Dust Collectors (IMAGE)

University of California - Merced

Dust Collectors

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Bundt cake pans filled with marbles are hoisted atop poles and left to collect dust in the Sierra Nevada so researchers can analyze the dust for microbes and vegetation-sustaining nutrients.

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Professor Stephen Hart and colleagues

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