MONGOLIA: Summer 2022 Expedition
A crew of 18 people that included Mongolian and American scientists and students (undergraduate, postbac, and graduate students) spent six weeks in Mongolia in July and August 2022. The goal was to sample remote parts of the Mongolian countryside (often called "Blue Sky Country"), documenting small mammals and screening each one for ecto- and endoparasites. This work spanned a latitudinal (and extreme climatic) gradient in central and eastern Mongolia, traveling from boreal forest in the north, to Gobi Desert in the south. Check out our route below!
This work produced over 1,400 mammalian specimens from 51 species (including rodents, eulipotyphlans, and bats). From these mammalian specimens, we obtained an estimated 10,000 individual parasites including disease causing ectoparasites (fleas and ticks) and endoparasite worms (nematodes, cestodes, and trematodes).
Search the project specimens on Arctos.
Search the project specimens on Arctos.
Follow along with our project by keeping up with the collaborators of STEPP-NET:
BRYAN MCLEAN (Lead PI) | University of North Carolina at Greensboro
SALLY KOERNER | University of North Carolina at Greensboro
JASON MALANEY | New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
JOE COOK | University of New Mexico and the Museum of Southwestern Biology
STEPHEN GREIMAN | Georgia Southern University
KURT GALBREATH | Northern Michigan University
BATSAIKHAN NYAMSUREN | National University of Mongolia
DAVAA LKHAGVASUREN | National University of Mongolia
ERDENE-OCHIR TSEREN-OCHIR | Mongolian University of Life Sciences
BRYAN MCLEAN (Lead PI) | University of North Carolina at Greensboro
SALLY KOERNER | University of North Carolina at Greensboro
JASON MALANEY | New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
JOE COOK | University of New Mexico and the Museum of Southwestern Biology
STEPHEN GREIMAN | Georgia Southern University
KURT GALBREATH | Northern Michigan University
BATSAIKHAN NYAMSUREN | National University of Mongolia
DAVAA LKHAGVASUREN | National University of Mongolia
ERDENE-OCHIR TSEREN-OCHIR | Mongolian University of Life Sciences