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Spring 2026 Student Research Projects

This past spring, students in our Patagonia and Botswana cohorts joined ongoing research initiatives with our partner organizations, contributing to fieldwork and data collection on topics ranging from elephant habitat preference to guanaco population trends.

Explore their capstone research projects here!

Mongolia

8,500 Blades of Grass Later

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.

Mongolia

Ulaanbaatar to the Darhad Valley

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.