Academy Scientists Receive Top Honors for Long-Term Research and Training Initiatives in Mongolia | Now | Drexel University: "In Mongolia, a sparsely populated, resource-endowed country sandwiched between China and Siberia, the climate is changing more rapidly than in many other places on Earth. Rising temperatures have caused rivers and streams to dry up, grass to grow stunted, and, consequently, some nomadic herders to lose their livelihoods.
Dr. Clyde Goulden, a pioneering ecologist and director of the Asia Center of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, first visited Mongolia in 1994 shortly after it emerged from the international isolation of 70 years of rule by the former Soviet Union. Since then he has devoted his life to studying the alarming climate trend and how it is affecting the country’s herders and one of the most pristine lakes in the world, the 2-million-year-old Lake Hövsgöl. His efforts have not gone unnoticed."
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