now there's considerable amount of water at the polls of the moon That's hydrogen and oxygen. We can convert that potentially into rocket fuel. You wouldn't have to bring that from earth so the costs associated with launching some could be substantially reduced in doing this from the moon versus from your so people are actively working that right now and seeing if that might be the way to go i of think that might end up being How missions to To mars or undertaking so under optimus Are there plans to actually create a habitat a big enough habitat for people to stave or extended period of time. So nasa has designs. And once again i should mention this is. This is all international Insa is involved. The european space agency is involved in providing a module for the service module for the orion. It also will be working on the gateway. The canadian space agency is providing the robotic arm And the same will be true on the surface The idea is that the first few missions will of just get started That first nation in twenty twenty four is planned to go to the south pole of moon. Will we've never been to before and look at the water. Ice situation there but Over time by the end of the decade the expectation is that will have multiple habitats. And we'll have people staying there for long periods of time like the arctic station. It's run by the national science foundation. The mcmurdo station as called in which you have a number of scientists come in and visit for anywhere from a few weeks to staying for year here so salama but when the next generation space program was in progress space. Too big big project. I would imagine spacex Others cab this business plan so what's the clamps time Do that The gay yes. So it'll be somewhere between three and five days to get from the earth and you're right about. The tourism spacex already has a fide a japanese businessman. If i remember correctly who has bought a A ride not the surface of the moon but to orbit the moon on a spacex vehicle. Sometime in a in a few years but the it'll be in a three to five days to get to the gateway and then Another day to get down to the surface. So i fully expect by the end of the decade especially given the accessibility to the moon by the private sector and by isa companies That they will be selling seats to wealthy individuals to spend a A summer holiday on the moon is so if the if the gateway is expandable perhaps Taxpayers can make some money nasa. Well it might be. Yeah but but once again this is. The transportation for the most part is probably not going to be through nasa but by these individual companies who own their own rockets their spacecraft and now they will sell seats to to wealthy tourists. yeah and so You you mentioned the european space agency. You mentioned the canadian space agency of so. Is this like the space station. A larger collaboration or those are the three major ones. Yeah it is and you're right. There are Oh gosh there's probably a dozen or so. Companies countries rather involved in the international space station and nasa envisions this much the same thing And i to. I order all the countries that are involved in. The international space station have been invited to become involved with the gateway And so as i mentioned several have accepted with With enthusiasms others are still keeping that around and take a quick break jack. Benny come back to talk about the radio. Frequency of savitri on the far side of the more that you're designing you bet sounds good. This is a scientific sense. Podcast providing unscripted conversations bit leading academics and researchers on a variety of topics. You like to sponsor this podcast. Please reach out to in full at scientific sense dot com back Jack you're talking about upcoming missions to the moon Some of the manned mission some of some of the technology that you're sending up there there is a gateway bridges like the space station but attested propulsion its zone. Sorta are based entity source. And it's more dealer things could be attached to it. That may be subject is imploding. Creating that a launchpad so to speak to go to mars perhaps habitats that a large announced a mining for water mighty for hydrogen and other things and so he the program is called autonomous. So could be portal light program and underneath optimists. There are various things being planned right. So what are the The primary objectives all of those radius approved betas projects. I should say under under optimus. Yeah we'll go. let me let me start off by just looking at the difference with The apollo program because the apollo program ended fairly abruptly once the political goals were reached and it was never Really a sustainable program so Nasa and i think all of the governmental space agencies are looking for is for arsonist to be the beginning of a sustained presence on the moon and in space and using the moon as a stepping stone for human and robotic exploration of the solar system including getting the mars so the philosophy of artists is really quite different. So you're there the stay So you need to figure out how to live off the land. So that does mean as you're saying mining's water being able to grow crops being able to manufacture Equipments the habitats themselves from the From the of the regular or the soil material so using the the kind of advanced manufacturing capability three d. printing Electrolysis so that's a really different approach. And it means that what will be worked on is not just get there but a flag in the ground rather in full of soil and return on instead it means You know how do you figure out how to be there for the long haul so that means than learning how to to excavate how to build How to really maintain a life in a in a certain sense of independence. Part of the reason you want to do all that is because that's exactly what's going to be
