Research project

Drivers of Crust Patterns at Owens Lake, California

Research groups:

Landscape Dynamics and Ecology
Lead researchers:

Professor Jo Nield
Status:

Not active

Project overview

Collaborative work aims to understand drivers of salt crust patterns using examples from Owens Lake and Death Valley, California.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Jo Nield

Professor

Research interests

Dune Processes
Salt pan dynamics
Dust emissive surfaces

Connect with Jo

Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Landscape Dynamics and Ecology

Researching the changing environments and landscapes using the appliction of novel methodological approaches.

Research outputs

Salt polygons and porous media convection

Jana Lasser, Joanna M. Nield, Marcel Ernst, Volker Karius, Giles F.S. Wiggs, Matthew R. Threadgold, Cédric Beaume & Lucas Goehring, 2023, Physical Review X, 13(1)

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.13.011025

Type: article

Surface and subsurface characterisation of salt pans expressing polygonal patterns

Joanna Nield, 2020, Earth System Science Data Discussions

DOI: 10.5194/essd-2020-86