Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Cohen, A.S., Arrowsmith, J.R., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Campisano, C.J., Feibel, C.S., Fisseha, S., Bedaso, Z., Lockwood, C.A., Mbua, E., Olago, D., Potts, R., Reed, K., Renaut, R., Tiercelin, J.J & Umer, M. (2009). Understanding paleoclimate and human evolution through the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project. Scientific Drilling, v. 8, p.60-65. 01 Cohen et al 2009 Scientific Drilling.pdf

  2. Cohen, A.S. and Umer, M. (2009). Connecting Scientific Drilling and Human Evolution Scientific Drilling for Human Origins: Exploring the Aplication of Drill Core Records to Understanding Hominin Evolution; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 17–21 November 2008. Eos v. 90, no.14. 02 Cohen and Umer 2009 EOS.pdf

  3. Trauth, M.H., Bergner, A.G.N., Foerster, V., Junginger, A., Maslin, M.A., Schaebitz, F. (2015). Episodes of environmental stability versus instability in Late Cenozoic lake records of Eastern Africa. Journal of Human Evolution, v. 87, p.1-11.  03 Trauth et al 2015 JHE.pdf

  4. DiMaggio, E.N., Arrowsmith, J. R., Campisano, C. J., Johnson, R., Deino, A. L., Warren, M., Fisseha, S., and Cohen, A. 2015a. Tephrostratigraphy and depositional environment of young (<2.94 Ma) Hadar Formation deposits at Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia: Journal of African Earth Sci., v. 122, p. 234-250. 04 DiMaggio et al JAES.pdf

  5. Foerster, V., Vogelsang, R., Junginger, A., Lamb, H.F., Schaebitz, F., and Trauth, M.H. (2015). Environmental change and human occupation of southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya during the last 20,000 years. Quanternary Sci. Reviews, v.129, p. 333-340.  05 Foerster et al 2015 QSR.pdf

  6. Cohen, A., Campisano, C., Arrowsmith, R., Asrat, A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Deino, A., Feibel, C., Hill, A., Johnson, R., Kingston, J., Lamb, H., Lowenstein, T., Noren, A., Olago, D., Owen, R.B., Potts, R., Reed, K., Renaut, R., Schabitz, F., Tiercelin, J.-J., Trauth, M.H., Wynn, J., Ivory, S., Brady, K., O'Grady, R., Rodysill, J., Githiri, J., Russell, J., Foerster, V., Dommain, R., Rucina, S., Deocampo, D., Russell, J., Billingsley, A., Beck, C., Dorenbeck, G., Dullo, L., Feary, D., Garello, D., Gromig, R., Johnson, T., Junginger, A., Karanja, M., Kimburi, E., Mbuthia, A., McNulty, E., Muiruri, V., Nambiro, E., Negash, E.W., Njagi, D., Wilson, J.N., Rabideaux, N., Raub, T., Seir, M.J., Smith, P., Urban, J., Warren, M., Yadeta, M., Yost, C., and Zinaye, B. (2016). The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: inferring the environmental context of human evolution from eastern African rift lake deposits. Scientific Drilling. v. 21, p.1-16.  06 Cohen et al 2016 Scientific Drilling HSPDP.pdf

  7. Mohan, J., Stone, J.R., and Campisano, C.J. (2016). Three novel species of Bacillariophyta (Diatoms) belonging to Aulacoseira and Lindavia from the Pliocene Hadar Formation, Afar Depression of Ethiopia. Phytotaxa, v.272, no. 4, p. 235-247. 07 Mohan et al 2016 Phytotaxa diatom descriptions.pdf

  8. Campisano, C.J., Cohen, A.S., Arrowsmith, J.R., Asrat, A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Brown, E.T., Deino, A.L., Deocampo, D.M., Feibel, C.S., Kingston, J.D., Lamb, H.F., Lowenstein, T.K., Noren, A., Olago, D.O., Owen, R.B., Pelletier, J.D., Potts, R., Reed, K.E., Renaut, R.W., Russell, J.M., Russell, J.L., Schabitz, F., Stone, J.R., Trauth, M.H., and Wynn, J.G. (2017). The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: High-resolution paleoclimate records from the East African rift system and their implications for understanding the environmental context of hominin evolution. PaleoAnthropology, p. 1-43. 08 Campisano et al 2017 Paleoanthropology HSPDP overview.pdf

  9. Naiman, Z., Goodman, P.J., Krasting, J.P., Malyshev, S.L., Russell, J.L., Stouffer, R.J., and Wittenberg, A.T. (2017). Impact of mountains on tropical circulation in two Earth system models. Journal of climate, 30: 4149-4163.  09 Naiman et al 2017 J. Climate.pdf

  10. Sier, M.J., Langereis, C.G., Dupont-Nivet, G., Feibel, C.S., Joordens, J.C.A, van der Lubbe, J.H.J.L. Beck, C.C., Olago, D., Cohen, A.S., and WTK Science team members. (2017). The top of the Olduvai Subchron in a high-resolution magnetostratigraphy from the West Turkana core WTK13, hominin sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP). Quaternary Geochronology 42:117-129. 10 Sier et al 2017 Quat Geochron.pdf

  11. Lupien, R.L., Russell, J.M., Feibel, C., Becj, C., Castañeda, I., Deino, A., Cohen, A.S. (2018). A leaf wax biomarker record of early Pleistocene hydroclimate from West Turkana, Kenya. QSR, 186: 225-235. 11 Lupien et al 2018 QSR.pdf

  11a. Owen, R.B., Renaut, R.W., and Lowenstein, T.K. (2018). Spatial and temporal geochemical variability in lacustrine sedimentation in the East African Rift System: Evidence from the Kenya Rift and regional analyses. Sedimentology, 65: 1697-1730. 11a. Owen et al., 2018.pdf

  1. Trauth, M., et al. (2018). Abrupt or Gradual? Change Point Analysis of the Late Pleistocene-Holocene Climate Record from Chew Bahir, Southern Ethiopia. Quaternary Research. 12. Trauth et al., 2018

  2. Foerster, V., Deocampo, D.M., Asrat, A., Gunter, C., Junginger, A., Kraemer, H., Stroncik, N.A., Trauth, M.H. (2018). Towards an understanding of climate proxy formation in the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopian Rift. Paleo3. 13 Foerster et al 2018.pdf

  3. Blinkhorn, J., and Grove, M. (2018). The structure of the Middle Stone Age of eastern Africa. QSR, 195: 1-20. 14 Blinkhorn and Grove 2018.pdf

  4. Owen, R.B., Muiruri, V.M., Lowenstein, T.K., Renaut, R.W., Rabideaux, N., Luo, S., Deino, A.L., Sier, M.J., Dupont-Nivet, G., McNulty, E.P., Leet, K., Cohen, A., Campisano, C., Deocampo, D., Shen, C-C., Billingsley, A., and Mbuthia, A. (2018). Progressive aridification in East Africa over the last half million years and implications for human evolution. PNAS. 15. Owen et al., 2018.pdf