In Defense of Plants Podcast
Herbaria with Director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium, Dr. Barbara M. Thiers
"An honor to have you. How about we start off by telling everyone a little bit about who you are and what it is you do. Okay name is barbara tears. My title is patricia k. Holmgren director of the william. Linda steere herbarium of new york botanical garden herbarium. The garden is the second largest in the world. It has almost eight million specimens and it has been in active force implant research. Since in founding the institution the late eighteen eighteen hundreds. And what we do there is we add specimens to this survey. Remember here we also make them available as loans or as we allow people to come visit. And we also are digitizing the specimens at a fairly fast clip with thanks from funding over the last decade. Or so actually more from the national science foundation. So that's my job. I have a staff about thirty people and one of the things i do in. That job is a fair. Bit of public outreach. In the way of giving tours of the herbarium over the years to writing people local students to the general public houses. Our collection isn't like a museum in that it's open to the public. The this all behind the scenes so we let the public in occasionally but really just for a few days at a time and also then for people who might wanna help right about or support our herbarium. So it's through really through the the the tours that i'd given over the years that i began to really think about the herbarium and how to talk about it in a way that would interest people because on his face. It's a collection of dead plants and it doesn't sound very exciting however i've been really heartened that Especially in recent years. Maybe with a heightened understanding or appreciation of the environment of worry about climate change that. There's been a lot of people have been a lot more interested in this aspect of science. It's not the glamorous part it's where we store the research results you know that others have published upon and we have to store them forever. it's never ending. They absolutely have to be maintained. Forever and It's it's hard to do that. It's hard to keep the funding to keep the staff. It's hard to keep the collection up when you have so many but it's it's an absolutely crucial aspect of the scientific process. This is where the the the documentation of the plant. Biodiversity research is located in terms of my background. I sort of grew up in a herbarium. My father was actually a psychologist studied. Fungi and started their barium at san francisco state university and all my childhood weekends were spent either collecting mushrooms or it was the season than Often to get me out from under foot from my under my mother's feet my father had become to the herbarium on a sunday afternoon and help him do things. Like lou label. Simple jobs it. I got more complicated. And he gave me a little bit of money for it. So i was. I was happy to do it. And i did that for years. I enjoyed in good. I became a teenager and i was so interesting. And i i didn't I didn't want anything to do with our barium or my parents or anything but Somewhere my college years. I actually found my way back. I just seem to me that my father and his colleagues his students all just could hardly wait to get up and go to work and make new discoveries every day. They were so passionate about what they did. And i hadn't really come across any other community where people have that kind of passion and i wanted to be part of it so The focus of san francisco. State was on fungi. Although there were people working on lichens and other groups but one group nobody was working on. Were the liver words. The had paddock's thought they were too hard and apply they're not a terribly rich flora in california so they weren't always even very easy to find but they intrigued me so i began to kind of teach myself What could i made a lot of bad identification. But i graduate but i grew to really love these little organisms. They're they're tiny. They're beautiful all sorts of falls structures to their leaves and so forth. And you just feel like when you look at the the microscope you just kind of entering a miniature world Which is just full of beauty. And then i went on to grad school. I was able to convince someone to let me study with them. rather famous man rudolf schuster who wrote the mammoths treatment of the bryant of the hypocrisy north america. He was actually a horrible mentor. But that's okay. I still got my degree. And i was lucky enough to get a post doctoral position at the new york botanical garden. Right out of grad school. Once i was there i knew i never really wanted to leave. So that's that's kind of story mike.
South Florida's First News with Jimmy Cefalo
"A huge loss": Huge radio telescope in Puerto Rico collapses following damage
"Observatory in Puerto Rico has collapsed photos show this morning on Twitter, the huge radio telescope collapsed into its dish. The telescope has been an incredible research tool for astronomers around the world. It's best known for its roles in Hollywood movies, though, like contacting, But James Bond's GoldenEye, the National Science Foundation and the University of Central Florida did manage the telescope badly damaged in recent hurricanes.
Short Wave
The Long Legacy Of The Arecibo Telescope
"So let's step back for a minute edit and get a better sense of how the telescope has been used over the years. Tell me about what it does. What kind of projects it's worked on. So one of the really neat things about the The observatory that's very versatile. Scientific instrument most telescopes radio. Telescopes don't have the ability to send out light. They only capture late at the observatory. We can send and capture late when an asteroid coming by. We're pretty much a flashlight that we turn on we send out to. It comes back right. We can tell you how far these objects are down to a meters unbelievable add narrate and we care about where these asteroids are going to be because what if one day this thing comes around and gets too close to earth if we can let people know this is going to happen next year we can actually prepare for it like dinosaurs. They didn't have a space program so they can get to prepare for anything. That's true we do have that on the dinosaurs. We don't have much. But we have out of cbo and we have the direct understanding of asteroids because i also think just from an outsider's perspective like this telescope does really play a role in our cultural imagination. It contributes to our sense of off. You know about the universe. Like i think i remember in the seventies it was used to deliberately beam a message into space. You know like hey. We're here like i mean it really has like not only these scientific contributions but these cultural contributions it's like an it's an inspirational place. You know oh yeah. I love marvel. I'm love marvel comics. And things like that and i was watching. Although i'm a little old doesn't matter. I was watching a cartoon about the avengers and the avengers were flying off to the odyssey observatory to save it. Who was that still in the cartoon. Oh my gosh so yes it really is you know. It's not like one of those fields of science or scientific tools that really stays in academia right. It provides a broader context for understanding. The universe for non-academic says well which i think is is really special and important. It's like bench because of its versatility. It gets to be part of not only applied science but just part of typical day to day life. You may not see it. But it's there in cultural context. It's there you know saving your life making sure this asteroid is not coming towards you. It's really cool so it sounds like at this. Recent damage has big implications in terms of slowing down a lot of research. What kind of research are we going to be missing out on right now with it down well for personal perspective. I actually had some observing runs. We're gonna come up in late. September through october where we were going to be studying mars with radar this year mars was going to be the closest it was going to be and also observable from the osce observatory until the year twenty sixty seven so it. This year was literally a once in a lifetime. Opportunity to observe mars with other. See all twenty twenty twenty twenty worst year ever. Yeah okay so the damage that happened. This year isn't the first hurdle for the observatory right hurricane. Maria damaged the observatory twenty. Seventeen you you were working there right like. Tell me about that experience. Su twenty seven one hurricane. Maria came by not only was. I was still working at. The observatory actually stayed at the observatory. That's where i went for shelter so i got to see the winds combined and the damage For me one of the things that like hit me the most or make me realize the damage the most after the hurricane when we went outside. And when you look across the telescope and it's in the middle of a beautiful rain-forest greenery everywhere and that day after the hurricane when we went outside there's there is no green left it just nothing just brown. Everything was brown. The trees were dead. You see all the way down to the soil. It was impactful in the sense of. Wow this is the damage of the hurricane. Awesome packed full as a puerto rican. Who's used to seeing their island. Be beautiful and green selling costs high. Like that's gone all gone in day. That's tough that you know it starts being Quite a bit less about the science at that point. Oh very quickly. I mean after the hurricane when there was no utilities at all on the island we still had a couple of generators so people from of see what would drive up. We pump water for them and they leave with a bunch of water the to drink water. Well so okay. Let's let's let's talk a little bit about the funding struggles right because there have been ongoing funding struggles for the telescope. Break that down a little bit for me yes. The telescope which is owned by the national science foundation has had some funding struggles in that the budget that is used to operate. It has been going down. And it's gone down from anywhere from about fourteen mil per year with the expected current contract. They could go all the way down to two million gotcha into and so what will that mean for for the telescope and the people that work on it. So as there is diminishing funds going there They'll be less available time for people to go explore go observe pulsars and find the first evidence for gravitational waves which won the telescope a nobel prize in physics and nineteen seventy-three. It's
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Huge Puerto Rico radio telescope to close in blow to science
"The National Science Foundation says it will close the huge telescope at the renowned are Cibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. It's a blow to scientists worldwide who depend on it to search for planets, asteroids and extraterrestrial life. The foundation says. It's just too dangerous to keep operating the single dish Radio telescope. Given the significant damage it recently sustained in August and auxiliary cable broke and tour 100 ft hole in the reflector dish and damaged the dome above it. Then, a couple of weeks ago, one of the telescopes, main steel cable snapped.
