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 …

Mortality risks from a spectrum of causes associated with sand and dust storms in China

C Zhang, M Yan, H Du, J Ban, C Chen, Y Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Sand and Dust Storms (SDS) pose considerable health risks worldwide. Previous
studies only indicated risk of SDS on overall mortality. This nationwide multicenter time …

Dust storms, valley fever, and public awareness

DQ Tong, ME Gorris, TE Gill, K Ardon‐Dryer… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We discuss several issues raised by Comrie (2021, https://doi. org/10.1029/2021GH000504)
, which uses a crowdsourced data set to study dust storms and coccidioidomycosis (Valley …

Particle size distribution and particulate matter concentrations during synoptic and convective dust events in West Texas

K Ardon-Dryer, MC Kelley - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Dust events are an important and complex constituent of the atmospheric system that can
impact Earth's climate, the environment, and human health. The frequency of dust events in …

When a dust storm is not a dust storm: Reliability of dust records from the Storm Events Database and implications for geohealth applications

K Ardon‐Dryer, TE Gill, DQ Tong - GeoHealth, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Windblown dust impacts human health, air quality, and climate. The National Weather
Service Storm Events Database (SED) is a widely used dataset of significant or unusual …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of 21 years of dust events across four West Texas regions

MC Robinson, K Ardon-Dryer - Aeolian Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Dust events are caused by strong winds that lift dust particles into the air. Due to surrounding
deserts and agriculture, West Texas experiences many dust events. This study examines …

Associations between dust exposure and hospitalizations in a dust-prone city, Lubbock, TX, USA

E Herrera-Molina, TE Gill, G Ibarra-Mejia… - Air Quality, Atmosphere …, 2024 - Springer
Although it is a growing area of investigation in the Global Dust Belt, only a few population-
level studies have evaluated the human health associations of windblown dust in North …

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 …

Natural Disaster-induced Dementia and Cognitive Decline: A Meta-analysis and Systematic Review

J Thompson, M Vasefi - Social Science & Medicine, 2025 - Elsevier
Recently, some studies have noted a negative cognitive impact on individuals in the
aftermath of large-scale natural disasters; however, the causal relationship between …