Good evening everyone welcome to this special chat that I've been wanting to have and looking forward to have for a few days. Right so the news is absolutely dominated by one story that is Ukraine and Russia crisis and the news is not only dominated by the story but one side of the story. We are being told in no uncertain terms that we must take sides here and whose side we must take. Before I came on to do this chat I had a little look at some of the news coverage today. It is completely one-sided and okay sometimes the moral issue is perfectly clear. I don't think it is on this and I wanted to get a different view or at least to look at this a little bit more objectively because when the mainstream media tells me one thing over and over and over and over again I don't trust it and I don't trust either when our politicians are telling us the same things. These are politicians and media we know lie to us. So I wanted to get a different view. I saw some Facebook posts from Eddie Butler you'll know Eddie and the other day which I had to delve into a little bit more very interesting Facebook post so I've asked Eddie to come on and talk me through this issue so we can have a look at it from a point of view that isn't the one the sole one being pushed by the mainstream media and the politicians who I don't trust. Eddie thank you very much for taking the time to come on and talk to us about this.  Why is this a fake crisis? Well to be fair that was actually written before the proper war had started and the Western media who I don't feel any allegiance towards although I live you know we both live in the what's known as the West. The Western media is really a globalist media it's not it doesn't run so they don't operate in our interest is not of our country and so I take what they say with a pinch of salt and they were blowing up a big into being a big crisis when initially Putin sent tanks into two provinces on the borders of the Ukraine that split away from the Ukraine in 2014 so him sending tanks into those two provinces which are pro-Russian provinces in 2014 wasn't an act of war or it's a bit like Israeli tanks being in the Golan Heights which are recognised by the world as being sovereign Syrian territory but it's been occupied by Israel for years and no one would blink if his very tanks went in there for example and so they were making a big mountain out of a molehill over every little move that was being made down there almost pushing him into a corner actually because that was before the war the ground war really started by taking all these measures and colouring the crisis as if it was a crisis before when it wasn't so he almost had nothing to lose by then and making out also that Putin's a mad man he's a psychopath and all these sorts of usual slurs on his character that come out which is a rather childish insults really he's an opponent of the globalist West and so they have to caricature him as some sort of dribbling lunatic when clearly he's quite a cable politician he's been in charge of Russia which is quite an unstable place to be a leader for one he's been in there all over 20 years and managed to maintain themselves so he's clearly not an idiot and although Russia their economy is smaller than our economy for example they've also managed to punch quite heavily above their weight really in world terms even though they haven't got a very strong economy or I haven't got that much money so he's clearly not an idiot and he also outmaneuvered America in Syria when America was trying to intervene in Syria and again no there's no real outcry about America intervening and bombing the hell out of Syria or Libya or occupying Iraq or Afghanistan so a lot of and bombing the hell out of Serbia a few years before there's a lot of double standards involved in this okay fair enough so that was before the war but you went on to talk about the make-up of what we in the West and in all this hype now think of us as Ukraine tell us about this tell us about the history of these of Russia and its relationship with Ukraine and the autonomous regions and what is it that we're not being told about this a little bit more complicated than we're told isn't it yeah well I was glad you led me into that because I'm playing this and I wanted to talk initially about the history of the Ukraine and Russia when the Russia some people know is named after the Russ who were a Viking tribe of our group of Vikings that dominated what is now western Russia and the Ukraine and from about the midnight midnight century a 60-ish roughly and after they'd gone and done some attacks down the rivers into into what is now Russia one of the famously the local sort of princes said I'm gonna quote let us seek a prince who may rule over us and judge us according to our laws and actually invited the Russ back in to rule them because they couldn't rule themselves Russia has always been a bit of an unruly place that is ruled by strong leaders it's not a place that democracy's ever ever taken root actually invited the Viking war leaders in to rule them and that part of Russia included what is now called the Ukraine and they set up a state called the Kievan Russ because it was based Kiev was the capital it wasn't a separate kingdom I think it was part of it was it was the capital of this of this rust the first rust state and they all spoke the same language it's known now as old East Slavic they also had the same history the same culture history same language same people and this the Russ state or collection of states was destroyed by the Mongols it was just after Genghis Khan died in and hordes of Mongols came in and wiped out lots of states across Eastern Europe including the Russ states and it fragmented now it's about 1260 round round about that time so it lasted about that must be 400 years this thing before it was destroyed by the the Mongols and that led to a different history between what is now the Ukraine and Russia because the Ukraine what is now Ukraine was ruled by the Ottoman Turks for a while it was ruled by Lithuania for a while the language very Ukrainian Russian a very similar language anyway but they slightly diverged diverged because of this slightly different history and Russia fragmented they've got Ivan the terrible got it back together again and by about 1660 ish so for 400 years later they started taking back over Ukraine and it became part of Russia again and then and since then they've had a pretty much a united history and the only time since then that Ukraine's been independent is after the first what First World War the German with the Bolshevik Revolution and they the Russians signed a peace treaty with Germany called the Treaty of Brest-Litvosk in March 1918 before the war ended and it allowed the Germans to switch all their troops to the West to fight off because the the Bolsheviks made peace with them and part of that peace treaty granted an independent Ukraine because the Germans wanted to break up Russia so that was the first time ever they've been an independent Ukrainian state was a German puppet regime in the beginning of 1918 and that continued for a couple of years until the the Bolsheviks took proper control over Russia the Russian Civil War and then it was reincorporated into Russia in the Second World War when the Germans invaded again again they set up a puppet sort of state in the Ukraine and because again they wanted to divide and rule and then again obviously the Germans lost the war and it was reincorporated into into Russia into the Soviet Union as it then was with Soviet Union was just another name so it was the old Russian Empire and but the Soviet regime part of their philosophy was to recognize national minorities and regional groups so it split Russia up the Russian Empire up into lots of little provinces called SS at the Soviet-Soviet Republics the Ukraine was one of them it's considered the Ukraine Socialist Socialist Republic. Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia were Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and the big areas where Borat supposed to come from out in the Russian states. They're all independent states now because well they never had been before most of them but they were the Russian the Soviet regime wanted to recognize the minorities within them and sometimes they put little independent semi-independent republics within these other republics to make them very unstable so they couldn't gain independence probably from from the Soviet Union but the when Russia collapsed in about 1991 they didn't when they set these things up they didn't think the Soviet Union was going to collapse they thought they were going to rule the world didn't they the communist regime thought they were going to come to the world so they didn't sort of anticipate the whole thing was going to fall apart which it did and immediately the Soviet central control weakened around 1990 when Gorbachev was was in charge all these separate areas wanted to become independent because it was the quickest way to get out of the sort of communist rule so the Ukraine had a referendum in 1991 and voted to leave the Soviet Union so they wanted to get even the very Russian part because the Ukraine's got very large Russian areas within it where Russian speakers live rather than Ukrainian speakers and they all voted to leave because they wanted to get out of the Soviet Union and it meant they were getting out as Ukraine so you can't really judge that referendum as a Ukrainian national referendum as such it was more I want to get out the Soviet Union referendum and the Ukraine in by then was at its biggest boundaries ever after the Second World War great huge Western areas were added to the Ukraine that they're taken from Poland Romania and what was then Czechoslovakia and the crime in the 50s the Crimea which had never been part of the Ukraine was added to it because the Soviet regime saw the Ukraine as their most favored sub-republic after the Russian part they wanted to favor them so they allowed extra territories to be added to Ukraine it clearly and say Crimea which had never ever been part of Ukraine before that and was very heavily Russian in population so that's the background but they all voted to leave the Soviet Union in 1991 understandably because they wanted to be in part of the Soviet Union no no one did really now just to come back here if you recall back then Germany the whole Eastern Bloc was collapsing and there was a big movement for East Germany to to unify with West Germany that was a big sticking point at the Berlin Wall and yet the Iron Curtain or the Watchtowers and stuff in between and Gorbachev who was the president of Russia then I don't know about his title he was in charge anyway he got an agreement with the West that he would he would not put any problems in the way of East Germany uniting with West Germany so long as the West would agree not to expand NATO and not take advantage of Russia backing off by by pushing right into them because Russia was very from the second world war and the first world war because of their experience with Germany attacking them they're very paranoid about having a defensive buffer zone in front of them selves from potential enemies so we agreed and it was given a solemn promise to Gorbachev we wouldn't expand NATO and it was repeated to Yeltsin do you remember Boris Yeltsin he was regarded in the West you know a bit of an eccentric character but he was also regarded as he was a the poster boy the West wasn't he they was a merry sort of guy you saw him dancing on there the old Russian generals tried a coup the Soviet generals tried a coup against the the reformers and Yeltsin led the rebellion and stuff you know flowers down the barrels of the tanks and danced on the tanks and all these sorts of things he was a hero of the West for being a reformer well in 94 he when he was in charge Russia he went to one of the summit meet East West summit meetings and blew his top at the Americans and the West trying to encroach upon this earlier agreement with Gorbachev not to expand NATO in in further East and they say oh no we won't do it so they've given these undertakings not to expand NATO or the EU for that matter which is as we know a political and military union it's not just an economic