Dr. rer. nat. Verena Foerster - Indenhuck

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in der Stellung einer Akademische Rätin

Physische Geographin (Dr. rer. nat.) | Anwendung im interdisziplinären physisch-geographischen Kontext

Leiterin der Arbeitsgruppe/Laborgruppe Paläoökologie

Institutsvorstand, Vertreterin des Mittelbaus

Erasmuskoordinatorin des Instituts

Kontakt

Universität zu Köln
Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät

Institut für Geographiedidaktik
Gronewaldstrasse 2
Gebäude 216a; Raum 1.129
50931 Köln
V.Foersteruni-koeln.de

Online Sprechstunde im WiSe nach Vereinbarung und Donnerstags 10-11h

Lehre

Biografie

seit 2022 Leitung der Kölner Arbeits- und Laborgruppe Paläoökologie

seit 2016 Universität Köln | Institut für Geographiedidaktik | Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin i.d. Stellung einer Akademische Rätin | Bereich Physische Geographie: Lehre & Forschung

2018-2023 Universität Köln | Projektleitung des Forschungsprojekts Die Entschlüsselung von Klimadaten mithilfe der Analyse authigener Minerale in den Chew-Bahir-Sedimentkernen

2014-2016 Universität Potsdam | Institut für Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften | Postdoc | Arbeitsgruppe Paläoklimadynamik | Projekt: The Chew Bahir Drilling Project: A Half-Million Year Climate Record from the Southern Ethiopian Rift, Crucible of Human Evolution

2015-2016 Universität Potsdam | Potsdam Graduate School (PoGS) | Qualifizierungsprogramm für exzellente Hochschullehre: Senior Teaching Professionals

2013-2014 Universität Köln | Seminar für Geographie | Postdoc | Projekt: The Chew Bahir Drilling Project

2010-2014 Universität Köln | Seminar für Geographie und ihre Didaktik | Doktorandin/Promotion | Dissertationsthema: Late Quaternary climate variability in the source region of Homo sapiens. Dry-wet cycles in Chew Bahir, southern Ethiopia. | 2014: Dr. rer. nat. im Fach physische Geographie

2009-2010 Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft, Universität zu Köln, Seminar für Geographie und ihre Didaktik; Unterstützung von Lehre & Forschung

2007-2010 Studentische Hilfskraft, Universität zu Köln, Seminar für Geographie und ihre Di- daktik; Unterstützung der Lehre im Bereich Physische Geographie
2004-2009 Universität Köln | Studium Geographie und Englisch (Lehramt/GHR) | Schwerpunkt des EZW Studienanteils: Themenzentrierte Interaktion | Schwerpunkt des psychologischen Studienanteils: Kommunikationspsychologie | Zusatzstudium BLUE (Bilingual Teaching)

Thema Staatsarbeit: Pollenablagerungen seit dem Hochmittelalter auf dem Seeboden der Laguna Potrok Aike, Südpatagonien (Argentinien) | 2009: Erstes Staatsexamen Lehramt GHR

Forschung

Forschungsschwerpunkt 1: Mensch-Umwelt Beziehungen (fachwissenschaftlich physisch-geographisch)

Mein Forschungsschwerpunkt im fachwissenschaftlichen physisch-geographischen Bereich konzentriert sich auf Klimarekonstruktionen in einem interdisziplinären Kontext und ist eng mit internationalen sowie trans- und interdisziplinären Großprojekten verbunden. Teil dieser Forschungsaktivitäten sind die Bohrung und Analyse von langen kontinuierlichen Sedimentkernen aus einer der Ursprungsregionen (Äthiopien, Kenia, Tansania) des modernen Menschen um aktuelle Hypothesen über die Wechselwirkung zwischen Mensch und Klima zu testen.

Multi-Proxy-Aufzeichnungen (aus Ostafrika) sind von entscheidender Bedeutung, um Hypothesen darüber zu testen, wie verschiedene Arten von Klimaschwankungen und Umwelttransformationen die Lebensbedingungen zunächst des Menschen in der Vergangenheit verändert und damit möglicherweise zu wichtigen Entwicklungen in der biologischen und kulturellen Evolution sowie der Mobilität des Menschen in der Menschheitsgeschichte beigetragen haben, aber auch unsere Zukunft als Gesellschaft beeinflussen (HESCOR). Aus dieser diachronischen Perspektive lassen sich wichtige Fragestellungen für den Einfluss des aktuellen Klimawandels auf die gegenwärtige und zukünftige kulturelle Entwicklung des Menschen übertragen: das ist das zentrale Thema des jüngst gestarteten HESCOR Projekts (Cultural Evolution in Changing Climate: Human and Earth System Coupled Research; Profilbildung 2022, MKW NRW), das fakultätsübergreifend an der Universität zu Köln in einer multidisziplinären Struktur Forschung in Mathematik, Machine Learning, Kultur- und Sprachwissenschaften, Archäologie, Meteorologie, Geographie und Didaktik zu einem neuen Wissenschaftsbereich verbindet.

