Exposed GSL playa can threaten human health in new ways.
Categories: Outreach
Toxins from Great Salt Lake dust are absorbed by plants, soils and human bodies
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Doorway into wonder
Categories: Events
Science, Literature and Euphoria: Special Event with visiting mycologist Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian and U poet Katharine Coles
Read MoreWhat’s driving Salt Lake City’s downward emissions trends?
Categories: Faculty Research
Emissions of two major pollutants have steadily decreased over the past two decades
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Categories: SRI
From a passion for paleontology to anthropology and climate science
Read MoreThe battle for breath: Controlling Great Salt Lake dust
Categories: Faculty Research
Engineered dust control measures would have costs and tradeoffs, constrained by water availability
Read MoreCleaner ship fuel changed clouds, but not their climate balance
Categories: Faculty Research
U scientists monitor how the change to cleaner ship fuel affects cloud formation
Read MoreWilkes Center unveils map tool to model Great Salt Lake dust exposure
Categories: Faculty Research
A data-based modeling tool to visualize dust exposures
Read MoreGSL’s ancient store of fresh water
Categories: Faculty Research
U researchers begin to characterize the mountain-derived groundwater extending thousands of feet below the playa of Great Salt Lake
Read MoreWhat past global warming reveals about future rainfall
Categories: Faculty Research
“Proxies” in geologic record show rainfall was more intense, but less regular during the Paleogene
Read MoreLake levels remain low, yet salinity still close to healthy targets
Categories: Faculty Research
Annual Strike Team report outlines new dust-mitigation strategies, successes in controlling salinity and fresh projections on GSL’s direction
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