Professor Emeritus Patrick de Deckker ‘Dust, dust everywhere! Implications for your health, that of the environment and climate change’

Airborne dust is ubiquitous, but where does it come from and where does it go, and have dust concentrations changed through time?  Patrick will try to answer these questions by taking you on a fascinating dust collecting trip to many parts of Australia and discuss what we have done with our samples.

Patrick De Deckker is Emeritus Professor in the Research School of Earth Sciences at the ANU.  He is a geologist and micropalaeontologist with a PhD in zoology. His interests are diverse, going from the history of changing climates affecting environments both on land and at sea.  He also studied Australian salt lakes and their biota, and more recently spent several years studying the composition of dust with a multidisciplinary and multinational team.