  5. Brindle, M., Mohan, J., Beck, C., Stone, J. (2018). Three novel species of Bacillariophyta (Diatoms) in the genera Surirella and Thalassiosira from Pleistocene Paleolake Lorenyang (~2 - 1.6 Ma) Turkana Basin, Kenya. Phytotaxa 371(3): 230-240. 16 Brindle et al Phytotaxa.pdf

  6. Viehberg, F. A., et al., (2018). Environmental change during MIS4 and MIS3 opened corridors in the Horn of Africa for Homo sapiens expansion. Quaternary Science Reviews. 17. Viehberg et al., 2018.pdf

  7. Owen, R.B., Renaut, R.W., Muiruri, V.M., Rabideaux, N., Lowenstein, T.K., McNulty, E.P., Leet, K., Deocampo, D., Luo, S., Deino, A.L., Cohen, A., Sier, M.J., Campisano, C.,  Shen, C-C., Billingsley, A., Mbuthia, A., and Stockhecke, M. (2019). Quaternary history of the Lake Magadi Basin, southern Kenya Rift: Tectonic and climatic controls. Palaeo3. 18. Owen et al. 2019.pdf

  8. Westover, K., Stone, J.R., Yost, C.L., Scott, J.J., Cohen, A.S., Rabideaux, N.M., Stockhecke, M., and Kingston, J.D. (2019). Diatom paleolimnology of late Pliocene Baringo Basin (Kenya) paleolakes. Palaeo3. 19 Westover et al 2019 PPP BTB diatoms.pdf

19a. Trauth, M.H., Asrat, A., Duesing, W., Foerster, V., Kraemer, K.H., Marwan, N., Maslin, M.A.,  and Schaebitz, F., 2019 Classifying past climate change in the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia, using recurrence quantification analysis. Climate Dynamics.  19a Trauth et al 2019 Climate Dynamics recurrence plots and CB.pdf

  1. Billingsley, A., Reinthal, P., Dettman, D.L., Kingston, J.D., Deino, A.L., Ortiz, K., Mohler, B., and Cohen, A.S. (2019). delta13C records from fish fossils as paleo-indicators of ecosystem responses to lake levels in the Plio-Pleistocene lakes of Tugen Hills, Kenya. Palaeo3. 20 Billingsley et al 2019 Palaeo3 BTB fish fossils.pdf

  1. Deino, A.L., Sier, M.J., Garello, D., Keller, B., Kingston, J., Scott, J., Dupont-Nivet, G., and Cohen, A. (2019). Chronostratigraphy of the Baringo-Tugen-Barsemoi (HSPDP-BTB13-1A) core -- 40Ar/39Ar dating, magnetostratigraphy, tephrostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy and Bayesian age modeling. Palaeo3, 532. 21. Deino et al Chronostratigraphy of the BTB core.pdf

  2. Lupien, R.L., Russell, J., Yost, C., Kingston, J., Deino, A., Logan, J., Schuh, A., and Cohen, A. (2019). Vegetation change in the Baringo Basin, East Africa across the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation 3.3-2.6 Ma. Palaeo3. 22 Lupien et al PPP BTB Leaf Wax.pdf

  3. Kutzbach, J.E., Guan, J., He, F., Cohen, A.S., Orland, I.J., and Chen, G. (2020). African climate response to orbital and glacial forcing in 140,000-y simulation with implications for early modern human environments. PNAS. 23 Kutzbach et al 2020 PNAS.pdf     

  4. Stone, J.R., Kociolek, J.P., and Westover, K.S. (2020). Two multi-stigmate Gomphonema species of Africa: Gomphonema kalahariense (nom. nov., stat. nov.) and Gomphonema chemeron (sp. nov.). Phytotaxa. 24 Stone, Kociolek, Westover Phytotaxa 2020.pdf

  5. Yost, C.L., Ivory, S.J., Deino, A.L., Rabideaux, N., Kingston, J.D., and Cohen, A.S. (2020). Phytoliths, pollen, and microcharcoal from the Baringo Basin, Kenya reveal savanna dynamics during the Plio-Pleistocene transition. Palaeo3. 25 Yost et al 2020 - BTB Core Paleoveg-Fire

  6. Lupien, R.L., Russell, J.M., Grove, M., Beck, C.C., Feibel, C.S., and Cohen, A.S. (2020). Abrupt climate change and its influences on hominin evolution during the early Pleistocene in the Turkana Basin, Kenya. Quaternary Science Reviews. 26 Lupien et al 2020 QSR WTK leaf wax

  7. Renaut, R.W., Owen, B., Lowenstein, T.K., De Cort, G., Mcnulty, E., Scott, J.J., Mbuthia, A. (2020). The role of hydrothermal fluids in sedimentation in saline alkaline lakes:  Evidence from Nasikie Engida, Kenya Rift Valley.  Sedimentology 27 Renaut et al 2020 Sedimentology-unnumbered Nasikie Engida hydrothermal and seds.pdf

  8. Muiruri, V.M., Owen, B., Lowenstein, T.K., De Cort, G., Mcnulty, E., Scott, J.J., Mbuthia, A. (2020). The role of hydrothermal fluids in sedimentation in saline alkaline lakes:  Evidence from Nasikie Engida, Kenya Rift Valley.   28 Muiruri et al 2020 Paleolimnol.pdf 

  9. Trauth, M.H., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Duesing, W., Foerster, V., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Kraemer, K.H., Lamb, H.F., Marwan, N., Maslin, M.A., Schaebitz, Frank (2021). Recurring types of variability and transitions in the ~620 kyr record of climate change from the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia. Quaternary Science Reviews. 29 Trauth et al Quat Sci Rev Recurring variability

  10. Sier, M.J., Dupont-Nivet, G., Langereis, C., Deino, A.L., Kingston, J.D., Cohen, A.S. (2020). Magnetostratigraphy of the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP) Baringo-Tugen Hills-Barsemoi core (Kenya) Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 30 Sier et al Paleo3 Baringo 2020.pdf

  11. Duesing, W., Berner, N., Deino, A.L., Foerster, V., Kraemer, K.H., Marwan, N., Trauth, M.H. (2021). Multiband wavelet age modeling for a ~293 m (~600 kyr) sediment core from Chew Bahir Basin, southern Ethiopian Rift. Frontiers in Earth Science. 31 Duesing et al 2021 Frontiers Earth Sci Multiband wavelet age modeling CHB

  12. Muiruri, V.M., R. Bernhart Owen b,*, Tim K. Lowenstein c, Robin W. Renaut d, Robert Marchant e, Stephen M. Rucina a, Andrew Cohen f, Alan L. Deino g, Mark J. Sier h,i, Shangde Luo j, Kennie Leet c, Christopher Campisano k, Nathan M. Rabideaux l, Daniel Deocampo m, Chuan-Chou Shen n,o, Anthony Mbuthia p, Brant C. Davis f, Wadha Aldossari f, Chenyu Wang(2020). A million year vegetation history and palaeoenvironmental record from the Lake Magadi Basin, Kenya Rift Valley Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 32 Muiruri et al 2021 Palaeo3 Magadi pollen.pdf

  13. Leet, K., Lowenstein, T.K., Renaut, R.W., Owen, R.B., Cohen, A. (2021). Labyrinth patterns in Magadi (Kenya) cherts: Evidence for early formation from siliceous gels. Geology. 33 Leet et al 2021 Geology Labyrinth cherts Magadi