Forschungsschwerpunkt 2: Klimabildung & Didaktische Transformation

In meinem Forschungsschwerpunkt Klimabildung & Didaktische Transformation steht die Verknüpfung von aktuellen fachwissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen (Mensch-Klima-Beziehungen) und der (Geographie)didaktik im Vordergrund. Dabei geht es auch darum, wie sich die teilweise hochkomplexen und oft fachübergreifenden Inhalte für verschiedene Adressatengruppen (Kinder, Schüler*innen, Geographiestudierende, Lehramtsstudierende, Allgemeinheit) zugänglich machen lassen und welche Methoden und Strategien der didaktischen Transformation geeignet sind.

HESCOR-Teilprojekt 5 (GACD und Education) widmet sich neben dem Aufbau einer interdisziplinären Database (GACD = Global Archaeological Cultural Database), explizit der Entwicklung von Lehr- und Bildungsmaterialien. Dabei wird Outreach & Education als eine weitere Möglichkeit der Profilbildung verstanden, denn die Entwicklung von multidisziplinärem Lehrmaterial erfordert eine didaktische Umgestaltung und ein Höchstmaß an systemischem Denken. Es geht also nicht nur um eine Vereinfachung der Ergebnisse, sondern um eine kritische Reduktion, Verdichtung und Transformation, die eine intensive fakultätsübergreifende Zusammenarbeit erfordert. Didaktisch wertvoll ist hier die strukturierte Dokumentation, Erforschung und Analyse der Metaprozesse und metakognitiven Strategien von Schüler:innen die insbesondere beim Vergleichen (Vergleichen als Methode) dieser sehr unterschiedlichen - da multidisziplinären- Daten die Lernenden vor neue Herausforderungen stellt.

Forschungsschwerpunkt 3: Professionalisierung von Lehrkräften

Die Bekämpfung des Klimawandels, als eine der zentralen Herausforderungen unserer Gesellschaft, erfordert fachlich fundierten und zukunftsfähigen Umgang mit den Ursachen und Folgen des anthropogenen Klimawandels. Dies basiert jedoch auf entsprechender Bildung, die derzeit allerdings schwer mit der rasanten wissenschaftlichen Entwicklung Schritt halten kann. Eine besondere Verantwortung kommt damit der Ausbildung von zukünftig Lehrenden in naturwissenschaftlichen Brückenfächern wie z.B. der Geographie zu. Im Kontext von Climate Change Education (CCE), bemühen sich Hochschulen weltweit die Ausbildung von zukünftig Lehrenden an die rasant wachsende Entwicklung des Bedarfs im Bildungssektor und die Notwendigkeit der Professionalisierung in Themenfeldern der BNE, wie z.B. dem Klimawandel anzupassen.

Publikationen

[peer-reviewed]

2024

Foerster, V., Simon, M., Schäbitz, F. (2024). Drilling in an African Lake to Find Out Whether Climate Change Drove Human Evolution. Frontiers for Young Minds, 12, 1252697. doi: 10.3389/frym.2024.1252697

Beck, C., Berke, M., Feibel, C., Foerster, V., Olaka, L., Roberts, H.M., Scholz, C.A., Cantner, K., Noren, A., Kiptoo, G., Muirhead, J., and the Deep Drilling in the Turkana Basin (DDTB) Project Team (2024). ICDP workshop on the Deep Drilling in the Turkana Basin Project: Exploring the link between environmental factors and hominin evolution over the past 4 Ma. Scientific Drilling, 33, 93–108, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-33-93-2024

Trauth, M., Fischer, M. L., Foerster, V., Marwan, N., Roberts, H. M. & Schäbitz, F. (2024). A combined directly-dated and tuned age model for the Chew Bahir, Ethiopia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 15, 100208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2024.100208

Trauth, M.H., Asrat, A., Fischer, M.L., Hopcroft, P., Foerster, V., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Kindermann, K., Lamb, H.F., Marwan, N., Maslin, M., Schaebitz, F., Valdes, P.J. (2024). Early Warning Signals for the Termination of the African Humid Period. Nature Communications 15, 3697, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47921-1.

