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Project Link - Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP)

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Daily News
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- 2014-11-27
  
  An update from Verena: After a highly productive 24hrs collecting ...
  
  2014-11-27 posted
  An update from Verena: After a highly productive 24hrs collecting ...
  
  An update from Verena: After a highly productive 24hrs collecting ...
  
  Image: Drill site after storm.
- 2014-11-24
  
  Progress continues at Chew Bahir. Hole 2B is past the ...
  
  2014-11-24 posted
  Progress continues at Chew Bahir. Hole 2B is past the ...
  
  Progress continues at Chew Bahir. Hole 2B is past the ...
  
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- 2014-11-22
  
  A good day in Chew Bahir. Smoothly switched from the ...
  
  2014-11-22 posted
  A good day in Chew Bahir. Smoothly switched from the ...
  
  A good day in Chew Bahir. Smoothly switched from the ...
  
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- 2014-11-21
  
  Field update: Slow but steady progress at site 2B. Down ...
  
  2014-11-21 posted
  Field update: Slow but steady progress at site 2B. Down ...
  
  Field update: Slow but steady progress at site 2B. Down ...
  
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- 2014-11-20
  
  News from Frank at the drill site today. The team ...
  
  2014-11-20 posted
  News from Frank at the drill site today. The team ...
  
  News from Frank at the drill site today. The team ...
  
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- 2014-11-17
  
  An update via Frank: Drilling has stopped at the current ...
  
  2014-11-17 posted
  An update via Frank: Drilling has stopped at the current ...
  
  An update via Frank: Drilling has stopped at the current ...
  
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- 2014-11-16
  
  Good news from Ryan at the drill site! Current depth: ...
  
  2014-11-16 posted
  Good news from Ryan at the drill site! Current depth: ...
  
  Good news from Ryan at the drill site! Current depth: ...
  
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- 2014-11-15
  
  Drilling slowed considerably on the 14th-15th because of problems with ...
  
  2014-11-15 posted
  Drilling slowed considerably on the 14th-15th because of problems with ...
  
  Drilling slowed considerably on the 14th-15th because of problems with ...
  
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- 2014-11-14
  
  The Chew Bahir crew is still powering through at the ...
  
  2014-11-14 posted
  The Chew Bahir crew is still powering through at the ...
  
  The Chew Bahir crew is still powering through at the ...
  
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- 2014-11-13
  
  Things improved lithologically right after we decided we would have ...
  
  2014-11-13 posted
  Things improved lithologically right after we decided we would have ...
  
  Things improved lithologically right after we decided we would have ...
  
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Gallery
Some Photos from Eastern Rift Valley

	Type	Approval	Date
ICDP	workshop	yes	1/15/2007
ICDP	workshop	yes	11/17/2008
SPP	full	yes	8/15/2009
ICDP	full	yes	1/15/2010
SPP	full	yes	8/15/2011
SPP	full	yes	8/15/2012
ICDP	full	yes	1/15/2013
SPP	full	yes	8/15/2013
ICDP	full	yes	8/15/2014

Operational Report
Cohen, A.; Campisano, C.; Arrowsmith, R.; Asrat, A.; Behrensmeyer, A.K.; Deino, A.; Feibel, C.; Hill, A.; Johnson, R.;, Kingston, J.; Lamb, H.; Lowenstein, T.; Noren, A.; Olago, D.; Owen, R.B.; Potts, R.; Reed, K.; Renaut, R.; Schäbitz, F.; Tiercelin, J.J.; Trauth, M.H.; Wynn, J.; Ivory, S.; Brady, K.; O’Grady, R.; Rodysill, J.; Githiri, J.; Russell, J.; Foerster, V.; Dommain, R.; Rucina, S.; Deocampo, D.; Russell, J.; 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.W.; Njagi, D.; Wilson, J.N.; Rabideaux, N.; Raub, T.; Sier, M.J.; Smith, P.; Urban, J.; Warren, M.; Yadeta, M.; Yost, C.; Zinaye, B. (2016):
The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: inferring the environmental context of human evolution from eastern African rift lake deposits,
> 10.5194/sd-21-1-2016
Scientific Drilling 21 1-16
Press & Media
How a Fickle Climate Made Us Human
Out of the Kenyan Mud, an Ancient Climate Record
Core Questions About Human Evolution
2.88M to Fund Study of Links Between Human Evolution, Past Climate
Publications

All ICDP-related Publications

Publications by year, most recent first:

Only selected publications are shown.

