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PEER Participants’ Conference – Bangkok, Thailand Utilizing Your PEER Partnership Ul b t i D b 2011 Ulaanbaatar in December 2011 Christa Hasenkopf, PhD University of Colorado Photo credit: Lauren Knapp NSF Partner to Prof. S. Lodoysamba – Mongolia USAID | Office of Science and Technology

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PEER Participants’ Conference – Bangkok, Thailand

Utilizing Your PEER PartnershipUl b t i D b 2011Ulaanbaatar in December 2011

Christa Hasenkopf, PhD – University of Colorado

Photo credit: Lauren Knapp

NSF Partner to Prof. S. Lodoysamba – MongoliaUSAID | Office of Science and Technology

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Air pollution in Mongolia’s capital city

From 2011 WHO Outdoor Air Pollution Database and Dec 2011 WB report: Air Quality Analysis of Ulaanbaatar

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Air pollution in Mongolia’s capital city

From 2011 WHO Outdoor Air Pollution Database and Dec 2011 WB report: Air Quality Analysis of Ulaanbaatar

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Our Research Questions:

What is the pollution made of?Where does the pollution come from?Where does the pollution come from?

How does concentration of pollution h i h i ?change with time?How does UB PM affect regional li ?climate?

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Our PEER Partnership timelineRussia

UlaanbaatarMongolia

Ulaanbaatar

ChiChinaTimeline:

2011‐2012 Fulbright

2012‐2013 NSF PI  

2010 Fulbright 

Scouting trip + PEERCollaboration with Prof. Lodoysamba

Scouting trip   PEER

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How we communicate:

Prof. LodoysambaMy email network over the last 6 months:

I

the last 6 months:

In person 

Last 6 months, inLast 6 months, in US, LOTS of emails, Skypeyp

immersion.media.mit.edu

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Two key items we learned from our partnership:

(1) Reach out to each other….not just about your overlapping 

science but the “Big Picture” of sciencescience – but the  Big Picture  of science in one another’s countries

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Reach Out To Each Other

Big Picture Questions:

• Funding? Typical funding sources? How much? How variable is funding year‐to‐year? What are “hot” science 

i ? Hi i l ?topics? Historical context? 

• In Practice? How is science done? What are the norms? h i i ? h i i i ?At the University? At research institutions? At 

ministries? Publishing? Data sharing expectations? 

• Education? How does the university system work? What are typical expectations for a graduate student to obtain a PhD? What do people do/where do they go uponPhD? What do people do/where do they go upon obtaining their degree?

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Why understanding the “Big Picture” matters: 

Gives contexts to your interactions with each otherwith each other.

Prevents misunderstandings (and makes them easier to handle when they do)

Subsequent knowledge transfer

Source: thegoodnessgrows.com/

Subsequent knowledge transfer outside of your partnershipEx: Students increase their understanding of h i k i h how science works in another country More likely to go to that country do research. 

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How to have “Big Picture” conversations: 

Initiate these discussions during part of an existing conversation (email, Skype, during visits, etc.)

Initiate them as a separate, scheduled conversations. 

Get your research group involved.  Ex: One‐on‐one Student “Skype” exchanges

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Two key items we learned from our partnership:

(1) Reach out to each other(1) Reach out to each other

(2) Reach out together(2) Reach out together….as PEER PIs + Partners, we are generating scientific data on 

development issues that give us a uniquedevelopment issues that give us a uniquevoice within our communities. Our 

voices are stronger togethervoices are stronger together.

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Reach Out TogetherUBAirPollution.org 

Accessed ~85,000 times by people in 800+ Impact:•Researchers  and students locally 

cities in 90 countries!y

and abroad contacted us• Filled a gap between public desireFilled a gap between public desire for more information and the lack of itof it

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Reach Out Together

Impact:Impact:• Local and international media 

tt ti (UB P t H ffi tattention (UB Post, Huffington Post, TEDxUB blog)

•Contacted by embassies, Mongolian government officials

•Offers to fund us from local companies (~60,000 USD)p ( , )

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Two key items we learned from our partnership:

(1) Reach out to each other

(2) Reach out together

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PEER UB Air Pollution Team:M G l G hiMs. Gerelmaa Gunchin

Ms. DelgerzulLodoisamba

Dr Dagva Shagjjamba

Lodoisamba

Prof LodoysambaThank‐you!

Dr. Dagva Shagjjamba

Kindergarten #69 Staff

Prof. Lodoysamba

[email protected]. Bulgansaikhan BaldorjEnkhiin Sanaa

Family Hospital StaffThis presentation is available at: UB i ll ti /P t ti /PEERPUBairpollution.org/Presentations/PEERP

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