#criticalzone — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #criticalzone, aggregated by home.social.
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Saharan #dust is leading to air quality alerts in the Canary Islands.
https://www.iqair.com/sg/newsroom/canary-islands-air-quality-alert-saharan-dust
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Members of the DUST^2 team and broader #dust research community in #Utah contributed to this study reported on by the Salt Lake Tribune:
https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2025/09/15/dust-storms-around-great-salt-lake/
Read the full paper #OpenAccess here: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GH001462
#geology #earthscience #criticalzone #drought #health #geohealth
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Two years ago today, the Fall 2023 Collectors Tour brought Emmet Norris to the DUST-9 collector at the head of Little Cottonwood Canyon in #utah. #dust #criticalzone #earthscience #geology #ecology #environmentalscience
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Join Emmet Norris two years ago today as he shares some sunrise views from DUST-13 during the 2023 Collectors Tour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUIYEokPo9c
#dust #utah #mountains #landscape #Earthscience #criticalzone
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Work by Middlebury-based Cluster member @jmunroe is cited in this article recently published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
"Alpine treelines and shrublines are highly sensitive to environmental change. In this Review, we summarize their global patterns and trends, underlying mechanisms and impacts."
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"Air masses traveling across the city delivered urban dust to rural sites."
Work by members of the Dust Cluster is cited in Land Use Determines Dust Geochemistry in Central Ohio, US recently published by Atmospheric Environment
Read the cited article: https://bit.ly/3NNsawn
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We're wrapping up Year 5 of our five-yeaer project! When we started we weren't able to meet in person until the beginning of Year 2 when we followed COVID protocols for our first in-person all hands meeting in Burlington, Vermont.
More about out project on the Cluster website: https://bit.ly/44L0dij -
If funding for travel to an upcoming conference is an obstacle preventing you from sharing your science with the world then perhaps the Critical Zone Network of Networks can help. Apply for travel funding today.
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Cluster scientist spotlight!
Sebastian Hoch, PhD Research Associate Professor, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah
Why did you become a scientist?
"I always enjoyed nature. A great chemistry teacher in high school set a hook with a simple experiment."
Read some of Sebastian's latest work: http://bit.ly/3UoSekI
More scientist spotlights: https://bit.ly/4huMS0U
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Lauren Lowman, a Wakefield University based member of the Big Data Cluster, is cited in this article recently published by Ecosphere.
Landsat-based remote sensing of surface water dynamics in southern African wetlands in drylands from 1986 to 2022 is some perfect lunchtime reading: https://bit.ly/4lH7Mg2
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Good morning.
May we suggest some reading with your coffee this morning,
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Humans and rivers are connected. And we're studying those connections. In this Cluster chat find our more about research into how people and water work together and influence each other.
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Post-fire dust emissions have risen 77% in two decades, with 95% linked to small wildfires. Satellite data reveal their growing global impact, driven by intensifying burns and land degradation.
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McKenzie Skiles is an expert about what happens when dust falls on snow. Skiles is a Cluster member based at the University of #Utah.
Some of her work is cited in Optical response of pure materials composing mineral dust in Los Andes, recently published by Atmospheric Environment: https://bit.ly/3HXOJit
More work by Skiles with other Cluster collaborators: https://bit.ly/3QACXvk
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Looking for something to read with your coffee this morning? There's something for everyone in our publications library.
🛰️: https://bit.ly/CZNBDyr0307
Complete library: https://bit.ly/CZNBDPubLibrary
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Some of the things we got up to last year.
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Meet Jeff Munroe in one of his favorite places: the field.
Find out about an amazing opportunity for #CriticalZone scientists to connect and collaborate with people they otherwise may never meet as a part of the Critical Zone Network of Networks.
Jeff says "this fall" in the video, which was last fall. The project is now up and running!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-hnpzpl7Yc
More details about CZ-NoN: https://bit.ly/4jRXXeg
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Scientist spotlights: https://bit.ly/4huMS0U
Why we do what we do, how we do what we do, and how we mentor the next generation of people who will be doing what we do.
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Cluster scientist spotlight!
Julianne Liu DustKids Outreach Coordinator, Salt Lake Community College
Why did you become a scientist?
"In high school, I became really interested in learning about the climate crisis, both the science behind it and the social movements attached to it."
About Julianne: https://bit.ly/44o9sVk
More scientist spotlights: https://bit.ly/4huMS0U
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Work by Big Data Cluster members is cited in this #OpenAccess article recently published in AGU Advances.
Read "Deep Roots Supply Reactivity and Enhance Silicate Weathering in the Bedrock Vadose Zone" : https://bit.ly/44wtqfF
Read the cited article: https://bit.ly/46OLxy5
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Dust^2 Cluster member Jeff Munroe talks about the importance of studying the movement of dust in the Critical Zone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5M4n8Jne9s
This paper by Jeffrey S. Munroe, Abigail A. Santis, Elsa J. Soderstrom, Michael J. Tappa, and Ann M. Bauer and published in SOIL outlines some of the findings Munroe describes in this video: https://bit.ly/4bP8SS8
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We're really interested in how the #CriticalZone responds to disturbances like fire, flood, and drought.
This recent story from the USGS explores how science like ours helps risk managers prepare for those disturbances.