Fischer, M., Munz, P.M., Foerster, V., Schaebitz, F., Marwan, N., Schwanghart, W., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Asrat, A., Trauth, M.H., 2024. Spatio-temporal variations of climate along possible African-Arabian routes of H. sapiens expansion. Quaternary Science Advances 14, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2024.100174.

2023

McHenry, L. J., Foerster, V., & Gebregiorgis, D. (2023). Paleolakes of Eastern Africa: Zeolites, Clay Minerals, and Climate. Elements 19(2), 96–103.

Schäbitz, F., Richter, J., Foerster, V., Simon, M. Budke, A. (2023). Mobilität unserer Vorfahren. Die Ausbreitungsgeschichte des Homo sapiens von Afrika nach Europa. Geographische Rundschau 6, 30–35.

2022

Foerster, V. Asrat, A., Bronk Ramsey, C., Brown, E.T., Chapot, M.S., Deino, A., Duesing, W., Grove, M., Hahn, A., Junginger, A., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Lane, C.S., Opitz, S., Noren, A., Roberts, H.M., Stockhecke, M., Tiedemann, R., Vidal, C.M., Vogelsang, R., Cohen, A.S., Lamb, H.F., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H. 2022. Pleistocene climate variability in eastern Africa influenced hominin evolution. Nature Geoscience 15, 805–811, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01032-y.

Foerster V., Zeeden C. and Junginger A. 2022. Editorial: Integrating Paleoclimate, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Paleontology in Human Evolution and Dispersal Studies—from Early Hominins to the Holocene. Frontiers in Earth Science 10, 10:892664.doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.892664.

Cohen, A. S., Campisano, C. J., Arrowsmith, J. R., Asrat, A., Beck, C. C., Behrensmeyer, A. K., Deino, A.L., Feibel, C.S., Foerster, V., Kingston, J.D., Lamb, H.F., LOwenstein, T.K., Lupien, R.L., Muiruri, V., Olago, D.O., Owen, R.B., Potts, R., Russel, J.M., Schaebitz, F., Stone, J.R., Trauth, M.H., Yost, C. L., 2022. Reconstructing the Environmental Context of Human Origins in Eastern Africa Through Scientific Drilling. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 50.

Lupien, R.L., Russell, J.M., Pearson, E.J., Castañeda, I.S., Asrat, A., Foerster, V., Lamb, H.F., Roberts, H.M., Schäbitz, F., Trauth, M.H., Beck, C.C., Feibel, C.S., Cohen, A.S., 2022. Orbital controls on eastern African hydroclimate in the Pleistocene. Science Reports 12, 3170.

2021

Duesing, W., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Foerster, V., Lamb, H.F., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H., Viehberg, F., 2021. Changes in the cyclicity and variability of the eastern African paleoclimate over the last 620 kyrs. Quaternary Science Reviews 273, 107219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107219.

Trauth, M.H., Asrat, A., Berner, N., Bibi, F., Foerster, V., Grove, M., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Maslin, M.A., Mudelsee, M., Schäbitz, F., 2021. Northern Hemisphere Glaciation, African climate and human evolution. Quaternary Science Reviews 268, 107095, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107095.

Schaebitz, F., Lamb, H., Asrat, A., Trauth, M.H., Vogelsang, R., Viehberg, F.A., Foerster, V. (2021). Ethiopian lakes as paleoenvironmental and paleoclimate archives. In: Litt, T., Richter, J., and Schäbitz, F. (Eds.), The Journey of Modern Humans from Africa to Europe. Culture-Environmental Interaction and Mobility. Schweizerbart Science Publishers, Stuttgart, pp. 14–21.

Maier, V. und Foerster, V., 2021. Studierende gestalten Erklärvideos. Bodenprofile didaktisch reduzieren und videografisch aufbereiten. In: Jeannine Wintzer, Ivo Mossig, Angela Hof (Hrsg.): Prinzipien, Strukturen und Praktiken geographischer Hochschullehre. UTB Verlag, Bern.

Krueger, J., Foerster, V., Trauth, M.H., Hofreiter, M., Tiedemann, R., 2021. Exploring the Past Biosphere of Chew Bahir/Southern Ethiopia: Cross- Species Hybridization Capture of Ancient Sedimentary DNA from a Deep Drill Core. Front. Earth Sci. 9:683010. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.683010.

