Research into Ceiling Dust

Jeffrey Davis is a research student from Macquarie University (resides at CSIRO) who has been studying ceiling dust for the past 4 years. His research involves looking at 35 house sites across the Sydney urban environment, where homes have been selected from, heavy industrial, industrial, urban, non-industrial and rural locations. Some of the methods and techniques Jeff has been using within his research include; microscopy and mineralogy of the ceiling dust, size fractionation from 4mm to <2.5 microns, x-ray diffraction and chemical analysis for 56 elements. The 56 elements analysed are:

Presently the results of this research are very near publication and will soon be released [as long as funding becomes available].