1 00:00:04,290 --> 00:00:06,963 (music playing and sound of typing) 2 00:00:06,963 --> 00:00:15,203 My name is Hannah Kerner, and I write code that looks at satellite data and tells us where crops are growing and how they're doing. 3 00:00:15,203 --> 00:00:21,205 So, I'm working on developing machine learning, or artificial intelligence algorithms, 4 00:00:21,205 --> 00:00:26,789 that look at NASA and other satellite data and finds where crops are growing, 5 00:00:26,789 --> 00:00:31,588 monitors how they're doing, and helps to extract information for farmers and 6 00:00:31,588 --> 00:00:37,713 decision makers to better inform agricultural policies and programs. 7 00:00:37,770 --> 00:00:43,296 The information that we get from this technology is important for helping us to identify 8 00:00:43,296 --> 00:00:49,331 if there are regions where people might not be able to produce the food that they need, and 9 00:00:49,406 --> 00:00:56,141 where we can help those people to get food -- maybe from other places where there are surpluses. 10 00:00:56,141 --> 00:01:04,075 This is important because we all need to eat. So the more we know about how crops are doing, the better off we'll all be. 11 00:01:04,075 --> 00:01:12,514 For me, every day I wake up and I'm super excited to start working on what I'm working on. 12 00:01:12,758 --> 00:01:16,710 When I'm not working, I read a lot of books. 13 00:01:16,710 --> 00:01:21,426 I am also scuba diving whenever possible. 14 00:01:21,426 --> 00:01:27,280 I am going on hikes to explore the Earth above ground while 15 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:34,160 scuba diving, exploring below the surface.  So, while remote sensing shows us everything   16 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:38,082 that's happening on the planet, we don't see so  much below the surface, 17 00:01:38,082 --> 00:01:41,267 and it's really almost  like another planet down there. 18 00:01:41,267 --> 00:01:46,584 I volunteer at a farm where they're working on providing food in a food desert 19 00:01:46,584 --> 00:01:53,182 where there's very little access to fresh food and vegetables and healthy food from supermarkets. 20 00:01:53,182 --> 00:01:58,893 I think a lot of what I'm doing outside of work is in many ways related to what I'm doing at work. 21 00:01:58,893 --> 00:02:05,048 I think it's all interconnected with who we are as individuals. 22 00:02:05,123 --> 00:02:20,000 (music playing)