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What’s the inspiration behind this crowdfunding campaign?Talking to Ian, it becomes clear that the planet’s future is linked to the world’s oceans. To understand the oceans, we need to look at the health of animals in the water. Whales are one of the biggest mammals and studying their health is critical for us to stay on top of what is going on with the world’s oceans. Why do we need SnotBot?The problem is that getting close enough to a Whale to get the data is not easy. Most of the older methods resulted in some trauma for the whales, and that also can effect the data. If you stress a whale out while collecting data, that can effect their hormones, their health and that also effects the data. The old methods were also just too expensive. What’s snotbot?It’s a drone that is equipped with the right equipment to collect whale exhalations. But to keep it simple, we call it snotbot. It will change how we collect data about whales. It’s a lot less expensive than older meth