Name/Institution/Email |
Research Interests |
Gail
Ashley, Co-Convenor
Dept. of Geol. Sciences, Rutgers Univ.
gmashley@rci.rutgers.edu |
My interests are the paleoclimatic
and paleoenvironmental framework of human evoluton; specifically
the temporal and spatial distribution of freshwater evironments
and habitats (springs, wetlands, rivers & lakes) with respect
to hominin fossil records.
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Kay
Behrensmeyer, Co-Convenor
Dept. of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural
History
Behrensmeyer.Kay@NMNH.SI.EDU |
Paleoecology of Neogene-Quaternary
land faunas and environments, especially in East Africa and Pakistan;
sedimentology of East African Rift sequences; responses of mammalian
faunas to local, regional, and continental-scale climate change
during the Plio-Pleistocene; understanding taphonomic and other
sampling biases in the mammalian fossil record. |
Andy
Cohen, Co-Convenor
Dept. of Geosciences, Univ. Arizona
acohen@geo.arizona.edu |
Paleolimnological reconstruction of
African climate and environmental history. Scientific drilling
in lakes |
Craig
Feibel, Co-Convenor
Dept. of Geol. Sciences, Rutgers Univ.
feibel@rci.rutgers.edu |
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Rick
Potts, Co-Convenor
Dept. of Anthropology, Nat. Museum of Natural
History
pottsr@si.edu |
Evolution and adaptation of
early humans in relation to environmental dynamics and local habitats
of East Africa and East Asia. Excavation and analysis of
late Miocene to late Pleistocene early hominin sites. |
Jay
Quade, Co-Convenor
Dept. of Geosciences, Univ. Arizona
jquade@geo.arizona.edu |
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| Leslie Aiello
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
470 Park Avenue South, 8th Floor, New York, NY
laiello@wennergren.org |
The evolution of human biological
and social adaptation with
an emphasis on locomotion, the brain, cognition, language, thermoregulation
and cooperation. |
Zeray Alemseged
Dept. of Human Evlution, Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthhropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig 04103,
Germany
zeray@eva.mpg.de |
Paleoenvironment and paleoecology
of Plio-Pleistocene homnin bearing sites in Africa.
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| Kelsey Bitting Dept. of Geol. Sciences,
Rutgers University |
Geoarchaeology, climate change,
and human-earth interactions. |
Rene Bobe
Dept. of Anthropology, SUNY Buffalo
renebobe@buffalo.edu |
I am interested in the environmental
context of human evolution in Africa, and in the study fossil mammals
that provide a record of late Cenozoic environmental change. A
central aspect of this research is trying to understand the relationship
between climate and evolutionary dynamics. |
| Raymond Bonnefille
bonnefille@cerege.fr |
Reconstruction of continental palaeovegetation at
hominid sites in the East African Rift, using pollen, phytoliths
and macrofossil remains. Interpretation of pollen data in terms of
variations in climatic parameters, biomes and plant functional types
using transfer functions based upon modern pollen data from surface
samples compiled for all types of vegetation distributed on the whole
African continent. |
Alison Brooks
Department Of Anthropology, George Washington University,
2110 G Street, NW Washington Dc 20052
abrooks@gwu.edu |
I am interested in human behavioral
evolution in general and in modern human origins in particular. My
current reseach topics include changing human use of plant and
animal resources, evolving technologies of human resource extraction,
and later Pleistocene temperature history and dating techniques. |
Chris Campisano
Dept. of Anthropology, Nat. Museum of Natural History
cj_campisano@yahoo.com |
My current research focuses on refining
the paleoenvironments of the Pliocene hominin-bearing Hadar Formation.
In particular I am invesestigating the variation in depositional
environments and faunal assemblages across both space in time and
Hadar’s response to local, regional, and global environmental
change. |
Thure Cerling
Dept of Geol. & Geophysics, Univ Utah
tcerling@mines.utah.edu |
Isotope chemistry, lake chemistry,
evolution of diets of mammals, history of ecosystems, dating, correlation
of volcanic ash, change in C3 and C4 abundances and ratios |
Beth Christensen
Environmental Studies Program
Adelphi University,
Garden City NY 11530
christensen@adelphi.edu |
I use a variety of techniques to investigate
the continental slope and exploit its potential as an archive for
continental dynamics. I am currently focusing on the southern African
region, and using the slope sediments (the only available long,
continuous sections) to reconstruct the terrestrial record. |
Peter deMenocal
Dept. of Geoscience, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
peter@ldeo.columbia.edu |
I mainly study marine sediment records
of African paleoclimate variability spanning the Pliocene-Pleistocene.
