Many researchers have contributed to the information provided on this website. Please respect their hard work by giving them credit when using these data. We ask that if you use any data from this website that you give credit to the USGS, as well as the researcher who originally contributed the data. We have attached an attribution to each piece of data and this should carry through to any publication that uses these data. The suggested citation is:
U.S. Geological Survey, 2006, The Inventory of North American Dust Sources, http://esp.cr.usgs.gov/info/dust/inventory/ .
Our thanks go out to all of those who work with dust and have contributed their time, ideas, effort, and data to this project. This project grew out of the research community that works with dust and has expanded to include civil servants and the public. All of your work is appreciated and where possible, we have done our best to attribute your contributions.
Support for data gathering, compilation, and this website is provided by the U.S. Geological Survey through the Earth Surface Dynamics Program (Pat Jellison, Program Coordinator) and the project, "Effects of climatic variability and land use on American Drylands" (Rich Reynolds, Project Chief). Andy Ballantine at the University of California, Santa Barbara designs the website, collects the data, and manages the database. Richard Pelltier (USGS) helps design the website and acts as webmaster. Randy Schumann (USGS) writes the programs that are used to query the online database. Additional support in data and ideas at the USGS was provided by Pat Chavez, Marith Reheis, Gary Clow, Frank Urban, Miguel Velasco, Rian Bogle, Harland Goldstein, Tom Loveland, David MacKinnon, Dan Muhs, John Whitney, Jim Yount, Jayne Belnap, and Nick Lancaster (now at Desert Research Institute).
We also acknowledge the early help and contributions from Annette Walker of the Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, and from Thomas Gill, Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso.
Dust event (left) from the Devil's Playground, Mojave National Preserve, California, March 5, 2000. The image was made by a remote digital camera (right) on a nearby mountain ridge to the northwest. The camera is triggered by wind speeds at the imaged site by a radio signal when winds exceed about 6 m/sec. (See http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/ofr-01-0230/)
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