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Chemotherapy can cause your hair to fall out and make you feel tired and sick. Delivering the chemo drugs inside nanoparticles could reduce these side effects by making sure the drug goes only to the cancer.

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Marine researchers around the world are utilizing Deep Trekker Underwater Drones (or ROVs) in their marine projects; here are the top 5 applications being used today.

Top Five Scientific Applications Utilizing Deep Trekker Underwater Drones

1. Biodiversity Studies

Examining the variety of species in a given area and how this may be changing is vital information to better understand our waterways. Environment Canada has spent countless hours in the depths of the Great Lakes in North America studying the marine culture and monitoring interactions in the environment. More specifically, scientists have been closely observing the growing population of an invasive species called . With specialized equipment positioned on a lake bottom, researchers easily monitor the biosphere through images via a Deep Trekker ROV. Rapid deployment and long battery life allow a thorough examination and the opportunity to record how zebra mussels affect local biodiversity.

2. Species Monitoring

Many researchers focus their projects on specific species such as sea cucumbers or sturgeon and have used Deep Trekker ROVs to monitor these species in their habitats. Additionally, aquaculture researchers and farm managers go to great lengths to maintain the overall well-being of their livestock. Hundreds of fish farms across the globe utilize Deep Trekker submersible drones to monitor their fish stocks on a daily basis. Deep Trekker's onboard, sealed batteries minimize the risk of water contamination because no power sources or fuel is required on the surface.

3. Benthic Sampling / Sample Collection

the sites are properly selected. They are monitored through on-going sampling throughout the farm's life cycle. Using Deep Trekker's optional grabber arm and our Species monitoring and biodiversity studies require samples of the water surface and the ocean floor (the benthos) to collect organisms and examine if the environment is changing. In many countries where aquaculture is booming, benthic sampling is heavily regulated to ensure water or sediment sampler, objects, sediment or species can be easily collected for analysis in a safe and cost-effective way.

4. Reef Monitoring / Coral Bleaching

With the ability for quick deployment, Deep Trekker remotely operated vehicles are the perfect tool for research teams to monitor reefs for coral bleaching indicators. The Great Barrier Reef is a prime example. Nearly 50% of this reef has perished due to coral bleaching. Launching a Deep Trekker ROV can provide high definition images to assess reef health and to monitor or diagnose indicators of disease or decline.

5. Seafloor Survey

The ocean is currently being mapped using multibeam echo sounders . These are attached to vessels or Underwater Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs) and give a broad overview of how the ocean floor appears.These surveys look similar to a topographical map.

Once UAVs finish their routes, they are retrieved and the footage is reviewed. Areas of interest are pinpointed and can quickly be inspected by a Deep Trekker ROV. Our aquatic drones can be equipped with positioning systems, high definition cameras and sonars to quickly map and characterize different regions of lakes, rivers and oceans.

What's next for Marine Research

Deep Trekker underwater drones are only scraping the surface of marine research. We are excited to see what may lie ahead in a relationship with you. The Oceanology International North America exhibition will open doors to new partnerships and intriguing new ideas to better the life of our oceans. We are eager to be meet and discuss how Deep Trekker can bring your research and educational concepts to realization.

Whatever your next underwater research project may entail, make sure you get your hands on the ultimate marine research ROV package

In a few weeks, the world will gather in San Diego, California for the Oceanology International North America exhibition. It will bring together water industry professionals, manufacturers, educators, government representatives and will connect them with marine science and ocean technology communities.

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Marine science and ocean technology?

That sounds right up Deep Trekker's alley! Our Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) are literally used around the world to conduct a wide variety of submerged inspections and structural and oceanographic assessments.

Deep Trekker's ROVs monitor the condition of ships' hulls, commercial and industrial infrastructures, aquaculture facilities and are an essential tool for scientific marine research. That's why we are excited to announce that Deep Trekker will be exhibiting at the Oceanology International North America exhibition this year.

