Sponsored by the University
of Pennsylvania in the United States, the program will examine the impact
on the ecology and local people caused by increased grazing and rising
temperatures. Recommendations to the Mongolian government will be submitted
by those studying the region.
“Our findings should be of
special interest to both scientists and governmental officials concerned
with the impacts of climate change on the environment and the livelihood
of local people,” said Dr. Peter Petraitis, one of the principal investigators
and a professor of biology in SAS.
The project cost of $2.5 million
is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Office of International
Science and Engineering, the NSF Bio-complexity Initiative and the Ecosystem
Science cluster of the Division of Environmental Biology in the Directorate
of Biological Sciences. Comments (3)
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A five-year program will bring
U.S. and Mongolian experts together to study the effects of global warming
on the Lake Hövsgöl region of northern Mongolia. 
The University of Pennsylvania
scientists will collaborate with other ecologists, evolutionists and
anthropologists at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia,
the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, the Mongolia University of Science
and Technology and the National University of Mongolia. 
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