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Activity

2025

• THE NEOGENE-QUATERNARY HISTORY OF C4 GRASSLANDS AND SAVANNAS IN NORTH AMERICA: INSIGHTS FROM STABLE ISOTOPE PROXIES
  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
• EARLY MIOCENE VEGETATION RECONSTRUCTION USING BULK ORGANIC MATTER AND PEDOGENIC CARBONATE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS FROM MORUOROT, WEST TURKANA, 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
• 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
• MIDDLE MIOCENE PRECIPITATION SEASONALITY IN DERBYSHIRE, UK BASED ON STABLE CARBON ISOTOPE PROFILES IN FOSSIL WOOD
  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

• EARLY MIOCENE VEGETATION RECONSTRUCTION USING BULK ORGANIC MATTER AND PEDOGENIC CARBONATE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS FROM MORUOROT, WEST TURKANA, KENYA
  T267 130 Years of Research in the Turkana Basin, Kenya: Insights into Earth, Climate, and Life in Eastern Africa Topical Session (Posters)
  Wednesday, 25 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall D
• PALEOENVIRONMENTS AND PALEOCLIMATE OF EARLY MIOCENE FOSSILIFEROUS STRATA AT MORUOROT, WEST TURKANA, KENYA
  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
• GEOCHRONOLOGY AND TERRESTRIAL PALEOENVIRONMENTS OF THE MIDDLE MIOCENE HOMINOID FOSSIL-BEARING STRATA AT BULUK, TURKANA BASIN, KENYA
  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
• 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
• 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
• A QUANTITATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR RECONSTRUCTING C4 PLANT FRACTIONS IN ANCIENT BIOMES AND MAMMAL DIETS USING STABLE CARBON ISOTOPES
  21 Geochemical Proxies for Marine and Continental Paleoenvironments
  Monday, 15 April 2024

  3:50 PM - 5:30 PM

  Windsor Ballroom Salon A
• PALEOSOL ANALYSIS OF A MIDDLE MIOCENE PRIMATE FOSSIL SITE IN WEST TURKANA, KENYA
  16 Undergraduate Research Oral Session
  Monday, 15 April 2024

  1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

  Victoria
• TESTING THREE DIFFERENT ANALYTICAL METHODS FOR ESTIMATING ORGANIC CARBON CONTENTS (SOC) OF SOILS
  27 D9. Soils and Soil Processes (Posters)
  Monday, 15 April 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom

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2023

• SEDIMENTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY OF EARLY MIOCENE HOMINOID-BEARING STRATA AT MORUOROT, WEST TURKANA, 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 AND PALEOCLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTION OF A MIDDLE MIOCENE PRIMATE FOSSIL SITE IN WEST TURKANA, 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
• 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
• CHARACTERIZATION OF CONGLOMERATES IN THE EARLY MIOCENE LOTHIDOK FORMATION OF WEST TURKANA, 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
• RECONSTRUCTING THE CLIMATE AND ECOLOGY OF AN EARLY MIOCENE TROPICAL FOREST ON THE FLANKS OF THE TINDERET VOLCANO, KISUMU COUNTY, WESTERN 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
• PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTIONS OF THE EARLY MIOCENE HOMINOID FOSSIL SITES FROM CHAMTWARA, LEGETET AND KORU, TINDERET, WESTERN 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
• PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION OF PALYNOLOGY ACROSS THE K-PG BOUNDARY IN THE JACKSON PURCHASE REGION OF KENTUCKY
  51 Paleoenvironment and Paleobiology of Late Cretaceous Sediments Near Coon Creek, Tennessee (Posters)
  Sunday, 19 March 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D
• IDENTIFICATION OF MICROPLASTICS EXTRACTED FROM THE STOMACHS OF LARGEMOUTH BASS FROM THE MID-ATLANTIC REGION USING TRANSMISSION FTIR MICROSCOPY
  28 Undergraduate Research Poster Session II (Posters)
  Saturday, 18 March 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D
• EVALUATING THE DECOMPOSTION OF MINERAL MUSEUM VIVIANITE SPECIMENS USING VISIBLE LIGHT, LONGWAVE UV LIGHT, AND HEAT EXPERIMENTS
  21 Undergraduate Research Poster Session I (Posters)
  Friday, 17 March 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D

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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
• REINTERPRETING THE JUNIATA PALEO-VERTISOL (LATE ORDOVICIAN) AT BEANS GAP IN EASTERN TENNESSEE
  T145 Soils and Paleosols across Space and Time I: A Celebration of Steven G. Driese
  Tuesday, 11 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  207
• RECONSTRUCTION OF EARLY MIOCENE PALEOFLORA AND PALEOCLIMATE OF KORU REGION (NYANZA PROVINCE, WESTERN KENYA): IMPLICATIONS FOR EARLY HOMINOID EVOLUTION
  T169 Oceans and Climates through Earth History: From Proxy Reconstructions to Model Assessments (Posters)
  Tuesday, 11 October 2022