Düsing, W.; Asrat, A.; Förster, V.E.; Krämer, H.; Lamb, H.; Marwan, N.; Schäbitz, F.; Trauth, M.H. (2018):

Trends, rhythms and transitions during the Late Quaternary in southern Ethiopia. doi:

IODP/ICDP Kolloquium 2018 36

Förster, V.E.; Asrat, A.; Cohen, A.S.; Deocampo, D.M.; Deino, A.; Düsing, W.; Günter, C.; Krämer, H.; Lamb, H.F.; Opitz, S.; Roberts, H.M.; Schäbitz, F.; Trauth, M.H.; HSPDP Science Team (2018):

Authigenic minerals in the HSPDP-Chew Bahir sediment cores (southern Ethiopia): Using mineral alteration as sensitive paleoclimate proxy. doi:

IODP/ICDP Kolloquium 2018 39

Krüger, J.; Hofreiter, M.; Tiedemann, R.; Trauth, M.H.; Förster, V.E.; Hartmann, S.; Havenstein, K. (2018):

Ancient DNA and Metagenomics of Lake Sediments. doi:

IODP/ICDP Kolloquium 2018 51

Trauth, M.H.; Asrat, A.; Duesing, W.; Förster, V.E.; Krämer, H.; Lamb, H.; Marwan, N.; Maslin, M.A.; Schäbitz, F.; HSPDP Science Team (2018):

Classifying past climate variation in the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia, using recurrence quantification analysis. doi:

IODP/ICDP Kolloquium 2018 84

Förster, V.E.; Asrat, A.; Chapot, M.; Cohen, A.S.; Dean, J.R.; Deino, A.; Günter, C.; Junginger, A.; Lamb, H.F.; Leng, M.; Roberts, H.; Schäbitz, F.; Trauth, M.H.; HSPDP Science Team (2017):

Deciphering climate information from the long Chew Bahir sediment cores: Towards a continuous half-million year climate record from the Southern Ethiopian Rift. doi:

IODP/ICDP Kolloquium 2017 56-57

Schäbitz, F.; HSPDP- and CRC806-Team (2017):

Chew Bahir, the HSPDP drill site: half a million years of environmental history from southern Ethiopia. doi:

IODP/ICDP Kolloquium 2017 122

Tiedemann, R.; Krüger, J.; Havenstein, K.; Trauth, M.H.; Henneberger, K.; Hartmann, S.; Hofreiter, M. (2017):

DNA-Metabarcoding of phyto- and zooplankton in East African lake sediments as proxies for past environmental perturbation. doi:

IODP/ICDP Kolloquium 2017 140

Campisano, C.J.; Cohen, A.S.; Arrowsmith, J.R.; Asrat, A.; Behrensmeyer, A.K.; Brown, E.T.; Deino, A.L.; Deocampo, D.M.; Feibel, C.S.; Kingston, J.D.; Lamb, H.F.; Lowenstein, T.K.; Noren, A.; Olago, D.O.; Owen, R.B.; Pelletier, J.D.; Potts, R.; Reed, K.E.; Renaut, R.W.; Russell, J.M.; Russell, J.L.; Schäbitz, F.; Stone, J.R.; Trauth, M.H.; Wynn, J.G. (2017):

The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: High-Resolution Paleoclimate Records from the East African Rift System and Their Implications for Understanding the Environmental Context of Hominin Evolution. doi:10.4207/PA.2017.ABS15

PaleoAnthropology 1-43

Cohen, A.; Campisano, C.; Arrowsmith, R.; Asrat, A.; Behrensmeyer, A.K.; Deino, A.; Feibel, C.; Hill, A.; Johnson, R.;, Kingston, J.; Lamb, H.; Lowenstein, T.; Noren, A.; Olago, D.; Owen, R.B.; Potts, R.; Reed, K.; Renaut, R.; Schäbitz, F.; Tiercelin, J.J.; Trauth, M.H.; Wynn, J.; Ivory, S.; Brady, K.; O’Grady, R.; Rodysill, J.; Githiri, J.; Russell, J.; Förster, V.E.; Dommain, R.; Rucina, S.; Deocampo, D.; Russell, J.; 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.W.; Njagi, D.; Wilson, J.N.; Rabideaux, N.; Raub, T.; Sier, M.J.; Smith, P.; Urban, J.; Warren, M.; Yadeta, M.; Yost, C.; Zinaye, B. (2016):