union further East and further East but Russia became weak in that very weak in that period and the West took advantage areas which were part of the Soviet Union such as Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia are now in NATO they're in the EU but all the Eastern European countries Poland the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania they're all in in the EU now and NATO and the boundaries have been pushing up and pushing up and pushing up into into Russia now during this time the Ukraine was ruled by well they had this independence referendum the parties that controlled the Ukraine which became a democracy but not a democracy as we properly know it to be fair because it's like the Russians they're not very there's lots of corruption in the Ukraine always has been but there is in Russia as well and it's not a pure sort of democracy but as much as it is an democracy the parties that won the elections and ruled the place all time were very pro-Russian and they wanted nice friendly relations with Russia and sorry for going on here the by the 2005 the West was swallowing up Poland busy strong up Poland and Bulgarian Romania and the Ukraine was left left its own devices by about 2005ish perhaps onwards the West started saying oh why don't you want to join the EU to a lot of these countries join the EU means they get lots of grants from the Europe and the political class I used to work in the European Parliament for a while and you can in the basement there with a car park is and you get all these porches with Lithuanian number plates on their political classes class is bought and paid for by the EU they've never known such riches and the salaries they get all the assistance or it's a money train for them and it's easy to buy the political class out there from some of the EU and they started seducing the Ukrainian political class and media and Americans as well in from about 2005 onwards and but nevertheless in 2009 there's another presidential election in the Ukraine and again the pro-Russian guy one but this process of seducing them with money and will come into the EU and everything will be graced and you have access to our markets really it's a Germany connect access to their market that's really what it's about and there's lots of agricultural land there and it's quite a wealthy area for the EU they they're trying to bribe them into it and that that process carried on and into that beginning of 2014 there was a bit of a crunch moment when the EU was trying to get them into the EU and the and this president said no I'd rather stick with Russia which is what he was sort of elected on really and there was a coup against him he was kicked out and so the the democratically elected president of the Ukraine was kicked out by pro-EU pro-American coup in 2014 right on the doorstep of Russia this area which at the beginning intimate relations and intimate links to Russia and as a result of that the whole it destabilized the whole situation that's pretty much soon as that happened Obama was the president of the United States then Biden was his vice president and that's when Hunter Biden went there and was loads of money to run an oil company out there when he had no experience it was always sort of corruption went on immediately after this Russian guy was pro-Russian guy pro-Russian Ukrainian president was toppled and as a result of that that's when Russia occupied the Crimea and took it back so okay in that case you can't have the Crimea anymore effectively as I said at the while ago the Crimea had never really been part of Ukraine anyway and so they effectively said oh when actually because of this coup they took back and then there's these two other border provinces that were a heavy Russian population as well declared independence really with Russian help quite honestly they sort of sent unofficial troops into helping that they broke away and as a result of Russia doing that they were kicked the you know the G7 he's been the G8 Russia used to be part of the G8 that was the G7 because Russia was kicked out they were kicked out the G8 which is a globalist group now one of the reasons why the West had always been picking on Russia and getting at it is because they hadn't been a very compliant member of the G7 G8 they're globalist constructs to help push the globalist economic agenda and they hadn't been very cooperative with it anyway so they wanted to get rid of them anyway and they used the the Crimea thing as an excuse to get rid of them which is a bit of a fake reason really because they said the Crimea has always been part of Russia historically and if you look at all the other countries that America's invade and attack it doesn't really stack up that you'd get a big hissy-fis over the Russians taking back the Crimea but never just they did and Russia's been excluded from these things like the G outside the outside the loop ever since and because Russia's outside the loop of the the globalist agenda agenda they've been gunning for them and pushing them and pushing them and trying to get Ukraine into the NATO and the EU ever since and that's the the background cause for why Russia eventually were pushed into into this shooting war now over the over the Ukraine. Wow right I'm gonna try and summarize this so essentially Ukraine has now doesn't have a long history of being an independent country it was part of the Soviet Union and of course with the collapse of the Soviet Union became that in modern history became an independent country it's got a pro- Russian population. Until certainly up to the election in 2009 when they still elected this guy as their president it was pro-Russian no doubt I've no doubt that the population has been seduced as populations in all across the world seduced by European money all would be better off in there and all sorts of no doubt that has happened as well. So they elected a pro-Russian pro-Russian president even who was removed in a coup backed by the West presumably? Yes pretty much an EU CIA backed coup in 2014 and this made an already nervous Russia because Russia had agreed with the West not to expand eastwards when the Soviet Union ended the West then went and expanded eastwards with both NATO and the European Union threatening Russia with the removal of this democratically elected pro-Russian president to be replaced by a president is it still the same president today? No there's been a couple of changes since then but okay and they are pro-West rather than pro-Russian. So this is making Russia ever more nervous? Yeah. At the time of this coup they went in and Russia took Crimea back and then declared independence at the same time. Yeah it's very very very messy. What's the West's game in all of this? Is it just globalism driving the West's game in this? I think so yes the I think they want to remove see I don't know I didn't think Putin would invade a few weeks ago because I don't know what the end game for him is I don't know how he can get out of it how can he because yeah people just say one thing just say oh whatever history the Ukraine may have had and whatever may have gone in on in you know 1260 when the Mongols invaded or something now it is an independent country and self-determination they can do what they like but in the world of realpolitik some countries when you're living next to a big much big country you can't do everything you want to do it's just that's just how it is and the West should not have pushed things by trying to bribe Ukraine into the into EU and NATO they didn't want trouble they didn't want trouble they shouldn't have done it so I think clearly the West did want trouble and did probably I think they probably wanted wanted to push Russia and Putin into a situation where he did something where they hope it could bust up and and get rid of Putin possibly that's possibly what they hope because I don't know I don't know how Putin gets out of this now once he's in he's certainly invading with 200 000 men that's nothing that's a drop in the ocean he invaded Iraq we invaded Iraq with a million so 200 000 into Ukraine is is small beer and they say that he's only probably about 50 000 of them in most of them aren't even invaded so if you can believe anything that anyone says about what's going on and so I don't know what his actual strategy is whether he intends to occupy the whole country which I doubt 200 000 isn't enough for that and what's he going to do if he does occupy the whole country he can hardly suppress the whole country with just 200 000 men if he puts someone in place he'd be regarded as a puppet ruler and would have a difficult time ruling so I don't know what his exit strategy is on this maybe he's only maybe he's only got very limited ambitions to take over a couple more border provinces I don't know but it is a very unstable situation but from my point of view I look at this really from what's best for for this for our country not any other country or even the Ukrainians I their self-determination is to be honest with you secondary to me to my my understanding what's in this country's best interest and a lot of people still think seem to think that Russia is communist now you get stupid sort of comments like it reminds me of Lord Raglan who is a British commander in the Crimean war ironically the Crimean war when we were fighting the Russians he fought with Wellington at Waterloo and the the French were obviously the enemies at Waterloo but in the Crimea they were our allies and when he was referring to the Russians he kept on calling them the French but and it's a bit like these people who now could go on about the Russians as if they're as if they're communists as if the Cold War's going on they're not the communist communism is a universalistic creed a bit like Islam if you like they want to take up the wanted to take over the world dominate the world Russia doesn't Russia just want now Russia just wants to be secure in its own borders I think it's in our interests to have a strong and secure Russia rather than an unstable one if Putin goes you'll have a another basket case country a bit like probably Iraq or Libya is now and we've we could do with a nice strong secure Russia and we certainly don't want to push Russia in the into the arms of China who along with Islam the two great existential threats that the West faces are in my opinion the rise of Islam and the rise of China and we don't we want Russia as an ally of ours against both of those threats actually and they are a natural ally of ours against both those threats so we don't want to weaken Russia we don't want to upset or antagonize Russia or make them feel vulnerable and lashing out because they want to defend their national vital interest which is what which is what they are doing now and is that why he upsets the globalist because he's a nationalist I'm not going to be quite I'm not I'm not going to paint Putin as a paragon of virtue but he's certainly not a globalist in the sense of the others and he's probably not someone that we would hold up as a great guy or anything like that necessarily but he he's certainly not a globalist and he's a thorn in their side which is why then undoubtedly why they want to get rid of him well they dislike him so much and what do you know about his relationship with China at the moment well they are building bridges China abstained when the United Nations Security Council had a vote against them against them China abstained China's been pretty friendly they're gonna they're slightly sitting on the fence but they're not they're certainly not um aligned with the western condemnation of him out of hand and they will naturally coalesce together they've they've had difficulties between Russia and China historically over the years a lot but they're we're pushing the globalist are pushing them into China's hands so what do you think of the UK's response and what should the UK's response to this be well if if it was if I would like to think if one of our people had been in charge it wouldn't have probably happened because he wouldn't have been part of the group threatening him and he wouldn't have felt threatened and wouldn't have done it if Trump had been president still for example I don't think it would happen because Trump fully appreciated