 Hello, everyone. My name is Adam Yabu. I'm from the University of Maryland College Park, and I'm majoring in environmental science and technology with a minor in GIS, and I was a lucky participant in the Ecology Plus program. So first up, I'm going to talk about some of my findings during my project, and so for my project, I basically created a model to predict how the landscape of DC is going to change over a hundred years. I was always interested in urbanization and the whole aspect of increase in human populations and transitions from rural to urban societies, and so I used the USGS, the US Geological Survey dataset, and in which they create a predictive model for how different urban areas are going to change over time across the United States. So I reclassified there are 17 codes into five different categories, which I used to create my dataset and created a visual in the ArcGIS software. And this is basically the animation I created. So I looked at different radiuses from the center of DC. So I used the 10 mile radius, 25 mile radius, 50 to 100 mile radius, and this was from a span of 2005 to 2095, and in the 10 mile radius, you can see that wild areas are and in the 25 mile radius, you can see that wild areas percent change is over 100 percent, which should tell you that already the already minimal amount of green spaces in wild areas are disappearing even more than they should be where they should actually be protected and not given to expansion urban development. And in the 50 mile radius, we can see that the percent change is also reducing, in which we're losing over 56 percent of urban areas, over 56 percent of protected green spaces. And in areas where these green spaces are actually not disappearing is because there are some federal mandates such as the Patuxent Wildlife Preserve in which these areas are federally protected. And so this inspired me to continue using JS to ask more questions as to how different wild spaces should be protected, especially since urban areas are prone to different environmental impacts, such as the urban heat island effect, in which when there's a loss of tree canopies, some different vegetation, it increases the sun's rays and direct impacts on human health and benefits in that area. And I'm going to talk about my experience in the remote internship. And so part of the training in Montana, we took a tour of Yellowstone National Park, which was my first experience ever being in the National Park. So that was amazing to be out in the field. And we learned about the foundations of GIS in which, even though I had taken a few courses since I was a GIS minor, it never really clicked to me about how I could apply them in an ecological setting. And also learned from the local scientists who worked at Montana State University was also a big impact because I could actually see where I could apply my GIS skills and experiences into doing my own research project in the future. And the remote collaboration process was also very beneficial. I would have a weekly or bi-weekly meetings with Travis, depending on my class schedule for the week and tests and stuff. And I also looked into how my data sets and how I was organizing my data in our GIS was assessing the different spatial relationships, cleaning up my data, learning how to extract data. It was a big part. I always had a list of questions for Travis. I'll text him and be like, hey, check this out. We're going to answer this tomorrow. And a big part of this was also the analysis. It's always nice to have, to really gather your data and have it all set and stuff, but what happens after you have all those final numbers is supposed to have an interpret them to make them more beneficial and to answer some type of question. And also gave me the opportunity to actually use some programming languages. Travis showed me how he could use R to extract different areas of interest from my data sets, in which if I used Excel it would be very tedious to extract all those numbers one by one. And finally, again, the opportunity to present my findings was also very beneficial because it opened up my self being comfortable speaking in front of large audiences and being able to actually make sure my research makes sense and people actually understand it and can ask questions and I can be able to answer those questions as well. And I'm going to talk about some of my key takeaways from being a part of this really cool remote internship program and which is that there's data everywhere. Friddle agencies publish huge data sets on their websites as well as nonprofits as well. So it's very easy to kind of ask a question and find the data that can help you answer it. And it's also very complementary to my GIS minor in which I'm able to actually apply the things I learned in class into a product that's beneficial to not only my academic career, but also my professional career as well. And the programming languages I now think are a very big asset because something that could take me a week in Excel could be done easily in like an hour in R or using Python. And the mentorship expert was also great since I was also applying to grad school during that time. Travis provided a lot of input from that and I've actually been accepted into my top four choices and I'm happy about that. And so after I make that choice, I'll be pursuing a graduate research using GIS and learning about different changing landscapes in our urban society. And some of the areas for improvement or really areas to take into effect would be the software access, making sure you have the ArcGIS software, being able to use a remote remote data set as well as project collaborations, having group meetings to make sure you're on task and on track and make sure like you're accountable for your actual project and you're not slacken off, and also increased opportunities to present finance. We only had to present at the TWS, which is the Wilderness Society headquarters in D.C. So I haven't opened it up to go into more conferences. It would have been great as well. Thank you so much.