From 2010 to 2012, Gerry was Anthropology and Ethnology lead for intangible cultural heritage in the Mongolia International Heritage Team on the ESIA for the OyuTolgoi copper-gold mine and associated infrastructure project.
Gerry managed the baseline studies, authoring of the ES chapter, baseline study report, assessments of significance and impacts, and gazetteer, and contributed to the NTS for intangible cultural heritage, which included the use of innovative GIS based mapping on intangible heritage. He was also responsible for managing teams of internal and external consultants and contractors in Mongolia, USA, Hong Kong and UK.
The work was published in: The Oyu Tolgoi cultural heritage program, Mongolia byt Jeffrey Altschul & Gerry Wait in Monique H. van den Dries, Sjoerd J. van der Linde & Amy Strecker (eds) Fernweh (Crossing Borders and Connecting People in Archaeological Heritage Management)