There’s only one source of public information on real-time UB air quality, and that’s from http://www.ub-air.info/ub-air/laq/. UB resident (and my husband) Joe Flasher recently made an API that spits out data from this site in an easy-to-use format. Check out his API here and/or read his blog entry describing it. Thanks, Joe! Note: At the… Read More
Prof. Lodoysamba of NUM (my main Mongolian collaborator and featured in MMSS #4) and I were pleased to find out a few weeks ago that a grant we wrote entitled, “Determining sources and health impacts of particulate matter in Ulaanbaatar City to aid and assess current air pollution mitigation efforts” has been funded through a… Read More
Earlier this week, Prof. Tsolmon (featured in MMSS #2) of the National University of Mongolia (NUM), NUM graduate students Baska, Tunga, and Oyudari, and I gave the UBASC activity entitled: “How Much Air Pollution Do We Breathe in?” (presentation and activity in both Mongolian and English located here) to a bunch of NUM physics undergraduates, many of… Read More
Монгол Xэл (Thanks to Oyu Choijamts for the translation!) I’ve been out of blogging-commission the past month or so due to a hectic but very productive trip back to the University of Colorado to do some preliminary analysis of some particulate matter samples from Ulaanbaatar and to pick up some lovely new equipment that I… Read More
I’ve gotten questions from a few people recently about when my year in Mongolia ends. And the answer? It already has! My 10-month Fulbright grant ended in January. However, something I’ve neglected to mention on this blog is that I found out (last spring, heh) that I will be here another year!… Read More
A few months ago, I was given a wonderful opportunity to write an article that details the story of UB air pollution, its current mitigation efforts, and future possible solutions. It’s now published and in the Spring 2012 edition of the World Policy Journal. You can read an online version of the full article here… Read More
Монгол Xэл (Thanks to Oyu Choijamts for the translation!) I had the wonderful opportunity to go to the annual AAAS meeting held in Vancouver this past week, and man, I’m so glad I did! Here’s a quick wrap-up of some highlights and also links to some of the materials I generated for my visit.… Read More
Back in December, I asked readers, friends on Facebook, and anyone else who would listen to me to submit some their UB air pollution-related photos either to me or to UBAirPollution.org. Thanks to all of you for sharing! Below is a portion of the photos shared – the rest can be accessed in the… Read More
I’ve been traveling the past two weeks and just now had a chance to check out the latest UB Air Pollution news. I’ve updated the new News Section on UBAirPollution.org, so you can read all of the latest info there, but two interesting items: (1) The World Bank, in conjunction with the Mongolian Ministry of… Read More
UBAirPollution.org now has a “News” page – a page that lists recent articles related to UB air pollution, including reports of government and other organizational air pollution mitigation activities. Check it out!… Read More
