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Hi, I’m David Weindorf,

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Associate Vice President of Research
at Texas Tech University.

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And today I have the pleasure of
visiting with Julia Kagiliery.

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Julia, tell me a little bit about yourself
and where you’re from.

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I’m a junior at the Episcopal School of Jacksonville,

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from Jacksonville Florida and I am seventeen years old.

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And you and I had an opportunity
to do some research together

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which was kind of the first of its kind.

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Walk me through that a little bit.

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What did you do, like kind of how
did we kick that whole thing off?

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So this research, we focused on predicting

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the sulphur content of lignite coal

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because high concentrations
of sulphur in lignite coal

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are actually linked to acidic rain and
producing highly acidic and caustic acid

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that can actually fall from the rain cloud

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and erode different soils and
eco-systems and forests.

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And in doing that research I think you used

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some pretty cutting edge technology
made by Olympus.

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Yes. Talk a little about that.

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So one of the things that we were working with

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that was really important for our research

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was actually the portable X-ray fluorescence

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which we used to actually talk and look at

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the iron and sulphur content in lignite

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and that way predicted.

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Fantastic. And did you just use the XRF

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or were there other technologies
that you also used as well?

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Well, so in this research the
really kind of revolutionary part

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was the fact that we were actually
using proximal sensing methods,

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and multiple sensors to get these predictive algorithims.

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So we looked at actually a couple
other kind of technologies

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and one of those would be the Nix™ Pro Color Sensor

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and then also a VIS-NIR spectroradiometer.

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OK, fantastic. So do you have plans

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after this to continue your research
using these proximal sensors,

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maybe in other future projects?

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Yes. Hopefully we will be taking this
research international next year

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at the Federal University of Lavras in Brazil

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to look at plant compositions.

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OK, fantastic well thanks for visiting with us today

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Thank you. Alright.