Primary Convener: Rachel Lupien, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners: Anne L Billingsley, University of Houston, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States and Christopher William Kinsley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison: Rachel Lupien, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Chairs: Anne L Billingsley, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Rachel Lupien, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States and Christopher William Kinsley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
OSPA Liaison: Christopher William Kinsley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
A lacustrine biomarker record of continental temperature in equatorial Africa over the last 170,000 years (722986)
Allix Baxter1, Francien Peterse1, Dirk Verschuren2, Thijs Van der Meeren2, Catherine Martin-Jones2,3, Christine S Lane3, Darren Mark4 and Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté1,5, (1)Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)Ghent University, Limnology Unit, Department of Biology, Gent, Belgium, (3)University of Cambridge, Department of Geography, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (4)ERC Argon Isotope Facility, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride, United Kingdom, (5)NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, 't Horntje, Netherlands
Applications of Carbonate Geochemistry to Determining the Role of Climate Change in Hominin Evolution (760735)
Deepshikha Upadhyay, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Cameron Maurice Brown, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Million Hailemichael, Idaho State University, Center for Archaeology, Materials, and Applied Spectroscopy, Chubbuck, ID, United States, Zelalem K Bedaso, University of Dayton, Geology, Dayton, OH, United States, James Aronson, Dartmouth College, Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States, Andrew S Cohen, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Aradhna K Tripati, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Hominin Sites & Paleolakes Drilling Project
Fire response to changes in hydroclimate and vegetation in Pleistocene East Africa (754742)
Troy M Ferland1, Simon C Brassell2, Ian G Stanistreet3, Harold Stollhofen4, Jackson K Njau5, Kathy D Schick5, Nicholas P Toth5 and Katherine Freeman6, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States, (3)University of Liverpool, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (4)Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Germany, (5)Indiana University Bloomington, The Stone Age Institute, Bloomington, IN, United States, (6)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States
Paleosol-Based Evidence of Dynamic Middle to Late Pleistocene Climates and Environmental Change at Gona, Ethiopia (738289)
Kevin Kazuki Takashita-Bynum1, Gary E. Stinchcomb1, Marie N. White2, Madeline R. Beasley3, Michael Rogers4 and Sileshi Semaw5, (1)Murray State University, Watershed Studies Institute and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Murray, KY, United States, (2)University of Memphis, Department of Earth Sciences, Memphis, TN, United States, (3)Murray State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Murray, United States, (4)Southern Connecticut State University, Department of Anthropology, New Haven, CT, United States, (5)Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, Burgos, Spain
Stable isotopes of authigenic clay minerals: Water balance signals in the Late Pleistocene Chew Bahir Basin, Ethiopia (700901)
Daniel Deocampo1, Daniel Gebregiorgis2, Verena E Foerster3, Fred J Longstaffe4, Frank Schaebitz3, Asfawossen Asrat5, Christina Günter6, Annett Junginger7, Hauke Kraemer8, Nicole Stroncik9 and Martin H Trauth10, (1)Georgia State University, Department of Geosciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Georgia State University, Department of Geosciencese, Atlanta, GA, United States, (3)University of Cologne, Institute of Geography Education, Cologne, Germany, (4)University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, (5)Addis Ababa University, School of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (6)University of Potsdam, Institute of Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (7)University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen, Germany, (8)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, (9)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (10)University of Potsdam, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
Time Series Analyses of Northeast African Hydroclimate Variability (738410)
Cole Hazan1,2, Rachel Lupien3, Kevin T Uno4, Peter B deMenocal4 and Pratigya J Polissar5, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (2)Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, (3)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Division of Biology and Paleo Environment, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
