This file was created by the TYPO3 extension publications --- Timezone: CEST Creation date: 2026-04-23 Creation time: 15:26:04 --- Number of references 1 article Russell202053 The Neogene and Quaternary are characterized by enormous changes in global climate and environments, including global cooling and the establishment of northern high-latitude glaciers. These changes reshaped global ecosystems, including the emergence of tropical dry forests and savannahs that are found in Africa today, which in turn may have influenced the evolution of humans and their ancestors. However, despite decades of research we lack long, continuous, well-resolved records of tropical climate, ecosystem changes, and surface processes necessary to understand their interactions and influences on evolutionary processes. Lake Tanganyika, Africa, contains the most continuous, long continental climate record from the mid-Miocene (∼ 10 Ma) to the present anywhere in the tropics and has long been recognized as a top-priority site for scientific drilling. The lake is surrounded by the Miombo woodlands, part of the largest dry tropical biome on Earth. Lake Tanganyika also harbors incredibly diverse endemic biota and an entirely unexplored deep microbial biosphere, and it provides textbook examples of rift segmentation, fault behavior, and associated surface processes. To evaluate the interdisciplinary scientific opportunities that an ICDP drilling program at Lake Tanganyika could offer, more than 70 scientists representing 12 countries and a variety of scientific disciplines met in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in June 2019. The team developed key research objectives in basin evolution, source-to-sink sedimentology, organismal evolution, geomicrobiology, paleoclimatology, paleolimnology, terrestrial paleoecology, paleoanthropology, and geochronology to be addressed through scientific drilling on Lake Tanganyika. They also identified drilling targets and strategies, logistical challenges, and education and capacity building programs to be carried out through the project. Participants concluded that a drilling program at Lake Tanganyika would produce the first continuous Miocene-present record from the tropics, transforming our understanding of global environmental change, the environmental context of human origins in Africa, and providing a detailed window into the dynamics, tempo and mode of biological diversification and adaptive radiations. © Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. 2020 English 18168957 10.5194/sd-27-53-2020 Scientific Drilling 27 Copernicus GmbH 53-60 Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States; Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom; Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States; Department of Geosciences, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States; Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute, TAFIRI-Kigoma Centre, Kigoma, Tanzania; Department of Geography, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom; British Geological Survey, Nottingham, United Kingdom; Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States; Continental Scientific Drilling Coordination Office, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States; Center of Integrative Geosciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States; Zoological Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States; Unit of Evolutionary Biology/Systematic Zoology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany; University of Giessen, Germany; Petroleum Upstream Regulatory Authority, Tanzania; Arizona State University, United States; University of New Mexico, United States; University of Burundi, Burundi; University of Kiel, Germany; Hamilton College, United States; University of Notre Dame, United States; University of Houston, United States; Queen's University, United Kingdom; University of Minnesota, Duluth, United States; University of Massachusetts, United States; Rice University, United States; Berkeley Geochronology Center, United States; Tulane University, United States; US Geological Survey, United States; University of Cologne, Germany; University of Brussels, Belgium; Justus Liebig University, Germany; University of Tübingen, Germany; Potsdam University, Germany; Geoforschungszentrum, Germany; Tanzania Fisheries Institute, Tanzania; University of Rhode Island, United States; Washington University, United States; SUERC, United Kingdom; University of Wisconsin, United States; Natural History Museum, United Kingdom; University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Hydrobiology Laboratory, Uvira, Democratic Republic Congo; Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, Tanzania; University of Bern, Switzerland; University of Louisiana, United States; Geological Survey of Finland, Finland; University of Wyoming, United States; Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom; Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, United States; Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, China; CNIEH, Spain; University of Oklahoma, United States; University of Texas, Austin, United States; Durham University, United Kingdom; Glasgow University, SUERC, United Kingdom; Indiana State University, United States; University of Lille, France; Max Planck Institute, Germany; Nanjing Inst. Limnology, China; Leibniz Institute of Applied Geophysics, Germany Biology; Climate change; Ecosystems; Forestry; Geochronology; Infill drilling; Tropics, Continental climate; Environmental contexts; Evolutionary process; Global environmental change; Research objectives; Scientific discipline; Scientific drilling; Tropical dry forest, Lakes https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85085683873&doi=10.5194%2fsd-27-53-2020&partnerID=40&md5=85eea71cb40261ba4beddd3d334ecfe7 cited By 6 J.M. Russell P. Barker A. Cohen S. Ivory I. Kimirei C. Lane M. Leng N. Maganza M. McGlue E. Msaky A. Noren L.P. Boush W. Salzburger C. Scholz R. Tiedemann S. Nuru C. Albrecht R. Ali R. Arrowsmith D. Asanga Y. Asmerom C. Bakundukize T. Bauersachs C. Beck M. Berke E. Beverley M. Blaauw L. Boush E. Brown C. Campisano B. Carrapa I. Castaûeda S. Dee A. Deino C. Ebinger G. Ellis V. Foerster K. Fontijn G. Gehrels A. Indemaur E. Jovanovska A. Junginger S. Kaboth J. Kallmeyer J. King B. Konecky D. Mark P. 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