The Dana Show
Iconic Arecibo Observatory faces demolition due to damage
"The search for planets, asteroids and extraterrestrial life is about to suffer a loss. The National Science Foundation says it will close the huge telescope that's operated for 57 years. At an observatory in Puerto Rico used by scientists worldwide, contributing to Nobel Prize winning research and featured in at least two movies, the agency says snapped cables and recent structural damage make it too dangerous to continue operating. The 1000 FT wide dish,
Short Wave
Gender Discrimination and Harassment at Sea
"Now if the mosaic expedition sounds familiar to you, it might be because back in December we aired two episodes on the research being done. But today we're turning away from the research and focusing on Chelsea's reporting. The Mosaic Expedition Gender Discrimination and harassment and how they're an all too common reality for many field scientists. I'm Maddie Safai and this a shortwave from NPR. So on October eighth a few weeks. Into the mission a meeting was called and it was led by this communications manager, with Awa, the German institute kind of spearheading the mission like who was there and what was that meeting about. Right. So that meeting was held by Katharina Vice Tweeter who was a Manager and she held that meeting with all of the journalists who were on board the ship at that time, and so at that point, there were four of us all women, and so we all sat down and she kind of told us. I want to just clarify. The rules of the new dress code that was announced yesterday at the General Meeting, and then she went on to tell us you know this is a safety issue and there are a lot of men on board this ship and some of them are going to be on this ship for months at a time, and this is a safety issue something that needs to be taken seriously and so. I should say she did not come out and say we are concerned that. Men On this shipper going to harass you or assault you if you dress a certain way so but it was heavily implied by this. Multiple Times telling us there are many men on board the ship and you need to not wear tight fitting clothing or revealing clothing. Yeah. Yeah I mean, what did you take from that? Like when you walked away from that meeting what did you take from them? Well what we took from. It was that there was a risk of harassment or something worse. You know if we didn't dress more modestly on board the ship. And, we really were alarmed by this because we started wondering. If. There had been some incidents that had prompted the change in the rules and what was this bit about a safety issue was there some threat to the safety of the women on board and what? Exactly? was that threat and so we were you know, of course irritated. By by implication that we should have to change the way we dress because there are a lot of men on board the ship, but we were also alarmed. Yeah I, mean when you wrote about the dress code meeting, you noted that it came after some problems with harassment that had already sort of percolated on the ship. That's correct. Although at the time we actually were not aware of that. So as I reported the story that that came out in my reporting later, there had been a an incident in which some women on board the ship reported to the cruise leader that that they had been harassed by men on board the ship, and then you know there was a meeting, it was brought to the captain and the men were prohibited from further contact with those participants and and it was never made widely known. Anybody else on board that ship that there had been an incident like this And so nobody knew about this at the time, the dress code was announced. So you know we all Kinda had this suspicion about a safety. What exactly does that mean? was there some incident but I did not find out that any incident had occurred until much later. And this wasn't the only incident of gender-based discrimination while you were aboard. Right you wrote that the dress code kind of became a symbol of these inequities, but there was other stuff going on to. That's correct. So there was the harassment incident that occurred shortly before the dress code was enacted, and then later on, there was an incident in which. A group of Were kind of called together. Asked to volunteer basically to participate in a work assignment and the work incitement involved a helicopter ride over to. The Polar Stern, which was the main research vessel participating the expedition and. Helping to unload a bunch of boxes and supplies and that sort of thing and so. The group volunteered for this work assignment, originally consisted of both men and women and then later on the cruise leader removed the to women participants from that