Visit us at booth E31. Look for our large cylindrical water tank showcasing one of our underwater drones. We'll be happy to hand over the controls so you can test drive an ROV for yourself. We know you'll be intrigued and pleased with its agility and ease of operation. We can even discuss how Deep Trekker ROVs are currently being used in the pursuit of science around the globe.

References

http://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2016/04/24/50-great-barrier-reef-dead-dying/#c8cbb661aea5

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Marine researchers around the world are utilizing Deep Trekker Underwater Drones (or ROVs) in their marine projects; here are the top 5 applications being used today. Examining the variety of species in a given area and how this may be changing is vital information to better understand our waterways.

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The Great Lakes are home to an estimated 180 invasive species - fish, invertebrates and plants that have an impact on native species.

Shedd Aquarium has a research team that studies Lake Michigan and other bodies of water to understand and protect aquatic populations.

The newest member of that team is a freshwater biologist Scott Colborne.

Colborne was hired to study invasive species in Lake Michigan and how they influence local fish populations and generally have a domino effect on the food web. The ultimate goal is to have a better picture of the overall wellbeing of the lake and to create strategies to maintain a healthier ecosystem.
Below, a Q&A with Colborne. Tell us about your background.
I'm from Ontario and I did my education at the University of Guelph. I've worked in freshwater fish biology for my entire career. I was at the University of Windsor for three years where I did research on the Detroit River and the fish population in that part of the Great Lakes, and I moved over to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for two years where I was working on a lake sturgeon conservation project where we were tracking their movement between Lake Huron and Lake Erie.
What kind of fieldwork do you do?
There's quite a variety of different types of fieldwork. I've worked mostly with two aspects. I've looked at food webs, where I've gone out to both collect fish and take tissue samples and then do long-term diet studies with a process called stable isotope analysis, which is kind of like "you are what you eat." Everything in your tissues indicates what you've been eating long-term. So that's a lot of fieldwork, going out collecting invertebrates and fish of different sizes.

And then I've also been doing tracking work for habitat use and movement, and that's where we go out, collect fish, do a very quick surgery on-site, where we put a tag in their body cavity and then we release them and then we maintain equipment over time to track them.
You've written about a "domino effect" of invasive species. Explain.
The zebra mussels and quagga mussels and round goby are great examples of multiple dominos coming into the system and changing things. The mussels arrived first and they've really impacted the food web because they filter feed plankton out of the water, so they are reducing that food source for native fish, and so that was the first domino that fell.

And then round goby which comes from the same area as the zebra mussels and the quagga mussels, they were the next round of invasion, and they're actually a natural predator for these mussels. So they start eating these mussels in the Great Lakes. And then native fish consume round goby potentially and so that's another domino, where we're seeing successive invasion events that are changing the food web in new ways and now on the near-shore areas, the round goby is available to eat for large-mouth bass and small mouth bass.
How many invasive species are in the Great Lakes?
There are more than 180 non-native species across the Great Lakes region and that includes not just fish but also invertebrates - so mussels - there's also smaller invertebrates, some plankton species. It also includes plants.

A major part of Shedd's efforts and management agencies around the Great Lakes is, we've done a really good job of identifying what invasive species are here, but it's what they're doing here and how they're becoming part of the ecosystem ... we're still just scratching the surface on figuring out how native and invasive species interact with each other.
Do each of the Great Lakes have the same challenges?
One lake is not the same as the other. This region covers quite a large geographic scale, so what's happening in Lake Ontario is not necessarily what's happening in Lake Michigan or Lake Superior, so we need to look at each of these lakes independently and really understand not just what species are present but how they're making use of the habitat and how they are interacting with each other.
What partnerships has Shedd Aquarium made to help them investigate invasive species?
The Great Lakes is a world-class example of partnerships and research efforts that have been ongoing. Shedd Aquarium and my research will be continuing that, both Canadian and U.S. agencies, governments and universities, associations like the Shedd. So we are part of a big partnership that is developing throughout the region and has been working really well.
You just started this job in December. What's your first order of business?
My first interest is to start getting into what's happening in the near-shore around Chicago area, especially with round goby because they have really altered the prey baseline for all of the other large fish in the area.