  14. Publication coming

  15. Gebregiorgis, D., Daniel M. Deocampo, Verena Foerster, Fred J. Longstaffe, Jeremy S. Delaney, Frank Schaebitz, Annett Junginger, Monika Markowska, Stephan Opitz, Martin H. Trauth, Henry F. Lamb, and Asfawossen Asrat(2020). Frontiers Modern Sedimentation and authigenic mineral formation in the Chew Bahir Basin. frontiers in Earth Science. 35 GEBREGIORGIS et al, 2021, Frontiers Modern Sedimentation and authigenic mineral formation in the Chew Bahir Basin.pdf

  16. Kaboth-Bahr, S., Gosling, W.D., Vogelsang, R., Bahr., A., Scerri, E.M.L., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Duesing, W., Foerster, V., Lamb, H.F., Maslin, M.A., Roberts, H.M., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H. (2021). Paleo-ENSO influence on African environments and early modern humans. PNAS. 36 Kaboth Bahr et al 2021 PNAS PaleoENSO

  17. Schaebitz, F., Asrat, A., Lamb, H.F. Cohen, A.C., Foerster, V., Duesing, W., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Opitz, S., Viehberg, F.A., Vogelsang, R., Dean, J., Leung, M.J., Junginger, A., Brong Ramsey, C., Chapot, M.S., Deino, A., Lane, C.S., Roberts, H.M., Vidal, C., Tiedemann, R, and Trauth, M.H. (2021). Hydroclimate changes in eastern Africa over the past 200,000 years may have influenced early human dispersal. Communications Earth & Environment. 37 Schaebitz et al 2021 Communications Earth Env CHB last 200ka

  18. Roberts, H., Ramsey, C.B., Chapot, M.S., Deino, A.L., Lane, C.S., Vidal, C., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S.,
    Foerster, V., Lamb, H.F., Schabitz, F., Trauth, M.H., and Viehberg, F.A., 2021, Using multiple
    chronometers to establish a long, directly-dated lacustrine record: Constraining >600,000 years of
    environmental change at Chew Bahir, Ethiopia. Quaternary Science Reviews. 266.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107025

  19. Arnold, G.E., Foerster, V., Trauth, M.H., Lamb, H., Schaebitz, F., Asrat, A., Szczech, C., and Günter, C.,
    2021, Advanced Hyperspectral Analysis of Sediment Core Samples from the Chew Bahir Basin, Ethiopian Rift, in the Spectral Range from 0.25 to 17µm: Support for Climate Proxy Interpretation. Frontiers in Earth Science. 39 Arnold et al 2021 Frontiers

  20. Trauth, M.H., Asrat, A., Berner, N., Bibi, F., Foerster, V., Grove, M., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Maslin, M.,
    Mudelsee, M., and Schabitz, F., 2021, Northern Hemisphere Glaciation, African climate and human
    evolution. Quaternary Science Reviews. 268. 40. Trauth et al., 2021

  21. Yost, C.L., Lupien, R.L., Beck, C., Feibel, C.S., Archer, S.R., Cohen, A.S., 2021, Orbital Influence on
    Precipitation, Fire, and Grass Community Composition From 1.87 to 1.38Ma in the Turkana Basin, Kenya. Frontiers in Earth Science. 41 Yost et al 2021 Frontiers WTK phytoliths and charcoal

  22. Deocampo, D.M., Owen, R.B., Lowenstein, T.K., Renaut,R.W., Rabideaux, N.M., Billingsley, A., Cohen, A., Deino, A.L., Sier, M.J., Luo, S., Shen, C.-C., Gebregiorgis, D., Campisano, C., and Mbuthia, A., 2021, Orbital control of Pleistocene euxinia in Lake Magadi, Kenya. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G49140.1.  42 Deocampo et al Geology Euxinia L Magadi.pdf

  23. Grove, M., 2021, Climatic change and climatic variability: An objective decomposition, Quaternary Science Reviews, 271. 43. Grove

  24. Fisher, M.L., Bachofer, F., Yost. C.L., Bludau, I.J.E., Schepers, C., Foerster, V., Lamb, H., Schäbitz, F., Asrat, A., Trauth, M.H., Junginger, A., 2021, A phytolith supported biosphere-hydrosphere predictive model for Southern Ethiopia: insights into paleoenvironmental changes and human landscape preferences since the ast glacial maximum. Geosciences 2021, 11, 418. 44. Fisher et al., 2021

  25. Cohen, A.S., Campisano, C., Arrowsmith, R., Asrat, A., Beck, C., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Deino, A., Feibel, C., Foerster, V., Kingston, J., Lamb, H.F., Lowenstein, T., Lupien, R., Muiruri, V.,  Olago, D., Owen, R.B., Potts, R., Russell, J.,  Schaebitz, F., Stone, J., Trauth, M., and Yost, C., 2022, Reconstructing the Environmental Context of Human Origins in Eastern Africa through Scientific Drilling. Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 50:451-476, 45. Cohen et al., 2022

  26. Krueger J, Foerster V, Trauth MH, Hofreiter M and Tiedemann R (2021) Exploring the Past Biosphere of Chew Bahir/Southern Ethiopia: Cross-Species Hybridization Capture of Ancient Sedimentary DNA from a Deep Drill Core. Front. Earth Sci. 9:683010. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.683010 46. Krueger et al., 2021

  27. Duesing, W., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Foerster, V., Lamb, H.F., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H., and Viehberg, F., 2021 Changes in the cyclicity and variability of the eastern African paleoclimate over the last 620 kyrs. Quat. Sci. Rev. 273, 47 Duesing et al., 2021

  28. Berner, N., Trauth, M. and Holschneider, M., 2022, Bayesian inference about Plio-Pleistocene climate transitions in Africa. Quat. Sci. Rev. 277, Berner 2022

  29. Zawacki, E.E., van Soest, M.C., Hodges, K.V., Scott, J.J., Barboni, M., Strecker, M.R., Feibel, C.S., Campisano, C.J., and Arrowsmith, J.R., 2022, Sediment provenance and silicic volcano-tectonic evolution of the northern East African Rift System from U/Pb and (U-Th)/He laser ablation double dating of detrital zircons. Earth Planet. Sci. Let. 580, 49. Zawacki et al., 2022

  30. Lupien, R.L., Russell, J.M., Pearson, E.J., Castañeda, I.S., Asrat, A., Foerster, V., Lamb, H.F., Roberts, H.M., Schäbitz, F., Trauth, M.H., Beck, C.C., Feibel, C.S. and Cohen, A.S. 2022 Orbital-scale controls on the Pleistocene hydroclimate of eastern Africa. Scientific Reports. 12. 50. Lupien et al., 2022

  31. Cohen, A.S., Du, A., Rowan, J., Yost, C.L. Billingsley, A.L., Campisano, C.J., Brown, E.T., Deino, A.L., Feibel, C.S., Grant, K., Kingston, J.D., Lupien. R., Muiruri, V., Owen, R.B., Reed, K.E., Russell, J., & Stockhecke, M.  2022 Plio-Pleistocene African environmental variability and mammalian evolution Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 119 e2107393119. 51. Cohen et al

