Lauren Patterson

So it takes a picture every couple of minutes, a full 360 panoramic photograph, and it compares it to the one that it took previously, scans it for any kind of anomaly that may be out there.

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And Emily, I'm pretty confident you have flown on a plane with some of this stuff on there.

Yes.

Okay.

If you flew out of LAX within the last few years, it's likely been on a plane you've been on.

So roughly 0.6% of the global jet fuel consumption is this used cooking oil and other fats, oils, greases.

No, there's not enough.

So what we need is a diverse portfolio.

of lots of different technologies that will enable the scale of SAF production globally to occur.

Being able to source and find these reference materials, that's what we're hoping to really enable here in the next year.

You know, we are working with companies that take post-anaerobic digested human sewage and turn that into jet fuel.

It takes a picture every couple of minutes, a full 360 panoramic photograph, and it compares it to the one that it took previously, scans it for any kind of anomaly that may be out there.

Popular Christmas tree varieties like Douglas and Fraser firs are struggling amid a changing climate.

Over the years, Washington State University scientists have been collaborating with researchers at Oregon State University to trial species from Eastern Europe that might do better in dry weather.

Gary Chastagner is a retired plant pathologist, and he says drought in the Northwest is posing a challenge for tree growers.

Results from his latest trial should be ready next fall.