# @globalmiamimagazine on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Ct1rw6arzHr
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/7694323-globalmiamimagazine-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-06-23T16:00:22.000+00:00

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For decades, scientists at the University of Miami’s Barbados Atmospheric Chemistry Observatory (BACO) have analyzed dust concentrations captured in clear mesh filters mounted atop a 55-foot tower on a Barbados bluff. A $1 million National Science Foundation grant will help unlock fuller potential in understanding how these tiny particles affect clouds, climate, and air quality.

Paquita Zuidema, professor and chair of UM’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences – whose research focuses on the relationship of warm, shallow clouds to the large-scale environment – says an upgraded BACO will allow her to “puzzle out” how dust and smoke affect trade wind cumulus clouds. Read more about the growth of this Barbados observatory in our June issue of #GlobalMiami Magazine.

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