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Project Acronym: HSDPD | State: Completed | Expedition ID: 5053

2025
61.
Ataee N , Roberts HM , Duller GA .
Assessing the potential of a modified post-isothermal IRSL (pIt-IR) protocol to circumvent the problems posed by anomalous fading in polymineral fine grains.
Quaternary Geochronology. 2025 ; 88 [doi][doi]
60.
Sier M , Spiering B , Dekkers M , Hilgen F .
Magnetic mineralogy of the Baringo core (HSPDP-BTB13-1A, Kenya) shows astronomical forcing with implications for retrieving meaningful paleointensity [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review] .
Open Research Europe. 2025 ; 5 (177): [doi][doi]
59.
Owen RB , Renaut RW , Lowenstein TK , Stockhecke M , Rabideaux N , Leet K , Cohen AS , Scott JJ , Muiruri V .
Pleistocene stratigraphy and sedimentation in the Magadi-Ewaso Nyiro Basins, South Kenya Rift.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2025 ; 665 [doi][doi]
58.
Collins ER , Ferland TM , Castañeda IS , Owen RB , Lowenstein TK , Cohen AS , Renaut RW , O’Beirne MD , Werne JP .
Hot-spring inputs and climate drive dynamic shifts in archaeal communities in Lake Magadi, Kenya Rift Valley.
Biogeosciences. 2025 ; 22 (15): 3931 – 3948. [doi][doi]
2024
57.
Trauth MH , Asrat A , Fischer ML , Foerster V , Kaboth-Bahr S , Lamb HF , Marwan N , Roberts HM , Schaebitz F .
Combining orbital tuning and direct dating approaches to age-depth model development for Chew Bahir, Ethiopia.
Quaternary Science Advances. 2024 ; 15 [doi][doi]
56.
Owen RB , Rabideaux N , Bright J , Rosca C , Renaut RW , Potts R , Behrensmeyer AK , Deino AL , Cohen AS , Muiruri V , Dommain R .
Controls on Quaternary geochemical and mineralogical variability in the Koora Basin and South Kenya Rift.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2024 ; 637 [doi][doi]
55.
Trauth MH , Asrat A , Fischer ML , Hopcroft PO , Foerster V , Kaboth-Bahr S , Kindermann K , Lamb HF , Marwan N , Maslin MA , Schaebitz F , Valdes PJ .
Early warning signals of the termination of the African Humid Period(s).
Nature Communications. 2024 ; 15 (1): [doi][doi]
54.
Fischer ML , Munz PM , Asrat A , Foerster V , Kaboth-Bahr S , Marwan N , Schaebitz F , Schwanghart W , Trauth MH .
Spatio-temporal variations of climate along possible African-Arabian routes of H. sapiens expansion.
Quaternary Science Advances. 2024 ; 14 [doi][doi]
53.
Trauth MH , Asrat A , Fischer ML , Hopcroft PO , Foerster V , Kaboth-Bahr S , Kindermann K , Lamb HF , Marwan N , Maslin MA , Schaebitz F , Valdes PJ .
Supergene formation of sulfur-rich, tochilinite-bearing serpentinites in the Oman ophiolite.
Nat Commun. 2024 ; 15 [doi][doi]
2023
52.
Rooney TO , Brown EL , Bastow ID , Arrowsmith JR , Campisano CJ .
Magmatism during the continent - ocean transition.
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 2023 ; 614 [doi][doi]
51.
McHenry LJ , Foerster V , Gebregiorgis D .
Paleolakes of Eastern Africa: Zeolites, Clay Minerals, and Climate.
Elements. 2023 ; 19 (2): 96 – 103. [doi][doi]
50.
Cohen AS , Manobianco J , Dettman DL , Black BA , Beck C , Feibel CS , Joordens JC , Van Bocxlaer B , Vonhof H .
Seasonality and lake water temperature inferred from the geochemistry and sclerochronology of quaternary freshwater bivalves from the Turkana Basin, Ethiopia and Kenya.
Quaternary Science Reviews. 2023 ; 317 [doi][doi]
2022
49.
Cohen AS , Campisano CJ , Arrowsmith JRan , Asrat A , Beck CC , Behrensmeyer AK , Deino AL , Feibel CS , Foerster V , Kingston JD , Lamb HF , Lowenstein TK , Lupien RL , Muiruri V , Olago DO , Owen RB , Potts R , Russell JM , Schaebitz F , Stone JR , Trauth MH , Yost CL .
