Why share your photos? With 10% of the moralities in UB conservatively estimated to be resultant from air pollution, residents in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia are currently experiencing nothing less than a full-blown health crisis. We need to be illustrating to the world and reminding ourselves just how serious this problem is. Yet, part of the struggle… Read More
UBASC visited Ulaanbaatar public School #38 again this week. We visited another 9th grade class, and performed the “How Much Air Pollution Do We Breathe in? And what can we do about it?” activity (presentation here, worksheet here). An awesome group of 10 UBASC’ers led the activity. Some pictures below.… Read More
Today, five members of the UB Atmospheric Science Club (UBASC) and I visited a 9th grade class at School #38 to do our first outreach activity! We’ve been working on getting the activity ready for quite some time so it was pretty cool to finally see it in action! We couldn’t have asked for a… Read More
A recent WHO survey of global air pollution has been causing my google alert for “ulaanbaatar” and “air pollution” to go crazy today! The data for UB is not surprising or new (it is from a 2009 World Bank Report that relies on PM10 and PM2.5 data collected in 2008 by the UB Air Pollution… Read More
I’ve compiled a quick and easy fact sheet about air pollution (in terms of PM) in UB. UPDATE: Now, thanks to Gerelmaa G., you can access three versions: Монгол Xэл: (pdf) English: (pdf) Монгол Xэл bac Aнгл Xэл | Combined (pdf) I encourage you to share this file with others! … Read More
Монгол Xэл The nasty cold I have caught in the last week has finally crankified (yes, crankified!) me enough to write a post about summertime air quality in UB. I frequently hear a lot of comments about how bad the air pollution is in the winter or how the dust is particularly bad in the… Read More
Монгол Xэл Over on my personal blog, I explore a few ideas on avenues of atmospheric science which merit exploring in Mongolia. Please visit the site (Монгол Xэл below) and share any ideas you have!… Read More
Монгол Xэл This past week, I had a wonderful opportunity to attend a workshop that gave an introduction to the technique of lifecycle assessment (LCA).… Read More
Монгол Xэл Recently, I had the pleasure of being invited to give a presentation for the American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS) Speaker Series.… Read More
Монгол Xэл When I was first learning about air pollution issues in Ulaanbaatar from the United States, I found it very difficult to access information about the current state of air pollution research here.… Read More