Over the past 20 years a recreational fishery for small-mouth and large-mouth bass has really started to explode in Chicago. It's becoming a really popular recreational pastime, and I think, based on information in other parts of the Great Lakes, is that these bass may actually be eating round goby and this is possibly allowing their population to go through an explosion, but we need to establish that that's the actual case. So I'd like to get out there and look at the bass population, how they're doing, what they're foraging on - are they actually making use of round goby and that will tell us what's happening right around Chicago.
And there are financial incentives to conservation as well, correct?
The Great Lakes aquatic wildlife is a $7 billion a year fishery. There's estimates of $16 billion in tourism funds that come to the Great Lakes region because of the fisheries and people just wanting to come and see this area, so there is a huge economic value to maintaining a healthy ecosystem here.

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New Shedd Scientist Studies Impact of Invasive Species in Lake Michigan

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The Great Lakes are home to an estimated 180 invasive species. Freshwater biologist Scott Colburn, who recently joined a research team at the Shedd Aquarium, tells us about the latest efforts to protect Lake Michigan from invasive fish, mussels and more.

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Our STEAM education resources are designed for learners in schools, at home, or in their community and include national-standard aligned activities, facilitation guides, engineering design challenges, and creative projects. Designed by educators, these resources are free for explorers at every age and stage.

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The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budding engineers and explorers. As part of this outreach program, our team has developed a first prototype of a buildable LEGO marine exploration vehicle kit-addressing some of the design challenges of building for the underwater context.

Our aim is to build an awareness of the state of the aquatic environment and instill a greater responsibility in shaping our interactions with the environment. To do so, young people will view underwater wonders of the world with their robots and get outside to explore their local waterway. Our approach embraces Seymour Papert's model of "low floors" (where getting started is easy), and "high ceilings," where students can pour their time and collaborative work efforts into creative engineering solutions to carry out a marine science experiment of their own design in the field.

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The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budding engineers and explorers. As part of this outreach program, our team has developed a first prototype of a buildable LEGO marine exploration vehicle kit-addressing some of the design challenges of building for the underwater context.

Our aim is to build an awareness of the state of the aquatic environment and instill a greater responsibility in shaping our interactions with the environment. To do so, young people will view underwater wonders of the world with their robots and get outside to explore their local waterway. Our approach embraces Seymour Papert's model of "low floors" (where getting started is easy), and "high ceilings," where students can pour their time and collaborative work efforts into creative engineering solutions to carry out a marine science experiment of their own design in the field.

Using this kit, we kicked off our outreach program in the summer of 2018 with the National Geographic Student Expeditions at MIT, where we hosted 40 high school students for two days of workshops at MIT Sea Grant and New England Aquarium. The young people built on top of the kit, making the marine explorer more sophisticated and customized in order to execute marine science experiments of their design.

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ENGLEWOOD - Nine students from Lindblom High School have dedicated the last year to building a robotic camera designed to photograph a rare creature called the icefish found in Antarctica.

The teens, mostly seniors, shipped their "Fish Spy" device last week to researchers they're working with at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. This independent project is funded by the National Science Foundation and run by the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States.

With the help of their biology teacher Paula Dell and electrical engineering teachers, the students built a time-lapse photography system for the researchers to take to Antarctica in April. There isn't much footage of these rare fish in their natural habitat, Dell said.

The students, most a part of the school's robotics club, developed a system using a GoPro camera, a marine battery and an underwater light.

"I'm really excited that they are interested in engineering and underwater," Dell said. "We know more about outer space than we do about the deep sea."
The Fish Spy is designed to take photos of the icefish. [Provided by Paula Dell]
She has been working with the researchers for the last few years and has even traveled to Antarctica twice with them. In 2013, a different group of students designed a similar device that was pulled behind a ship. Unlike that one, this new model will be dropped 200 meters below sea level. It will remain for a 24-hour period. The ice fish will be drawn to it with bait.

