Amarbat Otgonganbat

I am a second-year PhD student in the Department of Environmental Biology at State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF; Syracuse, NY, USA) working in Dr. Emily Arsenault’s freshwater ecology lab. I am working on studying the Humpback Whitefish (Coregonus pidschian) population decrease, an economically and culturally important but regionally endangered fish species. I am using paleolimnological analysis of Lake Dood Tsagaan sediment cores to reconstruct past water quality conditions using diatoms as biological proxies. Results of this project will provide information to support the long-term viability of an important Mongolian freshwater fish population and the communities that depend on them. In terms of my background, I graduated with my bachelor's and master's degrees from the National University of Mongolia under the supervision of Dr. Bazartseren Boldgiv. I defended my Bachelor's degree in 2018 with a thesis entitled "Fish Community and Environmental Relationships". I later defended my Master's degree in 2020, completing a thesis entitled research "Plastic Pollution Research in USA and Mongolian Rivers".