the need not to push his tread on Russia's toes gratuitously and um he also had a degree of strength about him which which Biden doesn't say Biden combined weakness with um you know he made some stupid comment about all that Biden did about all if they just do a little invasion it won't matter something but I'm not actually sure whether that wasn't a deliberate thing to sort of get to encourage um Putin into doing it perhaps I don't know perhaps Biden wasn't so stupid but I don't think if Trump had been there it would have it would have happened at all because he would have not pushed them into a position where they'd have felt it necessary and similarly if we'd if one of our people had been in charge I don't think we would have done uh but now you know it obviously you get all these refugee things and all the rest of it just a whole bag of it coming up sending them weapons causing trouble yeah and frankly frankly I don't mind Russian oligarchs putting their money into into this country it's something that if you want them to invest anyway I think it's a positive thing to attract foreigners in the country I don't want to scare them off by in thinking they're going to get even I don't like Chelsea you know I don't mind if he gets the grammar gets gets his club taken away from him quite frankly but that's a purely a football matter but the um if we you scare these people off you know we we should be really wanting to have foreign investment into our into our economy because it helps these strong things our economy not scaring them up by saying oh if you do something we please we just agree with we'll they'll suddenly impound all your assets so I think that's a foolish move and um you know I don't I obviously wouldn't be sending them weapons stuff I wouldn't get involved I wouldn't get involved at all but if we'd been in charge I don't believe it would have happened anyway so what do you think is going to happen and it's difficult to predict but final question what do you think is going to happen uh what's the deal with no I don't um you can't really believe anything that's being said in the papers about what is happening on the ground I've got me I wouldn't presume to know um my the worst-case scenario is there's a big cock up from from Putin's position point of view they go over there tell him they like there's some sort of coup in Russia he's removed and some sort of western um pro-western face man is put in there and um Russia is incorporated into the globalist world that that's probably the worst-case scenario what happens I haven't got a clue so I don't know what the Russian exit strategy is if you go into something like that hopefully you'd have an exit strategy you send the tanks in they've got to come out again haven't they so with a better with a better outcome for you after they come out I don't know what their what their goal is any any other thoughts any other points um you want to make it it's very educational thank you well one of the other interesting aspects is that you drive here after much delay you've learned how to drive the petrol's gone through the roof isn't it it's 150 a point not a point 150 a liter or whatever it is isn't it a liter and um partly because the larger institute this this crisis and it showed again another thing Trump he was developing um fracking and getting uh chairloin which brought the price of developing new uh resort new uh resources fuel resources it brought prices down but since he's buying and putting a stock to it some of these pipelines and stuff and it's putting prices up and this again shows that we need to be uh even though I don't agree with with I don't think it would have happened this war with the in charge you need to be in some things some somewhat self-sufficient we should be doing fracking we should be having nuclear power all these other things which make us less vulnerable to these events that happen in other countries which are outside of our control and that that's another important feature of that's come out of this that we we should be developing our own oil industry better but we should in my opinion be fracking and and developing nuclear power I agree I agree well it's all part of globalism isn't it we should be self-sufficient we should all be dependent on each other yeah yeah and all and you know once someone in one side of the world sneezes and the whole world is a cold or covid yeah or cold and he thank you very very much for for that that is um I think people will learn a lot from that and and when you are told one narrative I don't trust it and since this began we've only had one narrative and and Putin has been demonised and like you said I don't think he's I'm not going to start waiving a beauty flag but it's not quite as it's being portrayed yeah so thanks for for clearing a lot of that up for us okay all right take care thanks again okay um oh that's a bit clear I mean it's good it's very good for us to hear an alternative view um and you won't hear that in the mainstream press why we are where we are why Putin is doing what he's doing and where globalism crucially where globalism comes in to all of this are they is the west and the globalist cabal trying to remove Putin has the media had a role in pushing Putin into this and made it more and more difficult for him not almost to invade it it's it is not as it's being presented to us and the globalist issue to me is crucial as is as eddie mentioned at the end there the price of fuel and it reminds us or it should remind us to become there is a need for us to become self-sufficient in terms of energy there are ways we can do it at covered energy in detail and in live stream recently there are ways of us becoming energy self-sufficient but globalists don't want that so a different take I hope you enjoyed it uh and I think you need to go on from this and perhaps do a little bit more research into the issues because it's vital for us to be fully informed okay thanks everyone for watching uh thanks again to eddie butler for that take on this and I shall see you monday live at eight o'clock on youtube thanks again take care


Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome. I'm Sarah Pichet, Education and Outreach Specialist in New Mexico F-Score and your emcee for this afternoon. Thank you for joining us for the final event of the 2021 New Mexico Research Symposium. We have a very exciting program for you all this afternoon. At three o'clock, we're gonna get started with our flash talks and present our exceptional student awards. Then at 3.30, we will then move on to present the Outstanding New Mexico Science Teacher Awards. We will conclude our program when we announce our poster competition winners at 4 o'clock this afternoon. All right. So before we get started, what is a flash talk? A flash talk or a three-minute thesis is a presentation where researchers present their concepts or ideas in three minutes with one slide in a manner that is understandable to a general audience. This afternoon, we will have seven smart grid researchers who will convey their research to you in this manner. For time keeping purposes, Brittany will be keeping track of time. So just keep an ear out for her. All right. Our first presenter this afternoon is going to be Jesse Krasmarki. And Jesse, go for it in three, two, one. How many times have you sat at home during this stormy night and the power flickers, causing your favorite show to buffer while you Wi-Fi resets?  Grid modernization in a nutshell refers to grid improvements that may decrease the frequency and magnitude of power outages. Consider a community microgrid installation. Built and maintained by your electric provider, these installations can serve your home and surrounding critical infrastructure directly or indirectly. The concept of a microgrid may be abstract from a technical perspective, but the impact they have is very real, localized and personal. As an economist, I get excited about infrastructure that may improve the quality of people's lives. But I also have the dismal task of determining whether the end users of these improvements truly value them. My research focuses on the intersection between the end user of electricity and adoption of community microgrids in the four corners. See community microgrids offer the right pair of few notable benefits. They can increase the reliability and resilience of their local grid, allow better access to distributed energy resources such as rooftop solar and provide limited power during a grid stress event. Determining what a rate payer is going to pay for these microgrid services is foundational for current and future grid modernization efforts. Microgrids come with a slew of barriers to entry. There are environmental components that may restrict adoptions such as a not in my backyard attitude or a lack of support for investments that don't directly service certain rate payers. See infrastructure investments in the four corners they're often paid for by means of cost recovery. For example, if an electric provider wants to bring a microgrid online, I would likely have to pay my fair share through a slight rate increase. So it is imperative that society and electric utilities fully understand my support and willingness to pay for these installations before ground is broke. I recently surveyed approximately 5,000 electric rate payers across the four corners and to determine that between 40 and 45% of respondents would be willing to increase their electric bill in exchange for a community microgrid installation depending on the level of direct tie-in that they would receive. Furthermore, I found that the median amount of rate payer across the four corners would be willing to pay is an additional $14 to $25. Again, depending on the level of benefits. Additionally, I find various ideological, political and socioeconomic characteristics do impact the likelihood that a rate payer would be willing to pay or support the microgrid installation. To summarize, my research is focuses on determining the full scope of both market and non-market values associated with community microgrid services. This information is novel in its approach but it provides a framework for electric utilities, public regulatory commissions and other stakeholders to fully account for the economic value of community microgrids. Eight seconds to spare, ladies and gentlemen. Jesse, well done. Thank you so much, Jesse. That was wonderful. Next up, we have Anne-Helle Zhang. And Anne-Helle, we've got, if you're ready, go three, two, one. December, 2015, the first non-successful cyber attack on a power grid took place in Ukraine. 