Science report
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19 Feb 2016
Science report |
| 19 Feb 2016
The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: inferring the environmental context of human evolution from eastern African rift lake deposits
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721,
USA
C. Campisano
Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and
Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
R. Arrowsmith
School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University,
Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
A. Asrat
School of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa
University, 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
A. K. Behrensmeyer
Department of
Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20013, USA
A. Deino
Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
C. Feibel
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University,
Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
A. Hill
Peabody Museum, Yale University, New
Haven, CT 06511, USA
deceased
R. Johnson
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721,
USA
J. Kingston
Department of Anthropology, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
H. Lamb
Institute of Geography and
Earth Sciences, University of Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth SY23 3DB, UK
T. Lowenstein
Department of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies,
Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902, USA
CDSCO and
LacCore, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
D. Olago
Department of Geology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
R. B. Owen
Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
R. Potts
Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History,
Washington, DC 20013, USA
K. Reed
Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and
Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
R. Renaut
Department of Geological Sciences,
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon SK S7N 5E2, Canada
F. Schäbitz
Seminar
of Physical Geography and Education, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne,
Germany
J.-J. Tiercelin
CNRS Géosciences Rennes, Université de Rennes,
35042 Rennes, CEDEX, France
M. H. Trauth
Institute of Earth and Environmental
Science, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
J. Wynn
School of
Geosciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
S. Ivory
Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown
University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
K. Brady
CDSCO and
LacCore, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
R. O'Grady
CDSCO and
LacCore, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J. Rodysill
LacCore, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
currently at:
USGS, Reston, VA, USA
J. Githiri
Department of Physics, Jomo
Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya
J. Russell
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721,
USA
V. Foerster
Institute of Earth and Environmental
Science, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
R. Dommain
Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History,
Washington, DC 20013, USA
S. Rucina
Earth Sciences Department, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi,
Kenya
D. Deocampo
Department of Geosciences, Georgia State University,
Atlanta, GA 30302, USA
J. Russell
Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown
University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
A. Billingsley
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721,
USA
C. Beck
Department of Geosciences, Hamilton
College, Clinton, NY 13323, USA
G. Dorenbeck
Seminar
of Physical Geography and Education, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne,
Germany
L. Dullo
Department of Geology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
D. Feary
School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University,
Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
D. Garello
Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and
Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
R. Gromig
Institute of Geology and
Mineralogy, University of Cologne, 50674 Cologne, Germany
T. Johnson
Large
Lakes Observatory, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN 55812, USA
A. Junginger
Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment,
University of Tübingen, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
M. Karanja
Department of Geology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
E. Kimburi
National
Oil Corporation of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
A. Mbuthia
Tata Chemicals Magadi, Magadi,
Kenya
T. McCartney
Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
13244, USA
E. McNulty
Department of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies,
Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902, USA
V. Muiruri
Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
E. Nambiro
National
Oil Corporation of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
E. W. Negash
Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology,
George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA
D. Njagi
Department of Geology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
J. N. Wilson
School of
Geosciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
N. Rabideaux
Department of Geosciences, Georgia State University,
Atlanta, GA 30302, USA
T. Raub
Department of Earth Sciences, University of St. Andrews, Fife KY16
9AJ Scotland, UK
M. J. Sier
Paleomagnetics Laboratory, Department of Earth
Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, 3584 CD Utrecht, the
Netherlands
P. Smith
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
J. Urban
Seminar
of Physical Geography and Education, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne,
Germany
M. Warren
ConocoPhillips, Houston, TX 77079, USA
M. Yadeta
School of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa
University, 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
C. Yost
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721,
USA
B. Zinaye
School of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa
University, 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Short summary
An initial description of the scientific rationale, drilling and core handling, and initial core description activities of the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP). HSPDP is a large international consortium whose objective is to collect cores from lakebeds in proximity to important fossil early human fossil sites in eastern Africa, to better understand the environmental and climatic context of human evolution.
An initial description of the scientific rationale, drilling and core handling, and initial core...
