 Okay, so without any further delay, I want to introduce our sponsor of today's workshop. It's Tony Guy Robertson from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, and he's going to get us all started. So thank you for the introduction. My name's Tony Guy Robertson. I'm a R&D scientist within the research director at NGA. And many of you may not have even heard of NGA because I certainly hadn't heard of it before I went to a conference and saw a booth there and then applied for a job. So if many of you are in the same boat as I, I will definitely impress to you why NGA itself is interested in things like groundwater recharge. First of all, I want to introduce to you our customers. Our customers are going to be the warfighter and the policymaker. So we are a member of both the Department of Defense and the intelligence community, which means that we support both of those mission spaces. And we do that providing what's called geospatial intelligence. This is also known as GEOINT. And simply put, GEOINT is really just the description of imagery and other geospatially related data in a way that provides and describes the physical and natural and man-made environment. And so the purpose of this workshop is looking really at the natural groundwater environment. And you may be wondering why are we really interested in groundwater itself. Venkat made quite a few statements earlier about really the different news articles that have been going around. And so I pulled up a couple of fairly recent news articles that touch in on groundwater and water quality. And one of the real things that pops out here recently is that just the number of really international trees that are governing transnational groundwater aquifers is really very few, right? So one of the things that we, since we advise policymakers that we're really looking for is provide them some feedback because these are opportunities for both conflict but also cooperation. These are areas that we can provide. The U.S. government can provide support, diplomatic support to nations to help be able to provide the information. And a lot of the reason why these transnational water, these transnational aquifer don't get wrapped into these international treaties is just a lack of information, right? We don't know where these groundwater aquifers really extend to. We don't understand how they're being recharged. So it's very difficult to partition these water rights. And so by being able to provide information to our policymakers to provide this information for those diplomatic missions, definitely is something that we're looking for to be able to help improve our engagement across the world. We can also look at things from a individual nation-state concern because these groundwater aquifers can have a direct impact on nation-state stability as well. In many cases, a lot has also alluded to is that we're now starting to actually mine fossil water, which means that we're now removing water that is no longer, or over-using water in areas that will not be available for future generations. And this is going to be potential flash points as these water sources become depleted and run the risk of having instability within these nations themselves. And lastly, the one thing I do want to also highlight is also not only are we interested in the quantity of the water, but we're also interested in the quality of the water itself. It's one thing to be able to understand where the water is, but we also want to be able to know that it's useful for things like personal consumption, agricultural and industrial uses. So we want to be able to understand that. And if we look here, this is just one example of an article that talked about radiation being found in the Nubian aquifer, but there are plenty of other examples when we look at things like biocontaminants and heavy metal contamination aquifers. One real simple example where the subsurface geology really matters is that if you have, if you look at like fecal bacteria contamination, that risk is reduced if you increase the resonance time within the aquifer itself. However, then you run the risk also of then now arsenic contamination, right, the heavy metals leaching into the water. So you have to balance and understand where the, you know, understand the dynamics of the aquifer itself to understand what the risk of water quality is as well. So this is kind of the understanding of where we see this in the public, but how does that really relate to our customers, right? I said our customers are the warfighters and the policy makers. And when we talk about the warfighters, one great case example is the first Gulf War. What we had was we had a lot of troops go in there, they were trying to access groundwater sources and determine that the water quality, so just the issue that I mentioned was not good enough for a lot of what they're looking at. So what they ended up having to do is use de-sanalization and also create a whole logistical network to bring water in from external sources. So there's a huge interest in being able to plan for where these resources are from an operational support for the warfighter. So we also, the warfighter also does, you know, diplomatic missions in countries and places like Iraq and Afghanistan where we help rebuild that water infrastructure for local populations and improve that. So there's a humanitarian mission that we do that. And NGA supports these missions by providing, we have personnel that sit in with these combat commands that provide these, this geoant, this geospatial intelligence to the waterfighter and being able to provide better information to these support teams is what we're really looking for today. So in addition to the warfighter, we also have the support teams in other areas in the U.S. government working with other teams to provide assistance to the humanitarian and disaster relief efforts. So we do work with other partner agencies in the U.S. government to provide geoant and provide intelligence that they can then be able to work with their partners and provide better use for information there. With that, hopefully I'm able to provide some context for us to be very productive here over the next two days. I'm really looking forward to the, to everybody's collective intellect on this. And I really appreciate everybody's patience dealing with the, have them have the delay from January to June. So I really appreciate the interest and everybody's attendance here today is a very exemplary of the interest and the desire to really kind of move the needle and prove this. What we're really looking for from an NGA perspective is that kind of three to seven-year research window. This is what can we, what can NGA put resources towards if we were able to fund something that could be done in a research that helps these customers, right? These are our warfighters. These are our policy makers that we want to be able to assist. What can we do to be able to get that done? With that, I'd like to turn it back over to Ben Katz, but thank you for your time and I look forward to a great meeting.