230 solid residents were without electricity. The Ukraine power grid attack targets the traditional power grid system. So could such attacks be launched on the smart grid? Unfortunately, the answer is yes. Since more devices are connected to the internet to support remote controls and telecommunication, the smart grid actually provides a larger attack surface for the attackers. In order to prevent cyber attack on the power grid, there are many technologies and the best practice should be adopted. In my research work, our design contributes to the foundation, the cornerstone of smart grid security, which is the device authentication. I believe authentication is not a stranger for everyone in this room. We perform basic password authentication on daily basis when we unlock our phone, not getting to our workstation. The purpose of authentication is to validate user or device. However, when it comes to the device authentication, we cannot enter password for each of the device. We want the process to be automated so that when the device is plugged into the outlet, you will do whatever it's supposed to do without any user efforts. We also want the authentication process which contains different cryptographic operation to consume as little computation resource as possible so that the authentication method can be used on the resource constraint device such as IoT device, which are really powered by batteries. So therefore there are two big questions, how to authenticate the device and how to make the authentication process more efficient. Our solution is to improve the authentication message flow designs to reduce the amount of traffic while maintaining a high level of security. As a result, our authentication process design can save nearly 50% of energy costs compared to zero existing designs. So smart grid connects tens of millions device to the cyber networks. Therefore, the cyber security is essential to guard our next generation power grid. 26 seconds to spare. Very nice. Thank you, Anahao. Thank you. Next up is Ali Garasi. And Ali. Hi. I must have you remember the massive power outage in Texas this year. This massive power blackout shows us we need to improve the reliability and resiliency of our proper system. One way to address this issue is to design the electric grid by connecting multiple microgrid systems. In this architecture, if there is a fault happened on the distribution feeder, the microgrids can continue to work independently and support the local loads. In addition, if there is a fault happen inside each of the microgrids, the faulty microgrid can be isolated and the rest of the system can continue to work. We can use this idea to improve the modularity and reliability of a single microgrid. To this end, we can design a microgrid by interconnecting multiple smaller scale microgrid which are called nano grids. So in the similarity in this architecture, if there is a fault happened inside the microgrid, for example, a fault on the microgrid common DC bus, the nano grids can continue to work independently and support the local loads. In addition, if there is a fault happened inside the nano grids, the nano grids can be, the faulty nano grid can be isolated without affecting the performance of the rest of the system. So it gives us a high level modularity and reliability and resiliency. But the problem is that the conventional control and management techniques that are widely using microgrid applications are not suitable for this architecture. In our recent research, we have addressed this issue by proposing an adaptive control and management techniques. In this approach, we consider each nano grid as an intelligent reactive agent that can change its dynamical behavior with respect to the system condition. It can also communicate with other neighboring nano grids to effectively share power. In addition, we have designed an adaptive model predictive control strategy to improve the voltage quality inside the nano grids. Also, the proposed model predictive control strategy improves the life span of the battery and energy storage system inside the multiple nano grid system. So our proposed approach has improved the efficiency and the voltage quality of the system. I should mention that the result of this research has been submitted in international journal of electric power and energy system and it is still on your duty. Thank you very much for your efforts. Wonderful, great job Ali, thank you so much. Thank you, you're welcome. Up next, we have Don LaLita. All right, Don and three, two, one. I don't have to tell anyone here that we're feeling the effects of climate change and we've found ourselves in the climate crisis. This year we've seen historically catastrophic floods in Germany, there were over 200 major wildfires in the US, Tennessee experienced flash flooding. Well, for the first time that the Colorado River was declared short triggering mandatory water consumption cuts for New Mexico. So it's obvious this climate change is rapidly creating a world we can survive in. And unfortunately the climate crisis is actually made worse by the fossil fuels used to power our electric grid. So the generators that power the electric grid in New Mexico are traditionally powered by coal fired and natural gas fired plants. But by using energy from renewable resources we can minimize the use of the traditional generators and minimize the pollution they cause. So my research is focused on renewable resources generating energy at the distribution level of the power system. At New Mexico Tech, we have three arrays of solar cells like the one you see on the slide and they each collect between 33,000 and 69,000 kilowatt hours a month which at 13 cents a kilowatt hour means they're producing 13,000 to $27,000 of renewable energy every month. And this array of solar cells is just one example of an inverter-based generator unlike traditional rotational generation which produces alternating current, inverter-based generators produce a direct current. And in order to add the DC to the AC distribution network the DC produced by the solar cells needs to be converted to AC using an inverter. The modern inverters have interesting control capabilities that have let us come up with sophisticated power injection schemes. And it opened up the question, what's the best way to use the energy from these inverter-based generators? The first thing that comes to mind is we can use this energy directly as our power source immediately completely injected into the grid and therefore reduce the demand on traditional fossil fuel generators. We do this now, it's an excellent start but the unfortunate reality is that a variety of power system limitations lead to significant power losses when we inject power this way. So even though it's a good start, we can do better and we can be more efficient. Inverter-based generators can control the rate of power injection to react to real-time power demands of the distribution system. So my hypothesis of my research is that this will give us an ability to optimize efficiency of the power system and minimize power losses by increasing the power factor, balancing distribution phases and providing energy during peak demand times. We can also perform better voltage regulation. In order to understand the best way to incorporate the sustainable energy into a distribution feeder microgrid, I created a three-phase model of an underground distribution network based on the campus of New Mexico Tech. This model is used in conjunction with real power consumption data collected from New Mexico Tech's buildings and power generation data connected from our solar cells. The next phase in my project is using the model to test my hypothesis and find optimal inverter-based generation power injection strategies which will ultimately make our distribution network more efficient and reduce traditional power generation and resulting pollution. Thank you. I am. And just right under the skin of her teeth, she's in. Thank you, Dawn. That was fantastic as well. That was really great. Wonderful. Next up, we have Eric Dreyer. Okay, Eric, and your time starts in three, two, one. Hi, my name is Eric Dreyer and I'm a PhD student in computer science at New Mexico State University. And I'm part of Research Group Three which explores using statistical and machine learning methods for decision support and smart grid technology. My research for the New Mexico smart grid revolves around time series analysis. Specifically, I research automatic change detection which looks for transitions from one state of time series into another state. For example, we might want to analyze time series data about power usage to try and spot power outages and abnormal behavior in a community. Traditionally, this change detection is done with change point algorithms which try to detect change as a single point. However, I found this assumption to be faulty in my research. In many scenarios, these changes or transitions can span multiple points in the time series. And in this example I have here, I have a time series that experiences an abrupt change in between the red dotted lines. When using a traditional change point detection algorithm, I often get multiple detections or no detections on an example like this when really there is only one transition we're looking for. With my research, I've created a segment-based mechanism that adapts to these change point detection algorithms for these kinds of scenarios so that we can create more reliable and better detections of change in the time series. Instead of looking for change as a single point, I look for change as a relatively short segment of the time series. I recently wrote and published a paper on this research in the Conference of Information and Knowledge Management. So this research is important for New Mexico Smart Grid project because part of the decision support research group is to automate detection of abrupt changes in the New Mexico Smart Grid. These changes could signify a critical failure or some abnormal behavior in some part of the system. And with so many sensors, we want to be able to automatically detect any sort of abrupt change from any sensor. Our research group is actively working to create better algorithms for detecting change to support Smart Grid decision making. Thank you for listening. Wonderful job. Wow, and with 30 minutes to spare and you didn't even talk fast, that was wonderful. Thank you so much, Eric. Up next, we have Rudy Montoya. All right, Rudy, you are ready to go in three, two, one. Hello, my name is Rudy Montoya and I am a graduate student at the University of New Mexico in the Mechanical Engineering Department. And I'm here to speak about the research I've been conducting along with my team on DC Microgrid fault detection using multi-resolution analysis of traveling waves. I said a mouthful there. And on the diagram there, that's just a two-scale model of the Smart Microgrid over at Mesa-Dal Sol, just for your reference there. And so basically fault detection is gonna be vital to the reliability of any electrical power system and utilizing the traveling waves that propagate in an electrical line when a fault is encountered provides detection in the microsecond timeframe. Now this methodology used is kind of a multi-step process. The approach first starts by taking fault current measurements from running simulations in PSCAD software. The next step would be conducting a multi-resolution analysis to calculate the wavelet coefficients for different frequency ranges. And so the wavelet coefficients are then transformed via what's called the Parcival Theorem to get the Parcival energies from these. And so the final step would be to use these Parcival energy values. And then also the fault location associated with those Parcival energies on the electrical line. And that's gonna be the input and the output to train a machine learning algorithm. And what we were using is the Gaussian process for machine learning. And there's other types of machine learning processes you can use as well. Now, depending on the microgrid topology, the error in determining the fault location we found to be about two to 5%, which is pretty good. Now a simple linear topology as well as a more complex mesh topology have been studied and they both provide promising results. In addition to that, different machine learning algorithms were tested against the Gaussian process just to make sure that we're using the most optimal method. And so the machine learning methodologies of support vector regression, decision tree, artificial neural networks and the Gaussian process did provide the most accuracy in determining the fault location, which is phenomenal. So the area of research in fast tripping electric schemes is very important to microgrid systems to ensure the reliability of these systems as they become more prevalent. In addition to this, fast tripping protection schemes will prolong the life of expensive electrical switching equipment that are susceptible to damage from high fault currents. And lastly, accurately determining the fault locations along the electrical line will save time and resources when repairs are to be made to the system there. So that's my presentation for today and thank you everybody for your time. Great job, Rudy. Wonderful. Well done. Wonderful. And we have last, but certainly not least, Nitin Bandari. All right, Nitin, and you start in three, two, one. Hey, hi, good afternoon, everyone. I'm a CS major currently working as a software engineer and I would like to talk about the role of NSF in shaping my career. So as a college student, you have set of coursework you need to follow and yes, the curriculum might serve better for a larger audience, but overall for overall development, there should be out-of-box experiences required, which not many people get as a student life. And I was lucky enough to receive such experience through NSF EPSCOR project, which was to create a sustainable power grid. I got the opportunity of graduate researcher through my professor because of my interest. I became a part of Cyber Infrastructure Group, keen to provide data storage support to other research groups where I had to create web applications as my task With a productive and encouraging environment, I got to learn a lot about a technology which I, which was guided through and research myself for like producing effective project where I learned about like web development, services, control organizations, et cetera. So while in the project, after gaining some experience, I found out that the inherited technology could not sustain for long. Therefore, I took the ownership of the project and I redefined the code base to a newer and robust framework, which can last longer and also could be contributed by others. This process gave me an immense confidence and knowledge to go forward in my career where I'm now. Apart from the technical contribution, I also got to work in NM workforce development program where I got certified as a software carpenter instructor. So in that process, I taught and like helped basics of computer science to non-computer science background students and people in the workshop and STEM app program. It was such a great experience where I empathize and shared my knowledge, especially in the areas where, which was difficult for me while I was learning. So this was such a great opportunity to give my learnings back to the community. I would like to thank my professor and NSF for providing such a great opportunity to grow and nurture my knowledge. More than knowledge acquired, I must say I would take back the meaningful and long lasting connections with some of the wonderful people I met. Thank you, everyone. Oh, well done, Nitin. 