These fish are interesting to study said Danica Jayco, 18, because they're completely white and have no red blood cells.

She said most of the students have had experience operating machinery through the robotics team.

Chris Hernandez, 18, a Garfield Ridge resident, said working on the project has been an eye-opening experience. He recently discovered that he loved engineering.

"It's something I want to do in the future," he said. "This was eye-opening to see how I can take those [robotic] skills and apply them to something I can do in real life."

Group partner Andrea Bossi, 17, isn't on the robotics team so there was more of a learning curve, she said.

"It was kind of scary too because those are some high-grade tools we use, but beyond learning about the icefish, I also got to learn a lot about engineering and electrical stuff," she said.

Being a part of the project has sparked an interest in possibly studying either engineering or robotics in college, she said.
Andrea Bossi helps build the "Fish Spy" device. [Paula Dell]
Denise Hernandez, 18, said she's also looking forward to college. Hernandez, a West Lawn resident, wants to major in applied physics or become a teacher. She said she appreciated the networking that came with this project.

"We reached out to other teachers at Lindblom who previously worked in the private sector as engineers and computer scientists and they really helped us out," she said. "We also reached out to scientists across the country."

Dell said the students will Skype with the researchers sometime in April. She said working with the students has been amazing.

"They're so dedicated, sharp and curious," she said. "It's such an honor to work with kids like this."

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Students Build Camera In Search Of Rare Footage of Antarctic Icefish

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ENGLEWOOD - Nine students from Lindblom High School have dedicated the last year to building a robotic camera designed to photograph a rare creature called the icefish found in Antarctica. The teens, mostly seniors, shipped their "Fish Spy" device last week to researchers they're working with at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.

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AMAZON GOLD RUSH

The threatened tribe

Satellite images show how a lust for gold is damaging Brazil's remote Amazon

Illegal gold mining activity has risen sharply over the last five years in Brazil's indigenous Yanomami reservation in the heart of the Amazonian rainforest, a Reuters review of exclusive data shows. The Yanomami are the largest of South America's tribes that remain relatively isolated from the outside world. More than 26,700 people live within the reservation, which is the size of Portugal.

Reuters worked with Earthrise Media, a non-profit group that analyzes satellite imagery, to plot the expansion of the mines across the Yanomami reservation. An analysis of these sites revealed that the number of mines has grown 20-fold over the past five years. Collectively, the mining areas identified in the reservation cover an area roughly the size of over 1,000 soccer fields.

The miners are wildcat illegal prospectors looking for gold along two rivers, the Uraricoera and the Mucajai.

Although the mining is small in scale compared to mass logging and agriculture, it is devastating to the environment. Trees and local habitats are destroyed and high concentrations of mercury, used in the extraction process, are released into the local environment.

The mining poses a grave danger to the indigenous people. A study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health in 2018 found that in some Yanomami villages, 92 percent of residents suffered from mercury poisoning, which can harm the organs and cause developmental problems in children.

The Yanomami have called the rainforest their home for thousands of years. In recent decades, illegal gold miners have brought malaria, measles and other illnesses fatal to the tribe.

Yanomami people dancing at the community of Irotatheri, Amazonas state, Venezuela. September, 2012. Photo by: Carlos Garcia Rawlins / REUTERS.

In the 1970s, when Brazil's military government bulldozed a highway through the rainforest north of the Amazon river, several Yanomami communities were wiped out by epidemics of flu and measles. A gold rush in their territory a decade later killed 20% of the tribe, some in skirmishes with armed miners, but mainly due to malaria, a preventable disease that had not existed before on the reservation.

Today, the coronavirus pandemic threatens the tribe. So far, five Yanomami have died of COVID-19 and there were 168 confirmed cases of infected tribe members through June 21, according to Rede de Pesquisadores Yanomami, a network of researchers, anthropologists and doctors working with the tribe.

