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Activity

2025

• GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF DIKES AND LAVA FLOWS IN LOPEROT, KENYA
  12 Multidisciplinary Insights from Field and Laboratory Data on Modern and Ancient Plate Margin Processes
  Friday, 28 March 2025

  8:30 AM - 5:30 PM

  North Great Hall

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2024

• STRATIGRAPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE TURKANA BASIN, EASTERN AFRICA
  152 130 Years of Research in the Turkana Basin, Kenya: Insights into Earth, Climate, and Life in Eastern Africa
  Tuesday, 24 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Ballroom A&B
• MIOCENE LANDSCAPE RECONSTRUCTION AND FAUNAL EVOLUTION IN KENYA’S TURKANA BASIN: A REPORT FROM THE TURKANA MIOCENE PROJECT
  T219 130 Years of Research in the Turkana Basin, Kenya: Insights into Earth, Climate, and Life in Eastern Africa Topical Session
  Tuesday, 24 September 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  207A
• RECONSTRUCTING MIOCENE ECOLOGIES IN THE TURKANA BASIN: INSIGHTS FROM PLANT WAX N-ALKANES
  T219 130 Years of Research in the Turkana Basin, Kenya: Insights into Earth, Climate, and Life in Eastern Africa Topical Session
  Tuesday, 24 September 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  207A
• DEEP DRILLING IN THE TURKANA BASIN PROJECT: EXPLORING THE LINK BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AND HOMININ EVOLUTION OVER THE PAST 4 MYR
  T219 130 Years of Research in the Turkana Basin, Kenya: Insights into Earth, Climate, and Life in Eastern Africa Topical Session
  Tuesday, 24 September 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  207A
• THE DYNAMICS OF THE EAST AFRICAN RIFT SYSTEM WITHIN THE TURKANA BASIN REGION
  152 130 Years of Research in the Turkana Basin, Kenya: Insights into Earth, Climate, and Life in Eastern Africa
  Tuesday, 24 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Ballroom A&B
• PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE LOCHERANGAN MIOCENE LACUSTRIAN FOSSILIFEROUS SITE, KENYA
  15 Current Research in Lacustrine Sedimentary Records and Processes for Understanding Climate and Environmental Change (Posters)
  Sunday, 17 March 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Armory Ballroom

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2023

• INSIGHTS FROM ~17 MA SOIL CARBONATE STABLE ISOTOPES AND GCM RESULTS IN THE TURKANA 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
• PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION OF LOCHERANGAN, A MIOCENE FOSSIL BEARING LOCALITY, TURKANA 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

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2022

• EARLY MIOCENE CLIMATE AND LANDSCAPE CHANGE INFERRED FROM PALEOSOLS AT LOPEROT, WEST TURKANA, KENYA
  T243 Soils and Paleosols across Space and Time (Posters): A Celebration of Steven G. Driese
  Wednesday, 12 October 2022

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS OF THE GEOLOGY AND FAUNAL COMMUNITIES OF THE TOPERNAWI LOCALITY IN NORTHERN TURKANA, KENYA
  273 D24. Paleontology: Recent Advances in Phylogeny, Morphological Patterns, Biogeography, and Biostratigraphy (Posters)
  Wednesday, 12 October 2022

  2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• SOIL CARBONATE CLUMPED ISOTOPE TEMPERATURES AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATIONS FROM THE MIOCENE OF THE TURKANA BASIN, EAST AFRICA
  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

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2021

• THE NATOO TUFF AT KAITIO, WEST TURKANA, KENYA: A STRATIGRAPHIC KEY FOR EARLY PLEISTOCENE FOSSIL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORDS
  T145 Reading the Record of Volcanic Tephra and Tuff in Geoarchaeological Site Studies and Drill Core Records
  Tuesday, 12 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Portland Ballroom 253 (Hybrid Room)