The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: inferring the environmental context of human evolution from eastern African rift lake deposits. doi:10.5194/sd-21-1-2016

Scientific Drilling 21 1-16

Tiedemann, R.; Trauth, M.H.; Hofreiter, M. (2016):

DNA-Metabarcoding of phyto- and zooplankton in East African lake sediments as proxies for past environmental perturbation. doi:

IODP/ICDP Kolloquium 2016 109

Förster, V.E.; Asrat, A.; Cohen, A.; Junginger, A.; Lamb, H.F.; Schäbitz, F.; Trauth, M.H.; HSPDP Science Team (2015):

Three promising tonnes of sediment cores from Chew Bahir, south Ethiopia, to reconstruct 0.5 Ma of climatic history. doi:

IODP/ICDP Kolloquium 2015 41-42

Schäbitz, F.; Wagner, B.; Viehberg, F.A.; Wennrich, V.; Rethemeyer, J.; Just, J.; Klasen, N.; Asrat, A.; Lamb, H.; Förster, V.E.; Trauth, M.H.; Junginger, A.; Cohen, A.; HSPDP Science Team (2015):

Preliminary results from the deep drilling at Chew Bahir, south Ethiopia. doi:

IODP/ICDP Kolloquium 2015 114-115

Stockhecke, M.; Beck, C.C.; Brown, E.T.; Cohen, A.; Deino, A.L.; Feibel, C.S.; Sier, M.; HSPDP Drilling Project research team (2015):

A ~600 kyr duration Early Pleistocene record from the West Turkana (Kenya) HSPDP drill site: elemental XRF variability to reconstruct climate change in Turkana Boy’s backyard. doi:

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Poster:PP31A-2212

Förster, V.E.; Junginger, A.; Asrat, A.; Lamb, H. F.; Wennrich, V.; Weber, M.; Rethemeyer, J.; Frank, U.; Brown, M.C.; Trauth, M.H.; Schäbitz, F. (2014):

46 000 years of alternating wet and dry phases on decadal to orbital timescales in the cradle of modern humans: the Chew Bahir project, southern Ethiopia. doi:10.5194/cpd-10-1-2014

Climate of the Past Discussions 10 977-1023

Förster, V.E.; Junginger, A.; Vogelsang, R.; Asrat, A.; Lamb, H.F.; Wennrich, V.; Weber, M.; Rethemeyer, J.; Frank, U.; Brown, M.C.; Trauth, M.H.; Schäbitz, F. (2014):

Wet-dry shifts in the source region of modern man: A Late Quaternary climate record from Chew Bahir, southern Ethiopia. doi:

IODP/ICDP Kolloquium 2014 47-48

Förster, V.E.; Junginger, A.; Asrat, A.; Umer, M.; Lamb, H.F.; Kassa, T.; Wennrich, V.; Weber, M.; Rethemeyer, J.; Nowaczyk, N.; Frank, U.; Brown, M.C.; Trauth, M.H.; Schäbitz, F. (2013):

The Chew Bahir Drilling Project, southern Ethiopia: Towards a reconstruction of Quaternary climate shifts in the cradle of humankind. doi:

IODP/ICDP Kolloquium 2013 70-73

Förster, V.E.; Junginger, A.; Asrat, A.; Umer, M.; Lamb, H.F.; Gebru, T.; Wennrich, V.; Weber, M.; Rethemeyer, J.; Nowaczyk, N.; Frank, U.; Brown, M.C.; Trauth, M.; Schäbitz, F. (2012):

The Chew Bahir project, southern Ethiopia: Towards a reconstruction of Late Quaternary climate shifts in the cradle of humankind. doi:

IODP/ICDP Kolloquium 2012 47-49

Schäbitz, F.; Trauth, M.; Förster, V.; Lamb, H.; Asrat, A.; Umer, M. (2012):

Paleoclimate reconstruction for East Africa, the region of human origins: First results from Chew Bahir basin, Ethiopia, an ICDP site in the context of the -Hominid Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project- (HSPDP). doi:

IODP/ICDP Kolloquium 2012 148

Förster, V.E.; Junginger, A.; Langkamp, O.; Gebru, T.; Asrat, A.; Umer, M.; Lamb, H.; Wennrich, V.; Rethemeyer, J.; Nowaczyk, N.; Trauth, M.H.; Schäbitz, F. (2012):

