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Beth Austin-Defares: The Summer
Research Institute is an 8-week intensive

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maritime security focused summer
research program for high potential,

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undergraduate and graduate
level students.

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We bring students from around the
nation to engage in real world

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research projects, focused on
Homeland Security needs.

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Blaise Linn: So I participated in
the Summer Research Institute

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for the past four years now

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and every year its a different group of students.

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Working on slightly different projetcs,
but every year its just amazing

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how much work we can get done
in such a short period of time.

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Samantha Hetherington: My name
is Samantha Hetherington.

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I'm going into my junior year at
Stevens Institute of Technology.

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Enrique Mas: I'm going to be specializing in

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electromagnetics, applied electromagnetics.

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This is my first time in the, Steven's
Summer Research Institute.

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Barry Bunin: We try to determine
what areas are of current interest

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to the Department of Homeland
Security for the Coast Guard.

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Things like, how to manage all
the varied data sources

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that they have available to them

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and put that together in one device that

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they can easily access any of those.

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That's a project called Magello and is pretty exciting.

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Beth: Magello is an emergency tool
that pulls together disparate, atmospheric

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and oceanic data sets into one
easy to use web interface.

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Samantha: Magello was first designed,

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by a group of students about four years back,

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who were given the situation of what to do

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if a vessel had a spill in the Hudson River.

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Enrique: We could actually put
a network of different systems

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have them transmit wirelessly to
a tool such as Magello or some

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data acquisition system and
integrate it with different sensors.

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Blaise: Instead of having more
data become more confusing,

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more data becomes more
useful. The computer is

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putting the picture together and the
operator is just making decisions.

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Samantha: My favorite part of
the SRI this summer was

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all the challenges we faced.

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You know, you don't come into this program

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getting your hand held. They kind
of just throw you into a problem

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and you have to figure it out.

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Barry: Another important
aspect of the program

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is the interaction with end users
or stakeholders. I think its so

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exciting to the students that many of
them seek summer jobs in those areas

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and in fact some of them are sought by
those stakeholders to come participate.

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Bradford Slutsky: Each year
we work very closely with

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the Maritime Security Center staff and
faculty. Not only the students seem

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exited when they show up, but I see
our Officers get excited as well.

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Beth: Our students are insistently
recognized by our

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stakeholders as high potential new hires.

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For those that have completed their degrees,

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we've been able to track the
impact of our program in their

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placements into internships and into careers.

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Our students each year, impress us.

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They are a remarkable young talent,

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they're, the best of the best!