Monday, November 16th, 2026
| Time | Presentation |
|---|---|
| 7:00 –7:50 | Registration |
| 7:50 –8:00 | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| 8:00 –10:00 | Session A - Climate, Extreme Weather, and Dust Co-Chairs: Jasper Kok, UC-Los Angeles; Bing Pu, University of Kansas; Danny Leung, National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| 8:00-8:30 | A1. Dust in a Changing Climate: Emission Drivers, Radiative Effects, and Dust Extremes in E3SM (invited talk) by Yan Feng, Argonne National Laboratory |
| 8:30-8:45 | A2. Revisiting the resolution dependence of dust emissions: Insights from a storm-resolving model by Tong Ying, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD |
| 8:45-9:00 | A3. Extreme Heat and Dust Emissions in North Africa: From the 2020 “Godzilla” Event to a Multi-Year Perspective by Ibrahim Tella, University of Kansas |
| 9:00-9:15 | A4. Why Do Dust-Precipitation Relationships Differ across the Contiguous United States Following High-Dust Conditions? by Guoqing Gong, University of California, Merced |
| 9:15-9:30 | A5. Evaluating Model Dust in the Cold-cloud Regime Using Airborne and Satellite Observations by Flor Vanessa Maciel, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 9:30-9:35 | Group Photos |
| 9:35 –10:00 | Coffee Break |
| 10:00 –12:00 | Session B - Dust Observations, Forecasting, and Physical Processes Co-Chairs: Paolo D’Odorico, Tobia Rinaldo, UC-Berkeley; Will Porter, UC-Riverside; Shu-Hua Chen, UC-Davis |
| 10:00-10:30 | B1. Desert-Urban SysTem IntegratEd AtmospherIc Monsoon (DUSTIEAIM): Overview, Dust Storms, and Monsoon Science from the First Summer (invited talk) by Allison Aikemn, Los Alamos National Laboratory - Virtual |
| 10:30-10:45 | B2. A Statewide Daily Dust-Informed PM₁₀ Exposure Surface for California: Machine-Learning Estimation and External Validation, 2006–2019 by Saud Alomair, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences — Virtual |
| 10:45-11:00 | B3. Integrating Satellite, Model, and Ground Measurement Data through Machine Learning to Estimate Surface PMcoarse Concentrations in the United States by Jennifer McGinnis, Colorado State University |
| 11:00-11:15 | B4. Beyond magnitude: ecological controls on wind-erosion hotspots in southwestern US drylands by Shubham Tiwari, USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range |
| 11:15-11:30 | B5. An improved dust emission modeling with multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis by Junran Li, The University of Hong Kong |
| 11:30-11:45 | B6. Estimating Current and Future Dust Exposure from the Shrinking Salton Sea by Xuan Liu, University of California San Diego |
| 11:45-12:00 | B7. Integration of QuantAQ Particle Sensors in the South Coast AQMD Real-Time Air Quality Index map by Nico Schulte, South Coast AQMD |
| 12:00-12:15 | B8. Dust Emission Potential and Chemical Composition from Recently Exposed Salton Sea Playa and Adjacent Desert Landforms in Southern California, USA by Hank Dickey, Formation Environmental |
| 12:15 –13:45 | Lunch Break and Networking (lunch on your own) |
| 13:45 –15:30 | Session C - Dust Impacts on Air Quality, Safety, and Health Co-Chairs: Alexandra Heaney, Xuan Liu, UC-San Diego; Katrina Hoyer, UC-Merced; Simone Tilmes, National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| 13:45-14:15 | C1. Breathing at the Edge: Children’s Respiratory Health and Dust Exposure Near the Salton Sea (invited talk) by Jill Johnston, University of California, Irvine (Virtual) |
| 14:15-14:30 | C2. The impact of mineral dust exposure on birth and pregnancy outcomes in the Salton Sea region of Southern California by Wenxin Lu, University of California, San Diego |