Reconstructing the Environmental Context of Human Origins in Eastern Africa Through Scientific Drilling.
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 2022 ; 50 451 – 476. [doi][doi]
48.
Zawacki EE , Soest MC , Hodges KV , Scott JJ , Barboni M , Strecker MR , Feibel CS , Campisano CJ , Arrowsmith JR .
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 and Planetary Science Letters. 2022 ; 580 [doi][doi]
47.
Deocampo D , Owen R , Lowenstein T , Renaut R , Rabideaux N , Billingsley A , Cohen A , Deino A , Sier M , Luo S , Shen C , Gebregiorgis D , Campisano C , Mbuthia A .
Orbital control of Pleistocene euxinia in Lake Magadi, Kenya.
Geology. 2022 ; 50 (1): 42 – 47. [doi][doi]
46.
Foerster V , Asrat A , Bronk Ramsey C , Brown ET , Chapot MS , Deino A , Duesing W , Grove M , Hahn A , Junginger A , Kaboth-Bahr S , Lane CS , Opitz S , Noren A , Roberts HM , Stockhecke M , Tiedemann R , Vidal CM , Vogelsang R , Cohen AS , Lamb HF , Schaebitz F , Trauth MH .
Pleistocene climate variability in eastern Africa influenced hominin evolution.
Nature Geoscience. 2022 ; 15 (10): 805 – 811. [doi][doi]
45.
Lupien RL , Russell JM , Pearson EJ , Castañeda IS , Asrat A , Foerster V , Lamb HF , Roberts HM , Schäbitz F , Trauth MH , Beck CC , Feibel CS , Cohen AS .
Orbital controls on eastern African hydroclimate in the Pleistocene.
Scientific Reports. 2022 ; 12 (1): [doi][doi]
2021
44.
Billingsley AL , Reinthal P , Dettman DL , Kingston JD , Deino AL , Ortiz K , Mohler B , Cohen AS .
δ13C records from fish fossils as paleo-indicators of ecosystem responses to lake levels in the Plio-Pleistocene lakes of Tugen Hills, Kenya.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2021 ; 570 [doi][doi]
43.
Lupien RL , Russell JM , Yost CL , Kingston JD , Deino AL , Logan J , Schuh A , Cohen AS .
Vegetation change in the Baringo Basin, East Africa across the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation 3.3–2.6 Ma.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2021 ; 570 [doi][doi]
42.
Roberts HM , Ramsey CB , Chapot MS , Deino AL , Lane CS , Vidal C , Asrat A , Cohen A , Foerster V , Lamb HF , Schäbitz F , Trauth MH , Viehberg FA .
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. 2021 ; 266 [doi][doi]
41.
Trauth MH , Asrat A , Cohen AS , Duesing W , Foerster V , Kaboth-Bahr S , Kraemer KH , Lamb HF , Marwan N , Maslin MA , Schäbitz F .
Recurring types of variability and transitions in the ∼620 kyr record of climate change from the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia.
Quaternary Science Reviews. 2021 ; 266 [doi][doi]
40.
Sier MJ , Dupont-Nivet G , Langereis C , Deino AL , Kingston JD , Cohen AS .
Magnetostratigraphy of the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP) Baringo-Tugen Hills-Barsemoi core (Kenya).
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2021 ; 570 [doi][doi]
39.
Trauth MH , Asrat A , Berner N , Bibi F , Foerster V , Grove M , Kaboth-Bahr S , Maslin MA , Mudelsee M , Schäbitz F .
Northern Hemisphere Glaciation, African climate and human evolution.
Quaternary Science Reviews. 2021 ; 268 [doi][doi]
38.
Duesing W , Berner N , Deino AL , Foerster V , Kraemer KH , Marwan N , Trauth MH .
Multiband Wavelet Age Modeling for a ∼293 m (∼600 kyr) Sediment Core From Chew Bahir Basin, Southern Ethiopian Rift.
Frontiers in Earth Science. 2021 ; 9 [doi][doi]
37.
Muiruri VM , Owen RB , Cort G , Renaut RW , Rabideaux NM , Lowenstein TK , Leet K , Sier M , Cohen A , Deocampo D , Campisano CJ , Billingsley A , Mbuthia A .
Middle Pleistocene to recent diatoms and stratigraphy of the Magadi Basin, south Kenya Rift.
