Dust Doctoral Network

20/07/2026

🌍 Why doesn’t atmospheric dust simply fall back to the ground?

In the latest Dust-DN Fellows’ Corner blog post, doctoral candidate Amirhossein Kholghi (DC9) explores the fluid mechanics behind a dust particle’s journey through the atmosphere.

From gravitational settling and air resistance to turbulence and atmospheric motion, several interacting processes determine how long dust remains airborne—and how far it can travel.

Discover the science that keeps dust suspended in the atmosphere:

🔗 https://dust-dn.cyi.ac.cy/why-doesnt-dust-simply-fall/

17/07/2026

🌍 European Workshop on Atmospheric Dust 2027 — Announcement and Expression of Interest

We are pleased to announce the European Workshop on Atmospheric Dust 2027, organised by the Dust Doctoral Network (Dust-DN) and hosted by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

📍 Karlsruhe, Germany

📅 21–23 April 2027

The workshop will bring together researchers, early-career scientists, practitioners and stakeholders working on atmospheric dust, aerosol processes, climate interactions, and related impacts and applications.

To help us estimate likely participation and support the early planning of the event, we invite anyone interested in attending to complete our short expression-of-interest form.

👉 Express your interest:

https://forms.office.com/e/aGFC0s7PAD

Submitting the form is non-binding and does not constitute formal registration or abstract submission. Registration and abstract submission will open at a later stage.

We look forward to welcoming the atmospheric dust community to Karlsruhe in 2027.

25/06/2026

Good to see everyone again, Dust Doctoral Network DUST-DN met online today!
A great session with our fellows and organizers, where we looked back and ahead:

📌 Reviewed our first school/workshop, sharing feedback on what worked well and what we can improve next time.
📌 Started planning the second school/workshop: the structure, the science and skills sessions, outreach, and logistics.

Thanks to everyone who joined and shared their thoughts.
Great conversations today, and lots to look forward to! 🙌
DUST-DN is funded by the European Union under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA).

12/06/2026

📢 New blog post from the Dust Doctoral Network!

In our latest Fellows' Corner post, Semontee Deb shares insights from her first-year PhD research. Using the WRF-Chem regional climate model and high-performance computing facilities at The Cyprus Institute, her work focuses on improving dust simulations across Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean/Middle East.

📖 Read the full post here : https://dust-dn.cyi.ac.cy/dusty-computers-me-too-how-dust-is-represented-in-climate-models/

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03/06/2026

As part of the Dust-DN webinar series, we were pleased to host Prof. Natalie M. Mahowald (Cornell University), for an excellent talk entitled “Not all dust is equal: NASA EMIT successes."

The webinar was held on 2nd June 2026 as part of the Dust-DN virtual networking activities.

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Dust-DN Webinar SeriesProf. Natalie M. Mahowald (Cornell Universi...

26/05/2026

🌍 DUST-DN Webinar Series

We are delighted to host Prof. Natalie M. Mahowald (Cornell University) for the next DUST-DN webinar, who will present:
🎤 "Not all dust is equal: NASA EMIT successes."
📅 2 June 2026 🕐 10:00 – 11:00 AM EDT | 16:00 – 17:00 CEST
💻 Microsoft Teams link to join: 1e3d3cdb-ce6a-48fb-a25f-8d8eefdbb320@1226bded-698b-4e46-b3b2-2ed263df6fe9" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/1e3d3cdb-ce6a-48fb-a25f-8d8eefdbb320@1226bded-698b-4e46-b3b2-2ed263df6fe9

About the speaker, Prof. Mahowald is chair of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and the Irving Porter Church Professor in Engineering at Cornell University. She holds a Ph.D. in meteorology from MIT and joined Cornell in 2007, following positions at UC Santa Barbara and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
https://www.duffield.cornell.edu/eas/

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17/05/2026

🌍 Fellows at EGU 2026
Our Dust-DN fellow Semontee Deb gave a PICO presentation titled “Evaluation of WRF-Chem dust emission schemes and land surface models over the dust belt” at the EGU General Assembly 2026 in Vienna.
Her work evaluates how different dust emission schemes and land surface models perform within the WRF-Chem regional atmospheric model, aiming to improve the simulation and representation of dust events across the global dust belt from North Africa through the Middle East to Central Asia.
Semontee is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD researcher at The Cyprus Institute, where her research combines numerical weather prediction models, satellite data, and ground-based observations to enhance the characterization of dust transport in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East region.

16/05/2026

Looking back at a great few days at the Dust-DN workshop 2026 in Larnaca!

At this European Workshop on Atmospheric Dust, we explored dust impacts across microphysical processes, source regions, climate interactions, remote sensing, observational approaches, and socio-economic aspects. We were really pleased to hear interesting lectures and presentations from Dust-DN scientists and PhD candidates
as well as researchers from outside Dust-DN (who we refer to as Dust-DN friends).

We ended the workshop with good memories, meaningful discussions, and a growing community of researchers and experts. This photo captures a memorable moment of this event.

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11/05/2026

🌍 Fellows at EGU 2026 | Dust optical properties in the UV

Our fellow Miguel Huerta presented his poster “Dust optical properties in the Ultraviolet (UV)” at the EGU General Assembly 2026 in Vienna.

The work focused on retrieving the direct interactions (scattering and absorption) between mineral dust aerosol and UV solar radiation within the UV-A spectral range (320–360 nm), comparing two independent methodologies based on Brewer spectrophotometer measurements and the GRASP inversion algorithm.

Miguel is based at ETH Zürich 🇨🇭 and PMOD/WRC Davos, contributing to a better understanding of dust–radiation interactions in a so far underexplored part of the solar spectrum.

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08/05/2026

An incredible week at the First Dust-DN Training School in Nicosia!

The First Dust-DN Training School brought together the Doctoral Candidates of the Dust Doctoral Network on Atmospheric Dust (Dust-DN) and invited participants for an intensive five-day programme hosted by the Climate and Atmosphere Research Centre (CARE-C) of The Cyprus Institute in Nicosia.

The school combined scientific lectures from leading European experts with hands-on transferable-skills training, outreach activities and visits to key research infrastructures, including the Unmanned Systems Research Laboratory (USRL) at Orounda and the Cyprus Atmospheric Observatory (CAO) at Ayia Marina.

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