Jeff Munroe
@jeffmunroe.bsky.social
Professor of Geology at Middlebury College (Vermont, USA). Interested in all things Quaternary Geology. Lead PI on the DUST^2 Critical Zone Thematic Cluster and the AccelNet CZ-NoN project.
A fun summary of a perspective piece I wrote just appeared in the Critical Zone News substack of the CZ-NoN project. #science #dust #soil #geology #earthscience
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November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
A fun summary of a perspective piece I wrote just appeared in the Critical Zone News substack of the CZ-NoN project. #science #dust #soil #geology #earthscience
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A year ago today I was well underway on my annual loop through the Intermountain West to empty the dust collectors I maintain for the DUST^2 project. In this video, I introduce DUST-4, my favorite collector of them all. #geology #criticalzone #science #utah #dust
A year ago today I was well underway on my annual loop through the Intermountain West to empty the dust collectors I maintain for the DUST^2 project. In this video, I introduce DUST-4, my favorite collector of them all. #geology #criticalzone #science #utah #dust
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Shhh. "Don't tell the other collectors," Dust^2 Cluster member Jeff Munroe says. Because out of all 20 instruments in the collector array in the southwestern U.S. this one, Dust 4, is Munroe's favorite.
The reason why, and the difficulty of answering the question "where does the dust come from" in this stop along the Collectors Tour.
More about determining the source of dust in "Isotope fingerprinting reveals western North American sources of modern dust in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA" published by Aeolian Research in 2019: https://bit.ly/3YOBQgI
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October 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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A year ago today I was well underway on my annual loop through the Intermountain West to empty the dust collectors I maintain for the DUST^2 project. In this video, I introduce DUST-4, my favorite collector of them all. #geology #criticalzone #science #utah #dust
A year ago today I was well underway on my annual loop through the Intermountain West to empty the dust collectors I maintain for the DUST^2 project. In this video, I introduce DUST-4, my favorite collector of them all. #geology #criticalzone #science #utah #dust
October 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/t.... A nice article in the New York Times today about a project I contributed to studying treeline change in the mountains of northern Utah using historical photos.
150 Years of Change: How Old Photos, Recaptured, Reveal a Shifting Climate
In the heart of Utah’s Uinta Mountains, a team of scientists is re-creating historical pictures to study how much, and how quickly, ecosystems are changing.
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March 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/t.... A nice article in the New York Times today about a project I contributed to studying treeline change in the mountains of northern Utah using historical photos.
Urban #dust in northern #utah, enriched with metals from human activities, mixes with natural dust from the desert before traveling to downwind #mountain watersheds, where it impacts #ecosystems and water quality. #criticalzone #geology #hydrology #openaccess
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mixing of natural and urban dust along the Wasatch Front of northern Utah, USA
Scientific Reports - Mixing of natural and urban dust along the Wasatch Front of northern Utah, USA
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January 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Urban #dust in northern #utah, enriched with metals from human activities, mixes with natural dust from the desert before traveling to downwind #mountain watersheds, where it impacts #ecosystems and water quality. #criticalzone #geology #hydrology #openaccess
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
If you will be in Vernal, Utah before the end of February, stop by the Uintah County Library to see photos by Thomas Holmes from our work on the Ashley Caves Project. Here’s a short video announcing the exhibit. #caves #caving #geology #utah https://youtu.be/Znwh8CUyExY?si=3XMez2nsSSqjxlal
Ashley Caves Project
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January 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
If you will be in Vernal, Utah before the end of February, stop by the Uintah County Library to see photos by Thomas Holmes from our work on the Ashley Caves Project. Here’s a short video announcing the exhibit. #caves #caving #geology #utah https://youtu.be/Znwh8CUyExY?si=3XMez2nsSSqjxlal
Working on Critical Zone science and planning to attend the spring EGU meeting? Please consider submitting an abstract to “Critical Zone Science Around the World: Innovations, Insights, and Collaborative Efforts.” meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
January 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Working on Critical Zone science and planning to attend the spring EGU meeting? Please consider submitting an abstract to “Critical Zone Science Around the World: Innovations, Insights, and Collaborative Efforts.” meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
Loving the lake effect snowstorm off Lake Champlain this morning — a dagger pointed right at Middlebury!
December 21, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Loving the lake effect snowstorm off Lake Champlain this morning — a dagger pointed right at Middlebury!