Journal of Paleolimnology. 2021 ; 65 (3): 315 – 333. [doi][doi]
36.
Yost CL , Ivory SJ , Deino AL , Rabideaux NM , Kingston JD , Cohen AS .
Phytoliths, pollen, and microcharcoal from the Baringo Basin, Kenya reveal savanna dynamics during the Plio-Pleistocene transition.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2021 ; 570 [doi][doi]
35.
Leet K , Lowenstein TK , Renaut RW , Owen RB , Cohen A .
Labyrinth patterns in Magadi (Kenya) cherts: Evidence for early formation from siliceous gels.
Geology. 2021 ; 49 (9): 1137 – 1142. [doi][doi]
34.
Schaebitz F , Asrat A , Lamb HF , Cohen AS , Foerster V , Duesing W , Kaboth-Bahr S , Opitz S , Viehberg FA , Vogelsang R , Dean J , Leng MJ , Junginger A , Ramsey CB , Chapot MS , Deino A , Lane CS , Roberts HM , Vidal C , Tiedemann R , Trauth MH .
Hydroclimate changes in eastern Africa over the past 200,000 years may have influenced early human dispersal.
Communications Earth and Environment. 2021 ; 2 (1): [doi][doi]
33.
Krueger J , Foerster V , Trauth MH , Hofreiter M , Tiedemann R .
Exploring the Past Biosphere of Chew Bahir/Southern Ethiopia: Cross-Species Hybridization Capture of Ancient Sedimentary DNA from a Deep Drill Core.
Frontiers in Earth Science. 2021 ; 9 [doi][doi]
32.
Deino AL .
Erratum to “Chronostratigraphy of the Baringo-Tugen-Barsemoi (HSPDP-BTB13-1A) core – 40Ar/39Ar dating, magnetostratigraphy, tephrostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy and Bayesian age modeling” [PALAEO, Volume 532(2019), 109258] (Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (2019) 532, (S0031018218310496), (10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109258)).
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2021 ; 571 [doi][doi]
31.
Westover KS , Stone JR , Yost CL , Scott JJ , Cohen AS , Rabideaux NM , Stockhecke M , Kingston JD .
Diatom paleolimnology of late Pliocene Baringo Basin (Kenya) paleolakes.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2021 ; 570 [doi][doi]
30.
Deino AL , Sier MJ , Garello DI , Keller CB , Kingston JD , Scott JJ , Dupont-Nivet G , Cohen AS .
Chronostratigraphy of the Baringo-Tugen Hills-Barsemoi (HSPDP-BTB13-1A) core – 40Ar/39Ar dating, magnetostratigraphy, tephrostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy and Bayesian age modeling.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2021 ; 570 [doi][doi]
29.
Duesing W , Kaboth-Bahr S , Asrat A , Cohen AS , Foerster V , Lamb HF , Schaebitz F , Trauth MH , Viehberg F .
Changes in the cyclicity and variability of the eastern African paleoclimate over the last 620 kyrs.
Quaternary Science Reviews. 2021 ; 273 [doi][doi]
28.
Arnold GE , Foerster V , Trauth MH , Lamb H , Schaebitz F , Asrat A , Szczech C , Günter C .
Advanced Hyperspectral Analysis of Sediment Core Samples from the Chew Bahir Basin, Ethiopian Rift, in the Spectral Range from 0.25 to 17 µm: Support for Climate Proxy Interpretation.
Frontiers in Earth Science. 2021 ; 9 [doi][doi]
27.
Muiruri VM , Owen RB , Lowenstein TK , Renaut RW , Marchant R , Rucina SM , Cohen A , Deino AL , Sier MJ , Luo S , Leet K , Campisano C , Rabideaux NM , Deocampo D , Shen C , Mbuthia A , Davis BC , Aldossari W , Wang C .
A million year vegetation history and palaeoenvironmental record from the Lake Magadi Basin, Kenya Rift Valley.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2021 ; 567 [doi][doi]
2020
26.
Lupien RL , Russell JM , Grove M , Beck CC , Feibel CS , Cohen AS .
Abrupt climate change and its influences on hominin evolution during the early Pleistocene in the Turkana Basin, Kenya.
Quaternary Science Reviews. 2020 ; 245 [doi][doi]
25.
Stone JR , Kociolek JP , Westover KS .
Two multi-stigmate gomphonema species of Africa: Gomphonema kalahariense (nom. nov., stat. nov.) and gomphonema chemeron (sp. nov.).
