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Activity

2025

• GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PLIO-PLEISTOCENE PALEOSOLS IN THE BTB-13 CORE BARINGO, KENYA
  1 Biogeochemical Cycling of Elements at the Earth’s Surface Across Space and Time
  Thursday, 20 March 2025

  8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

  Alleghany A

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2024

• DEGREES OF CHANGE: RECONSTRUCTING PALEOTEMPERATURE AND PALEOSOL SOIL WATER IN BARINGO BASIN, KENYA
  T207 Investigating Earth’s Past, Present, and Future with Continental Scientific Drilling
  Tuesday, 24 September 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  212A

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2023

• PALEOSOL CORE-LATIONS AND STABLE ISOTOPES IN THE EASTERN AFRICAN RIFT
  T167 Exploring Changes in Climate, Flora, and Fauna of Africa through the Cenozoic (Posters)
  Tuesday, 17 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall B
• PLIO-PLEISTOCENE PALEOVEGETATION RECONSTRUCTION USING BULK PALEOSOL ORGANIC MATTER FROM THE BARINGO BASIN, KENYA
  T167 Exploring Changes in Climate, Flora, and Fauna of Africa through the Cenozoic (Posters)
  Tuesday, 17 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall B
• PALEOPEDOLOGY AND PALEOCLIMATE OF THE PLIO-PLEISTOCENE CHEMERON FORMATION, BARINGO BASIN, KENYA
  T121 Exploring Changes in Climate, Flora, and Fauna of Africa through the Cenozoic
  Monday, 16 October 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  321
• ON THE HETEROGENEITY OF PLIO-PLEISTOCENE AFRICAN HYDROCLIMATE: LESSONS FROM NORTH (ODP SITE 659) AND EAST (BARINGO-TUGEN HILLS-BARSEMOI BASIN) AFRICA
  T121 Exploring Changes in Climate, Flora, and Fauna of Africa through the Cenozoic
  Monday, 16 October 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  321

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2022

• EARLY PLIOCENE PALEOSOLS OF THE BARINGO BASIN, KENYA
  T183 Soils and Paleosols across Space and Time II: A Celebration of Steven G. Driese
  Tuesday, 11 October 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  207
• RECONSTRUCTION OF EARLY PLIOCENE HYDROCLIMATE FROM CHEMERON FORMATION PALEOSOLS IN THE BARINGO BASIN, KENYA
  T98 Emerging Voices in Soil and Paleosol Science (Posters)
  Monday, 10 October 2022

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F

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2021

• EARLY MIOCENE EVIDENCE FOR C4 BIOMASS IN KENYA AND UGANDA
  T38 Assessing Causes, Consequences, and Time Scales of Miocene Climate and Environmental Change
  Sunday, 10 October 2021

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  E141/E142 (Hybrid Room)

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2020

• EARLY MIOCENE EVOLUTION OPEN ECOSYSTEMS AND C4 VEGETATION IN EQUATORIAL EAST AFRICA
  T210 Sedimentary Records of Neogene and Quaternary Environmental Change from Eastern Africa
  Thursday, 29 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Meeting Rooms

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2019

• SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY AND LAKE CYCLICITY IN THE TECTONICALLY ACTIVE PLIOCENE CENTRAL KENYA RIFT VALLEY, CHEMERON FORMATION, BARINGO
  T15 Landscape Responses to Neogene Climate Change
  Sunday, 22 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 228AB, North Building

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2018

• PHYTOLITHS AND MICROCHARCOAL FROM THE BARINGO BASIN, KENYA, REVEAL SAVANNA DYNAMICS DURING THE PLIO-PLEISTOCENE TRANSITION
  T184 Human Evolution and Environmental History in Africa: 25 Years of Transformative Research (Posters)
  Tuesday, 6 November 2018

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls J-K
• EXTREME HYDROCLIMATE VARIABILITY IN KENYA'S BARINGO BASIN DURING THE LATE PLIOCENE: THE DIATOM RECORD
  T184 Human Evolution and Environmental History in Africa: 25 Years of Transformative Research (Posters)
  Tuesday, 6 November 2018

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls J-K
• PALEOCLIMATE RECORDS FROM AUTHIGENIC CLAYS AND ZEOLITES: EXAMPLES FROM THE PLEISTOCENE OLDUVAI GORGE, TANZANIA, AND PLIOCENE CHEMERON FORMATION, BARINGO BASIN, KENYA
  T167 The Evolution of Continental Weathering through Geologic Time: Paleoclimate, Biogeochemistry, Diagenesis, and Clay Minerals
  Tuesday, 6 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Sagamore Ballroom 7
• A Δ13C RECORD FROM PLIO-PLEISTOCENE LACUSTRINE FISH FOSSILS IN THE HSPDP DRILL CORE FROM TUGEN HILLS, KENYA: IMPLICATIONS FOR FISH HABITATS AND THE TIMING AND EXTENT OF LAKE LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS
  T9 Lakes through Space and Time I
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 134

