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WISNIEWSKI: The mission of the Arctic Domain Awareness Center
is to develop and transition technology solutions, innovative products, education programs,
to enhance the capabilities of maritime situational awareness
And capabilities for crisis response to challenges in the arctic.
WELKER: One of the technologies that's become very popular
in our ability to measure the environment, whether it be a marine system or a land-based system,
are isotrope-enabled spectrometry
This allows us to sample the environment in real time, in terms of its properties
regarding the air, and also the properties of water.
Because those are things that are critically important, for instance, to transportation and their safety in the arctic.
WISNIEWSKI: The real time element is really an important part of this.
The technology we're developing will actually enable the decision-maker.
So that an incident commander, for example, will be
provided updates and reports, and be notified of a crisis situation
and be able to then pull all this information.
Looking at things globally, looking at lessons learned,
if Alaska experiences a lot of these changes first,
and you can really come up with ways to model or mitigate crisis situations,
and then other areas experience it after you,
then you can transfer that knowledge, so you have a global transferability capability.
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