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• TESTING ACCURACY AND PRECISION OF LOSS-ON-IGNITION ANALYSIS FOR SOILS AND PALEOSOLS
  T98 Emerging Voices in Soil and Paleosol Science (Posters)
  Monday, 10 October 2022

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• DETERMINATION OF PAST AND PRESENT SEASONAL TEMPERATURE IN ARCTIC SIBERIA USING HIGH-RESOLUTION INTRA-RING OXYGEN ISOTOPE MEASUREMENTS ACROSS TREE RINGS
  T96 New Perspectives for Reconstructing Past Arctic Environments: Climate, Ecosystems, and Depositional Systems (Posters)
  Monday, 10 October 2022

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• 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
• A MONTE CARLO APPROACH TO QUANTIFYING UNCERTAINTY IN C4 BIOMASS ESTIMATES FROM PALEOSOL ORGANIC MATTER AND CARBONATES
  2 Development and Application of Geochemical Proxies to Paleoclimate Studies
  Thursday, 7 April 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  North Meeting Room 201/202
• A NON-DESTRUCTIVE TECHNIQUE FOR ASSESSING FOSSIL WOOD DECAY USING ATR-FTIR SPECTROSCOPY
  19 Development and Application of Geochemical Proxies to Paleoclimate Studies (Posters)
  Thursday, 7 April 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Junior Ballroom B
• PETROLOGIC AND GEOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATION OF CAMP DIKES FROM THE BLUE RIDGE AND VALLEY AND RIDGE IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA
  38 North Atlantic Arcs, Rifts, and Plumes: Ordovician to Today (Posters)
  Monday, 21 March 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Freedom Hall A

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2021

• REVISITING THE CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY, USA
  226 D36: Planetary Potpourri (Posters)
  Wednesday, 13 October 2021

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall A
• A WOODLAND-SAVANNA MOSAIC IN THE EARLY MIDDLE MIOCENE AT BULUK, TURKANA BASIN, KENYA
  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)
• 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)
• MINERALOGY AND PALEOSOL MICROMORPHOLOGY FROM THE EARLY MIOCENE SONGHOR LOCALITY IN KENYA
  18 Undergraduate Research II (Posters)
  Friday, 2 April 2021

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Southern Company Research & Development Room
• APPLYING SPATIAL ANALOG MATCHING TO DISCERN LATE OLIGOCENE PALEO-MONSOON CLIMATOLOGY IN SOUTHERN CHINA
  5 Reconstructing Ancient Environmental Conditions
  Thursday, 1 April 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Auburn University Geosciences Room
• DENDROCLIMATOLOGY OF WHITE OAK TREES IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY, VIRGINIA
  9 Undergraduate Research I (Posters)
  Thursday, 1 April 2021

  1:30 PM - 3:40 PM

  Auburn University Geosciences 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
• FRESHWATER TRACE FOSSILS ASSOCIATED WITH A FLUVIALLY REWORKED HUCKLEBERRY RIDGE ASH DEPOSIT
  T99 Ichnology as a Global Proxy Multitool to Reconstruct Biodiversity, Ecology, Hydrology, and Climate in Continental to Marine Settings II
  Tuesday, 27 October 2020

  5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• BIOGENIC STRUCTURES AND INFERRED DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS OF A SPATIALLY EXTENSIVE CALCARENITE/SANDY LIMESTONE DEPOSIT NEAR MONAHANS, TEXAS
  T99 Ichnology as a Global Proxy Multitool to Reconstruct Biodiversity, Ecology, Hydrology, and Climate in Continental to Marine Settings II
  Tuesday, 27 October 2020

  5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• DISSECTING THE EAST ASIAN MONSOON: SEASONAL RAINFALL PATTERNS FROM LATE OLIGOCENE FOSSIL WOOD
  50 Chemostratigraphic, Biotic, and Sedimentologic Changes through Earth History (Posters)
  Saturday, 21 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Lake Anne
• LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION ACROSS THE CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY IN SOUTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA
  50 Chemostratigraphic, Biotic, and Sedimentologic Changes through Earth History (Posters)
  Saturday, 21 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Lake Anne
• CAMBORYGMA ASSEMBLAGE IN THE AFTERMATH OF A YELLOWSTONE HOTSPOT ERUPTION
  5 Mega-Traces: Advances in Ichnology and Zoogeomorphology
  Friday, 20 March 2020

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Lake Audubon
• A LARGE LATE QUATERNARY PALEOLAKE NEAR MONAHANS, TEXAS, INFERRED BY LARGE-SCALE BIOGENIC STRUCTURES
  5 Mega-Traces: Advances in Ichnology and Zoogeomorphology
  Friday, 20 March 2020

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Lake Audubon