  32. Foerster, V., Asrat, A., Bronk Ramsey, C. Brown, E.T., Chapot, M.S., Deino, A., Deocampo, D.M., Duesing, W., Hahn, A., Junginger, A., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Lane, C.S., Noren, A., Roberts, H.M., Stockhecke, M., Tiedemann, R., Vidal, C., Vogelsang, R., Cohen, A.S., Lamb, Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H., 2022, Pleistocene climate variability in eastern Africa influenced hominin evolution. Nature Geoscience15, doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01032-y. 52. Foerster et al., 2022

  33. Rooney, T.O., Brown, E.L., Bastow I.D., Arrowsmith, J.R., Campisano, C.J. 2023, Magmatism during the continent – ocean transition. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 614. 53. Rooney et al., 2023

  34. Mitsunaga, B.A., Lupien, R.L., Ouertani, S., Stubbs, B., Deino, A.L., Kingston J.D., Stockhecke, M., Brown, E.T., Russell, J.M., 2023. High-Latitude, Indian Ocean, and Orbital Influences on Eastern African Hydroclimate Across the Plio-Pleistocene Boundary, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38. 54. Mitsunaga et al., 2023

 

Theses and Dissertations

Ph.D. Dissertations
  1. Bright, J. 2017, Multi-disciplinary paleoenvironmental context for the integration of the Lower Colorado River Corridor, Bouse Formation, CA-AZ, USA, and Middle to Late Pleistocene Human Evolution, the Koora Plain, Southern Kenya. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Arizona.
  2. Muiruri, V. 2017, Late Quaternary diatom and palynomorph stratigraphies and palaeoenvironments of the Koora Graben and Lake Magadi Basin, Kenya Rift Valley. PhD dissertation, Hong Kong Baptist University.
  3. Ruddock, J. 2018, Exploring Climate Change Uncertainties through Art-Science Practices. PhD thesis, Aberystwyth University. 231pp.
  4. Rabideaux, N. 2018, Late Quaternary East African Environmental Change Based on Mineralogical and Geochemical Analysis of Outcrop and Core Material from the Southern Kenya Rift. Ph.D. dissertation, Georgia State University.
  5. Naiman, Z. 2018, Mountains and Earth’s Climate: Insights from Two Earth System Models. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Arizona.
  6. Garello, D. 2019, Tephrostratigraphy of Pliocene drill cores from Kenya and Ethiopia, and Pleistocene exposures in the Ledi-Geraru Research Project area, Ethiopia: Geological context for the evolution of Australopithecus and Homo. Ph.D. dissertation, Arizona State University.
  7. Lupien, R. 2019, The Plio-Pleistocene Climate History of East Africa and the Role of Environmental Change on Human Evolution: Studies of Leaf Wax Isotopes from Paleolake Sediment. Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University.
  8. Billingsley, A. 2019., Pan-African climate variability since the Plio-Pleistocene and possible implications for hominin evolution. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Arizona. 
  9. Yost, C. 2019, Phytoliths and microcharcoal from East African lake sediments used to reconstruct Plio-Pleistocene vegetation and hydroclimate. Ph.D. disseration, University of Arizona.
  10. Düsing, W. 2021. From changes in the Earth's orbit to African climate variability. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Potsdam.
  11. Zawacki, E. 2021. Plio-Pleistocene sediment provenance and erosion rates along the East African Rift System. Ph.D. dissertation. Arizona State University.
M.S. Theses
  1. Muriithi, N. D. 2015, The Plio-Pleistocene History Of Sedimentation In Lake Baringo Basin, Kenya - A Drill Core Perspective. MSc Thesis, University of Nairobi, 70pp

  2. Lupien, R. 2016, Leaf wax biomarker record of rainfall from West Turkana, Kenya. MS Thesis, Brown University

  3. Cappio, L. 2016, Reconstruction of the Pleistocene Envrionment and Climate of the Olorgesailie Basin. MSc Thesis, University of Minnesota. Cappio, 2016

  4. Sieg, B. 2016, Landscape response to alternating wet and dry seasons observed by remotely sensed data in the Chew Bahir basin, Ethiopia. MSc Thesis, University of Potsdam.

  5. Ferland, T. 2017, An evaluation of the organic geochemical potential to reconstruct Mid-Pleistocene paleoclimate adjacent to an established hominin site: Lake Magadi, Kenya. MSc Thesis, University of Pittsburgh. 

  6. Minkara, K. 2017, Zeolite facies and environmental change in the Plio-Pleistocene Baringo Basin, Kenya Rift. MSc Thesis, Georgia State University. Minkara, 2017

  7. Mohan, J. 2017, Taxonomy and Paleolimnology of the Bacillariophyceae (Diatoms) from lacustrine sequences in the Pliocene Hadar Formation, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia. MSc Thesis, Indiana State University.

  8. Thom, J.K. 2017, Statistical analysis of color reflectance time series from sediments of the Chew Bahir Basin, Southern Ethiopian Rift. MSc Thesis, University of Potsdam.

  9. McNulty, E. 2017, Lake Magadi and the soda lake cycle: A study of the modern sodium carbonates and Late Pleistocene and Holocene lacustrine core sediments. MSc Thesis, Binghamton University.

  10. Kruger, J., 2019. Ancient sedimentary DNA from extremely dry environments-a study on two sediment cores from Lake Chew Bahir, Ethiopia. MSc Thesis, University of Potsdam.

  11. Manobianco, J., 2021, Interpretation Of Seasonality From Geochemistry and Sclerochronology Of Holocene And Pleistocene Freshwater Bivalves from the Omo-Turkana Basin, Ethiopia And Kenya. M. Sc. Thesis, University of Arizona.

B.S. Theses
  1. Gravina, A. 2015, Paleoecology of Ostracods from the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project’s West Turkana Kaitio core from West Turkana, Kenya. BS Thesis, Rutgers University, 34pp. Gravina 2015.pdf
  2. Schuuman, J. 2015, Climate Information in Hyperspectral Data, Analcime in a Sediment Record from Chew Bahir, Ethiopia. BS Thesis, University of Potsdam.

  3. Hirniak, J.N. 2016, Spatial and temporal analysis of paleoanthropological data associated with paleo-Lorenyang Lake. BS Thesis, Rutgers University, 45pp.

  4. Schulze, M. 2016, Von der mineralogischen Zusammensetzung des Bohrkerns CB02 zur Klimageschichte im Jungquartär: Röntgendiffraktometrische Analysen an lakustrinen Sedimenten aus Chew Bahir, Südäthiopien. BS Thesis, University of Potsdam, 65pp.

  5. Gimsa, J. 2016, Multiproxy-Analyse an dem Bohrkern CB-02 aus dem Chew Bahir Becken (Südäthiopien). BS Thesis, University of Potsdam, 52pp.
  6. Bidinger, R. 2016, PCA/ICA of micro-XRF data of Core CB01 from the Chew Bahir basin, S Ethiopian Rift. BS Thesis, University of Potsdam.