21 minutes or seconds to spare. Great job, everyone. Thank you all so much for sharing your flash talks and your three-minute thesis today in recognition of your wonderful contributions to the New Mexico Smart Grid and our overall project. We would like to award all of you our New Mexico Smart Grid Exceptional Student Award. So again, thank you so much for sharing your research and taking the time out to do your talk today. We really appreciate it. All right. For the next part of our program, I would like to introduce Anton Somali, President-elect of the New Mexico Academy of Science, Patrick Burton from the American Chemical Society and Jane Abel from the Mexico Academy of Science. Thank you, Sarah, Brittany and Isis. Thank you, Epscore. Thank you, everybody, for attending this afternoon session. Again, I'm Anton Somali, the President-elect of the New Mexico Academy of Science or the Academy. Next slide, please. So everything that I will mention here, you can find more details at nmas.org. So please visit that site and you'll see a lot more information than I can present briefly now. Next slide. The Academy is an advocate and resource for science and science education. And you will see that in our symposium. We are a co-sponsor of this annual research symposium. We are open to any person interested in science or science education. We have programs that I will talk about briefly. Next slide. Our goal is to foster scientific research and cooperation, increase public awareness of science and promote science education, as you will see shortly. Next slide. There are a lot of interesting reasons to join us but mainly to support science and science educator. Next slide. So the first program I would like to highlight is the annual symposium. Next slide. So you have seen this this week and again, we are a co-sponsor with EBSCOR. Thanks again to EBSCOR and you know, the participants are people like you, science professionals, professors, grad students, secondary students, i.e. high school students and some of them are members of our Academy. Next slide. The Junior Academy of Science is collaborating with the New Mexico Journal of Science but the Junior Academy of Science emphasizes the paper competition instead of publication. They're welcome to publish if they win, of course, but these are for students grade six to 12. This is for training students to communicate their work in science to others, encourages or encourages students and encourages organized thinking and original research. And we collaborate with regional and state science and engineering affairs. So we collaborate with pretty much all research science fairs all around the state. Next slide. Then as I mentioned before, there is a Journal of Science that publishes the winners or a few winners from the paper competition competitors, but this is more open mainly for professionals, professional researchers, like professors and grad students published only once a year, but we accept papers throughout the year. So consider publishing your original, submitting your original research to the editor in chief Platsivostianov. His email address is here. It's also on our NMAS website. Next slide. That paper, I mean, the journal is peer reviewed and we prioritize issues that are important, especially to our state, like water, climate change, solar energy and the environment. These are examples of covers from years past when we were actually sending paper copies to all the Academy members. Now we are all electronic, our publications are online, open to everybody. But again, please consider submitting your original draft manuscript to be peer reviewed and hopefully published in the journal. Next slide. The next program I would like to highlight is the National Youth Science Camp. We give a scholarship for two graduating New Mexico high school seniors. It pays for all expenses, a trip to a camp in West Virginia. It's a national meeting of state winners. Every state has, well, it's a national meeting of state winners. But the state at least sends two candidates and two alternates in case one of the candidates suddenly becomes unavailable. So please spread the word about this program, register your sibling or your outstanding student from the classroom to compete to win the prestigious all expense paid trip to the national meeting. Next slide. And last but not least, especially for today, it's probably the most important and visible program that the Academy conducts. It's the outstanding science teacher awards program. And this is for all New Mexico science teachers. Again, spread the word about this program, nominate your favorite science teacher. This year we got almost a dozen nominations. So it's the process. It's pretty, pretty competitive. The two outstanding teachers that will be awarded honor today. You see why they win this competition. It's, it's a pretty prestigious award that I think should be advertised more again, nominate your candidate and if you have any question, email Jane O'Bell, whom you will see in a few minutes. Next slide. Our dues are really low unless you want to be a live member. It's only $400. But otherwise yearly membership is 15 or $25. Next slide. I think this will be my last slide. Again, everything I mentioned here, you can find more details on our website, and feel free to email us or ask questions, even after these sessions. Enjoy the rest of the symposium. Thank you again for attending. I hope to see you throughout the year. Thank you, EBSCORE. Thank you, Sarah. Wonderful. Patrick, would you like to come on and say a few words about the American Chemical Society and your contributions to this award? Thank you. So the American Chemical Society is a national. Professional organization of chemists and chemical engineers. The Central New Mexico central chapter of the society covers from Socorro to Las Vegas, New Mexico. So we incorporate the central region and universities, including New Mexico Tech University, New Mexico, and New Mexico Highlands University. So I'm very pleased to support and encourage STEM education in several different ways. One of our routine activities is sponsoring science fair awards throughout our region. And we're very pleased to also sponsor $250 awards to the teacher awards this year. Thank you. Wonderful. And now we'd like to introduce Miss Jane who's going to tell us about the awards. Thank you. And I think it's really pretty amazing. The New Mexico Academy of Science has been in existence for over 100 years. Since before New Mexico actually was a state. The Outstanding Science Teacher Award has been presented since 1968. We honor New Mexico's science and math educators who provide opportunities for their state students to succeed in science. Nominations are open to all pre-K through 12 teachers and all informal science educators throughout New Mexico. The award consists of a plaque and a monetary award from the American Chemical Society joins with the Academy in this award and also presents a monetary award. This year as chair of the Outstanding New Mexico Science Teacher Awards, it's my privilege to announce our two amazing awardees in alphabetical order, Megan String from Les Cruces and Carrie Thatcher from Carlsbad. So let me start by talking about Megan String. She's a fifth grade science teacher at Desert Hills Elementary in the Les Cruces public schools. And yes, I said elementary school science teacher. She's taught for nine years and for the past two years, she's been the departmentalized fifth grade science teacher teaching all fifth grade students an hour of dedicated science each day. This is pretty remarkable for elementary school. She's able to teach science all day in her classroom and dive deeply into science more deeply than it's common for elementary school. In the words of her nominator, she generally cares for and supports her students and their families and is passionate about the success of her students. She understands how vital science education is and attends to equity by engaging all students in science learning. She also involves her larger school community by continuing to advocate for time spent in science teaching and learning. Her students actually enjoy having science every day. Many say this is their favorite class. They collaborate through hands-on science and engineering experiences. They read, write, speak, and listen about science concepts. They give presentations to their peers and engage in the foundations of scientific argument. Ms. String has also served on her district elementary science leadership committee, which has been a critical component in promoting science education in Las Cruces public schools by creating district science instructional guides for teachers and building content during remote instruction. So, Ms. String, it is my great honor to present you with this plaque from the New Mexico Academy of Science. And the plaque and a check will be mailed to you from the Academy. Congratulations. And I'd like to ask Patrick Burton to make the presentation on behalf of our partner in this ward, ACS. Well, thank you. That's a very exciting description of the work that you do. I thought it was particularly wonderful that elementary students are conducting presentations at that very early age. That's incredible. So, we're very glad to support your support and encourage your work. And are pleased to award you a $250 award in conjunction with the New Mexico Academy of Science. Thank you very much. Ms. String, would you like to say something? Yes, thank you. I want to thank the New Mexico Academy of Science for selecting me to be the 2021 science teacher of the year. It is a privilege to represent Desert Hills Elementary School, as well as the Las Cruces Public Schools District. It's an honor to have been nominated by Michelle Estrada, who has been an exemplary mentor and a great supporter throughout my time as a science teacher. I am proud to say that my love and excitement for science is being instilled in our students, allowing them opportunities to have those experiences they otherwise wouldn't have in an elementary school setting. Three years ago, I was giving the amazing opportunity to work on our fifth grade team as a science teacher. Every day, our students get an hour dedicated to each subject. Because of this, our students can dive deeper into the content and gain a more robust understanding of science concepts. I get to expand and emphasize by giving students time to work collaboratively with one