The University of Alaska EPSCoR program, NASA IPY and NSF IPY, Thermal State of Permafrost programs are conducting an outreach effort in conjunction with it's research focus on permafrost and infrastructure. The outreach effort has been termed the "Permafrost Health" program and consists of installing permafrost temperature monitoring systems!



Kenji Yoshikawa will leave for Mongolia tomorrow. At first, Air plane go to Seattle, and Tokyo. When overnight stay in Tokyo Narita airport, I will fly for Ulaanbator on Saturday. Sharkhuu is the main organizer of this trip. Kenji and Sharkhuu plan to install and visit 3 schools near Ulaanbator. Sharkhuu Natsagdorj, Mongolian Academy of Science; he has been involved with the borehole network in Mongol. He will lead in the field campaign and efforts to interact with the Mongolian communities. Stay tune! I will report Mongolian school and students.