Phytotaxa. 2020 ; 436 (3): 270 – 282. [doi][doi]
2019
24.
Deino A , Dommain R , Keller C , Potts R , Behrensmeyer A , Beverly E , King J , Heil C , Stockhecke M , Brown E , Moerman J , deMenocal P .
Chronostratigraphic model of a high-resolution drill core record of the past million years from the Koora Basin, south Kenya Rift: Overcoming the difficulties of variable sedimentation rate and hiatuses.
Quaternary Science Reviews. 2019 ; 215 213 – 231. [doi][doi]
23.
Deino A , Sier M , Garello D , Keller B , Kingston J , Scott J , Dupont-Nivet G , Cohen A .
Chronostratigraphy of the Baringo-Tugen-Barsemoi (HSPDP-BTB13-1A) core – 40Ar/39Ar dating, magnetostratigraphy, tephrostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy and Bayesian age modeling.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2019 ; 532 [doi][doi]
22.
Trauth M , Asrat A , Duesing W , Foerster V , Kraemer K , Marwan N , Maslin M , Schaebitz F .
Classifying past climate change in the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia, using recurrence quantification analysis.
Climate Dynamics. 2019 ; 53 (5-6): 2557-2572. [doi][doi]
21.
De Cort G , Mees F , Renaut RW , Sinnesael M , Meeren T , Goderis S , Keppens E , Mbuthia A , Verschuren D .
Late-Holocene sedimentation and sodium carbonate deposition in hypersaline, alkaline Nasikie Engida, southern Kenya Rift Valley.
Journal of Paleolimnology. 2019 ; 62 (3): 279 – 300. [doi][doi]
20.
Bernhart Owen R , Renaut RW , Muiruri VM , Rabideaux NM , Lowenstein TK , McNulty EP , Leet K , Deocampo D , Luo S , Deino AL , Cohen A , Sier MJ , Campisano C , Shen C , Billingsley A , Mbuthia A , Stockhecke M .
Quaternary history of the Lake Magadi Basin, southern Kenya Rift: Tectonic and climatic controls.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2019 ; 518 97 – 118. [doi][doi]
19.
Billingsley AL , Reinthal P , Dettman DL , Kingston JD , Deino AL , Ortiz K , Mohler B , Cohen AS .
δ13C records from fish fossils as paleo-indicators of ecosystem response to lake levels in the Plio-Pleistocene lakes of Tugen Hills, Kenya.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2019 ; 534 [doi][doi]
2018
18.
Brindle M , Mohan J , Beck C , Stone JR .
Three novel species of bacillariophyta (Diatoms) in the genera surirella and thalassiosira from pleistocene paleolake lorenyang (~2-1.6 ma) turkana basin, Kenya.
Phytotaxa. 2018 ; 371 (3): 230 – 240. [doi][doi]
17.
Foerster V , Deocampo D , Asrat A , Günter C , Junginger A , Krämer K , Stroncik N , Trauth M .
Towards an understanding of climate proxy formation in the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopian Rift.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2018 ; 501 111-123. [doi][doi]
16.
Lupien R , Russell J , Feibel C , Beck C , Castaneda I , Deino A , Cohen A .
A leaf wax biomarker record of early Pleistocene hydroclimate from West Turkana, Kenya.
Quaternary Science Reviews. 2018 ; 186 225 – 235. [doi][doi]
15.
Viehberg FA , Just J , Dean JR , Wagner B , Franz SO , Klasen N , Kleinen T , Ludwig P , Asrat A , Lamb HF , Leng MJ , Rethemeyer J , Milodowski AE , Claussen M , Schäbitz F .
Environmental change during MIS4 and MIS 3 opened corridors in the Horn of Africa for Homo sapiens expansion.
Quaternary Science Reviews. 2018 ; 202 139 – 153. [doi][doi]
14.
Lüdecke T , Kullmer O , Wacker U , Sandrock O , Fiebig J , Schrenk F , Mulch A .
Dietary versatility of Early Pleistocene hominins.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2018 ; 115 (52): 13330 – 13335. [doi][doi]
13.
Trauth M , Foerster V , Junginger A , Asrat A , Lamb H , Schaebitz F .
Abrupt or gradual? Change point analysis of the late Pleistocene-Holocene climate record from Chew Bahir, southern Ethiopia.
Quaternary Research (United States). 2018 ; 90 (2): 321-330. [doi][doi]
2017
12.