another through meaningful hands-on activities, partner work, and class discussions. Every day, I get to see my students excited and engaged in learning something new. Being able to impact students' lives is why I love teaching science. I get to see my students looking ahead and questioning things, which leads to a new lesson that they are interested in learning about. My hope is that students move forward in their education with an intense interest in and passion for science. Lastly, I want to thank my incredible family for all the love and support that they have shown me throughout the years. Their encouragement pushes me to be the very best teacher, mom, and wife that I can be. Again, I am honored and humbled to be one of the 2021 Science Teachers of the Year. Thank you again. Great. Great. Congratulations. Our second awardee is Carrie Thatcher. And Ms. Thatcher is a sixth to 12th grade science teacher at Jefferson Montessori Academy, a charter school authorized by Carlsbad Municipal Schools. She has taught for 10-plus years and is also the science fair mentor and special education coordinator for the school. She is revered at JMA as a science nerd and wows the younger students with her wacky Halloween experiments and Star Wars knowledge. Ms. Thatcher has taught integrated science, biology, physical science, horticulture, and chemistry. In the words of her nominator, Ms. Thatcher was the driving force in creating a science fair requirement in 2015 for middle school and secondary students that focused on student interest and was fueled by parent and staff volunteers. What began as a school science fair has become annual regional, state, and even international fair participation. In 2019, a weekly STEM club was created to allow experienced science students to mentor younger students with their research and projects. Ms. Thatcher believes that the science competitions are an excellent opportunity for students to learn how to handle themselves in interviews, respond to criticism appropriately, and be supportive of each other. She collaborates with other teachers to reinforce math concepts and ELA skills in student science presentations. Her dedicated mentorship of both middle and high school students has led to an extremely successful track record of wards and recognition, including competing and placing in the International Genius Olympiad in New York for five years. The most amazing testament to her ability to turn science into a passion among students is that past graduates return to talk about science or volunteer as a science fair judge for a new batch of what are known as Thatcher's Science Kids. Ms. Thatcher, it is my honor to present you with this plaque from the New Mexico Academy of Science. The plaque and a check for $500 for each of you will be mailed to you from the academy. Congratulations. And now I'd like to ask Patrick Burton once again to make the presentation on behalf of ACS. Thank you, that's wonderful to hear how you're encouraging the students to really enjoy science and remain active and engaged and come back further in their careers. So we're very pleased to award you a $250 award in conjunction with the Academy of Science. Thank you. Thank you. And Ms. Thatcher, please. You're muted. Sorry, still muted. And I saw you unmute, so I'm not sure what's going on. Still muted. China. Ms. Thatcher, do you have a headphone plugged in by any chance? No. I don't know. I don't know if you've heard Zoom webinar experts think. Yeah, I'm maybe try re-logging in, Carrie. And we can just sing your praises until you get back in. Or talk about Star Wars facts that are coming up. I like that idea. If I knew any, I would do that. I'm a big fan of using science fiction to teach science fact. So we will wait just a few more minutes. It would be a shame not to hear from Ms. Thatcher. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Still no. Can you hear me now? Yes. Feel like a Verizon commercial. I'm so sorry. I am overwhelmed with gratitude to have been selected to receive the Outstanding Science Teacher Award. Thank you all so much for being here to share in this occasion. I am so grateful to be here to be a part of the School of Science and Ecological Academy of Science. It means so much to me that the work that I am passionate about also resonates with others. This accomplishment is not something that I did alone. And there are many others who deserve to share the award. I would like to thank Deanna Weston-Helmer for always supporting my efforts. The staff and especially the students at JMA. I would also like to thank Deanna Weston-Helmer for their commitment, love and support throughout my career. I would also like to thank Ryan Helmer and all of my students for the many adventures and accomplishments in science research competitions. Last but not least, thank you to the New Mexico Academy of Science for offering recognition to science teachers like me. I hope that this recognition of my work can serve as an inspiration to others in the field. I hope that this recognition of my work can make a difference so can yours. I will continue my efforts to inspire and instill a love for science and every student I come into contact with and look forward to helping many more students discover that science is in fact fun. For many years to come, I am humbled and appreciative. Thank you. Thank you. Ms. Strain, turn your video on one last time here. And let's all of us congratulate these two really amazing New Mexico science teachers. Congratulations. Thank you. And by the way, the New Mexico Journal of Science has published one of the best student papers for this 2021 edition. Thank you. I mean, 2020. Congratulations again. Congratulations to both of you. And thank you. I think we're done. Thank you so much. Thank you, Patrick and Jane. And again, congratulations to the awardees. This is always one of my favorite parts of this presentation. So finally, we would like to announce and recognize this year's poster winner from this sessions of from this year's poster session. When your name is announced, please turn on your camera and mic to accept your award. And if you would like to say a few words, you are more than more than welcome to. First, we will announce the undergraduate awards. In third place, we have Candy Marty, Anthony Franklin and Demetri Rodriguez for their poster award. And we also have a number of other standardized outlier detection algorithms for detecting cyber attacks on smart grids. And yep, Candy is going to join us in just fabulous. Oh, you're on mute. Sorry. I'm candy Marty and I worked with Dimitri and Anthony. Dmitri Rodriguez and Anthony. And we also have a number of other programs. We also have a learning project for. The summer. Eps score cohort. Being part of the Eps score STEM map. Summer core hurt was a great experience. We worked, we enjoyed working together. We would like to thank the national science foundation. Sarah Selena. And we also have a number of other programs for, for our students who have joined. John and roll on Gloria. For their initial. Research and assistance and special things to our team. And to George now. And everybody in the cohort this summer. Thank you. You so much, Candy. And other authors for that. And congratulations. Caitlin Wilson, Jasmine Charlie, Makayla Begay, and Samantha Francis with their poster titled Design and Fabrication of Flexible Paper-Based Electrochemical Sensors to Detect Heavy Metals in Groundwater. Yes, hello everyone. My name is Destin Platero. I'm an undergrad at Navotec Co. University. I'm in the Biology program there. And I'd just like to thank you all for this award. I'm very honored to receive this. And I'd also like to thank all my team members for working hard towards this and my PI. And I'd also like to thank my PI for introducing me to electrochemistry. And I'd like to thank my collaborators from Harvard. And I'm just very humbled to receive this award. Thank you. Congratulations. In first place in our undergraduate category from Navajo Technical University, we have Michael Nedwood, Nellwood, and Justin Platero with their poster titles, Fabrication of Low Cost Paper-Based Electroids. Would you like to say a few words, Michael? Michael might be experiencing some technical difficulties. Well, we'll keep truckin' along and we will accept this award on his behalf and we will circle back if we can get him back online. Oh, I think we're coming back. Oh, there we go. Thank you for the award and colleagues. All right. Well, thank you so much, Michael. Congratulations to the first place poster. All right. Next, we're going to go on to our graduate awards. In third place is Jason Vanagas with his poster title, GIS-Based Methods for Electric Vehicle Charging Site Station Selection. How are you doing? Congratulations. Oh, thank you so much. I'd like to say thank you to my advisor on this project is Dr. Jamal Montesri. He was a great mentor for this and I'm really excited to take our research from the systematic review I did and expand it into the new stage of research, including putting what I reviewed into action and into some real economic and energy research now that I have a review done in this area. So thank you, Dr. Montesri, and thank you, EPSCOR, for having this great symposium. Well, thanks so much. And again, congratulations on your third place poster. In second place in our graduate category, we have Jesse Kazmarski with his poster titled Public Support for Community Microgrids. Hey, how's it going? Again, my name is Jesse Kazmarski. I am with the UNM Department of Economics, and I also am on contract with the New Mexico Smart Grid Center. I did a lot of research over the summer about microgrids and do people want them and are they valuable, and I got to survey the four corners so not just New Mexico, but a little bit beyond. It was a lot of fun. I would like to thank Janie Shermac, who's the lead on this project and really helped me develop this project together and build it and just run it and all that jazz. I would also like to thank EPSCOR for giving me the opportunity and the platform to do this type of work and show me that this is something I'm interested in and I'm going to go all the way on it, so thank you. Wonderful. Well, thank you so much. And again, congratulations on second place. Our first place winner in our graduate category is Raysa Islam for their poster titled User-Controllable Privacy Management Mechanism in the Smart Grid System on Tology Raced Approach. Hello. So my name is Raysa Islam and I'm a graduate student at NM Tech. I'm really humbled to receive this award. I would like to thank my supervisor, Dr. Dong Wan Shin, and my lab mates who helped me to finish this project and especially EPSCOR to giving me such opportunities. Thank you. Congratulations and you're very welcome. The last award of our session is People's Choice where attendees were able to vote on their favorite poster. This year's winner is Raysa Islam with her poster titled User-Controllable Privacy Management Mechanism in the Smart Grid System on Tology Raced Approach. You'd like to say a few words? If not, we can all. Yeah, I just, yeah, I got two hours. So yeah, that's the win for me. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. You're so welcome. All right, a huge congratulations to all of our winners for this year's session without you. We could not do a poster session. So thank you so much. Also, a huge thank you to this year's sponsors, the New Mexico Academy of Science, New Mexico EPSCOR, American Chemical Society, New Mexico Space Grants, and the New Mexico Center for Water and the Environment. It also would not have been possible without our speakers and our presenters this week, Dr. Larry Crumpler, Dr. Anjali Moshandani, Paulo Omega and the entire Space Jam panel, our 19 poster judges who graciously lent their time and all of our attendees. Finally, events like this cannot happen without an amazing team behind me. So thank you to ISIS, Brittany, Dustin, and Selena and all the EPSCOR team for making this event possible. That concludes our portion of this session. Everything will be posted on our website in due time. So thank you all for attending and have a wonderful, wonderful Friday. Thank you. Thank you, Sarah. You're still welcome, Anton.


