By: Jaden Reynolds, Weber State University
Join Jaden and the Mongolia Summer 2026 team as they backpack through the Darhad Valley surveying for Vansemberuu, a culturally significant, medicinal plant.
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By: Jaden Reynolds, Weber State University
Join Jaden and the Mongolia Summer 2026 team as they backpack through the Darhad Valley surveying for Vansemberuu, a culturally significant, medicinal plant.
By: Logan Weems
Throughout the last week, the Round River Mongolia crew hopped in the Furgon (and the Delica) and drove across the steppe to 85 plots, measuring indicators like grass height and vegetation cover in order to observe how these pika populations were responding to environmental pressures they are facing.
By: Jacob Baldner, University of Montana
These city days were fast-moving and fascinating, but by the end, we were raring to get out and begin our two-day journey to the Darhad Valley… On the way out of the city, we began to see the Mongolia we heard about during our first couple of lectures in the city.
By: Clare Freid, CSBSJU & Gia Silverman-Randolph, Harper College
Our last week in Mongolia was spent preparing to present our research to the local community […] The day of the presentations, we were running on minimal hours of sleep, but everyone gave very well-articulated, informative presentations. A highlight was getting to see the snow leopard that our camera traps had spotted – a first for any Round River trip!
By: Cade Conahey, Westminster University & Sam Herzig, University of California, Davis
We headed back into the talus to count and measure juvenile and adult Vansemberuu plants across ten plots on the mountain. We accomplished something that no other Round River group has done: We finished all ten plots on the mountain in one day!