Great Salt Lake Health & Air Quality: Monitoring Lakebed Exposure and its Impact on Air Quality and Environmental Hazards in the Great Salt Lake Watershed

The Great Salt Lake (GSL) is a terminal saline lake located in northern Utah, USA. Water inflow has declined rapidly over the last forty years due to human withdrawals and climate change. Lake levels have been lowered which has exposed over 50% of the lakebed to erosion. There is a public health risk tied to the subsequent increased frequency and intensity of regional dust storms caused by airborne lakebed dust under specific meteorological conditions.