Most recently we've focused on molecular biomarker records of African
vegetation changes and radiogenic isotope tracers of African dust
provenance changes. We're also investigating the timing of high-
and low-climate variability "packets" relative to key
faunal evolution junctures. |
Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo
Professor of Department of Prehistory Complutense
University 28040 Madrid, Spain
MDR00008@terra.es |
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Sarah Feakins
Dept. of Geoscience, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
singram@ldeo.columbia.edu |
I use a range of geochemical techniques
to reconstruct East African environments principally from deep
sea sediments, with some exploratory work comparing terrestrial
and marine records of vegetation change.Isotopic analyses of biomarkers
also offer many potential applications in lacustrine sedimentary
sequences. |
Reid Ferring
Director, Center for Environmental Archaeology, Institute
of Applied Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
ferring@unt.edu |
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Adam Gordon
Dept. of Anthropology, 2114 G ST NW Rm 208,
Columbia College of Arts and Science, George Washington U, Washington
DC
agordon@gwu.edu |
I use cross-specific comparative analyses of morphology,
social variables, and ecological variables in extant primates to
better understand how selection pressures can be reconstructed from
the fossil record. I am also interested in methodological innovation
for statistical comparisons of fossil and extant data, and often
use resampling analyses and phylogenetic comparative methods to address
the missing data problem. |
Naama Goren-Inbar
Inst. Archaeology, Univ. Jerusalem
goren@cc.huji.ac.il |
1) Levantine and Old World prehistory,
2) Evolution of behavioral patterns during Early and Middle Pleistocene,
3) Hominin paleoenvironments and dispersals, 4) Taphonomy |
Gerald Haug
Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam (GFZ) Telegrafenberg
D-14473 Potsdam Germany
haug@gfz-potsdam.de |
Gerald Haug is a paleoceanographer.
He is interested is past climate change during the late Cenozoic
with a focus on Pliocene to Holocene climate variability. He thinks
about the impact of climate on the human habitat, past biogeochemical
cycles in the ocean, laminated sediments, and he studies geological
analogs of a warmer world.
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| April Hawkins
Human Origins Program, Department of Anthropology, National Museum
of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, MRC
112, Washington, DC 20013-7012
hawkinsa@si.edu |
Environmental data correlation to the fossil hominin
record; multi-disciplinary data integration; database management. |
Andrew Hill
Department of Anthropology, Yale University, P.O. Box 208277, New
Haven, CT 06520
andrew.hill@yale.edu |
Hominoid evolution and its environmental
and ecological context over the course of the Neogene. Mainly Africa, but
also the fossil terrestrial faunas and paleoenvironments of Arabia. Paleobiogeography. |
Tom Johnson
Large Lakes Observatory, Univ. of Minnesota
tcj@d.umn.edu |
African Quaternary paleoclimates, African
Great Lakes, coring and drilling records, Biogenic silica and lake
sediments, |
John Kingston
Department of Anthropology, Emory University, 1557
Dickey Dr., Atlanta, GA 30322
jkingst@emory.edu |
Most of my research has involved
the use of stable isotopic analyses of fossil fauna and flora as
well as sedimentology to document aspects of early hominin and
hominoid paleoecology at various sites in East Africa including
localities in the Baringo Basin and Laetoli. Substrates I’m
focusing on these days include herbivore enamel, ostrich eggshells,
diatoms, and organic residues. I’m also assimilating stratigraphic
data from a well-dated Pliocene section in the Chemeron Fm., Baringo
Basin, that reveals details of how rift-valley environments are
responding to precessionally-forced shifts in precipitation patterns. |
| Zelalem Kubsa
P.O. Box 8813 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
zelex24@yahoo.com |
I am interested in Paleoenvironmental
and Paleoclimatic changes in East Africa/ Ethiopia especially to
focus on late Pleistocene and Holocene. Application of Stable Isotopes both
on lake and terresteria sediments with special interest on lakes.
Paleohydrological studies for climate modeling. |
Harold (Rich) Lane
National Science Foundation, Earth Sciences Directorate,
4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230, USA
hlane@nsf.gov |
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Chris Lepre
Dept. of Anthropology, Rutgers Univ.
