Health and safety effects of airborne soil dust in the Americas and beyond

DQ Tong, TE Gill, WA Sprigg, RS Van Pelt… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Risks associated with dust hazards are often underappreciated, a gap between the
knowledge pool and public awareness that can be costly for impacted communities. This …

Dust in the critical zone: north American case studies

J Brahney, RC Heindel, TE Gill, G Carling… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
The dust cycle facilitates the exchange of particles among Earth's major systems, enabling
dust to traverse ecosystems, cross geographic boundaries, and even move uphill against …

Respirable metals, bacteria, and fungi during a Saharan–Sahelian dust event in Houston, Texas

S Das, A McEwen, J Prospero, D Spalink… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Although airborne bacteria and fungi can impact human, animal, plant, and ecosystem
health, very few studies have investigated the possible impact of their long-range transport …

[HTML][HTML] The discovery of African dust transport to the Western Hemisphere and the Saharan air layer: A history

JM Prospero, AC Delany, AC Delany… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Discovery of African Dust Transport to the Western Hemisphere and the Saharan Air Layer:
A History in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 102 Issue 6 (2021) Jump …

Characterizing and quantifying African dust transport and deposition to South America: Implications for the phosphorus budget in the Amazon Basin

JM Prospero, AE Barkley, CJ Gaston… - Global …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Soils in the Amazon Basin are deficient in phosphorus, essential to soil fertility.
Previous studies suggested that African mineral dust deposited to Amazonian soils served …

Trends in seasonal mean speciated aerosol composition in remote areas of the United States from 2000 through 2021

JL Hand, AJ Prenni, BA Schichtel - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Large reductions in anthropogenic emissions of particulate matter and its precursor
emissions have occurred since the enactment of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 …

[HTML][HTML] Fine aerosol sources at an urban background site in the eastern Mediterranean (Nicosia; Cyprus): Insights from offline versus online source apportionment …

E Bimenyimana, M Pikridas, K Oikonomou… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
A total of 348 daily PM 2.5 samples were collected at an urban background site of Nicosia,
capital of Cyprus, for one-year period (October 2018–October 2019) to assess the origin and …

Quantifying international and interstate contributions to primary ambient PM2. 5 and PM10 in a complex metropolitan atmosphere

S Das, JM Prospero, S Chellam - Atmospheric Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
We quantify the contributions of long-range and regionally transported aerosols to ambient
primary PM 2.5 and PM 10 in a representative United States industrialized/urban …

[HTML][HTML] Rare Earth Elements' particles in road dust: A mineralogical perspective for source identification

D Navarro-Ciurana, M Corbella, J Farré-de-Pablo… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - Elsevier
Roadside dust contains many mineral grains and, among them, some of REEs (Rare Earth
Elements) which have an uncertain origin. This paper characterizes and illustrates for the …

Sources, frequency, and chemical nature of dust events impacting the United States East Coast

AM Aldhaif, DH Lopez, H Dadashazar… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract This study examines 14 years (2004–2017) of surface aerosol composition data
from the EPA IMPROVE network with a focus on the monthly profile, sources, and chemical …