6 Integrating 20 Years of Scientific Drilling in the East African-Syrian Rift: A Session In Honor of Andrew Cohen, Part I
Continental drilling extending from the East African Rift into western Asia has yielded transformative discoveries, altering our understanding of paleoenvironments, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, and paleoanthropology. This session, in honor of Andrew Cohen, will celebrate these successes and define new directions.
Sunday, 19 October 2025
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
HBGCC, 214A
Participants
- Chair Lisa Park Boush
- Chair Anders Noren
- Chair Michael M. McGlue
- Chair Steven Goldstein
Presentations
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8:00 AMLisa Park Boush, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT and Steven Goldstein, Columbia University, Palisades, NY and Michael McGlue, University of Kentucky Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lexington, KY and Anders Noren, U. Minnesota - CSD Facility, Minneapolis, MN414016 (Technical Sessions)
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8:15 AMAdi Torfstein, Hebrew University, Earth Sciences Institute, Jerusalem and Perach Nuriel, University of Geneva, Geneva and Thomas Litt, University of Bonn, Bonn and Lisa Park Boush, Univ. of Connecticut, Dept. of Earth S, Storrs, CT and Steven Goldstein, Columbia University, Sparkill, NY and Ron Shaar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem and Shmuel Marco, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv and Adina Paytan, University of California Santa Cruz, Institute of Marine Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA and Yael Kiro, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot and Mordechai Stein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem412292 (Technical Sessions)
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8:30 AMMordechai Stein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel and Zvi Ben Avraham, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv and Steven Goldstein, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York412751 (Technical Sessions)
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8:50 AMChristopher Campisano, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ and Ramon Arrowsmith, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ and Andrew Cohen, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Alan Deino, Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA and Guillaume Dupont-Nivet, CNRS-University of Rennes, Rennes and Dominique Garello, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA and Jennifer Scott, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB and Mark Sier, Utrecht University, Utrecht and Jeffery Stone, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN and Jonathan Wynn, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA413240 (Technical Sessions)
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9:20 AMMelissa Berke, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN and Daniel Peppe, Baylor University, Waco, TX412426 (Technical Sessions)
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9:35 AMDirk Verschuren, Ghent University, Gent, Flanders414332 (Technical Sessions)
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9:50 AMCraig Feibel, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ and Catherine Beck, Hamilton College, CLINTON, NY and Andrew Cohen, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Anne Billingsley, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Christopher Campisano, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ and Rachel Lupien, Aarhus University, Aarhus and Nathan Rabideaux, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ and Stephen Rucina, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi and Mark Sier, CENIEH, Burgos and Jeffery Stone, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN and Chad Yost, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN413328 (Technical Sessions)
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10:05 AMCatherine Beck, Hamilton College, CLINTON, NY and Craig Feibel, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ and Jeroen van der Lubbe, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and Rachel Lupien, Aarhus University, Aarhus and Emily Alexander, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC and Christopher Campisano, ASU, Institute of Human Origins, Tempe, AZ and Andrew Cohen, University of Arizona, Dept Geosciences, Tucson, AZ413316 (Technical Sessions)
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10:40 AMLindsay McHenry, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI and Jackson Njau, Indiana University, Geological Sciences, Bloomington, IN and Ian Stanistreet, University of Liverpool, Liverpool and Harald Stollhofen, Geozentrum Nordbayern, Geology, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU), Erlangen and Alan Deino, Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA and Simon Brassell, Indiana Univ Dept Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN and Nicholas Toth, The Stone Age Institute, Bloomington, IN and Kathy Schick, The Stone Age Institute, Bloomington, IN414874 (Technical Sessions)