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The modern dust survey consists of two parts: dust traps (passive) and aerial campaigns (active).
The passive method includes snow collection surveys from volcanoes and engineered DIY dust traps to collect fine particulate matter.
The significance of this study is that dust affects the air quality and health of downwind communities from source areas, affects the climate, water resources, and the global dust cycle.
Modified from Arcusa et al. (2020)
These are some of the research questions we are addressing in this section:
How much dust is entrained during a wind event?
What is the composition of the particles captured by the ground-based passive dust trap?
What is the composition of this particles? Which particles are solid dust, soluble and insoluble?
What are the living components these particles (i.e., microbiome analyses)?
Are there any viruses in this dust?
How is this endeavor connected to the dust cycle?
These passive field campaigns use low-cost DIY dust traps.
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