Associate Professor of Earth Sciences Bess Koffman is part of a group of scientists from Colby and two other institutions working to learn more about the wind-blown dust and how it affects the people, animals, and plants in its path. Their research just got a big boost from the National Science Foundation, which will fund a three-year grant of $898,000 to study the impacts of dust from the drying Great Salt Lake on agriculture and ecosystems. Read more here.