Schaebitz, F., Asrat, A., Lamb, H.F., Cohen, A.S., Foerster, V., Duesing, W., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Opitz, S., Viehberg, F.A., Vogelsang, R., Dean, J., Leng, M.J., Junginger, A., Bronk Ramsey, C., Chapot, M.S., Deino, A., Lane, C.S., Roberts, H.., Vidal, C., Tiedemann, R., Trauth, M.H., 2021. Hydroclimate changes in eastern Africa over the past 200,000 years may have influenced early human dispersal. Nature Communications Earth and Environment, (2021)2:123 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00195-7.

Fischer, M.L., Bachofer, F., Yost, C., Bludau, I.E., Schepers, C., Foerster, V., Lamb, H.F., Schäbitz, F., Asrat, A., Trauth, M.H., Junginger, A., 2021. A Phytolith supported Biosphere-Hydrosphere Predictive Model for southern Ethiopia: insights into paleoenvironmental changes and human landscape preferences since the Last Glacial Maximum. Geosciences 2021, 11, 418. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11100418.

Kaboth-Bahr, S., Gosling, W.D., Vogelsang, R., Bahr, A., Scerri, E.M.L, Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Düsing, W., Foerster, V., Lamb, H.F., Maslin, M.A., Roberts, H.M., Schäbitz, F., Trauth, M.H., 2021. Paleo-ENSO influence on African environments and early modern humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jun 2021, 118 (23) e2018277118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2018277118.

Roberts, H., Bronk Ramsey, C., Chapot M., Deino A., Lane C., Vidal C., Asrat A., Cohen A., Foerster V., Lamb H., Schäbitz F., Trauth, M.H., 2021. Using multiple chronometers to establish a long, directly-dated lacustrine record: constraining >600,000 years of environmental change at Chew Bahir, Ethiopia. Quaternary Science Reviews 266, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107025.

Arnold, G.E., Foerster, V., Trauth, M.H., Lamb, H., Schaebitz, F., Asrat, A., Szczech, C., Günter, C., 2021. Advanced hyperspectral analysis of sediment core samples from the Chew Bahir Basin, Ethiopian Rift, in the spectral range from 0.25 to 17 µm: support for climate proxy interpretation. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9:606588. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.606588.

Gebregiorgis, D., Deocampo, D.M., Foerster, V., Longstaffe, F.J., Schaebitz, F., Junginger, A., Markowska, M., Trauth, M.H., Asrat, A. 2021. Modern sedimentation and authigenic mineral formation in the Chew Bahir Basin, southern Ethiopia: implications for interpretation of Late Quaternary paleoclimate records. Frontiers in Earth Science. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.607695.

Duesing, W., Berner, N., Deino, A.L., Foerster, V., Kraemer, K.H., Marwan, N. and Trauth, M.H., 2021. Multiband Wavelet Age Modeling for a 293 m (600 kyr) Sediment Core From Chew Bahir Basin, Southern Ethiopian Rift. Front. Earth Sci. 9:594047. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.594047.

Trauth, M.H., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Duesing, W., Foerster, V., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Kraemer K.H., Lamb, H.F., Marwan, N., Maslin, M.A., Schäbitz, F., 2021. Recurring types of variability and transitions in the ∼620 kyr record of climate change from the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia, Quaternary Science Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106777.

2020

Fischer, M.L., Markowska, M., Bachofer, F., Foerster, V., Asrat, A., Zielhofer, C., Trauth, M.H. and Junginger, A., 2020. Determining the Pace and Magnitude of Lake Level Changes in Southern Ethiopia Over the Last 20,000 Years Using Lake Balance Modeling and SEBAL. Frontiers in Earth Science 8:197. doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.00197.

Russel, J., et al., 2020. ICDP workshop on the Lake Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project: a late Miocene–present record of climate, rifting, and ecosystem evolution from the world’s oldest tropical lake. Sci. Dril., 27, 53–60, 2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-27-53-2020.

2019

Trauth, M.H., Asrat, A., Duesing, W., Foerster, V., Kraemer, K.H., Marwan, N., Maslin, M.A:, Schaebitz, F., 2019. Classifying past climate change in the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia, using recurrence quantification analysis. Climate Dynamics, doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04641-3.

2018

Foerster, V., Deocampo, D.M., Asrat, A., Günter, C., Junginger, A., Kraemer, H., Stroncik, N.A., Trauth, M.H., 2018. Towards an understanding of climate proxy formation in the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopian Rift. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 501, 111-123, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.04.009.

