Local Fox news (KMPH) at Fresno covers our recent paper ( https://t.co/9OymrCv43O), and draw connections to the recent high incidences of Valley Fever in the California's Central Valley. https://t.co/Vn3SZyiUKW

Media is beginning to pick up our paper and write stories about it. This one focuses on SGMA implications for dust storms in Central Valley. https://t.co/SwsPb0fi1E

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With the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, that require farmers to get their groudwater use into balance, we expect that more agricultural lands will be fallowed in Central Valley, leading to more dust storms, like the one that happened on 11/11/2024

We also showed that the coverage of these fallowed land has been increasing in recent years, as do the associated anthropogenic dust, in part because of recent drought that has become a problem in California.

In the paper, we argued that anthropogenic dusts are prevalent in California Central Valley and that the majority of them are from agricultural lands that are fallowed or abandoned over a period of time.

New publication alert from @AeroClimate Our paper "Fallowed agricultural lands dominate anthropogenic dust sources in California" has just been published with Springer Nature in Communications Earth & Environment.

This extended imagery loop via @NOAA's #GOESEast 🛰️ shows a devastating #SevereWeather outbreak that occurred across the central and eastern United States from March 14–17, 2025. #GOES16 #TimelapseTuesday

It was great to have Xue Zheng from #LLNL at @ucmerced and to give a seminar about the recent advances in the @doescience #E3SM model.

WE R1! 💙💛 UC Merced has officially been named a Carnegie R1 top-tier research university—the only one in the Central Valley. In less than 20 years, we've joined the nation's most elite institutions, proving that innovation and impact have no limits. 🔗 https://t.co/kPilTwQwph

Gusty northerly winds blew #dust (yellow shading) across parts of southern California today 18 Oct, highlighted by #GOESWest #ABI aerosol detection product (ADP). @NOAASatellites @Karma_lobsang12 @DustStormNews

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Unbelievable satellite imagery of a massive dust storm (haboob) roaring across New Mexico and northern Mexico. This dust storm, generated by severe thunderstorms, is over 200 miles in length!

Are you interested in getting a PhD. and doing research in dust-climate interactions at UC Merced? This can be for spring or fall of 2025. Please send me an email. For email address and more information, click here -->