dr catherine catherine groups that will trouble you thank you for joining us christina and catherine thank you so i want to i want to start. what inspire what inspired you to talk. to tackle this very important subject matter. yes so i can go ahead and answer that for you. as an astronomer and astrophysicist i've been working with this field for about ten years in terms of trying to help women within the field find resources to deal and you know tackle harassment issues that they were dealing with on a daily basis and as we were trying to combat this. trying to ask our leadership to really give us the opportunity to give talks and lectures on the topic at larger and larger forums and we were always relegated to the women's lunch and a lot of my leadership would actually say things like oh well you know you just know of the one or two maybe the three people that this is happening to really and guiltily you don't have proof to kind of back up what you're saying and so i wanted to get some proof to shut that down and so when we first started to build the survey myself and one of the oth