High Latitude Dust Workshop 2026

In situ measurements, remote sensing, modeling, long-range transport, and impacts of HLD and low-latitude dust in the Arctic, with an emphasis on CAMS User engagement in Iceland.

The 10^th High Latitude Dust Workshop will take place in Reykjavik, Iceland, on 11-12 February 2025, in a hybrid format with in-person and online participation. This event builds upon the success of previous workshops, bringing together scientists, policymakers, and experts to share and discuss the latest research on High Latitude Dust (HLD) and its impacts on the Arctic and beyond.

The workshop is organized by:

Agricultural University of Iceland (AUI)

ICEDUST Association

Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)

Czech University of Life Sciences

UArctic Thematic Network on HLD

Workshop Highlights

Dust-Art Exhibition
CAMS User Engagement Session
A dedicated session with experts from ECMWF and WMO SDS WAS, focusing on multidisciplinary discussions and innovative approaches to aerosol monitoring and modeling, particularly in Iceland.
Scientific Topics

Observing effects and extremes of HLD

Sources of HLD

Modelling and forecasting of HLD

Satellite detection of HLD

HLD and climate change

Relevance of HLD for society/users

Arctic aerosols and air pollution – Black carbon, firework emissions, microplastics, etc.

CAMS and users’ needs in Iceland

Dust and aerosol in art

Agenda

Day 1

Session 1
Session 2
Session 3

HLD Observation in the Arctic and Arctic mining

Chair: Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserova
10:00 – 11:30 (GMT)

HLD detection, dust sources, and impacts of dust onthe cryosphere

Chair: Slobodan Nickovic
12:45-14:10 (GMT)

Volcanic air pollution, microplastics and secondary aerosols in Iceland / Dust in art

Chair: Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserova
14:30-16:15 (GMT)

About the artists

Emilia Telese

University of Loughborough, UK, and Icelandic Printmaking Association, Iceland, Instagram @emiliatelese.studio

Emilia Telese is a multimedia artist based in Iceland. She uses earth and loam from emotionally and environmentally significant places to make work, pushing the boundaries of printmaking and performance. Her works, including Icelandic dust, will be part of the Workshop.

Dust Forest (2025) was an immersive printmaking art installation by artist and researcher Dr Emilia Telese at the Royal Festival Hall, London, in October 2025, using dust from Icelandic dust hotspots, collected by Dr Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserovà. In this paper, Dr Emilia Telese discusses the use of paper as a tertiary memory vessel and dust as a non-linear chronicle, referencing Bernhard Stiegler’s ideas about memory in relation to technical supports that exist beyond the human body.

Beata Katerina Spacilova

ARTS and Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Beata Katerina Spacilova is a multimedia artist and university educator. She teaches at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno and at the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University. In addition to BRNO ŠIJE, she founded an open-screen-printing workshop called BRNO TISKNE.

Stones talk too much!
Lava rocks at the very centre of dust storms are silent witnesses to natural changes. It sits quietly. It is results presentation of an interdisciplinary project from trips to the desert.