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Mongolia

Mongolia

Our first week in the Darhad Valley

The next day we went out to retrieve four camera traps, it was going to be a long day for us all. We packed our daypacks and set off toward the Mongash River, which is still frozen enough to walk on safely. We decided that since we had extra cameras, there was an interest in setting a camera up to watch the ice of the river melt on a timelapse setting to retrieve in a few weeks when the ice breaks and melts. The cameras all went smoothly, and we captured boar, elk, moose, and other smaller mammals.

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Ulaanbaatar and the Journey to the Darhad

By Sophia Adami-Sampson of Bowdoin College My name is Sophia Adami-Sampson and I am a completing my degree in Biology from Bowdoin College with the Round River program in Mongolia. Before our journey to base camp in the Darhad Valley,…

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Toughin’ it Out for Vansemberuu

Written by Leah Thomas of the University of Pittsburgh A year ago today, July 24, 2021, you couldn’t have convinced me that I would be here in Mongolia. I wouldn’t have imagined that the ground of this basecamp would have…

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Wet Socks and Snowcocks

By Tj Guercio of Colby College and Gitanjali Matthes of Carleton College Round River’s camera trapping project provides unique, systematically collected data on mammal populations in the park’s protected area, but our camera trap project faced some unprecedented challenges on…

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Pika Surveys

by Ella Reilich-Godino of the College of the Atlantic and Gila Goodwin of Colorado College On June 29th, we piled eight Americans, five Mongolians, and our abundance of gear into two vans and hit the dusty trail to begin our…