

Amato Evan, UC Dust Director
aevan@ucsd.eduAmato Evan is a Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego. He studies the meteorology of dust storms and their influence on Earth's weather and climate. Professor Evan operates a field site in southeastern California where he make measurements of dust storms there. You can watch a video on his work here.

Adeyemi Adebiyi,
UC Merced
Dr. Adeyemi Adebiyi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences at UC Merced.

Jen Burney,
UC San Diego
Dr. Jen Burney is the Marshall Saunders Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Global Climate Policy and Research at UC San Diego.

Shu-Hua Chen,
UC Davis
Dr. Shu-Hua Chen is a Professor in the Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources at UC Davis. She models dust transport and studies how dust-physical processes influence weather and air-sea interactions.

Paolo D’Odorico,
UC Berkeley
Dr. Paolo D'Odorico is the Thomas J. Graff Professor of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management.

Katrina Hoyer,
UC Merced
Dr. Katrina Hoyer is an Associate Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology in the School of Natural Resources at UC Merced.

Jasper Kok,
UCLA
Jasper Kok is a Professor in the department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at UCLA. He studies how dust is emitted and how dust affects climate by seeding clouds and scattering sunlight.

Rebecca Lybrand,
UC Davis
Dr. Rebecca Lybrand is an Associate Professor in the Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources at UC Davis.

Greg Okin,
UCLA
Dr. Greg Okin is a Professor in the Departments of Geography and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA.

William Porter,
UC Riverside
Dr. William Porter is an Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Dynamics and Modeling in the Environmental Sciences Department at UC Riverside.

Charlie Zender,
UC Irvine
Dr. Charlie Zender is a Professor of Earth System Science and of Computer Science at UC Irvine.