Climatic change recorded in the sediments of the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia, during the last 45,000 years. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2012.06.028

Quaternary International, Special Issue 274 25-37

Förster, V.E.; Langkamp, O.; Schäbitz, F.; Asrat, A.; Lamb, H.; Trauth, M.; Umer, M. (2011):

The Chew Bahir project - First steps towards a paleoenvironmental reconstruction for South Ethiopia. doi:

IODP/ICDP Kolloquium 2011 62

Cohen, A.S.; Umer, M. (2009):

Connecting Scientific Drilling and Human Evolution Scientific Drilling for Human Origins: Exploring the Application of Drill Core Records to Understanding Hominin Evolution; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 17-21 November 2008. doi:

Eos 90(14) 7

Cohen, A.; Arrowsmith, R.; Behrensmeyer, A.K.; Campisano, C.; Feibel, C.; Fisseha, S.; Johnson, R.; Bedaso, Z.; Lockwood, C.; Mbua, E.; Olago, D.; Potts, R.; Reed, K.; Renaut, R.; Tiercelin, J.; Umer, M. (2009):

Understanding Paleoclimate and Human Evolution Through the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project. doi:10.2204/iodp.sd.8.10.2009

Scientific Drilling 8 60-65

Cohen, A.S.; Ashley, G.M.; Potts, R.; Behrensmeyer, A.K.; Feibel, C.; Quade, J. (2006):

Paleoclimate and human evolution workshop. doi:10.1029/2006EO160008

Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 87(16) 161

Reports

Drill Site Proposals Advanced To Project Development by HSPDP

Baringo Basin Drilling	John D. Kingston, et al.
Chew Bahir Drilling	Henry F. Lamb, et al.
N.Afar Drilling	Christopher J. Campesino, et al.
Southern Kenya Drilling	A. K. Behrensmeyer, et al.
Turkana Basin Drilling	Craig S. Feibel, et al.