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2017

• LATE-PLIOCENE/EARLY-PLEISTOCENE DIATOM RECORD FROM BARINGO BASIN, KENYA
  T375 Understanding African Environmental History through Continental Scientific Drilling: Past Successes and Future Opportunities (Posters)
  Wednesday, 25 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls 4EF
• CLIMATE VARIABILITY ACROSS THE PLIO-PLEISTOCENE TRANSITION IN EAST AFRICA AS SEEN IN AN HSPDP DRILL CORE FROM TUGEN HILLS, KENYA, AND POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS FOR HOMININ EVOLUTION
  T309 Understanding African Environmental History through Continental Scientific Drilling: Past Successes and Future Opportunities
  Wednesday, 25 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 307/308
• MODELING POST-DEPOSITIONAL ACCUMULATION OF 10BE IN SANDSTONES FROM THE HOMININ SITES AND PALEOLAKES DRILLING PROJECT (HSPDP) CORES FOR IN SITU COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE PALEOEROSION RATE ANALYSES
  T160 Quantifying Geomorphic Processes and Rates of Landscape Evolution (Posters)
  Monday, 23 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls 4EF
• PALEOPEDOLOGY AND PALEOCLIMATE SIGNIFICANCE OF EARLY MIOCENE FLUVIO-LACUSTRINE PALEOSOLS FROM MOROTO II SITE IN UGANDA
  T39 Miocene–Pliocene Terrestrial Ecosystem Response to the Climate System II
  Sunday, 22 October 2017

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 609
• EARLY MIOCENE VEGETATION ACROSS EASTERN AFRICA AS RECONSTRUCTED FROM PHYTOLITH DATA
  T39 Miocene–Pliocene Terrestrial Ecosystem Response to the Climate System II
  Sunday, 22 October 2017

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 609
• EARLY MIOCENE PALEOCLIMATE AND PALEOENVIRONMENTS ACROSS EAST AFRICA
  T39 Miocene–Pliocene Terrestrial Ecosystem Response to the Climate System II
  Sunday, 22 October 2017

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 609
• PALEOENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATION OF DRILL CORE FROM TUGEN HILLS, KENYA USING X-RAY DIFFRACTION
  31 Archaeological Geology, Paleoclimate, and Geomorphology (Posters)
  Friday, 31 March 2017

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  James River Ballroom

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2016

• MINERALS AS CLIMATE CHANGE PROXIES: A PALEOENVIORNMENTAL INTERPRETATION OF THE BTB TUGEN HILLS DRILL CORE; PART OF THE HOMININ SITES AND PALEOLAKES DRILLING PROJECT
  T253 From Outcrop to Core: Integrating Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimatic Records across Time and Space (Posters)
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• AN UPDATE ON THE CHEMERON FORMATION TEPHROCHRONOLOGY: CHALLENGES IN CORRELATING THE BARINGO-TUGEN HILLS HOMININ SITES AND PALEOLAKES DRILLING PROJECT (HSPDP) CORE TEPHRA TO OUTCROP TEPHRA
  T253 From Outcrop to Core: Integrating Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimatic Records across Time and Space (Posters)
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• EARLY MIOCENE PALEOENVIRONMENTS NEAR KARUNGU, WESTERN KENYA
  T168 The Context of Our Origins: Geological Studies of Old World Fossil Primate and Hominin Sites (Posters)
  Monday, 26 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• MINERALS AS CLIMATE CHANGE PROXIES: DEVELOPING A PALEOENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATION OF THE BTB TUGEN HILLS DRILL CORE; PART OF THE HOMININ SITES AND PALEOLAKES DRILLING PROJECT
  11 Paleolimnological Reconstructions: New Insights from the Tried and True to the Unique and New (Posters)
  Thursday, 31 March 2016

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall

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2015

• A PLIO-PLEISTOCENE DRILL CORE FROM THE BARINGO BASIN, CENTRAL KENYAN RIFT VALLEY
  T102 Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Hominin Sites: New Methods, New Data, and New Insights I
  Monday, 2 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 324
• PALEOCLIMATE AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL FORCING ON EARLY HUMANS: LOI ANALYSIS OF THREE HSPDP DRILL CORE SITES IN KENYA AND ETHIOPIA
  T136 Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Hominin Sites: New Methods, New Data, and New Insights (Posters)
  Monday, 2 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• RESEARCH ON EAST AFRICAN CATARRHINE AND HOMINOID EVOLUTION (REACHE): A REGIONAL APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING EARLY MIOCENE PALEOBIOLOGY AND PALEOENVIRONMENTS
  T102 Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Hominin Sites: New Methods, New Data, and New Insights I
  Monday, 2 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 324

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2014

• THE HOMININ SITES AND PALEOLAKES DRILLING PROJECT (HSPDP) DRILLING CAMPAIGNS: THE TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS OF TRYING THE UNIQUE AND NEW
  T292 Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Hominin Sites: Techniques—From the Unique and New to the Tried and True
  Wednesday, 22 October 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  207
• PRELIMINARY TOC/TIC AND GEOPHYSICAL DATA FROM TWO HSPDP DRILL CORE SITES IN KENYA, WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR PLIOCENE HOMININ PALEOENVIRONMENTS
  T323 Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Hominin Sites: Techniques—From the Unique and New to the Tried and True (Posters)
  Wednesday, 22 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C

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2013

• THE HOMININ SITES AND PALEOLAKES DRILLING PROJECT (HSPDP): DOCUMENTING THE PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT OF HUMAN ORIGINS IN EAST AFRICA THROUGH SCIENTIFIC DRILLING
  T327 Paleoclimate Proxies and Evolving Human Landscapes
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 605