J. Batbaatar Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

Tacoma, Washington, United States

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States

Greater Seattle Area

Seattle, Wa

My primary interest is in glacial history of Central Asia and I'm trying to understand its relationship to paleoclimate. Areas covered in my project include Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Altai and Tibet.I use various techniques for my research, including:– Field mapping and sample collection– Cosmic-ray exposure dating (10Be)– Luminescence dating (OSL, IRSL)– Interpretation and analysis of satellite-measured data (ASTER, Landsat)– Numerical modeling of glacier energy and mass balance

Seattle

As a Teaching Assistant at the University of Washington I taught the following courses:– ESS 101: Intro to Geological Sciences; Several semesters from 2010 to 2017.Hands-on lab exercises with 30 students per group, leading local field trips to introduce glacial, fluvial, volcanic deposits and basalt flows. Conducted student debates on environment and societal issues.– ESS 210: Physical Geology; Winter 2016:Responsible for lab exercises on mineral identification, rock types, mapping techniques, and basic GIS tools (Google Earth, ArcGIS). Graded lab works and assisted in the field trip.– ESS 211: Physical processes of the Earth; Fall 2017:Responsible for lab exercises on analogue and numerical modeling of hillslope evolution, and basics of geological mapping techniques– ESS 326: Geomorphology; Fall 2016:Leading laboratory sections and co-lead in the field trip. Laboratory works include mapping techniques, GIS analysis, flood frequency analysis, landslide assessment, and introductory numerical modeling.– ESS 421: Intro to Geological Remote Sensing; Spring 2014.Responsible for leading lab works to teach photo interpretation techniques (color mixing, shading), analysis of multispectral, radar, and elevation data, and application of spectroscopy. The lab exercises use ENVI, Google Earth, Excel. Advised and helped students to prepare proposal for projects of their own interests (student disciplines: geology, forestry, civil engineering, biology).– ESS 520: Application in GIS for the Earth Sciences; Winter 2016.Assisted the students on computer-lab works involving GIS analysis using ArcMap and ENVI. Mentored students on conducting individual research projects as part of the class assignment and graded the merit and scientific writing of their final reports.

Sydney, Australia

– Completed the chemical processing and transfer of BeO samples– Helped and observed measurements of the samples on the tandem accelerator ANTARESSupervisor: David Fink

Jerusalem, Israel

– Performed full chemical processing of samples for 10Be datingSupervisor: Ari Matmon

Projects and activities:– Luminescence dating of paleolake sediments from Darhad Basin, northern Mongolia (Collaboration with Alan Gillespie and James K. Feathers)– Dating faults on Martian terrain with crater-dated surface (Collaboration with Alan Gillespie and Matthew R. Smith)

Courses taught at the School of Geology, Mongolian University of Science and Technology:– Intro to Hydrogeology (300-level class); Autumn 2003-2007.Fully responsible for lectures and hands-on lab exercises to teach groundwater systems, hydraulic conductivity, Darcy’s law, chemical composition of groundwater, water balance & recharge estimation.– Investigation Methods in Hydrogeology (400-level class); Spring 2003-2008. Fully responsible for lectures and lab exercises to teach drilling and logging techniques, well design, monitoring, data analysis, water quality measurements, writing and reporting.– I also advised and mentored students preparing bachelor's thesis.

Phd, Geological Sciences

Activities and Societies: Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Quaternary Research Center, W. M. Keck Remote Sensing and Planetary.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Geology

Activities and Societies: School of GeologyAdvisor: Naidangiin Batsukh Dissertation: Formation features of geological environment.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Geology

Activities and Societies: School of Geology

Diploma, Hydrogeology

Activities and Societies: Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment