"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

Great #dust research happening at #Yale is happening right alongside our work here in the Cluster.

"To understand the climate impact of airborne dust, she says scientists need accurate, location-specific data about the mineral composition of sand and dust across desert regions."

#CriticalZone #SourceToSink

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/07/scientists-investigate-the-climate-impact-of-airborne-dust/

#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.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369465042_Solid_grains_ejected_from_terrestrial_exoplanets_as_a_probe_of_the_abundance_of_life_in_the_Milky_Way

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.

#SciComm #CriticalZone #TEMPO

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