Symposium Schedule

Symposium Schedule

We are excited to welcome you to the UC Davis Campus in May for the UC Dust Symposium. Please review the symposium schedule below. All times are listed in PDT.


Wednesday, May 15th 2024

7:00 AMRegistration and Breakfast
7:55 AMOpening Remarks
 

Dust, Weather, and Climate

Co-Chairs: Amato Evan, UC San Diego and Rebecca Lybrand, UC Davis

8:00 AMA.1 The observations, analyses, and results from the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation by Robert Green, NASA JPL, Invited Speaker
8:30 AMA.2 Three-Dimensional Transport of Saharan Dust Aerosols by African Easterly Waves: Theory and Reanalysis by Terry Nathan, UC Davis
8:45 AMA.3 Impacts of Dust Radiative Effects on Tropical Easterly Waves by Farnaz Hosseinpour, Desert Research Institute
9:00 AMA.4 Do the height and thickness of Sahara air layer matter for dust semi-direct effect over North Atlantic Ocean? by Adeyemi Adebiyi, UC Merced
9:15 AMA.5 Influence of CALIOP Backscatter Data Assimilation on Dust and Cloud Forecasts over North Africa and the East Atlantic by Shu-Hua Chen, UC Davis
9:30 AMCoffee Break
 

Dust, Weather, and Climate continued

Co-Chairs: Adeyemi Adebiyi, UC Merced and Paolo D'Odorico, UC Berkeley

9:45 AMA.6 Overview of dust emission forecasting research at the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) by Sandra LeGrand, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center
10:00 AMA.7 Wind erodibility and particulate matter emissions from of dry saline-sodic soils under diverse atmospheric humidity conditions. by Tobia Rinaldo, UC Berkeley
10:15 AMA.8 Insights from Dust Research at the Jornada Experimental Range by Saroj Dhital, USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range
10:30 AMA.9 Landscape topography and regional drought events alter dust microbiomes in California’s Sierra Nevada by Mia Maltz, UC Riverside
10:45 AMA.10 Impacts of Long-range Transport of Dust and Mixing of Smoke from Crop Residue Burning on Air Quality, and Climate by Ramesh P Singh, Chapman University
 

Dust, Agriculture, and Renewable Energy

Co-Chairs: Adeyemi Adebiyi, UC Merced and Paolo D'Odorico, UC Berkeley

11:00 AMB.1 Health and safety effects and annual economic cost of dust by Scott Van Pelt, USDA
11:15 AMB.2 Microscale analysis of mineral particles & applications to dust research by Rebecca Lybrand, UC Davis
11:30 AMLunch (provided)
1:00 PMPosters
 

Dust impacts on air quality and disease/health/epidemology

Co-Chairs: Katrina Hoyer, UC Merced and William Porter, UC Riverside

3:00 PMC.1 Management of Dust Emissions at the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area and the Salton Sea Shoreline by Jack Gillies, Desert Research Institute, Invited Speaker
3:30 PMC.2 Detection of airborne Coccidioides spores using unmanned aircraft systems in the Carrizo Plain, California: A pilot study by Sarah Dobson, University of Michigan School of Public Health
3:45 PMC.3 Estimating the Impacts of Climate Variability and Dust Exposure on Valley Fever Risk in Arizona by Alexandra Heaney, UC San Diego
4:00 PMC.4 Associations between exposure to air pollution after a dust event and hospitalizations in dust prone areas by Estrella Herrera-Molina, UC Merced
4:15 PMC.5 Spatial Variability of Surface/Subsurface Geochemistry of the Exposed Playa of Great Salt Lake, Utah. by Kevin Perry, University of Utah
4:30 PMC.6 LPS in playa dust generated from the Salton Sea microbiome drives neutrophilic pulmonary Inflammation and correlates with asthma incidence by Keziyah Yisrael, UC Riverside
4:45 PMC.7 Californian Haboobs: A Meteorological Analysis of Monsoonal Dust Storms in the Salton Basin by Amato Evan, UC San Diego
5:00 PM

Panel Discussion

Panelists: Pingkuan Di, California Air Resources Board; Jack Gillies, Desert Research Institute; Rob Green, JPL/NASA; Alexandra Heaney, UC San Diego; Charlie Zender, UC Irvine

5:30 PMReception