"Misheel Chuluun lives in Basalt with her husband, Gabriel, and their two young sons. She writes under the pen name Sam Sterling. Chuluun's father has returned to Mongolia, where he studies global nomadism and its impact on the ecology.
Misheel Chuluun: My family came to the United States from Mongolia, following my dad's career. He is an ecologist who has studied and compared the Great Plains of the United States with the grasslands of Mongolia.
Gallacher: How did your father come to be a scientist?
Chuluun: Well, he is a brilliant man. When he was 16 he won Mongolia's Math Olympiad and was allowed to study anything he wanted. In those days, Mongolia was ruled by the Soviet Union, and the best and brightest studied theoretical physics at Moscow University. So that's what he chose to do. His Ph.D. was in biological time mechanisms."
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