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Thomas E. Gill is affiliated with The University of Texas at El Paso in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a strong publication record in related subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their main research topics include:

  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Fungal Infections and Studies
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts

Thomas E. Gill has contributed to several academic publications, including notable recent papers such as:

  • The Conceptual Definition of Sarcopenia: Delphi Consensus from the Global Leadership Initiative in Sarcopenia (GLIS), 2024, Age and Ageing
  • A review of Earth Artificial Intelligence, 2022, Computers & Geosciences
  • Health and Safety Effects of Airborne Soil Dust in the Americas and Beyond, 2023, Reviews of Geophysics
  • Identifying and characterizing dust point sources in the southwestern United States using remote sensing and GIS, 2020, Geomorphology
  • Drought and land use/land cover impact on dust sources in Southern Great Plains and Chihuahuan Desert of the U.S.: Inferring anthropogenic effect, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

The scientist frequently publishes in several venues, including:

  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Atmosphere
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • GeoHealth

Thomas E. Gill has collaborated regularly with multiple co-authors, including:

  • Ellen F. Binder
  • Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft
  • R. Scott Van Pelt
  • Joseph G. Ouslander
  • Boca Raton

Best Publications

  • ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF GLOBAL SOURCES OF ATMOSPHERIC SOIL DUST IDENTIFIED WITH THE NIMBUS 7 TOTAL OZONE MAPPING SPECTROMETER (TOMS) ABSORBING AEROSOL PRODUCT

    Joseph M. Prospero;Paul Ginoux;Omar Torres;Sharon E. Nicholson

  • Global Scale Attribution of Anthropogenic and Natural Dust Sources and their Emission Rates Based on MODIS Deep Blue Aerosol Products

    Paul Ginoux;Joseph M. Prospero;Thomas E. Gill;N. Christina Hsu

  • Asian Dust Events of April 1998

    Rudolf B. Husar;D. M. Tratt;B. A. Schichtel;S. R. Falke

  • Long-range transport of North African dust to the eastern United States

    Kevin D. Perry;Thomas A. Cahill;Robert A. Eldred;Dabrina D. Dutcher

  • Eolian sediments generated by anthropogenic disturbance of playas: human impacts on the geomorphic system and geomorphic impacts on the human system

    Thomas E. Gill

  • Intensified dust storm activity and Valley fever infection in the southwestern United States

    Daniel Q. Tong;Daniel Q. Tong;Daniel Q. Tong;Julian X. L. Wang;Thomas E. Gill;Hang Lei;Hang Lei

  • Enzyme activities and microbial community structure in semiarid agricultural soils

    V. Acosta-Martínez;T. M. Zobeck;T. E. Gill;A. C. Kennedy

  • Preferential dust sources: A geomorphological classification designed for use in global dust-cycle models

    Joanna E. Bullard;Sandy P. Harrison;Sandy P. Harrison;Matthew C. Baddock;Nick Drake

  • Saltating Particles, Playa Crusts and Dust Aerosols at Owens (dry) Lake, California

    Thomas A. Cahill;Thomas E. Gill;Jeffrey S. Reid;Elizabeth A. Gearhart

  • Relation of vertical flux of particles smaller than 10 μm to total aeolian horizontal mass flux at Owens Lake

    Dale A. Gillette;D. W. Fryrear;Thomas E. Gill;Trevor Ley

  • Land use/land cover and point sources of the 15 December 2003 dust storm in southwestern North America

    Jeffrey A. Lee;Thomas E. Gill;Kevin R. Mulligan;Miguel Dominguez Acosta;Miguel Dominguez Acosta

  • Screening the phytoremediation potential of desert broom (Baccharis sarothroides Gray) growing on mine tailings in Arizona, USA.

    Nazmul Haque;Jose R. Peralta-Videa;Gary L. Jones;Thomas E. Gill

  • Multiple causes of wind erosion in the Dust Bowl

    Jeffrey A. Lee;Thomas E. Gill

  • Geomorphic and land cover characteristics of aeolian dust sources in West Texas and eastern New Mexico, USA

    Jeffrey A. Lee;Matthew C. Baddock;Mbongowo J. Mbuh;Thomas E. Gill

  • Spatial and seasonal variability in fine mineral dust and coarse aerosol mass at remote sites across the United States

    J. L. Hand;T. E. Gill;B. A. Schichtel

  • Technologies for laboratory generation of dust from geological materials.

    Thomas E. Gill;Ted M. Zobeck;John E. Stout

  • Health and Safety Effects of Airborne Soil Dust in the Americas and Beyond

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  • Hospital admissions for asthma and acute bronchitis in El Paso, Texas: Do age, sex, and insurance status modify the effects of dust and low wind events?

    Sara E. Grineski;Joan G. Staniswalis;Priyangi Bulathsinhala;Yanlei Peng

  • Source characteristics of hazardous Chihuahuan Desert dust outbreaks

    Nancy I. Rivera Rivera;Thomas E. Gill;Max P. Bleiweiss;Jenny L. Hand

  • Earlier onset of the spring fine dust season in the southwestern United States

    J. L. Hand;W. H. White;K. A. Gebhart;N. P. Hyslop

  • Large-scale variability of wind erosion mass flux rates at Owens Lake 1. Vertical profiles of horizontal mass fluxes of wind-eroded particles with diameter greater than 50 μm

    Dale A. Gillette;D. W. Fryrear;Jing Bing Xiao;Paul Stockton

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas A. Cahill
Thomas A. Cahill University of California, Davis
Daniel Tong
Daniel Tong George Mason University
Kerri A. Pratt
Kerri A. Pratt University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Bret A. Schichtel
Bret A. Schichtel National Park Service
Ted M. Zobeck
Ted M. Zobeck Agricultural Research Service
Paul Ginoux
Paul Ginoux Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Joseph M. Prospero
Joseph M. Prospero University of Miami
Nicholas P. Webb
Nicholas P. Webb New Mexico State University
Joanna E. Bullard
Joanna E. Bullard Loughborough University
Gregory S. Okin
Gregory S. Okin University of California, Los Angeles

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