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Biologist Jayne Belnap warns of the consequences for the American West if we don't preserve a home for the minute organisms that live in desert topsoil
?| January 9, 2012?|
In Brief
- Who: Jayne Belnap
- Vocation|Avocation: Research ecologist
- Where: U.S. Geological Survey
- Research focus: Study of the biological crusts that hold in place desert dust and their ecological impact on human activities
- Big Picture: ?We just need to start putting dust into the equation.?
One fine afternoon last may, Jayne Belnap drove north out of Moab, Utah, in her beige Lexus SUV when the highway vanished. In an instant, a 100-foot-tall cloud of dust had swallowed up her vehicle. She wanted to brake, but she worried about another car slamming into her from behind. She tried to pull over, but she couldn?t see the shoulder. So Belnap split the difference: ?I figured if I just crept slowly enough that I?d eventually get out of there or fall off the road.?
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