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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.

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So, I'm working on developing machine learning, or artificial intelligence algorithms,

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that look at NASA and other satellite data and finds where crops are growing,

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monitors how they're doing, and helps to extract information for farmers and

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decision makers to better inform agricultural policies and programs.

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The information that we get from this technology is important for helping us to identify

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if there are regions where people might not be able to produce the food that they need, and

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where we can help those people to get food -- maybe from other places where there are surpluses.

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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.

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For me, every day I wake up and I'm super excited to start working on what I'm working on.

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When I'm not working, I read a lot of books.

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I am also scuba diving whenever possible.

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I am going on hikes to explore the Earth above ground while

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scuba diving, exploring below the surface.
So, while remote sensing shows us everything

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that's happening on the planet, we don't see so
much below the surface,

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and it's really almost  like another planet down there.

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I volunteer at a farm where they're working on providing food in a food desert

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where there's very little access to fresh food and vegetables and healthy food from supermarkets.

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I think a lot of what I'm doing outside of work is in many ways related to what I'm doing at work.

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I think it's all interconnected with who we are as individuals.

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