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2020

• 10BE-DERIVED PALEOEROSION RATES FROM NORTHERN AWASH AND WEST TURKANA HOMININ SITES AND PALEOLAKES DRILLING PROJECT (HSPDP) DRILL CORES
  T210 Sedimentary Records of Neogene and Quaternary Environmental Change from Eastern Africa
  Thursday, 29 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• QUANTIFYING DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS USING ULTRA HIGH-RESOLUTION GRAIN SIZE ANALYSES
  56 Paleolimnological Records of Climate and Environmental Change (Posters)
  Sunday, 22 March 2020

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Lake Anne
• POTENTIAL AND PITFALLS OF STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSES OF STROMATOLITES IN PALEO-CRITICAL ZONE RECONSTRUCTIONS FOR THE TURKANA BASIN, KENYA
  47 Abiotic-Biotic Interactions in the Critical Zone (Posters)
  Saturday, 21 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D

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2019

• QUANTIFYING GEOLOGIC CONTROLS ON THE VERTEBRATE FOSSIL RECORD: A CASE STUDY FROM THE PLIO-PLEISTOCENE OF KOOBI FORA, KENYA
  271 D17. Paleontology: Biogeography/Biostratigraphy (Posters)
  Wednesday, 25 September 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall AB, North Building
• EVALUATING SEDIMENT PROVENANCE AND VOLCANOTECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE EAST AFRICAN RIFT SYSTEM WITH (U-TH)/HE AND U/PB LASER ABLATION DOUBLE DATING OF DETRITAL ZIRCONS FROM HOMININ SITES AND PALEOLAKES DRILLING PROJECT (HSPDP) DRILL CORES
  T139 Zircon and Beyond: Quantitative Methods for Characterizing Provenance in Modern and Ancient Sediment Routing Systems
  Monday, 23 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 225AB, North Building

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2018

• A SYNTHESIS OF MULTI-PROXY PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION METHODS: THE DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS OF THE LOMEKWI MEMBER, NACHUKUI FORMATION, WEST TURKANA
  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
• GRAIN SIZE ANALYSIS OF THE WEST TURKANA KAITIO (WTK13) CORE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOENVIRONMENTS IN THE TURKANA BASIN 1.8 TO 1.3 MA
  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
• APPLICATION OF LA-ICP-MS TO TEPHRA CORRELATION STUDIES IN AFAR, ETHIOPIA
  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

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2017

• ENVIRONMENTAL DYNAMICS ON AN EARLY PLEISTOCENE LAKE MARGIN: THE WTK13 CORE AT KAITIO, WEST TURKANA, KENYA
  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
• A CLAY MINERAL ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM HOMININ SITES AND PALEOLAKES DRILLING PROJECT WTK CORE FROM THE TURKANA BASIN: A GLIMPSE INTO THE EAST AFRICAN PLEISTOCENE
  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
• 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
• LOWER MIOCENE PALEOENVIRONMENT AND PALEOCLIMATE AS RECORDED BY THE LOCHERANGAN FORMATION, TURKANA BASIN, KENYA
  T39 Miocene–Pliocene Terrestrial Ecosystem Response to the Climate System II
  Sunday, 22 October 2017

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 609
• PALEOENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY AND REGIONAL INTERPRETATION FOR THE HOMINOID-BEARING LOCHERANGAN LOCALITY IN WEST TURKANA, KENYA
  44 Geoarchaeology
  Monday, 20 March 2017

  3:25 PM - 5:30 PM

  Conference Center A, Conference Level

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2016

• WHY LOMEKWI?  THE GEOLOGY AND DEPOSITIONAL CONTEXT OF THE LOMEKWI 3 ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE IN KENYA: A SEDIMENTARY FACIES ANALYSIS
  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
• REFINED STRATIGRAPHY AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATION FOR THE FOSSIL-BEARING LOWER MIOCENE LOCHERANGAN SECTION, WEST TURKANA, 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
• THE LORENYANG LAKE AT KAITIO: OUTCROP AND CORE PERSPECTIVES ON AN EARLY PLEISTOCENE LAKE MARGIN
  T42 From Outcrop to Core: Integrating Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimatic Records across Time and Space
  Sunday, 25 September 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 207
• WHAT DO YOU DO WITH “HOMOGENEOUS” FINE-GRAINED INTERVALS?: LESSONS LEARNED FROM COMPARING FACIES AND OSTRACOD RECORDS BETWEEN CORE AND OUTCROP, WEST TURKANA, KENYA
  T42 From Outcrop to Core: Integrating Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimatic Records across Time and Space
  Sunday, 25 September 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 207
• RECONSTRUCTING PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS FROM HYDROTHERMALLY ALTERED LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS FROM HSPDP WEST TURKANA-KAITO CORE MATERIAL VIA COUPLED MINERALOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS
  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