clepre@eden.rutgers.edu |
Geoarchaeology, environment and human
evolution, paleoclimatic context of H. erectus, geology of Plio-Pleistocene
hominin sites, East Africa |
Naomi Levin
Dept Geol. & Geophysics, Univ Utah
nlevin@mines.utah.edu |
I am interested in using stable isotopes
(soil carbonate, shell, teeth) to place terrestrial paleoenvironments
within a paleoclimatic context. I specifically focus on East African
environments, spanning the late Miocene to present. |
Charles Lockwood
Department of Anthropology,
University College London,
Gower Street,
London WC1E 6BT,
United Kingdom
c.lockwood@ucl.ac.uk |
The evolution of australopithecines
and the origin of the genus Homo. I carry out field research
in the Late Pliocene of Ethiopia. In addition to the role
of environmental change in hominin diversification, I am interested
in whether patterns of change within species or lineages (e.g.,
Australopithecus afarensis) can be linked to climatic trends. |
Mark Maslin
Dept. Geography, Univ. College London
mmaslin@geog.ucl.ac.uk |
Mark Maslin is a paleoceanographer
and paleoclimatologist. His main research focus are the climate
cycles and threshold since the end of the Miocene (0-8 Ma). His
research areas include the North and South Atlantic Oceans, North
Pacific Ocean, Amazonia and Eastern and Southern Africa. In
terms of human evolution his major interest is to understand how
global climate changes and local orbital variations affect the
African environment. This research is undertaken by combining
marine and lake sediment paleoclimate reconstructions with couple
GCM-regional climate and vegetation models. |
| Sally McBrearty
Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Connecticut, U-2176, Storrs, CT
06269-2176
mcbrearty@uconn.edu |
My interest is in the Middle
and Later Pleistocene archaeology and paleoanthropology of Africa. I'm particularly
interested in the timing and conditions surrounding the origin of
Homo sapiens. My current field research focuses upon the Kapthurin
Formation, in the Rift Valley of Kenya. |
Tim Partridge
School of Archaeology and Geography, Univ. Witwatersrand
tcp@iafrica.com |
Stratigraphy, dating, sedimentology
and palaeoenvironments of southern African hominid sites, past
climate change as interpreted from long terrestrial records |
Robyn Pickering
Isotope Geochemistry Group, Institute for Geological
Sciences, Bern University, Erlachstrasse 9a 3012, Bern, Switzerland
robyn.pickering@geo.unibe.ch |
geochronology, sedimentology, climate
change |
Rhonda Quinn
Dept. Anthropology, Rutgers Univ.
rlquinn@eden.rutgers.edu |
Terrestrial isotopic proxies of paleoclimate
and mammalian paleoecology, Plio-Pleistocene human evolution and
dispersal from Africa |
Denne Reed
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow,
Dept. of Paleobiology,
National Museum of Natural History,
Smithsonian Institution,
email:reedd@nmnh.si.edu |
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| Brian Richmond
Dept. of Anthropology, 2114 G ST NW Rm 208, Columbia College of
Arts and Science, George Washington U, Washington DC
brich@gwu.edu |
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Bill Ruddiman
Dept. Envir. Sciences, Univ. Virginia
Rudds2@ntelos.net
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Climate change on tectonic, orbital,
and Holocene time scales, and causes thereof. |
Jim Russell
Dept. of Geological Sciences,
Brown University,
324 Brook Street,
Box 1846 ,
Providence RI 02912
Russ0154@umn.edu |
I am interested in developing lacustrine
records of continental climate change in the tropics, particularly
tropical Africa, using a variety of geochemical, organic geochemical,
paleoecologic, and sedimentologic indicators. I am particularly
interested in using these records to understand the mechanisms
that link climate variability in the tropics, the oceans, and the
high latitudes at millennial to orbital time-scales. |
Chris Scholz
Department of Earth Sciences, 208 Heroy Geology Laboratory,
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 13244-1070
cascholz@syr.edu |
I am interested in developing
high-resolution records of tropical African climate change from
the sediments of large lakes using a variety of geological,
geochemical and geophysical methods. Recent field programs include
the acquisition and analyses of long drill cores from southern
East
Africa (Lake Malawi) and West Africa (Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana), and
the collection of geophysical data sets from Lakes Albert, Edward,
and
Tanganyika. Current research is focused on tropical climate variability
since marine isotope stage 6, and the impact of that variability
on early
modern human population dynamics. |
Christian Tryon
Dept. of Anthropology, Nat. Museum of Natural
History
tryonc@si.edu |
My area of interest is best described
as the archaeology of the origins of modern humans in eastern African. I
focus on the roles of stone tool technology as an adaptive signature,
and the use of the geological record, particularly tephra correlation,
to provide the precise spatial and temporal constraints on archaeological
variability |
Peter Ungar
Department of Anthropology,University of Arkansas, Fayetteville,
AR 72701
pungar@uark.edu |
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| Mark Weiss
Assistant Director for Social and Behavioral Sciences, Office of
Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President,
NEOB, 725 17th St, NW, Washington DC 20502
Mark_L._Weiss@ostp.eop.gov |
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