Scientists

Person, Affiliation, Roles in Project

Wide table

Andrew S. Cohen	Tucson Arizona, U.S.A.	[PI,STM,CP]
Alan L. Deino	Berkeley California, U.S.A.	[CO-PI,STM]
J. Ramón Arrowsmith	Tempe Arizona, U.S.A.	[PI,STM]
Andrew Hill (†)	New Haven Connecticut, U.S.A.	[CO-PI,STM]
Asfawossen Asrat	Addis Ababa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	[PI,STM]
Tim K. Lowenstein	Binghamton New York, U.S.A.	[CO-PI,STM]
Anna Kay Behrensmeyer	Washington District of Columbia, U.S.A.	[PI,STM]
Jonathan Wynn	Tampa Florida, U.S.A.	[CO-PI,STM]
Christopher J. Campisano	Tempe Arizona, U.S.A.	[PI,STM]
Craig Stratton Feibel	Piscataway New Jersey, U.S.A.	[PI,STM]
Shimeles Fisseha	Addis Ababa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	[PI,STM]
Roy A. Johnson	Tucson Arizona, U.S.A.	[PI,STM]
John Kingston	Ann Arbor Michigan, U.S.A.	[PI,STM]
Henry F. Lamb	Aberystwyth Wales, United Kingdom	[PI,STM]
Emma Mbua	Nairobi Nairobi, Kenya	[PI,STM]
Daniel Ochieng Olago	Nairobi Nairobi, Kenya	[PI,STM]
Richard Bernhart (Bernie) Owen	Hong Kong Hong Kong, P.R. China	[PI,STM]
Richard Potts	Washington District of Columbia, U.S.A.	[PI,STM]
Robin W. Renaut	Saskatoon Saskatchewan, Canada	[PI,STM]
Frank Schäbitz	Cologne North Rhine Westphalia, Germany	[PI,STM]
Jean Jacques Tiercelin	Rennes Bretagne, France	[PI,STM]
Martin H. Trauth	Potsdam-Golm Brandenburg, Germany	[PI,STM]
Mohammed Umer (†)	Addis Ababa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	[PI,STM]
Giday WoldeGabriel	Los Alamos New Mexico, U.S.A.	[PI,STM]
Gary D. Acton	Huntsville Texas, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Zerensenay (Zeray) Alemseged	Chicago Illinois, U.S.A	[CAND]
Berhane Asfaw	Addis Ababa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	[CAND]
Justus Obiko Barongo	Nairobi Nairobi, Kenya	[CAND]
C. Richard Bates	St. Andrews Scotland, United Kingdom	[CAND]
Zelalem Kubsa Bedaso	Dayton Ohio, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Dagnachew Legesse Belachew	Vienna Vienna, Austria	[CAND]
Glenn W. Berger (†)	Reno Nevada, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Yonas Beyene	Addis Ababa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	[CAND]
Xavier V. Boes	Brussels Brussels, Belgium	[CAND]
Erik Thorson Brown	Duluth Minnesota, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Isla S. Castaneda	Den Burg (Texel) Noord-Holland, Netherlands	[CAND]
Peter B. de Menocal	Palisades New York, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Erin DiMaggio	Tempe Arizona, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Guillaume Dupont-Nivet	Potsdam-Golm Brandenburg, Germany	[CAND]
Cindy J. (Cynthia) Ebinger	New Orleans Louisiana, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Tamrat Endale	Berkeley California, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Verena E. Förster	Cologne North Rhine Westphalia, Germany	[CAND]
Bige Gebru	Addis Ababa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	[CAND]
Solomon Gerra	Addis Ababa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	[CAND]
Solomon Gerra	Addis Ababa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	[CAND]
John Gitonga Githiri	Nairobi Nairobi, Kenya	[CAND]
William K. Hart	Oxford Ohio, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Victoria C. Hover	Ann Arbor Michigan, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Thomas C. Johnson	Duluth Minnesota, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Tesfaye Kidane	Addis Ababa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	[CAND]
William H. Kimbel	Tempe Arizona, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Meave G. Leakey	Stony Brook New York, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Anthony Mbuthia	Magadi Rift Valley, Kenya	[CAND]
Leah E. Morgan	Denver Colorado, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Anders J. Noren	Minneapolis Minnesota, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Eric Onyango Odada	Nairobi Nairobi, Kenya	[CAND]
Beneah D. Odhiambo	Eldoret Western, Kenya	[CAND]
Rhonda L. Quinn	South Orange New Jersey, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Timothy D. Raub	St. Andrews England, United Kingdom	[STM]
Paul Randall Renne	Berkeley California, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Hélène Roche	Nanterre Île-de-France, France	[CAND]
Stephen M. Rucina	Nairobi Nairobi, Kenya	[CAND]
James Michael Russell	Providence Rhode Island, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Joellen L. Russell	Tucson Arizona, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Christopher A. Scholz	Syracuse New York, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Mathieu Schuster	Strasbourg Alsace, France	[CAND]
Immaculate Ssemmanda	Kampala Kampala, Uganda	[CAND]
Jeffery Robert Stone	Terre Haute Indiana, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Peter Thuo	Nairobi Nairobi, Kenya	[CAND]
Aradhna Tripati	Los Angeles California, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Tim D. White	Berkeley California, U.S.A.	[CAND]
Addis Alem Zeleke	Addis Ababa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	[CAND]

Legend Click "Show"

STM - Science TeamShow

CAND - STM Candidate Show

STM,WP - Workshop Participant, STMShow

WP - Workshop Participant Show

Click to see less commonly used abbreviations

CI - Collaborating Investigator

CO - Coordinator

CO-PI - Co-Principal Investigator

CX06 - Workshop Participant

DE - Drilling Engineer

DS - Drill Site Staff

EX - Excluded

GP - General Public

GU - Guest

IC05 - ?

ICDP/AOG-X - ICDP/Assembly of Governors (retired)

ICDP/EC-X.- ICDP/Executive Committee

ICDP/EC-X - ICDP/Executive Committee (retired)

ICDP/SAG-X - ICDP/Science Advisory Group (retired)

PI - Principal Investigator

PI.STM - Principal Investigator

PM - Project Management

RE - Retired

SAGA - SAGA

SC - Scientist

SP - Sampling Party

SRP06 - ?

SS - Subscriber

STM - Science Team Member

STM.WP - Science Team Member

SUBC - Sub-Coordinator

TC03 - ?

TC04 - ?

TE - Technician

WP - Workshop Participant

Workshops
Hominin Sites Drilling Project Workshop
Addis Ababa, Ethopia
on November 17 - 21, 2008
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