Chairs: Hesham Mohamed El-Askary, Chapman Univ, Orange, CA, United States and William A Sprigg, Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States
Primary Conveners: Hesham Mohamed El-Askary, Chapman Univ, Orange, CA, United States
Co-conveners: Slobodan Nickovic, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Jeffrey C Luvall, NASA/NSSTC, Huntsville, AL, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Jeffrey C Luvall, NASA/NSSTC, Huntsville, AL, United States
Multi-Spectral Satellite Imagery and Land Surface Modeling Supporting Dust Detection and Forecasting
Andrew Molthan1, Jonathan Case2, Bradley Zavodsky1, Aaron Robert Naeger3, Frank LaFontaine4 and Matthew Richard Smith5, (1)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)ENSCO, Inc./NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)Univ of Alabama Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)Raytheon, Inc./NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Geomorphic and Chemical Characteristics of Dust and Soil in the Eastern Great Basin of Utah, U.S.A.
Maura Hahnenberger, Salt Lake Community College, Geoscience, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Kathleen Nicoll, University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Kevin D Perry, University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
The Dust at Altitude Recovery Technology (DART) System was Developed to Recover Plant, Human, and Animal Pathogens in Asian and African Dust Storms over North America
Andrew C. Schuerger1, Bryan Tench1, Adam Nehr2, Tanya Emmons3, Fernando Valbuena4, Joseph Palaia5 and Carol Sugars6, (1)Univeristy of Florida, Dept. of Plant Pathology, N. Merritt Island, FL, United States, (2)InvenTech, LLC, Orlando, FL, United States, (3)UCF, Orlando, FL, United States, (4)University of Central Florida, Dept of Molecular Biology, Orlando, FL, United States, (5)4Frontiers, Corp., New Port Richey, FL, United States, (6)Sugars Air Services, Ltd., Longwood, FL, United States
Informing Reactive Vaccination Strategies for Meningococcal Meningitis in sub-Saharan Africa using Dust and Climate Predictors
Madeleine C Thomson1, Carlos Pérez García-Pando2, Michelle C. Stanton3, Peter J. Diggle4, Ron L Miller5, Jan P Perlwitz2 and Pietro Ceccato1, (1)International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Columbia Univ c/o NASA/GISS, New York, NY, United States, (3)Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (4)Lancaster University, Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster, United Kingdom, (5)NASA/GISS, New York, NY, United States