UC Merced Researchers Sound Alarm on Dust. What Does It Mean for You?

UC Merced Researchers Sound Alarm on Dust. What Does It Mean for You?

The wind whipped around UC Merced graduate student Adeola Fagbayibo one afternoon as he pulled on some latex gloves. He needed the gloves to take out a filter from an air sampling machine, called an “active air respirator,” near UC Merced’s smart farm. By Rachel Livinal The Merced FOCUS “You can think of it as a vacuum, but this is more specialized toward air sampling,” Fagbayibo explained. He quickly unscrewed the filter, which was caked in du…