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Communicating change in a ‘land of extremes’ In Aurora MacRae-Crerar’s Penn Global Seminar, students are grappling with the impacts of a shifting and unpredictable climate in Mongolia. Yurts, known as gers in Mongolia, were the dwelling of choice during Aurora MacCrae-Crerar s biology doctoral studies there. Now an instructor in the Critical Writing Program, MacRae-Crerar was inspired to craft a Penn Global Seminar focused on how climate change is affecting the country. (Image: Peter Petraitis)
It was a beautiful morning in Mongolia’s Dalbai Valley the day that Aurora MacRae-Crerar was due to launch her doctoral field work. As a Penn graduate student in 2009, she and colleagues were getting ready to set up experiments to evaluate the effect of warming on plants and soil microbes. Then a huge snowstorm hit.