Cassandra Gaston is an Associate Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science. Her research focuses on the physicochemical properties of aerosols that critically impact Earth’s climate, ecosystem health, carbon cycling, and human health, yet many aspects of these processes remain poorly constrained. Much of her research is focused on Saharan dust aerosols that are transported to South America, the Caribbean, and the South and Southeastern United States. Her group operates a research facility at Ragged Point in Barbados, the Barbados Atmospheric Chemistry Observatory (BACO: https://baco.earth.miami.edu/) that has been used to study the impacts of African dust for over 50 years. This dust is thought to fertilize both the Atlantic Ocean and the Amazon Rainforest as well as affect clouds and air quality. Her group also studies both heterogeneous reactions on dust aerosols that generate reactive halogens and contribute to urban ozone air pollution as well as aerosolized toxins generated by harmful algal blooms (HABs). One of her key areas of research has been the air quality impacts of shrinking lakebeds, including the Great Salt Lake.

Cassandra J. Gaston

Associate Professor

University of Miami

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