My name is Raito Kuhisa and I'm a master student at the University of Iowa. My master's degree is in hydraulics and water resources engineering. My undergraduate was in plain civil engineering with a focus on water resources. And I guess I've always been kind of interested in the way things work. But I was never like a mechanical tinker. But I knew that there had to be something else about how, something else about solving problems and talking to people to figure out what, what's going on here to figure out viable solutions. And so when I started in civil, it was really interested about sort of the idea of being a public servant, a civil servant, so that my main motivation really is to serve, you know, the people that I live with, my community and that, as much as that sounds, is really rewarding for me. And so further in my career, I'd like to be consulting so that I can see whatever designs or suggestions that I come up with, sort of put in practice to be able to like drive by a bus management practice and be like, oh yeah, I designed that thing. But moreover, to also know that, you know, everybody downstream of that bus management practice is somehow benefiting from this thing. So this project is the coral ridge of monitoring project and started with the city of Coralville, our enemy foster, just wanted to know if I put these biosels in, how well are they going to do? And so Art Betis had the instrumentation and had the idea and I came along and said, hey, I would really like to do a master's project from the perspective of the engineer designing these things. So I came out, I came out earlier in the spring when it was really cold and I put in these instruments that there's a weird, so that I have controlled flow and then I have pressure transducers recording the depth so that I can turn those depths into a flow rate. And I also have electrical conductivity meters. And so those measure how electrons move in the water, which in perfect water is not at all. But as soon as you add anything that dissolves like a salt, like even the road salt that they apply during the winter, then suddenly that makes a measurable amount of electrical conductivity. And so those meters are doing that. And so those are continuous records and I also have these first flush devices, which are designed to capture the first bit of water and during from the inlet. And so I get those for most of the events that come through the system and then for even larger events that come out and do grab samples that we send to the state hygienic lab. And in those grab samples, they're not continuous, but they do provide a snapshot in time about the content of total suspended solids, heavy metals, nitrogen phosphorus, total hydrocarbons, or the sorts of pollutants that come off of cars, the wear and tear from your tires and that sort of thing. And also E.Colai as a bacterial indicator is for the water quality coming in and going out. So every weekend I'm coming out here because we don't have the kinds of data that is transmitted via cell signal back to any sort of campus. So I have to come out here and physically download from these items. They are loggers, so they're tiny little computers that store all of the data as it comes in. The sensors live in this pipe and so they have access to the water there. And so I just come, this first one is the water level and the second one is electrical conductivity. And this logger is actually kind of cool because you can set up multiple devices to record to it. I've only got one, but if you wanted to do electrical conductivity and wells, it really tightly spaced and could run all the cables up here, this bad boy can store all of that data. What I really love about this kind of work is that it's not just an engineering design thing. So these cells exist because somebody sat in a room and drew up these designs. And somebody else came out here and dug the hole and put in the different kinds of engineering media. And somebody way before this process did research on what kind of media you should put in and what kinds of effects we're trying to achieve. And then past the installation of this project, there's little things like not throwing trash out on the highway or like picking things up when you're walking around. And it really just becomes both temporally and spatially a community level thing because we're all made up of water, drink water every day. And so it's to pretend that it's not universal, it's kind of silly. But that also on the flip side means that we all get to kind of work together and play some small role in our watershed self.