Sier MJ , Langereis CG , Dupont-Nivet G , Feibel CS , Joordens JC , Lubbe JH , Beck CC , Olago D , Cohen A .
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. 2017 ; 42 117 – 129. [doi][doi]
2016
11.
Cohen A , Campisano C , Arrowsmith R , Asrat A , Behrensmeyer A , Deino A , Feibel C , Hill A , Johnson R , Kingston J , Lamb H , Lowenstein T , Noren A , Olago D , Owen R , Potts R , Reed K , Renaut R , Schäbitz F , Tiercelin J , Trauth M , Wynn J , Ivory S , Brady K , O'Grady R , Rodysill J , Githiri J , Russell J , Foerster V , Dommain R , Rucina S , Deocampo D , Billingsley A , Beck C , Dorenbeck G , Dullo L , Feary D , Garello D , Gromig R , Johnson T , Junginger A , Karanja M , Kimburi E , Mbuthia A , McCartney T , McNulty E , Muiruri V , Nambiro E , Negash E , Njagi D , Wilson J , Rabideaux N , Raub T , Sier M , Smith P , Urban J , Warren M , Yadeta M , Yost C , Zinaye B .
The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: Inferring the environmental context of human evolution from eastern African rift lake deposits.
Scientific Drilling. 2016 ; 21 1 – 16. [doi][doi]
10.
Mohan J , Stone JR , Campisano CJ .
Three novel species of bacillariophyta (Diatoms) belonging to aulacoseira and lindavia from the pliocene hadar formation, afar depression of Ethiopia.
Phytotaxa. 2016 ; 272 (4): 235 – 247. [doi][doi]
2015
9.
Foerster V , Vogelsang R , Junginger A , Asrat A , Lamb H , Schaebitz F , Trauth M .
Environmental change and human occupation of southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya during the last 20,000 years.
Quaternary Science Reviews. 2015 ; 129 333-340. [doi][doi]
8.
Trauth MH , Bergner AG , Foerster V , Junginger A , Maslin MA , Schaebitz F .
Episodes of environmental stability versus instability in Late Cenozoic lake records of Eastern Africa.
Journal of Human Evolution. 2015 ; 87 21 – 31. [doi][doi]
7.
DiMaggio EN , Arrowsmith JR , Campisano CJ , Johnson R , Deino AL , Warren M , Fisseha S , Cohen AS .
Tephrostratigraphy and depositional environment of young (<2.94 Ma) Hadar Formation deposits at Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia.
Journal of African Earth Sciences. 2015 ; 112 234 – 250. [doi][doi]
2014
6.
Junginger A , Roller S , Olaka LA , Trauth MH .
The effects of solar irradiation changes on the migration of the Congo Air Boundary and water levels of paleo-Lake Suguta, Northern Kenya Rift, during the African Humid Period (15-5ka BP).
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2014 ; 396 1 – 16. [doi][doi]
2012
5.
Foerster V , Junginger A , Langkamp O , Gebru T , Asrat A , Umer M , Lamb H , Wennrich V , Rethemeyer J , Nowaczyk N , Trauth M , Schaebitz F .
Climatic change recorded in the sediments of the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia, during the last 45,000 years.
Quaternary International. 2012 ; 274 25-37. [doi][doi]
4.
Richter J , Melles M , Schäbitz F .
Temporal and spatial corridors of Homo sapiens sapiens population dynamics during the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene.
Quaternary International. 2012 ; 274 1 – 4. [doi][doi]
2009
3.
Trauth MH , Larrasoaña JC , Mudelsee M .
Trends, rhythms and events in Plio-Pleistocene African climate.
Quaternary Science Reviews. 2009 ; 28 (5-6): 399 – 411. [doi][doi]
2.
Cohen A , Arrowsmith R , Behrensmeyer AK , Campisano C , Feibel C , Fisseha S , Johnson R , Bedaso ZK , Lockwood C , Mbua E , Olago D , Potts R , Reed K , Renaut R , Tiercelin J , Umer M .
Understanding paleoclimate and human evolution through the hominin sites and paleolakes drilling project.
Scientific Drilling. 2009 ; (8): 60 – 65. [doi][doi]
2006
1.
Cohen AS , Ashley GM , Potts R , Behrensmeyer AK , Feibel C , Quade J .
Paleoclimate and human evolution workshop.
Eos. 2006 ; 87 (16): 161. [doi][doi]