"The main form of transmission of this deadly virus into our communities are the illegal miners," said Dario Yawarioma, vice president of the Hutukara Yanomami Association, in a telephone interview.

"There are so many of them. They arrive in helicopters, planes, boats and we have no way of knowing if they are ill with the coronavirus."

Dario Yawarioma, Hutukara Yanomami Association

The virus is particularly dangerous for indigenous people such as the Yanomami, who live in large communal dwellings, with as many as 300 people under one roof. Sharing everything from food to utensils and hammocks, their collective lifestyle makes social distancing virtually impossible.

Yawarioma said the government's indigenous affairs agency Funai and its health service Sesai have not visited the reservation. He said the Brazilian army has tried to stop miners going into the reservation but the miners return after the soldiers leave. Funai and Sesai did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The Amazon's riches

The Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, is a delicate ecosystem that houses more than 10% of the world's known biodiversity. However, the land beneath the pristine forest is considered to have great potential for mineral assets.

Gold has become a significant export from Brazil's northernmost state of Roraima, according to government data. Yet there are no legally registered mining operations in Roraima. Most of the gold in the state is believed to be on the Yanomami reservation and is being extracted illegally. Much of it goes to India. Official statistics show that 486 kilos were exported to India from Roraima in 2019, up from 38 kilos in 2018.

Illegal gold prospectors have been emboldened by the election in 2018 of President Jair Bolsonaro, who has vowed to develop the Amazon economically and tap its mineral riches.

He has also said he wants to legalize wildcat mining, which Yawarioma says has encouraged more prospectors, known in Brazil as 'garimpeiros,' to encroach on the Yanomami territory.

A village of indigenous Yanomami is seen during Brazil's environmental agency operation against illegal gold mining on indigenous land, in Roraima state, Brazil. April 18, 2016. Photo by: Bruno Kelly / REUTERS.

Bolsonaro has said the Yanomami reserve, which at 9.6m hectares (24m acres) is twice the size of Switzerland, is too big for its indigenous population.

"President Bolsonaro is supporting mining projects in indigenous lands and since he said the 'garimpeiros' should be legalized their numbers have grown a lot and continue to grow," the Yanomami leader said. Bolsonaro's office did not respond to a request for comment.

The Earthrise analysis of satellite imagery involved scouring images covering the entire reservation. Earthrise enlisted the help of dozens of people to get through the first initial screening.

Some of the extra eyes came from ninth grade students at Weston High School in Massachusetts. Retired NASA Astronaut Catherine Coleman initiated the student search with a recorded video, saying "We need your help".

Three classes combed through the images using a purpose-built tool, focusing mainly on river systems. Earthrise then revised and refined the findings.

Water is a key element in the mining process, so the mines are concentrated along the reservation's rivers that flow out to the Amazon River.

The main mining areas were identified along the Uraricoera, Mucajai, and to a lesser extent, Catrimani rivers. The mines appear as bright gold and turquoise patches on the satellite images, due to the exposed yellow earth and mercury-tainted ponds of wastewater.

An expanding footprint

The analysis documented the exact shape, size and location of the mines as well as the date they were first spotted on satellite imagery.

"The median size of the mines discovered was roughly the size of two football pitches. That seemed huge to me. Enough so that I went to double check. The numbers do, in fact, check out," said Edward Boyda, co-founder of Earthrise. "The numbers point to a wave of mining that was in nascent stages around 2015 and dramatically expanded in the years following."

The data shows that from 2015 and 2016 there were at least 10 mines in the Yanomami reservation, covering 0.25 square kilometers collectively.

However, images taken between 2017 and 2019 show the number of areas identified as mines had grown dramatically to 207 locations. The surface area mined or being mined grew 32-fold to about 8 square kilometers.

