I’m leading a science communication workshop series this semester at the National University of Mongolia this spring, and I’m pretty excited about it!… 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
Realizing it was a somewhat out-of-left-field request, this past week I emailed Wavemetrics, asking if it were possible to get a few copies of its IGOR Pro software to give and train a few research scientists at the National University of Mongolia. IGOR is a powerful graphing, data analysis, and programming tool for scientists, and… 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
Hey those of you in UB: I will be giving a talk at the UB American Corner on Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 4pm. The talk is entitled “The Earth Like You’ve Never Seen It.” We will discuss a video of some beautiful images of the Earth and its fragile atmosphere recently captured by the International… Read More
Over on my personal blog, I’ve compiled a list of Mongolian language resources, for those wanting to study outside or in Mongolia. If you’re planning on brushing up on your Монгол xэл sometime soon, then you should check it out!… Read More
The National University of Mongolia now has a subscription to Web of Science. What is Web of Science? It is the largest accessible citation database with over 46 million records. It allows users to read peer-reviewed literature across many scientific (and other) disciplines. It’s an invaluable resource that allows a researcher to paint an international picture… Read More
MMMS #5 feautures Dr. Bumochir Dulam, an anthropology professor at the National University of Mongolia. I happened to meet Bumochir briefly a few months ago at a luncheon, and he told me about the traditional role stoves have played in Mongolia. I ended up doing this interview with him to flesh out what we had… 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