Look at this chicken, man.   You know why? Because when they were small a few months ago, these black chickens, they were way small in these brown chickens.   And that's the power of beliefs.   Now I trust that you have a bit more intelligence than my chickens, right? So when you have a belief, a good way to approach is to always question it, to always question the integrity of it, to always question if the belief is still valid. What many people do is they take certain characteristics that they might have had in the past, certain characteristics that they were brought up to believe to be true or to be good and they perpetuate these behaviors into adulthood into the rest of their lives. We're always changing. We're in a state of flux. You can choose who you want to be. You can choose the beliefs you wish to carry forth. You can choose the values you wish to have.  You don't have to hold onto beliefs that were put into you. So always question it. Always take some time to question why you think the way you think. Was it because of your upbringing? Was it your parents, your grandma, your grandpa? Was it your mom? Was it your education system? Was it your society? There's social influences. There's influences everywhere. So if you're brave, you'll always be asking yourself, is this the path for me? Am I making the right decision? Is this consistent with what I want?  Believe what you've always believed because it's easy.


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on WW personal point. Happy Friday. It is Friday, so it is weigh in day. It is WW workshop topic day. I'm going to share with you all about my not so fun week. It was not a good week, not a good week, as well as my goals moving into the next week.  Make sure you're subscribed and your bell notification is turned on because I do a Friday weigh in every single week. Check out that description box down below for nutrition coaching, where I offer personalized to you macros and calories. I highly recommend this. This is how you're going to reach your weight loss goals. It is so, so important as well as one-on-one coaching if you would like to chat with me directly. Links, discounts to my favorite things and don't forget, come and over join our Facebook group. It's free and we'd love to have you. So let's jump into my week weigh in WW workshop topic and let's set some goals moving in to November. I hope you had an amazing, amazing week. I did not have an amazing week. I don't want to say that. I don't want to be Debbie Downer because my week overall wasn't terrible, but I had not one, not two, but three not so great things happen this week. So let's just jump into that before we jump into the WW workshop topic, setting some goals my weigh in. Let's talk about the three things that happened this week. So if you follow me in my Facebook group or if you follow me over on Instagram, if you don't, I'd love to have you follow me on Instagram and in my Facebook group. That's really just how you can keep up with me a little bit more day-to-day and I share more about my day-to-day life on those platforms as well. I share that I have a cold. I've had a cold for about a week. I thought at first it was allergies and then it quickly spiraled into a full-blown cold and I've had that now for an entire week. What that has meant for me is blowing my nose excessively, being absolutely exhausted and fatigued and just really not feeling good overall, having that kind of head congestion and that stuffy nose. My nose was so raw this week from blowing it so much. It was just not a pretty sight. It was not a good thing to have happen for the entire week. And then on top of that, number two, I started my cycle, which we know leads to exhaustion and fatigue. So paired out with my cold and it was just a recipe for wanting to lay in bed all day, having the traditional symptoms of being on your cycle, bloated, the being tired, the cramps, all the fun stuff that comes along with that. And then number three, and really what just topped off the trifecta of issues, this last Friday, so one week ago at boot camp, I injured myself. Now I don't even know 100% what injury I suffer from or how exactly it happened, but we have circuits on Friday at boot camp and so we partner up for everything. So we were instructed to have one person do a plank and the second person goes behind the person doing a plank, picks up their feet and does squats. So the person on the ground is holding the plank and the partner is holding their feet up in the air and doing squats. So getting in a lower body workout while the person on the ground is getting in a core workout. Well, we decided that I would be doing the plank and my partner would grab my feet and do the squats. Well, as soon as she picked up my feet, I felt this immense pain in my abdomen. It felt like my abdomen just stretched beyond its capacity. I didn't have any pop or tear feeling. It just felt really stretched and really painful.  And she was like, sorry, sorry, sorry. And I said, it's not you. I don't know. It's just my body is just not, is not gonna be able to do this exercise. So I just hopped up, grabbed her feet and we continued through the rest of our workout. Now the pain was immediate. And like I said, it felt like this really tight stretch. And then the pain kind of dissipated. Once she let go of my feet and I got up and was able to kind of shake it off a little bit. So I was able to finish the boot camp workout. But by the time I finished my workout on Friday, got in my car to head home. The pain had returned a little bit to my abdomen and my lower abdomen right above my groin was pretty swollen. And it was kind of a swell, like a tube type of swelling.  I came home, took some Tylenol, that kind of alleviated a little bit of the pain. But by the time I went to bed on Friday, I was miserable. Like I hardly slept at all Friday night. I was in my bed. I was on my recliner. I was on my couch. I was trying to come up with the most comfortable way to sleep that night. It was absolutely miserable. And then I started doctor Googling it, which we know is never a good decision. Never a good decision. And I was finding all sorts of information as we do when we utilize doctor Google. Everything from just stretching out a muscle, potentially a muscle strain, sprain or tear. And then what kind of scared me a little bit is the possibility of having a hernia, which in my reading on doctor Google, I believe you have to have surgery to repair that. Most of the time the hernia doesn't resolve itself. And even worse than that, they were saying that your small intestine can separate and you'll have a hard time going number two. And if you can't go number two or pass gas, you need to go to the emergency room. So of course I start to panic. And I'm doing this at like two o'clock in the morning. I'm Googling. I'm doctor Googling at two o'clock in the morning. Never a smart decision. So I finally put my phone down, fall back to sleep, wake up in the morning. And luckily, thank goodness I was able to have number two happen pretty regularly in the morning. So I was relieved that it wasn't a small intestine issue. I still didn't know if I had a hernia, a sprain, a tear. I didn't know what was going on with my abdomen. So on Saturday, I literally rested all day. I took two naps, I think. I laid in bed. I let my abdomen rest. I couldn't sit up without using my arms because it just hurt.  One of the women there actually is a yoga instructor and her husband is a physician. So she actually called her husband at the meetup, at the girls night and asked him about my situation. He said it sounds like I may have just strained or sprained an abdominal muscle. He didn't think that I had a hernia because nothing was poking out. It was just swollen. And he just recommended lots and lots of rest and relaxation and making sure that I'm not adding any additional strain to my abdomen. So that was honestly a huge sigh of relief. And that's exactly what I did the majority of the weekend. By Sunday night, I was feeling substantially better, substantially better. I was able to take a walk Monday and Tuesday and then I actually returned to boot camp on Wednesday and I just took it really easy. I am not doing any core or abdomen workouts right now until it is completely healed. I have no swelling, no pain, which most of that by now has dissipated. There's a tiny bit of swelling. If I turn just the wrong way, it can have a little bit of abdominal pain. But I've been able to work out. I've been able to walk. I'm doing a much less intense workout at boot camp. So I am so relieved, so relieved that it wasn't worse than it was. My cold has gotten better. My cycle is gone and life has become good. But this week, let me tell you was rough. It was rough. Being a past binge eater, emotional eater, this was a rough week for me. Really could have become quite a spiral in the wrong direction. But I made sure that I focused on food this week because I couldn't exercise like normal. I wanted to make sure that food and drinking my water was 100% my focus. And really, truly, I think that saved me this week from spiraling back into some of my old eating habits. And it may have saved me in my weigh-in as well. But before we jump into my weigh-in, I wanna talk with you guys a little bit about this week's WW Workshop topic. And that is how to use simple swaps to save points. Now for those of us that track calories in macros as well or independently track calories in macros, these tips are great for us on how to save some calories as well. Think about some of your favorite recipes or what's on your menu to whip up this week. What if you can make some of those points just kind of