UBASC activity presented to NUM physics undergraduate class

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

Clearing the Air

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

ACS’s new “Publishing your Research 101” Series

Thanks to Paleblue.org‘s post (here), I just learned about and wanted to share a new six-part web video series entitled, “Publishing your research 101,” put together by the American Chemical Society. It’s a useful series, as there are several aspects that touch on issues that sometimes are not directly addressed in one’s formal scientific training… Read More

AAAS Wrap-up

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

Big Thanks to Wavemetrics!

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

This past week’s UBASC Outreach Activity

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

The Earth Like You’ve Never Seen it

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

This just in: National University of Mongolia now has Web of Science!

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