A5049043628- Water Resources and Management
- Geological Studies and Exploration
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Heavy metals in environment
- Arsenic contamination and mitigation
- Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
- Mercury impact and mitigation studies
- Coal and Its By-products
- Climate change and permafrost
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
2014-2024
National University of Mongolia
2014-2017
University of Göttingen
2017
Abstract Mongolia is a country with quickly growing economy mainly based on mining of gold, copper, coal, and other minerals. Mining, urbanization, agriculture impact the water quality in upper Selenga River Basin northern Mongolia, which center Mongolian economy. Previous measurements pollution loads were alarming, but restricted to chemical measurements. Here, for first time, we combine freshwater biomonitoring laboratory data across broad gradient land use intensity. We track effects...