assignment and replace them with men and I'm told that this event also sparked a lot of resentment among the women who were familiar with the incident, and so you know I asked crews leader later about this incident and he said that he did this to comply with a German law that dictates How much men are allowed to lift on work assignments versus women are allowed to lift on work assignments but it was a little odd because he sent me the law and I looked at over and the way he described the work assignment and the amount of weight that was going to be distributed among the people participating those weights should have actually exceeded the weight limits for both men and women. So I could not get really a clear justification on why only women were removed from that work assignment and again people who are involved with that situation or who were familiar with that situation we're upset by that as well. Yeah. I mean, Chelsea, this isn't just the mosaic right in your reporting. You discussed a twenty eighteen study by the National Science Foundation about the prevalence of sexual harassment and you noted according to the study the. Two biggest predictors are settings where they're more men than women and I'm quoting environments that suggest a tolerance for bad behaviour I mean is this the situation that you saw when you were reporting on the Mosaic Mission? Right? So I spoke with various experts on a gender and policy in field science and in polar science and they all kind of pointed to leadership on these expeditions. That's really a primary factor in kind of environment. Is it going to be you know for the women participating in these expeditions and so it's really important from what I've been told by these experts to have a leadership that is prepared to deal with issues of sexual harassment or discrimination. If they should come up leadership that's trained to deal with these kinds of issues that's train to prevent these kinds of issues from coming up in the first place. Leadership, that sets very clear rules and boundaries at the start of an expedition for what will be tolerated and what will not be tolerated and I think that really does speak to what went wrong on academic fed off. You know there was a dress code that was enacted midway through the cruise. It was a surprise to everybody it was communicated in a really kind of vague and distressing an alarming way. Harassment incident that arose that was kind of it'd be swept under the rug a little bit at the time may or may not have influenced the dress code. So. Yes. I think this really all speaks to kind of a lack of preparation to prevent these kinds of issues arising in the first place and from dealing with them in the proper ways when they do arise. Yeah. Yeah and you know Chelsea I'm wondering what is the response to your piece? Ben So far since you wrote. The response to the peace has been mainly very positive so far. So I've heard from a lot of scientists researchers both in polar science and in other fields. Who have been very supportive and who have said you know this is an issue that happens all the time that's very common but that needs to be talked about more and so you know it's very important to kind of bring these issues into the light and. It has been. It's it's not been great to hear that there are so many other people who have had similar experiences. You know that's that's disappointing and distressing to hear but you know. But a lot of people have said you know this, this is very common and it's good that we're starting to talk about this more do. Yeah. I mean you mentioned Chelsea some moments of solidarity from the participants aboard the most recent being this unified statement responding to your article signed by the large majority of Grad, students on board. Did this. You know inspire any hope for you about the future of the this type of field research. It did absolutely, it did that statement basically said that it was disappointing to see rules and policies on board. The ship that might imply that women should have to change the way they dress to manage the behavior of men or policies that might limit women's involvement in fieldwork, and so you know the students know in their statement that they were. You know grateful for. The opportunity to go on the expedition into work with leading polar scientists in the field. But this was something that that was not acceptable to them and you know it wasn't courage to read that statement and to just kind of see the interest in the concern about these kinds of issues from you know what's going to be the next generation of polar scientists and I do think that this is something that will hopefully Garner a little bit more attention inspire some change in the future.