[Sasnet] Fwd: Workshop on East African Geodynamics, Climate and Evolution

[bonnie.a.b.blackwell at williams.edu]

if you have questions please contact Martin Trauth. 


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    Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:39:30 +0200
    From: Martin Trauth <Martin.Trauth at GEO.UNI-POTSDAM.DE>
Reply-To: Martin Trauth <Martin.Trauth at GEO.UNI-POTSDAM.DE>
 Subject: Workshop on East African Geodynamics, Climate and Evolution
      To: QUATERNARY at CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA

Dear colleagues,

i am very pleased to announce a workshop on east africa in october  
this year - hope to see you in potsdam!

all the best, martin

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International Workshop on
East African Geodynamics, Climate and Evolution. October 16 - 17, 2008
Universität Potsdam, Campus Golm
Institut für Geowissenschaften

DFG Leibniz Center for Surface Process and Climate Studies
DFG Graduate School of Earth Sciences (GRK 1364)
VW Master program Evolution Across Scales
ICDP Germany (SPP 1006)

Workshop Scientific Steering Committee:
G.H. Haug, R. Oberhänsli, F. Schrenk, M.R. Strecker, R. Tiedemann,  
M.H. Trauth

Description
Recent investigations of both terrestrial and marine paleoclimate  
archives have led to a concerted debate regarding the nature of Late  
Cenozoic environmental changes in East Africa, and its influence on  
mammalian and hominin evolution. Since terrestrial records of East  
African environmental change are typically rare, geographically  
dispersed and incomplete, Indian and Atlantic Ocean sediment records  
were used to reconstruct climatic changes in the region. However,  
because of the unique tectonic and magmatic evolution of the East  
African Rift System (EARS) and resulting changes in topography and  
drainage patterns, marine sediment records may not necessarily reflect  
contemporaneous environmental changes in East Africa. It is,  
therefore, important to reach a better understanding of the processes  
changing the habitat of mammals and hominins before suggesting  
possible links between climate and faunal changes.

This workshop brings together structural geologists,  
paleoclimatologists, climate modellers and paleoanthropologists to  
discuss tectonics-climate-evolution interactions in a complex geologic  
setting. More ...

http://www.geo.uni-potsdam.de/Leibnizzentrum/events/events2008/africa_workshop/african_geodyn.html



GK 1364 - http://www.geo.uni-potsdam.de/graduiertenkolleg/index.html

ICDP Germany - http://www.geo.uni-potsdam.de/icdp_homepage/index.html

Evolution Across Scales - http://www.eas.uni-potsdam.de/

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Bonnie A.B. Blackwell, Ph.D., F.G.S.A., F.G.A.C.
Director, RFK Science Research Institute, 
Research Scientist, Williams College
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