Coral Mortality and African Dust

Project Publications

• Garrison V.H., E.A. Shinn, W.T. Foreman, D.W. Griffin, C.W. Holmes, C.A. Kellogg, M.S. Majewski, L.L. Richardson, K.B. Ritchie, G.W. Smith. 2003. African and Asian dust: From desert soils to coral reefs. BioScience 53 (5):469-480. [available online]
  
  
• Griffin, D.W. 2004. Terrestrial Microorganisms at 20,000 Meters in Earth's Atmosphere. Aerobiologia. 20: 135-140. [available online]
  
  
• Griffin, D.W., V.H. Garrison, C. Kellogg, E.A. Shinn. 2001. African desert dust in the Caribbean atmosphere: Microbiology and public health. Aerobiologia 17: 203-213. [available online]
  
  
• Griffin, D.W. and C.A. Kellogg. 2004. Dust storms and their impact on ocean and human health: Dust in Earth's atmosphere. EcoHealth 1: 284-295.
  
  
• Griffin, D.W., C.A. Kellogg, V.H. Garrison, C. Holmes, E.A. Shinn. 2002. The movement of soil and sediment in Earth's atmosphere: Microbiology and Ecosystem Health. Epidemio-Ecology News 1(2):1-3. [available online]
  
  
• Griffin, D.W., C.A. Kellogg, V.H. Garrison, J.T. Lisle, T.C. Borden and E.A. Shinn. 2003. Atmospheric microbiology in the northern Caribbean during African dust events. Aerobiologia 19: 143-157. [available online]
  
  
• Griffin, D.W., C.A. Kellogg, V.H. Garrison and E.A. Shinn. 2002. Transoceanic transport of airborne sediments: Research and global health issues. American Scientist 90:228-235. [available online]
  
  
• Griffin, D.W., C.A. Kellogg, K.K. Peak, and E.A. Shinn. 2002. A rapid and efficient assay for extracting DNA from fungi. Letters in Applied Microbiology 34: 1-5. [available online]
  
  
• Griffin, D.W., C.A. Kellogg and E.A. Shinn. 2001. Dust in the wind: Long range transport of dust in the atmosphere and its implications for global public and ecosystem health. Global Change & Human Health 2: 2-15. [available online]
  
  
• Holmes, C.W. and R. Miller. 2004. Atmospherically transported elements and deposition in the Southeastern United States: local or transoceanic? Applied Geochemistry 19 (2004): 1189-1200. [available online]
  
  
• Kellogg, C.A., D.W. Griffin, V.H. Garrison, K.K. Peak, N. Royall, R.R. Smith, E.A. Shinn. 2004. Characterization of aerosolized bacteria and fungi from desert dust events in Mali, West Africa. Aerobiologia 20:99-110. [available online]
  
  
• Mohammed, A., J. Agard, M. Monteil, V. Garrison. 2003. Potential Impact of Saharan Dust within the Caribbean region. Report to UNEP Millenium Commission. Pp. 17.
  
  
• Shinn, E.A., D.W. Griffin, and D.B. Seba. 2003. Atmospheric Transport of Mold Spores in Clouds of Desert Dust. Archives of Environmental Health 58 (8): 498-504. [available online]
  
  
• Shinn, E.A., G.W. Smith, J.M. Prospero, P. Betzer, M.L. Hayes, V. Garrison and R.T. Barber. 2000. African dust and the demise of Caribbean coral reefs. Geophysical Research Letters 27:3029-3032. [available online]
  
  
• Weir-Brush, J.R., V.H. Garrison, G.W. Smith and E.A. Shinn. 2004. The relationship between Gorgonian coral (Cnidaria: Gorgonacea) diseases and African dust storms. Aerobiologia 20: 119-126 [available online].

Articles

• Griffin, D.W. and E.A. Shinn. 2001. Microbes in African Dust Clouds Pose Potential Health Risks. People, Land and Water. 8(4):36.
  
  
• Griffin, D.W. and E.A. Shinn. 2004. Out of Africa: Airborne Dust Carries Microbes to Florida, Southeast. People, Land and Water. 10(4):38
  
  
• Kellogg, C.A., and D.W. Griffin. 2003. African Dust Carries Microbes Across the Ocean: Are They Affecting Human and Ecosystem Health? USGS Open-File Report 03-028. [Publications Warehouse citation] [available online]
  
  
• Shinn, E. A. 2001. African dust causes widespread environmental distress. USGS Open-File Report 01-0246. [Publications Warehouse citation] [available online]

Posters

• Garrison, V.H., R.S. Carr, W.T. Foreman, M. Gray, D.W. Griffin, C.A. Kellogg, M.S. Majewski, A. Mohammed, M. Monteil, M. Nipper, C. Orazio, A. Ramsubhad, E.A. Shinn, S.A. Simonich, and G.W. Smith. Synthetic Organic Chemicals, Microorganisms, African and Asian Dust and Coral Reefs. [available online]