• SEEING DEEPER INTO THE MUD: INSIGHTS FROM THE WTK13 CORE, WEST TURKANA, KENYA
  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
• LIVING IN A SWAMPY PARADISE: ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN ARCHAEOLOGY AND MARSHES FROM THE AFRICAN HUMID PERIOD, WEST TURKANA, KENYA
  T171 Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Hominin Sites: New Methods, New Data, and New Insights II
  Monday, 2 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 324
• USING PHYTOLITHS TO RECONSTRUCT EARLY PLEISTOCENE VEGETATION HISTORY FROM THE HOMININ SITES AND PALEOLAKES DRILLING PROJECT (HSPDP) WEST TURKANA, KENYA, DRILL CORE
  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

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2014

• A FLUCTUATING PLEISTOCENE LAKE MARGIN: UPDATES FROM THE HSPDP WEST TURKANA KAITIO DRILL LEG
  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
• ILLITIZATION OF SMECTITE DUE TO FAULT RELATED HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION IN HSPDP WEST TURKANA CORE AS REVEALED BY CLAY MINERALOGY: IMPLICATIONS FOR CORE INTERPRETATION
  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 PHYTOLITH RESULTS FROM THE EARLY PLEISTOCENE WEST TURKANA, KENYA, DRILL CORE OF THE HOMININ SITES AND PALEOLAKES DRILLING PROJECT (HSPDP)
  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
• 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
• AN INTEGRATED MULTI-PROXY INVESTIGATION OF OUTCROP AND CORE RECORDS FROM AN EARLY PLEISTOCENE LACUSTRINE SEQUENCE IN WEST TURKANA, KENYA
  5 Emerging Techniques and Applications in Paleolimnology
  Sunday, 23 March 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Heritage Salon D
• USING A MULTI-PROXY APPROACH TO REFINING PALEOENVIRONMENTAL AND PALEOCLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTIONS OF THE HOLOCENE AT LAKE TURKANA, KENYA
  5 Emerging Techniques and Applications in Paleolimnology
  Sunday, 23 March 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Heritage Salon D

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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
• PLANT WAX BIOMARKERS IN FLUVIAL-LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS FROM EAST AFRICA:  PRESERVATION, ABUNDANCE, AND FEASIBILITY FOR PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTIONS
  T187 Paleoclimate and Biotic Change in Africa, Mesozoic to the Present
  Monday, 28 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 605

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2012

• CHANGES IN OSTRACOD ASSEMBLAGES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERPRETATIONS OF RECENT LAKE-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS IN FERGUSON'S GULF, LAKE TURKANA, KENYA
  T126 Lake Systems Through Space and Time
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  219AB

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2011

• UNDERSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS FROM EPHEMERAL RIVERS TO THE NORTH BASIN, LAKE TURKANA, KENYA
  T189 Limnogeology: Interdisciplinary Studies of Lakes and Paleolakes (Posters)
  Tuesday, 11 October 2011

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall C
• PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION OF LATE PLEISTOCENE TO HOLOCENE BEDS NEAR LOBOLO SPRINGS WEST TURKANA, KENYA
  95 Archaeological Geology (Posters)
  Monday, 10 October 2011

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall C

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2010

• LACUSTRINE DYNAMICS IN A HIGH-AGGRADATION RIFT SETTING, THE NEOGENE TURKANA BASIN OF EAST AFRICA
  T165 African Lakes and Paleolakes: Processes, Paleoenvironments, and Paleoclimate
  Tuesday, 2 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 1AB