Trauth, M.H., Foerster, V., Junginger, A., Asrat, A., Lamb, H.F., Schaebitz, F., 2018. Abrupt or Gradual? Change Point Analysis of the Late Pleistocene-Holocene Climate Record from Chew Bahir, Southern Ethiopia. Quaternary Research (2018), 1-10, doi:10.1017/qua.2018.30.

2016 – 2014

Foerster, V., Vogelsang, R., Junginger, A., Asrat, A., Lamb, H.F., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H., 2016. Reply to the comment on “Environmental change and human occupation of southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya during the last 20,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 129: 333–340”. Quaternary Science Reviews 141, 130–133, 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.04.003.

Cohen, A.S. , 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. Scientific Drilling 21, 1-16, doi:10.5194/sd-21-1-2016.

Foerster, V., Vogelsang, R., Junginger, A., Asrat, A., Lamb, H.F., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H., 2015. Environmental Change and Human Occupation of Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya during the last 20,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 129, 333–340, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.026.

Trauth, M.H., Bergner, A.G.N., Foerster, V., Junginger, A., Maslin, M.A., Schaebitz, F., 2015. Episodes of Environmental Stability and Instability in Late Cenozoic Lake Records of Eastern Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 87, 21–31, doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.03.011.

Foerster, V., Junginger, A., Asrat, A., Lamb, H. F., Wennrich, V., Weber, M., Rethemeyer, J., Frank, U., Brown, M.C., Trauth, M.H. and Schaebitz, 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. Climate of the Past Discussions 10, 977–1023.

Foerster, V., 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, Quaternary International 274, 25–37.

Dissertation

Foerster, V. 2014. Late Quaternary climate variability in the source region of Homo sapiens. Dry-
wet cycles in Chew Bahir, southern Ethiopia. Doctoral Thesis. University of Cologne. http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/6109

Special Issue

Guest Editor in Frontiers in Earth Sciences Research Topic:

Integrating Paleoclimate, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology & Paleontology in Human Evolution and Dispersal Studies - from Early Hominins to the Holocene.

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Invited talks

Foerster, V. et al. (upcoming at EGU 2023): Pleistocene climatic variability in eastern Africa influenced hominin evolution: the 620,000-year climate record from Chew Bahir, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-6170, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-6170, 2023.

Foerster, V. (06. October 2022). Pleistocene climate variability in eastern Africa influenced hominin evolution. Mapping Ancient Africa seminar. “Ecology of the Past” YouTube channel.

Foerster, V. (01. February 2021). 620,000 years of eastern African climate change and its nexus with hominin evolution. CRC806 Lecture Series. University of Cologne.

Foerster, V. (27. January 2020). 600,000 years of shifts, spells and flickers: what role did eastern African climate dynamics play
in human evolution and dispersal? Tübingen Paleobiology Seminars. University of Tübingen.

Foerster, V. (24. Mai 2019). Coring for Climate - Probing for Proxies: From Deciphering Paleoclimatic Information in Lake Sediments Towards an Environmental Context for Human Evolution. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Sino – German Frontiers of Science Symposium. Lübeck, May 23 – 26, 2019.

Foerster, V. et al., (11. April 2019). From peaks and patterns to proxy and palaeo: towards a reliable palaeoenvironmental record (Chew Bahir, southern Ethiopia). Session: Novel and quantitative methods for reconstructing continental palaeoenvironments and palaeohydrology. EGU Annual Mtg., Vienna, Austria, 07.-12. April 2019, Vol. 21, EGU2019-10863, 2019.

Foerster, V. (28. März 2018). Towards an environmental context of human evolution and dispersal - Deciphering climate information from the Chew Bahir sediment cores (southern Ethiopia). Afternoon Seminar. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University (USA).

Foerster, V. (22. März 2018). Walking on sunshine or getting wet feet? New findings on the environmental context of human evolution from the Chew Bahir sediment cores Seminar. Georgia State University (USA).

Foerster, V. (29. Januar 2018). From mud and dust to curves and concepts: New findings on the environmental context of human evolution from the Chew Bahir sediment cores. University of Potsdam.

Foerster, V. and Junginger A. (27. November 2017). The eastern African paleoenvironmental context of human evolution and dispersal. Universität Bochum.

Foerster, V., (9. April 2015). Climate flickers in the crucible of Homo sapiens. Is there a connection between environmental variability and key developments in human history? “Soft Rock Lunch”, University of Minnesota.

