Get a preview of where we'll be going to collect some #dust samples in this series of videos from 2023 where we traveled to our array of long term passive collectors stationed in the #Southwest#UnitedStates.
The Great Salt Lake's decline raises dust, threatens vulnerable communities.
This research presented at #AGU23 on Friday afternoon showcases one of the reasons our source-to-sink study of dust in the #CriticalZone is an important aspect of developing equitable responses to Earth's changing climate.
"Projecting the impacts of a shrinking Great Salt Lake on dust exposure along the Wasatch Front" brings together many Cluster members.
We will be live sharing from the #Arctic Report Card press conference at #AGU23 during the next hour. A fascinating and important document tracking changes and forecasting the future of the #Arctic#CriticalZone.
The #CriticalZone in the #Arctic is seeing broad changes. The greening tundra with permafrost thawing and growth where it hadn't flourished before, more precipitation changing water quantity and quality, as well as more disturbances from wildfire. #AGU23
"Climate change, population growth, water diversions -- all those are acting together to cause a big decline in the level of the #SaltLake," says Kerry Kelly, associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of #Utah.
Kelly is one of our Cluster collaborators and her work is the subject of this video from The Story Exchange.
Reading about soils is always a short-cut to anxiety. "If we extrapolate the current erosion rate of about 12 million metric tonnes per year over the next 40 years to the point when the population will reach 9 billion, only 20% of the arable land needed for adequate nutrition will be available."
Searching for #PI: Job opportunity @ufz for leading position on monitoring and interpreting ecosystem exchange processes related to climate and land use change using eddy towers.