Boiling Water into Snow!
Playing around one Saturday. Here’s a way more impressive video.
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Good news! Our UB Air quality social media outlets got funding for our OWN instrument!
In this post, I mentioned our social media sites that broadcast available UB air quality data to the public, as well as share information on air quality basics. We just found out that we will receive funding through Oyu Tolgoi to get our own automatically tweeting/facebooking air quality instrument! The instrument won’t be live for several months, but we’re also excited that we...
read moreConnecting the public to UB air quality data
Have you heard about our recent initiative to give the UB public better connected to air quality data in Ulaanbaatar? No? Check out this blogpost, our Facebook group to which we automatically post the data 3x day, or our Twitter account (@UB_Air) to which we do the same. Here is an article on WHY we think this is so...
read moreNRC Work Retreat 2012 – Khamariin Khiid in East Gobi
This past weekend I went on a work retreat with the Nuclear Research Center folks. Last year, our retreat was at a ger camp near Tsojin Boldog, but this year we ventured much farther. We explored Khamariin Khiid, which is near Sainshand, Dornogovi located in the eastern Gobi. We started our journey in the evening at the Ulaanbaatar train station and took a train on the Trans-Mongolian...
read moreThe Earth like you’ve never seen it
**Update 11/17/2011: I will be giving a talk at the UB American Corner on Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 4pm. The talk will highlight some of the video below, talk about atmospheric science, and how those interested can join the UB Atmospheric Science Club. All those in UB and interested are welcome to attend!** The absolutely mind-blowing, beautiful video below is made from images taken by...
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With the passing of Steve Jobs, I’ve read many lovely newspaper editorials, blog posts, and reviews that pay tribute to his remarkable life that transfigured our lives. Reading all of these, I must admit that although I was familiar with Steve Jobs and his Apple Empire (of which, I am a somewhat new, but contented subject), I didn’t know much about the man himself. Since his death,...
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