A destructive process

The creation of the Yanomami reservation was officially approved in 1992. Under Brazilian law, no mining is allowed on indigenous lands. But miners continue to exploit the area, sawing down trees and poisoning rivers with mercury in their lust for gold. Greenpeace said this week that its own satellite data analysis had found that 72% of all illegal wildcat mining in the Amazon was done in protected indigenous lands or conservation areas.

The mercury has become a growing cause for concern. While miners once killed the Yanomami with guns or disease - nearly 20 percent of the population was wiped out in the 1980s - today the threat is the toxic liquid metal used to separate gold from grit.

Experts believe mercury is entering the food chain through fish in polluted rivers.

Creating an amalgam

Miners take advantage of the reaction between gold and mercury to create an amalgam, separating the metals from other waste. Here's how it's done.

Separating the gold

A methane torch is enough to separate gold from mercury due to its much lower boiling point compared to gold. However, the gases that are released as a result of the process are highly toxic.

A United Nations report published last year said artisanal and small-scale gold mining accounted for up to 83% of South America's mercury emissions in 2015.

Damaged banks

Along the Uraricoera, a total of 64 mines were identified in the Earthrise review of satellite images. The distance from the furthest upstream to furthest downstream mine stretches across 210km of river, including the bends.On the Mucajai river and its tributary, 115 mines were identified across 110km of river. There were 28 further mines on the nearby Catrimani river, as well as by some unnamed streams in the area.

Before and after

Below, satellite images taken by Airbus show the damage along the Mucajai River between 2016 and 2019.

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Feb. 27, 2019

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Avoiding catastrophe

The Yanomami estimate that there are now more than 20,000 "garimpeiros" looking for gold along the Uraricoera and the Mucajai. They have implored the government to expel the miners from their reservation, and stepped up their demands since the spread of the coronavirus. The tribe has begun a campaign to draw attention to its plight, with the help of indigenous rights organization Survival International. The Miners Out COVID Out petition has gathered more than 280,000 signatures.

Brazil's human rights committee has raised their case with the Inter-American Human Rights Commission in Washington.

Yanomami men follow agents of Brazil's environmental agency in an illegal gold mine in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil April, 2016. Photo by: Bruno Kelly / REUTERS.

Help might be on the way. A federal court on June 17 ordered Funai to reopen three protection outposts on the Yanomami reservation to help fight the coronavirus outbreak and halt the illegal gold mining. One of the posts is particularly vital because it is meant to monitor an uncontacted group of Yanomami.

Over the border in the Peruvian Amazon region of Madre de Dios, illegal gold mining has already destroyed hundreds of square kilometers of rainforest. Last year, the government installed three military bases to combat the mining.

Madre de Dios

Satellite imagery shows the staggering scale of environmental destruction from miners in Peru.

The Yanomami territory needs to be much more effectively monitored and all invaders removed if the Yanomami are to survive as a people, Survival International said. This would require "boots on the ground" to monitor and protect their land, and an end to impunity and derisory fines for those involved in the mining, it said in a statement.

"The Yanomami are extremely vulnerable at the moment, but they are also a resilient people who have survived the past 50 years. They can never sit back and relax. There is always someone wanting to get into their land," said Fiona Watson, advocacy director at Survival International, who has worked with the tribe for three decades. "Their deep spiritual connection with the land, the mountains and the rivers makes them such fantastic conservationists and guardians of the rainforest."

Sources:

Earthrise Media; Maxar Technologies; Airbus; Rede Amazonica de Informacao Socioambiental Georreferenciada (RAISG); GLAD (Global Land Analysis & Discovery); Survival International; Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM); HYDROSHEDS, Lehner, B., Verdin, K., Jarvis, A. (2008): New global hydrography derived from spaceborne elevation data. Eos, Transactions, AGU, 89(10): 93-94

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Marco Hernandez, Simon Scarr and Anthony Boadle

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Manas Sharma

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6. Exploratory looks at settlements of refugees fleeing violence in Syria and South Sudan.

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