poof and disappear and make those recipes just a little bit less point dense or calorie and macro dense? Try this WW guide for healthier ingredient swaps. If a recipe calls for fattier types of meat or poultry like skirt steak, ground beef or chicken thighs, try leaner cuts like tri-tip sirloin, 95% lean ground beef or skinless chicken breast. You can save up to five points per serving. PS, if you enjoy seafood, shrimp and tuna steaks make great swaps too. If your recipe calls for coconut oil or butter, try olive oil or canola oil and you can save up to four points per tablespoon. What about full fat milk and cheese? Try fat-free or reduced fat cheese and again save up to four points per serving. If your recipe calls for traditional sugar, try granulated stevia, grated apples or mashed bananas. And again you can save up to four points per tablespoon. Oil and baked goods, my favorite swap is unsweetened applesauce and you can save all the points up to five per tablespoon. If the recipe calls for heavy cream or sour cream, you can try canned pumpkin or fat-free Greek yogurt, I'll even sometimes substitute whole milk and this can save you up to 11 points per quarter cup. And if a recipe calls for peanut butter, swap that out for powdered peanut butter and save five points per two tablespoons. Those are some excellent ideas for swapping out some of those higher point, higher calorie ingredients. Now let's talk about how to save even more points and calories. Cut down on oil or other fats. Try grilling, broiling or steaming your food instead of frying or sauteing it. Brush oil directly onto food or try using a cooking spray or oil spritzer. Use reduced salt stock to prevent stir-fry vegetables from sticking. Stretch a serving or amount. Chop nuts and chocolate into smaller pieces. Little bit goes a long way. Opt for grated cheese instead of sliced or cubed and look for brands with less fat or no added sugar and use the WW app or your calorie tracking app to compare. Let's make one thing clear. You should be absolutely 1 million percent okay making a recipe as is.  You make the recipe as is that is absolutely fine. But if you're looking to save some points or save some calories, these healthy swaps can be just what you need. Losing weight isn't about turning all of your favorite recipes into less favorite recipes. It's about finding healthier swaps for some of the ingredients and some of the recipes. You can still enjoy some of your favorite foods on your weight loss journey by making these simple swaps. But also make sure you're planning ahead to fit foods that you love. Full fat, full sugar, yummy baked goods, yummy recipes that are tried and true in your family into your weight loss journey. Whatever you do to lose weight, you have to do that to maintain your weight and your weight loss journey should not only be enjoyable but sustainable long-term. And if we're cutting out all of our favorite foods or all of our favorite recipes or modifying everything to be low fat, low calorie, that's not fun, that's not sustainable and we're not going to stick with it long-term. And that's when the weight starts to return. So make your journey livable and sustainable long-term. That's really the key to success. I enjoyed this topic. I think these simple swaps are absolutely effective and beneficial. The only one I don't love is factory cheese because you know I don't eat factory cheese or I like to call it plastic cheese but all of the other recommendations are excellent. So screenshot this from the video, copy and paste it, have this on hand to make those healthy swaps. So now let's go ahead and jump into my weigh-in. Like I said, this has been a week, probably the least fun week that I've had in a while but because I focused on healthy habits and really focused on my healed relationship with food and didn't let myself spiral into old habits, drank my water, chose good foods, I ended out the week with a loss, you guys. Injury, cycle and cold, I ended out the week with a 1.2 loss. That is pretty amazing. I ended out October strong with a 1.2 loss. I will go ahead and put here on the screen my total loss for the month of October as well as how much weight I have lost total and I am happy, very happy to report that I have exceeded 130 pounds lost. That's a human, that's a small human. That's my friend Kate at Bootcamp. Okay, she weighs 130 pounds. That is my friend Kate. I have lost carrying Kate on my back and that blows my mind. It still blows my mind to this day. All of the changes in my body, all of my changes with my relationship with food, I'm so proud of myself that I didn't spiral back into old habits. I'm proud of myself for sticking with what I know is good for my body and good for my weight loss and I've lost 130 pounds, 130 pounds. Still absolutely blows my mind. I mean, actually makes me a little emotional. That's a lot of weight and it's been really hard. It's been really hard but it's been really good and I'm really, really proud of myself and I'm excited to see what the future brings for the rest of my weight loss and then all my weight maintenance and fitness journey. Okay, pulling myself together. Now I wanna hear from you guys. How was your week? Did you gain, did you lose? Please tell me you had a better week than I did. Let me know everything down in the comments and what do you think about these simple swaps for higher point, higher calorie foods and if you have some other swaps to share, definitely leave them down in the comments. I know we could use all the tips and tricks that we can get and if you enjoyed today's video, give it a big thumbs up. Subscribe if you're not. Again, I upload videos five days a week and Friday is always way in day and check out that description box for nutrition coaching, links and discounts to my favorite things and don't forget, come join our Facebook group. We'd love to have you. Happy Friday, friends. I love you guys so much. Thank you for your support and I'll see you in tomorrow's grocery haul. Bye.


Okay, let's try this Arrhenius equation problem. This problem says the variation in the rate constant at two different temperatures for the decomposition of hydrogen iodide gas to hydrogen gas and iodide gases, but give them below. Calculate the activation energy. So, they gave you the data. Let's write down the reactions. So, they were nice enough to give us the data in table form and also to give us the temperature in kelp. That really helps because when you're doing these Arrhenius equations you're going to have to convert your temperatures to Kelvin if they're given to you in Celsius or God forbid Fahrenheit. Okay, so you're going to have to convert it to Kelvin at the end. So, whenever you see a change in temperature and a change in K here, that's clues you into being Arrhenius problem. Okay, and it's asking you to calculate the activation energy too. So, the only way you guys know how to do that is to use the Arrhenius equation. Okay, so at this point. So, let's go ahead and write out the Arrhenius equation. So, ln K2 over K1 equals the negative EA. So, that's the activation energy. So, that's what you're looking for. Or, that's the gas constant, but that's the 8.314. So, that'll be given to you. I'll write it down for you in a second. So, 1 divided by T2 minus 1 divided by T. So, what I'd like you guys to do, so I always like to isolate the variable first thing. So, why don't you guys try to manipulate that equation to isolate the variable. We're solving for EA. So, let's do minus 1 over T. And you, of course, could do this problem without rearranging the equation. You just like plugging things in and then rearranging. That would also work. This is nice because it cancels out all your units right away. So, let's plug all these things into here. And I think we're all in the right units. The Ks, of course, have to be in the same units, which they all know. So, R is, like I said, it's going to be given to you, 8.314 joules per mole. Remember, get familiar with that number so you know when to use it. So, you don't have to memorize it or memorize the number or whatever. You know, just know when you're going to use it. So, let's do this. We got to call one of them K1 and the other one K2 or reaction 1, reaction 2. So, we'll say this one's 1, 2. So, reaction 1, reaction 2. So, this kind of an expanded arm. Joules 1 mole. Okay. So, remember, activation energy, that's an energy value. So, you're going to want it in energy units. So, probably joules is what you want to cancel everything out to. So, let's just make sure. Or, in this case, it's going to be joules per mole, which is a fine energy unit. Notice, like I said, the Ks have to be in the same units and most of the time they are. So, Kelvin divided by, or 1 over Kelvin divided by 1 over Kelvin is going to cancel those Kelvins out. And, like I said, joules per mole is a good energy unit. So, does anybody have any problems up to this point? So, let's go ahead and just plug and check. In whichever order you like to do it in. And, when you get these to be in joules, because joules is a small energy unit. Okay. So, I'm going to erase this part. Can I erase this part? Is it okay with me erasing that? Yes. Okay. So, 1, 4, 2, 0. I assume that's enough. Save things. Let's go back and check. Okay. So, 1, 3, save things. So, that's too many. So, going to be 1.85 times 10 to the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5 joules per mole. Okay. And, if you wanted to put it into kilojoules, you could divide the thing by 1,000 and get the number of kilojoules. Okay. Oftentimes, energy units are written in kilojoules. But, I don't think this one asks this. What to do? Are there any questions on this one?