  7. Gimsa, J. 2016,  Multiproxy-Analyse an dem Bohrkern CB-02 aus dem Chew Bahir Becken (Südäthiopien). BS Thesis, University of Potsdam.

  8. Schulze, M. 2016, Röntgendiffraktometrische Analysen an lakustrinen Sedimenten aus Chew Bahir, Südäthiopien. BS Thesis, University of Potsdam.

  9.  Thompson-Munson, M.E., 2017, Understanding the Environments in which early humans lived: Insights from organic geochemical analyses of East African Rift Valley paleolakes. BS Thesis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

  10. Subramanian, A. 2018, Statistical Analysis of East African Paleoclimate Variations During the Late Pleistocene, and Implications for Human Evolution. Sc.B. Thesis. Brown University, Providence, RI.

  11. Alexander, E. 2019. Grain size analysis of the West Turkana Kaitio (WTK13) core and implications for paleoenvironments in the Turkana Basin 1.9 to 1.4 Ma. BA Honors Thesis. Hamilton College, NY.

Workshop and Conference Presentations

 

  1. Cohen, A.S. and the HSPDP Research Team, (2013) The Hominin Sites And Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP): A progress report on documenting the paleoenvironmental context of human origins through scientific drilling. East African Quaternary Research Association, Nanyuki, Kenya, July 2013 presentation and abstract.

  2. Joordens, J., Feibel, C., Dupont-Nivet, G., Cohen, A., Beck, C., van der Lubbe, J., Sier, M., Langereis, C., Vonhof, H., (2013) Combining the HSPDP West Turkana core with outcrop samples to provide a climate framework for hominin evolution between ca. 2.1 - 1.4 Ma. International Continental Drilling Program Science Conference 2013, Potsdam, Germany. 02. Joordens et al 2013 ICDP Potsdam.doc

  3. Cohen, A.S., Arrowsmith, R., Asrat, A., Campisano, C., Deino, A., Feibel, C., Foerster, V., Hill, A., Ivory, S., Kingston, J., Lamb, H., Lowenstein, T., Olago, D., Owen, R.B., Renaut, R., Schäbitz, F., and the HSPDP Research Team, (2013) The Hominin Sites And Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP): A progress report on documenting the paleoenvironmental context of human origins through scientific drilling. International Continental Drilling Program Science Conference 2013, Potsdam, Germany. Cohen et al 2013 ICDP Potsdam.pdf

  4. Cohen, A.S., Asrat, A., Campisano, C.J., Feibel, C.S., Ivory, S., Kingston, J.D., Lamb, H.F., Olago, D.O., Renaut, R.W., Scahbitz, F., and HSPDP field team, (2013) The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP): Documenting the paleoenvironmental context of human origins in East Africa through scientific drilling. GSA Ann. Mtg., Denver, CO paper 327-10. Cohen et al 2013 GSA Denver.pdf

  5. Plange, K., Ortiz, K., Smith, P.H. and Cohen, A.S., (2014) Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: What can loss on ignition and MSCL log data tell us about paleoenvironments and paleoclimates? Earth Week/Geodaze, 42nd Annual Geoscience Symposium, April 10-12, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA. 05. Plange et al 2014 GEODAZE Tucson.docx

  6. Cohen, A., (2014) What I’ve Learned Drilling African Lake Deposits. Invited Keynote Speaker, Olduvai Drilling Workshop, April 5-6, Stone Age Institute, Bloomington IN USA.

  7. Sier, M.J., Langereis, C., Dupont-Nivet, G., Vonhof, H., Joordens, J., Yost, C., Beck, C., Feibel, C., van der Lubbe, J. and Cohen, A., (2014) ICDP Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project, an Introduction. NAC12, 8-9 April Veldhoven, The Netherlands.

  8. Feibel, C.S., Van Der Lubbe, J., Yost, C., Beck, C., Vonhof, H.B., Joordens, J.C., and Cohen, A.S., (2014) An integrated multi-proxy investigation of outcrop and core records from an Early Pleistocene lacustrine sequence in West Turkana, Kenya. Northeastern Section Geol. Soc. Amer. 23-25 March, Lancaster, PA USA. Feibel et al 2014 GSA NE Lancaster PA.pdf

  9. Lamb, H., (2014) Bones, genes, stones and mud: testing hypotheses of climate change and human origins. Climate Consortium of Wales, March 6, Aberystwyth U., Aberystwyth UK. 09. Lamb 2014 Wales Climate Consortium.doc

  10. Kingston, J., Deino, A., Hill, A., Cohen, A., Doman, J., Njagi, D., Noren, A., Ivory, S., and Yost, C., (2014) Linking hominin evolution and climate in the Baringo Basin, Kenya: The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP). Soc. Vertebrate Paleo. Ann. Mtg., Berlin, Germany

  11. McCartney, T., Scholz, C., and Cohen, A. S., (2014) Correlations between natural spectral gamma and magnetic susceptibility logs at Kenyan HSPDP sites: The search for a magnetic susceptibility proxy. GSA Ann. Mtg. Abstr. w/prog., Vancouver, B.C. McCartney et al 2014 GSA Vancouver.pdf

  12. Ortiz, K., Plange, K., Cohen, A. S., Feibel, C. S., Kingston, J. D., Deino, A., Hill, A., and Smith, P., (2014) Preliminary TOC/TIC and geophysical data from two HSPDP drill core sites in Kenya, with implications for Pliocene hominin paleoenvironments. GSA Ann. Mtg. Abstr. w/prog., Vancouver, B.C. Ortiz 2014 GSA Vancouver.pdf

  13. Yost, C. L., Cohen, A.S., Feibel, C. S., and Campisano, C. J., (2014) Preliminary phytolith results from the early Pleistocene West Turkana, Kenya, drill core of the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP). GSA Ann. Mtg. Abstr. w/prog., Vancouver, B.C. Yost et al 2014 GSA Vancouver.pdf

  14. Beck, C. C., Feibel, C. S., Henderek, R. L., Gravina, A., Sier, M. J., Cohen, A. S., and Campisano, C. J., (2014) A fluctuating Pleistocene lake margin: updates from the HSPDP West Turkana Kaitio drill leg, GSA Ann. Mtg. Abstr. w/prog., Vancouver, B.C. Beck et al 2014 GSA Vancouver.pdf

  15. Campisano, C. J., Cohen, A. S., Asrat, A., Feibel, C. S., Kingston, J. D., Lamb, H. F., Olago, D. O., Owen, R. B., Renaut, R. W., and Schäbitz, F., (2014) The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP) drilling campaigns: the trials and triumphs of trying the unique and new, GSA Ann. Mtg. Abstr. w/prog., Vancouver, B.C. Campisano et al 014 GSA Vancouver.pdf

  16. Rabideaux, N.M.,Deocampo, D.M., Feibel, C., Nielson, D., Beck, C., (2014) Illitization of smectite due to fault related hydrothermal alteration in HSPDP West Turkana Core as revealed by clay mineralogy: implications for core interpretation. GSA Ann. Mtg. Abstr. w/prog., Vancouver, B.C. Rabideaux et al 2014 GSA Vancouver.pdf

