Yes. These are big marbles frozen in the shape of the collector trough. Inside that ice coating the marbles is the #dust that's part of our #SourceToSink research as part of the #CriticalZone Collaborative Network.
More about this instrument, the array of passive dust collectors we maintain, and beautiful views of #Utah and #Nevada in our video series The Collectors Tour: https://bit.ly/CollectorsTourPlaylist
Dust 6 Has been added to The Collectors Tour playlist.
See one of the longest-term sites in our long term research array.
#CriticalZone #EnvironmentalScience #Dust #SourceToSink #FieldworkFriday
Just published in the Bulletin of the American #Meteorological Society.
Fascinating #dust #SourceToSink research from Lucia Mona, et. al.
"This paper provides an overview of the current dust observation capabilities considering the provision of user-oriented dust products and existing gaps focusing on the region of Northern Africa, the Middle East and #Europe."
#Wind is such an important driver in the #SourceToSink movement of #dust in the #CriticalZone.
#Venti journal recently dedicated an entire issue to wind, filled with artistic interpretations of the study of #wind. Including this #Spotify playlist.
#Drought is one of the ways more soil is exposed to air, which leads to #dust #transportation, exactly what we study in our #dust #SourceToSink research. (It's the source part.)
Find out more about drought and in Developing a Tool to Help Decision-Makers Navigate Complex Drought Scenarios, a Case Study by CART
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/29c00c82e2f146c5a01a7ebe489cf5c9
"Here, we present records of the...composition of sediments from...over the past ∼25 thousand years."
Fascinating paper from June 2023 by Wenfang Zhang, et. al.
This is #SourceToSink research in the #CriticalZone in #China and aligns with some of the the early findings from our Cluster projects.
#EnvironmentalScience #ScienceCommunications
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL103633
#Dust is one thing. Fugitive dust is something else, and something that the city of Albuquerque takes seriously and pays attention to, sometimes issuing shutdown notices for businesses and contractors generating dust due to poor air quality conditions.
Our #SourceToSink study of the movement of dust through the #CriticalZone helps local, state, and national governments plan and implement these public health warnings.
https://www.cabq.gov/airquality/air-quality-monitoring/trends/health-alert-information
#SourceToSink movement of #dust in the #CriticalZone is what we study every day. This recent paper from Tomonori Totani describes the research possibility in source to sink transport of dust through space.
"Grains ejected by asteroid impacts from exoplanets in the Milky Way and then travelling to the Solar System" could provide evidence of #extrasolar life.
We're always fascinated by the many ways dust influences the human experience.
I'm starting an expedition thread on our MUDBENCS project, an oceanographic expedition to collect marine and fluvial mud, suspended sediment, and water from the Amazon River and coastal areas of Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname, and Guyana. I will add to this thread from time to time, so please #boost it freely if you think others would be interested in participating virtually in an oceanographic expedition.
Tonight, the ship R/V F. G. Walton Smith pushed off the dock in Miami heading to St. Thomas, to Trinidad, and the to Cayenne. The scientific party was not on board. Most will join it in about 13 days in Cayenne. I will lead a small party of us to transport frozen Amazon samples over land from Macapá, Brazil, through the savannas and rain forest of the Amazon basin to Cayenne, French Guiana. We will board the ship to begin our work on June 3.
#MUDBENCS
#CarbonCycle
#oceanography
#SouthAmerica
#Amazon
#ResearchVessel
#expedition
#ClimateChange
#RiverOceanTransport
#SourceToSink
We study the #SourceToSink movement of #dust in the #CriticalZone. In this case the source was the launch of #SpaceX #Starship. And the sink... a large part of #Texas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/us/spacex-rocket-dust-texas.html
"Other airborne contaminants." Hmmm... seems like this #Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution project may also be a tool which will add to our understanding of the #SourceToSink transportation of #dust.
https://www.science.org/content/article/satellite-network-will-monitor-air-pollution-near-real-time
@sflorg These findings are fascinating. And highlight the importance of our continuing #SourceToSink research in the #CriticalZone Collaborative Network's #Dust Cluster. #Dustˆ2
Our #SourceToSink examination of how #dust moves through the #CriticalZone is part of the 5-year, #NSF-funded #CriticalZone Collaborative Network. It's also part of a much larger effort to better understand how #MineralDust plays a part in all the workings of the #ComplexSystems that enable and protect life on Earth. Like this recently published work at the University of Oldenburg.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221121215734.htm
