Welcome to the European Geosciences Union (EGU) - General Assembly 2021!
Our dusty-team will present some of its latest findings this Friday 30th April, in the last day of an inspiring week full of new knowledge 'in virtual Viena', in the framework of the session: "Aeolian dust, initiator, player, and recorder of environmental change". Our talk is entitled: Present-day Saharan dust observed over the Atlantic Ocean, and will be presented by Prof. Dr. Jan-Berend Stuut from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). Jan-Berend will show a comparison between fluxes and particle-size distribution data from dust collected from the atmosphere at the surface of the tropical North Atlantic and dust settling through the ocean underneath and intercepted by the submarine sediment traps at 1200 m depth. All presentations are open to anyone who have registered (and payed) for attending EGU 2021, and it is also available FOR FREE to anyone registered as an undergraduate student. Enjoy the dusty-meeting! :)
This is a filter loaded of Saharan dust that has been recovered during the last NIOZ marine expedition from 12 January to 6 February 2021, when the “Dusty Team” went out to chase Saharan dust once more. Both the dust-collecting buoys "Carmen" and "Laura" have been serviced, as well as sediment-trap mooring M1, which has been capturing dust fluxes at 12ºN, 23ºW, since 2013. To get more information about the expedition, check the Dust21 blog).