  17. Stockhecke, M., Brown, E.T., Campisano, C.J. and Cohen A.S., (2014) Future insights into East African continental climate variability and human evolution over 3.5 Ma: the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP), Multiproxy approach to the reconstruction of the Pliocene climate (September 17th to 19th, 2014, Barcelona, Spain). Stockhecke et al 2014 PlioPleist Climate Workshop Barcelona.pdf

  18. Foerster, V., Junginger, A., Vogelsang, R. Asrat, A., Lamb, H.F., Wagner, B., Viehberg, F., Frank, U., Brown, M.C., Trauth, M. H., and Schäbitz, F., (2014) New sedimentary climate archive in the source region of Homo sapiens: A late Quaternary climate record from Chew Bahir, southern Ethiopia, SDGG Geofrankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany. Foerster et al 2014 Geofrankfurt Frankfurt.pdf

  19. Lamb, H.F., and HSPDP members., (2014) The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: testing hypotheses of climate-driven human evolution and dispersal. The African Human Fossil Record. Toulouse, Sept., 2014. 19. Lamb et al 2014 HSPDP Toulouse.docx

  20. Foerster, V.Vogelsang, R., Junginger, A., Asrat, A., Lamb, H.F., Trauth, M.H., and Schäbitz, F., (2014) Umweltvariabilität im Spätquartär als Motor für kulturelle und technische Innovationen? Jahrestagung der Afrikagruppe deutscher Geowissenschaftler/-innen (AdG) Foerster et al _AdG Cologne.pdf

  21. Lamb, H., Cohen, A.S., Schäbitz, F., Asrat, A., Barker, P., Bates, R., Davies, S., Deino, A., Förster, V., Grove, M., Huws, D., Junginger, A., Konrad-Schmolke, M., Lane, C., Leng, M., Mark, D., Martin-Jones, E., Pearce, N., Pearson, E., Ramsey, C., Raub, T., Rethemeyer, J., Roberts, H., Rogass, C., Trauth, M., Viehberg, F., Wagner, B., Woldegabriel, G., (2015) The Hominin sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: testing hypotheses of climate-driven human evolution and dispersal at Chew Bahir, Ethiopia. African Quaternary Conference and Workshop., Capetown, South Africa Jan 30-Feb 7, 2015. Lamb et al 2015 Africa Quat Assoc Capetown.pdf

  22. Schäbitz, F., Wagner, B., Viehberg, F., Wennrich, V., Rethemeyer, J., Just, J., Klasen, N., Asrat, A., Lamb, H., Förster, V., Trauth, M., Junginger, A., Cohen, A.S. and the HSPDP science team, (2015) First results from the deep drilling at Chew Bahir (S-Ethiopia). African Quaternary Conference and Workshop., Capetown, South Africa Jan 30-Feb 7, 2015. 22 Schaebitz et al 2015 Africa Quat Assoc Capetown.docx

  23. Stockhecke, M., Beck, C, Brown, E, Cohen, A., Deino, A, Feibel, C.S., and the HSPDP Drilling Project research team, (2015) A ~600 kyr duration Early Pleistocene record from the West Turkana (Kenya) HSPDP drill site: elemental XRF variability to reconstruct climate change in Turkana Boy’s backyard. Stockhecke et al 2015 AGU San Francisco.pdf

  24. Cohen, A.S., Campisano, C., Arrowsmith, R., Asrat, A., Deino, A., Feibel, C., Hill, A., Kingston, J., Lamb, H.F., Lowenstein, T., Olago, D., Owen, R.B., Renaut, R., Schabitz, F., Tiercelin, J.J., Wynn, J. and the HSPDP Science team, (2015) The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP): Collecting paleolake drill cores from the East African Rift Valley to document the environmental context of human origins, African Quaternary Conference and Workshop., Capetown, South Africa Jan 30-Feb 7, 201524. Cohen et al 2015 AfQUA.docx

  25. Campisano, C.J., Cohen, A.S., Asrat, A., Feibel, C.S., Kingston, J.D., Lamb, H.F., Olago, D.O., Owen, R.B., Renaut, R.W., Schäbitz, F., Arrowsmith, J.R. & Ivory, S.J., (2015) Drilling campaign summary and preliminary results of the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP). PaleoAnthropology Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April, 2015. Campisano et al 2015 Paleoanthro.pdf

  26. Cohen, A.S., Campisano, C., Asrat, A., Arrowsmith, R., Deino, A., Feibel, C., Hill, A., Kingston, J., Lamb, H., Lowenstein, T., Olago, D., Owen, R.B., Renaut, R., Schäbitz, F., Trauth, M., and the HSPDP Project Members., (2015) The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP): Understanding the paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic context of human origins through continental drilling. European Geoscience Union Mtg., Vienna, Austria, 12-17 Apr., 2015.26. Cohen et al 2015 EGU Vienna.docx

  27. Rabideaux, N.M., Deocampo, D.M., Potts, R., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Lowenstein, T.K., Renaut, R.W., Owen, R.B. and Cohen, A.S., (2015) Zeolitic alteration in saline, alkaline paleolake basins in the southern Kenya Rift as evidenced by analysis of minerals from Koora Graben (ODP) and Lake Magadi (HSPDP) core samples. VIth International Limnogeology Congress, Reno, NV June 2015. Rabideux et al 2015 ILIC6 Reno NV.pdf

  28. Beck, C.C., Feibel, C.S., Hendek, R.L., Cohen, A.S., Campisano, C.J., and Members of the HSPDP Project Team, (2015) A facies interpretation of the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project West Turkana core: Dynamic fluctuations on a shallow lacustrine margin. VIth International Limnogeology Congress, Reno, NV June 2015. Beck et al 2015 ILIC6 Reno NV.pdf

  29. Billingsley, A., Cohen, A.S., Kingston, J., Deino, A., Hill, A., Ortiz, K. And Plange, K., (2015) Time series analysis of the HSPDP drill core from the Tugen Hills, Kenya to determine effects of external forcing on local climate in the context of hominin evolution. 2015 VIth International Limnogeology Congress, Reno, NV June 2015. Billingsley et al 2015 .ILIC6 Reno.pdf

  30. Lowenstein, T.K., Renaut, R.W., Owen, R.B., Deocampo, D., Cohen, A.S., McNulty, E., Muiruri, V.M., Rabideaux, N.M., Billingsley, A., Mbuthia, A., (2015) The sedimentary and paleoenvironmental history of Lake Magadi, Southern Kenya Rift: New evidence from drill cores in the axial graben. VIth International Limnogeology Congress, Reno, NV June 2015. Lowenstein et al 2015 ILIC6 Reno NV.pdf

  31. Stockhecke, M., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Brown, E., Cohen, A.S., Deino, A., Dommain, R., Potts, R., and the Olorgesailie Drilling Project research team, (2015) Scanning x-ray fluorescence results from a ~1 Ma paleoenvironmental record adjacent to the Olorgesailie archaeological sites (Kenya). VIth International Limnogeology Congress, Reno, NV June 2015. Stockhecke et al 2015 ILIC6 Reno.pdf