| 14:30-14:45 | C3. From Dust Science to Dust Management: An Evidence-Based Framework for Great Salt Lake by Kevin Perry, University of Utah |
| 14:45-15:00 | C4. Windblown Dust Events, Wildfire Smoke, and Emergency Department Visits for Circulatory, Respiratory, Neurological and Mental Health Conditions in Fresno County, California: A Bayesian Spatio-Temporal Analysis by Estrella Herrera, University of Utah and UCM — Virtual |
| 15:00-15:15 | C5. Seasonal and Temporal Dynamics of Airborne Fungal Communities in the San Joaquin Valley by Adeola Fagbayibo, University of California, Merced |
| 15:15-15:30 | C6. Mineral Dust and Health: An Overlooked Risk in the U.S. by Alexandra Heaney, University of California, San Diego |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00-17:00 | Session D - Dust Risks Awareness and Community Needs Co-Charis: Amato Evan, Xuan Liu, UC-San Diego; Will Porter, UC-Riverside |
| 16:00-16:30 | D1. Soil Salinization Enhances the Mobilization of Legacy Contaminants in Inhalable Dust from Agricultural Soils (invited talk) by Dr. Sujith Ravi, Temple University, Department of Earth and Environmental Science |
| 16:30-17:00 | Discussion Panelists: Drs. Sujith Ravi, Kevin Perry, and Nico Schulte |
Tuesday, November 17th, 2026
| Time | Presentation | |
|---|---|---|
| 7:00 –8:00 | Registration | |
| 8:00 –9:15 | Session E - Dust and Agriculture, and Others Co-Chairs: Yemi Adebiyi, UC-Merced; Rebecca Ann Lybrand, UC-Davis; Paolo D’Odorico, UC-Berkeley | |
| 8:00-8:15 | E1. Measurements of wind erosion and dust genesis in Texas and New Mexico (invited talk) by Scott Van Pelt, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service | |
| 8:30-8:45 | E2. Agricultural dust emissions and their radiative forcing from the past to the present by Yang Shi, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
| 8:45-9:00 | E3. The Contribution of Agricultural and Other Anthropogenic Dust Emissions to Ambient Coarse Particulate Matter in the U.S. by Haihui Zhu, Colorado State University | |
| 9:00-9:15 | E4. From Crust to Dust: Characterizing the Physical, Chemical, and Mineralogical Properties of Potential Dust Sources Around the Salton Sea by Rebecca Lybrand, UC Davis | |
| 9:15-9:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 9:45 –11:00 | F. Dust Storms, Policy, and Impact Co-Chairs: Jen Burney, Stanford University; Leah Mathews, California Air Resources Board; Shu-Hua Chen, UC-Davis; Amato Evan, UC-San Diego; Greg Okin, UC-Los Angeles | |
| 9:45-10:00 | F1. Navigating Challenges and Opportunities from the ground up (invited talk) by Eric Montoya Reyes, Executive Director, Los Amigos de la Comunidad, Inc | |
| 10:00-10:30 | F2. Groundwater, Fallowing, and Dust in the San Joaquin Valley (invited talk) by Andrew Ayres, University of Nevada, Reno | |
| 10:30-10:45 | F3. Agricultural Fallowing Drives Extreme Anthropogenic Dust and Visibility Degradation During the October 2021 Dust Event in California’s Central Valley by Yang Yu, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | |
| 10:45-11:00 | F4. Dust Exposure and Farmland Values: Evidence from California’s Central Valley by Siddharth Kishore, University of California, Merced | |
| 11:00-12:15 | Poster Session 1 and Coffee Break (75 min) | |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch Break and Networking (lunch provided) | |
| 13:30-15:00 | Poster Session 2 (90 min) | |
| 15:00-16:30 | Panel Discussion and Q&A Panelists: AndrewAyres, Leah Mathews, Jen Burney, Eric Montoya Reyes | |
| 16:30-17:00 | Concluding Remarks | |
| 17:00-17:30 | Dust working group meeting (invited only) |