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!
After 5 hours flight from Tokyo, Mongolian Airline (MIAT) jet arrived Ulaanbaatar.
Ulaanbaatar is capital of Mongolia and over 40% of Mongolian live in this city. City just reached 1 million people and this baby recieved appartment from city as award.
Sharkhuu (Mongolian Academy of Science) was waiting our landing at airport. He has been involved with the borehole network in Mongolia. He will lead in the field campaign and efforts to interact with the Mongolian communities. He is our host at Mongolia and let us to stay his appartmernt.