  32. Yost, C., Cohen, A.S., and Feibel, C.S., (2015) Using phytoliths to reconstruct paleolimnological and terrestrial vegetation history at orbital time scales from the Early Pleistocene West Turkana, Kenya, drill core of the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP). ILIC abstract VIth International Limnogeology Congress, Reno, NV June 2015. Yost et al 2015 ILIC6 Reno NV.pdf

  33. Foerster, V., Asrat, A., Cohen, A., Junginger, A., Gromig, R., Lamb,H.F., Schäbitz, F., Trauth, M.H., and the HSPDP Science Team, (2015) Toward a half million year environmental record from the HSPDP deep drilling project in Chew Bahir, southern Ethiopia. VIth International Limnogeology Congress, Reno, NV June 2015. Foerster et al 2015 ILIC6 Reno NV.pdf

  34. Cohen, A.S., Campisano, C., Asrat, A., Arrowsmith, R., Deino, A., Feibel, C., Foerster, V., Hill, A., Ivory, S., Kingston, J., Lamb, H., Lowenstein,T., Olago, D., Owen, R.B., Renaut, R. Schäbitz, F., and the HSPDP Project Members, (2015) Initial results of the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP): Collection and interpretation of high resolution lacustrine drill cores from key Plio-Pleistocene paleoanthropological sites in East Africa. International Quaternary Association Meeting, Nagoya, Japan, 27 July-2 August, 2015.

  35. Cohen, A., Campisano, C., Asrat, A., Arrowsmith, R., Deino, A., Feibel, C., Hill, A., Kingston, J., Lamb, H., Lowenstein, T., Olago, D., Owen, B., Renaut, R., Schäbitz, F., Trauth, M. And the HSPDP Project Team, (2015) The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP): Understanding the paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic context of human origins through continental drilling. Continental Scientific Drilling Coordination Office (CSDCO) Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, June 2015.

  36. Schäbitz, F., Viehberg, F., Wenrich, V., Rathmeyer, J., Just, J., Klasen, N., Asrat, A., Lamb, H., Foerster, V., Trauth, M., Junginger, A. and Cohen, A.S., (2015) Preliminary results from the deep drilling at Chew Bahir, south Ethiopia. ICDP Colloquium, Bonn, Germany, March, 2015. 36 Schaebitz et al 2015 ICDP Colloquium.docx

  37. Foerster, V., Asrat, A. Cohen, A.S., Junginger, A., Schäbitz, F., Trauth, M.H., Lamb, H.F., the HSPDP science team, (2015) Three promising tons of sedimentary deposits from Chew Bahir [south Ethiopia] to reconstruct 0.5 Ma of climatic history. ICDP Colloquium, Bonn, Germany, March, 2015. Foerster_ICDP_Kolloquium_2015_final.pdf

  38. Dean, J.R., Asrat, A., Cohen, A., Foerster, V., Lamb, H.F., Leng, M.J., Schäbitz, F., Trauth, M.H., Viehberg, F., Wagner, B., and Chew Bahir Project Members, (2015) The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: Testing hypotheses of climate-driven human evolution and dispersal at Chew Bahir, Ethiopia. VIth International Limnogeology Congress, Reno, NV June 2015. Dean et al 2015 ILIC6 Reno NV.pdf

  39. Cohen, A.S., (2015) Lakes and Watersheds in “Deep Time”: What we can learn about ecological and evolutionary history using lacustrine drill core records. Invited Plenary Address. International Paleolimnology Symposium, Lanzhou, China, 3-7 August, 2015.

  40. Cappio, L., Brown, E.T., Stockhecke, M., Potts, R. and Dommain, R., (2015) Microfacies analysis and high-resolution XRF scanning of a laminated Pleistocene lacustrine sequence from East Africa. Geological Society of America Ann. Mtg., Baltimore, MD. Cappio et al 2015 GSA Baltimore.pdf

  41. Dean, J.R., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Foerster, V., Just, J., Lamb, H.F., Leng, M., Schäbitz, F., Trauth, M., Viehberg, F., (2015) New Stable Isotope Record From Chew Bahir, Ethiopia Covering Past 100ka. Geological Society of America Ann. Mtg., Baltimore, MD. Dean et al 2015 GSA Baltimore.pdf

  42. Feibel, C.S., Beck, C.C., Stockhecke, M., Gravina, A. Ortiz, K., Campisano, C.J., and Cohen, A.S. (2015) Seeing Deeper Into The Mud: Insights From The WTK13 Core, West Turkana, Kenya Geological Society of America Ann. Mtg., Baltimore, MD. Feibel et al 2015 GSA Baltimore.pdf

  43. Garello, D., Campisano, C., Wynn, J., and Arrowsmith, R., (2015) Tephrochronology and depositional environments of the Hadar Formation from the northern Awash cores of the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP). Geological Society of America Ann. Mtg., Baltimore, MD. Garello et al 2015 GSA Baltimore.pdf

  44. Gravina, A., Feibel, C., and Beck, C.C., (2015) Paleoecology of ostracods from the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project’s West Turkana Kaitio core from West Turkana, Kenya Geological Society of America Ann. Mtg., Baltimore, MD. Gravina et al 2015 GSA Baltimore.pdf

  45. Kingston, J.D., Deino, A.L.. Hill, A,. Campisano, C.J., Garello, D.,. Sier, M.J., Yost, C.L. Stone, J.R., Cohen, A.S. and Billingsley, A.L., (2015) A Plio-Pleistocene Drill Core From The Baringo Basin, Central Kenyan Rift Valley Geological Society of America Ann. Mtg., Baltimore, MD. Kingston et al 2015 GSA Baltimore.pdf

  46. Lupien, R.,Russell, J.M., Castañeda, I., Cohen, A.S. and Feibel, C.S., (2015) Leaf Wax Biomarkers As Proxies For Regional Climate Variation During Hominin Evolution Geological Society of America Ann. Mtg., Baltimore, MD. Lupien et al 2015 GSA Baltimore.pdf

  47. Ortiz, K., Arrowsmith, R., Cohen, A.S., Feibel, C.S., Deino, A., Hill, A., Beck, C.C., Campisano, C.J., Valachovic, J., Kingston, J., (2015) Paleoclimate And Paleoenvironmental Forcing On Early Humans: LOI Analysis Of Three HSPDP Drill Core Sites In Kenya And Ethiopia. Geological Society of America Ann. Mtg., Baltimore, MD. Ortiz et al 2015 GSA Baltimore.pdf

  48. Raub, T., De Kiewiet, C.H., and the HSPDP Science Team, (2015) Stromatolites suggest timing, duration and climate dynamics of the terminal African Humid Period at Chow Bahir, Ethiopia. Geological Society of America Ann. Mtg., Baltimore, MD. Raub et al 2015 GSA Baltimore.pdf

  49. Rabideaux, N., Deocampo, D.M., Lowenstein, T.K., Renaut, R.W., Owen, R.B., Muiruri, V.M. and Cohen, A.S., (2015) Authigenic Minerals As Paleosalinity Indicator From Lake Magadi, Kenya: Based On Xrd Analysis Of HSPDP-Mag Core Material Geological Society of America Ann. Mtg., Baltimore, MD. Rabideaux et al 2015 GSA Baltimore.pdf

