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dustsquared, 25 days ago to Utah

"You know the toxic dust that you’re talking about? That’s my scientific research."

From October 2023. Cluster member and University of #Utah-based Kevin Perry talks about work studying the shrinking Great Salt Lake with Science Friday.

https://bit.ly/44s8Jkq

#SciComm #science #ecology

appassionato, 3 months ago to books

Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles by Jay Owens

This is a book on humanity and Earth and what we’ve done to it. Dust moves from the suburbs of a thirsty Los Angeles to Oklahoma and its Dust Bowl migrants, and the desert Southwest where nuclear testing created radioactive fallout that spread across America.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#dust
#Earth
#environment

dustsquared, 4 months ago to SciComm

Looking forward to this year's #fieldwork season.

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.

We call it The Collectors Tour.

#EnvironmentalScience #EGU24 #CriticalZone #SciComm

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLELOz7SwUyhPEQvpNAuo9cK_rZMPiNvV4

dustsquared, 5 months ago to random

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.

🔗🗓️ https://bit.ly/agu23121512

#EnvironmentalJustice

dustsquared, 5 months ago to climate

The risk of releasing ancient #carbon from thawing permafrost is at the heart of this afternoon session at #AGU23.

Part of "#Climate Change Impacts on Ground #Ice, #Thermokarst Processes, Geocryohydrology, and Ecosystem Dynamics of #Permafrost Regions I"

🔗🗓️ https://bit.ly/3Np5gff

#SciComm #EnvironmentalScience

dustsquared, 6 months ago to environment

In the latest episode of "Nature hits the books", writer and researcher Jay Owens joins us to discuss her book Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles.

Much like #dust itself, Jay’s book travels the globe, looking at the impacts that these microscopic #particles are having on the world, our health and #environment, as well as exploring the role that humanity has played in creating them.

https://youtu.be/50mE3vLkv_8?si=WEbkLD-EdYU738nu

dustsquared, 6 months ago to worldwithoutus

#Arctic #permafrost, a vast store of ancient carbon, is crucial in understanding the global carbon cycle.

This study, sampling over 100 Alaskan streams, reveals how permafrost degradation, #geology to climate change, affects carbon and nutrient flows in surface waters, essential for predicting future Arctic carbon fluxes.

🔗🗓️ https://bit.ly/agu23121108

Add #Biogeochemical Effects of Permafrost Degradation to your #AGU23

dustsquared, 7 months ago to Utah

#Journalists: here's the expert you're looking for to talk with about the shrinking #GreatSaltLake

#ClimateScientist #EnvironmentalScience #Utah #CriticalZone #SciComm

https://criticalzone.org/people/kevin-perry

dustsquared, 7 months ago to Utah

"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.

#ClimateCrisis #SciComm #CriticalZone

https://youtu.be/1VQiOBi67O0?si=a7F8schuiKeqevXJ