  50. Stockhecke, M., Potts, R., Brown, E., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Dommain, R., Deino, A., and Cohen, A.S., (2015) Developing time series from complex lithostratigraphic drill core records of ancient lake beds in East Africa: XRF records from the Olorgesailie drill cores (Southern Kenya) Geological Society of America Ann. Mtg., Baltimore, MD. Stockhecke et al 2015 GSA Baltimore.pdf

  51. Thompson-Munson, M. and Castañeda, I., (2015) Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene temperature reconstructions from paleolakes of the West Turkana and North Awash basins, East Africa. Geological Society of America Ann. Mtg., Baltimore, MD. Thompson Munson and Castaneda 2015 GSA Baltimore.pdf

  52. Yost, C.L., Cohen, A.S. and Feibel, C.S., (2015) Using Phytoliths To Reconstruct Late Pleistocene Vegetation History From The Hominin Sites And Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP) West Turkana, Kenya, Drill Core Geological Society of America Ann. Mtg., Baltimore, MD. Yost et al 2015 GSA Baltimore.pdf

  53. Stone, J.R., Westover, K.S., Brindle, M.D., and Mohan J., (2015) Plio-Pleistocene diatoms from three East African Rift lakes, North American Diatom Symposium (Beaver Island). 53. Stone et al N.Am. Diatom Symp.docx

  54. Schaebitz, F., Asrat, A., Lamb, H.F., Trauth, M.H., Foerster, V., Junginger, A., Raub, T., Gromig, R., Viehberg, F., Roberts, H.M., Cohen, A.S., and the HSPDP Science Team, (2015) Chew Bahir: A key site within the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project; towards a half million year climate record from Southern Ethiopia. AGU Annual Mtg., San Francisco. Schaebitz et al 2015 AGU San Francisco.pdf

  55. Garello, D., Deino,A., Campisano, C., Kingston, J., Arrowsmith, J.R., Hill, A., (2015) Tephrochronology of the East African Baringo-Tugen Hills Cores: Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP). AGU Annual Mtg., San Francisco. Garello et al 2015 AGU San Francisco.pdf

  56. Castañeda, I.S., Thompson-Munson, M., Lupien, R., Russell, J. (2015). Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene temperature reconstructions from paleolakes of the West Turkana and North Awash Basins, East Africa. AGU Annual Mtg, San Francisco.Castaneda et al 2015 AGU San Francisco.docx

  57. Naiman, Z., Goodman, P.J., Krasting, J.P., Malyshev, S., Russell, J.L., and Stouffer, R.J., (2015) Mountains and Tropical Circulation. AGU Fall Mtg., San Francisco, CA. 57 Naiman et al 2015 AGU.docx

  58. Lupien, R.,Russell, J.M., Castañeda, I., Cohen, A.S. and Feibel, C.S., (2015) Leaf wax biomarker as a proxy for regional climate variation during hominin evolution. Graduate Climate Conference, Woods Hole, MA. Lupien et al 2015 Grad Climate Conf Woods Hole.docx

  59. Foerster, V., Asrat, A., Cohen, A. Gromig, R., Günter, C., Junginger, A.,. Lamb, H.F., Schäbitz, F., Trauth, M.H. and, the HSPDP science team, (2016) The long HSPDP-Chew Bahir record from southern Ethiopia:Scientific Drilling in search of the environmental context of human evolution German ICDP Annual Colloquium, Heidelberg, Germany. Foerster et al 2016 ICDP Kolloquium Heidelberg.docx

  60. Cohen, A.S., Blome, M.W., Ivory, S., King, J., McGlue, M., and Cole, J.E., (2016) A ~1.3Ma paleoecological record from scientific drilling at Lake Malawi, East Africa. European Geosciences Union Ann. Mtg., Vienna, Austria.

  61. Leng, M., Dean, J., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Foerster, V., Just, J., Klasen, N., Lamb, H., Schäbitz, F., Trauth, M., Viehberg, F., and Wagner, B., (2016) The ICDP-Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP): new data from the Chew Bahir site in Ethiopia. European Geosciences Union Ann. Mtg., Vienna, Austria.61 Leng et al 2016 EGU Vienna.docx

  62. Joordens, J., Beck, C., Sier, M, Van der Lubbe, J., Dupont-Nivet, G., Langereis, C., Vonhof, H., Cohen, A.S., Olago, D., Campisano, C., and Feibel, C., (2016) Climate-driven lacustrine dynamics from the Early Pleistocene Lorenyang Lake, Turkana Basin, Kenya. European Geosciences Union Ann. Mtg., Vienna, Austria. Joordens et al 2016 EGU Vienna.pdf

  63. Foerster, V., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Gromig, R., Günter, C., Junginger, A., Lamb, H.F., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M. and the HSPDP Science Team, (2016) Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project. Chew Bahir, southern Ethiopia: How to get from three tonnes of sediment core to > 500 ka of continuous climate history? European Geosciences Union Ann. Mtg., Vienna, Austria.63 Foerster et al 2016 EGU Vienna.docx

  64. Stockhecke, M., Beck, C. Brown, E., Cohen, A.S., Feibel, C.S., Rabideaux, N., Sier, M., and the HSPDP Drilling Project research team, (2016) An Early Pleistocene high-resolution paleoclimate reconstruction from the West Turkana (Kenya) HSPDP drill site. European Geosciences Union Ann. Mtg., Vienna, Austria. Stockhecke et al 2016 EGU Vienna.pdf

  65. Mohan, J., Stone, J.R., Campisano, C.J., Cohen, A.S. (2016) Diatoms from Afar: Novel species of bacillariophyceae (diatoms) from the Pliocene Hadar Formation, Ethiopia. GSA North-Central Section- 50th Ann. Mtg., Champaign, Illinois. April 2016. Mohan et al 2016 Northcentral GSA Champaign IL.docx

  66. Sier, M. , Beck, C., Van der Lubbe, J., Joordens, J., Dupont-Nvet, G., Langereis, C., Vonhof, H., Cohen, A.S., Olago, D., Campisano, C., Feibel, C., and HSPDP-WTK Science Team, (2016) The Pleistocene continental core WTK-13 from the Turkana Basin (Kenya) and its correlation to both the climate and paleoanthropological record. Nederlands Aardwetennschappelijk Congres, Utrecht, Netherlands. Sier et al NAC Utrecht Netherlands.pdf

  67. Minkara, K. E., Rabideaux, N.M., Deocampo, D. M., Kingston, J.D., Cohen, A.(2016) Minerals as Climate Change Proxies: Developing a Paleoenviornmental Interpretation of the BTB Tugen Hills Drill Core: Part of the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project. GSA Southeastern Section Mtg., Columbia, SC. Minkara et al 2016 Southeastern GSA Mtg. Columbia SC.pdf

  68. Chaudhary M.S., Rabideaux, N.M., Deocampo, D. M., Feibel, C., Cohen, A.S. (2016) Reconstructing Paleoenvironmental Conditions from Hydrothermally Altered Lacustrine Sediments from HSPDP West Turkana-Kaitio Core Material via Coupled Mineralogical and Geochemical Analysis. GSA Southeastern Section Mtg., Columbia, SC. Chaudhary et al 2016 SE GSA Mtg. Columbia SC.pdf

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