Foerster, V., 2015. Chew Bahir: Project - Cores - Tephrochronology. Relevance of volcanic ashes for drilling projects. Session zur Tephrochronologie. Universität Potsdam.

Foerster, V., 2014. Umweltvariabilität im Spätquartär als Motor für kulturelle und technische Innovationen? 34. Jahrestagung der Afrikagruppe deutscher Geowissenschaftler/-innen (AdG) in Köln.

Conference contributions

2024

Fischer, M. et al.,: Linear and non-linear Time Series Analysis of pan-African Hydroclimate spanning the past 1,200 kyr. EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-12155.

Zachow, C. et al.: Indian ocean sea surface temperature control on the 50,000-year strontium isotope Chew Bahir lake record, Eastern Africa. EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-11537.

Trauth, M.H. et al.: Combining orbital tuning and direct dating approaches to age-depth model development for Chew Bahir, Ethiopia. EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-5046.

2023

Foerster, V., Asrat, A., Bronk Ramsey, C., Brown, E. T., Deino, A., Grove, M., Hahn, A., Junginger, A., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Lane, C. S., Opitz, S., Noren, A., Roberts, H. M., Tiedemann, R., Vogelsang, R., Vidal, C. M., Cohen, A. S., Lamb, H. F., Schaebitz, F., and Trauth, M. H.: Pleistocene climatic variability in eastern Africa influenced hominin evolution: the 620,000-year climate record from Chew Bahir , EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-6170, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-6170, 2023.

Trauth, M. H., Asrat, A., Fischer, M. L., Hopcroft, P. O., Foerster, V., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Lamb, H. F., Marwan, N., Maslin, M. A., Schäbitz, F., and Valdes, P. J.: Early Warning Signals for the Termination of the African Humid Period(s), EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-5277, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-5277, 2023.

Foerster, V.E., Junginger, A., Zeeden, C., Nett, J., Kübler, S., Lupien, R., Meyer, I. Session SSP1.5/CL1: Integrating stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleoclimate and human evolution in- and out of Africa. Co-organized Session at EGU Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 23.-28. April 2023.

Foerster, V.E., Gebregiorgis, D., Dean, J., Leng, M.J., Günter, C., Lamb, H.F., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H., Asrat, A., Junginger, A. (2023): Deciphering eastern African environmental extremes and hydrological threshold conditions during the last 620,000 years: authigenic minerals in the Chew Bahir record. INQUA Congress, Rome, Ireland, July 14 – 20 2023. (upcoming). Talk.

Catherine Beck, Melissa A. Berke, Craig S. Feibel, Verena Foerster*, Anders Noren, Lydia A. Olaka, Helen M. Roberts, Christopher Scholz (2023): Towards Deep Drilling in the Turkana Basin (DDTB): Tracking the Environmental Forces Driving Hominin Evolution. Deciphering eastern African environmental extremes and hydrological threshold conditions during the last 620,000 years: authigenic minerals in the Chew Bahir record. INQUA Congress, Rome, Ireland, July 14 – 20 2023. (upcoming). Poster.

Co-chair in Session 101: Integration of palaeoecological proxy data for the reconstruction of climate and environment dynamics. INQUA Congress, Rome, Ireland, July 14 – 20 2023. (upcoming).

2022

Kaboth-Bahr, S., Gosling, W. D., Vogelsang, R., Bahr, A., Scerri, E. M. L., Asrat, A., Cohen, A. S., Düsing, W., Foerster, V., Lamb, H. F., Maslin, M. A., Roberts, H. M., Schäbitz, F., and Trauth, M. H.: Paleo-ENSO influence on African environmentsand early modern humans, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-2038, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-2038, 2022.

Verena E. Foerster, Asfawossen Asrat, Gabriele Arnold, Andrew S. Cohen, Daniel Gebregiorgis, Christina Günter, Matt Grove, Henry F. Lamb,Walter Duesing, Stefanie Kaboth- Bahr, Stephan Opitz, Finn A.Viehberg, Ralf Vogelsang, Jonathan Dean, Melanie J. Leng, Annett
Junginger, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Melissa S. Chapot, Alan Deino, Christine S. Lane, Helen M. Roberts, Frank Schaebitz, CélineVidal, Ralph
Tiedemann, Martin H.Trauth: Deciphering environmental thresholds in the habitat of early humans: a new 620,000-year mineralogical proxy record from Chew Bahir in southern Ethiopia. 6th PAGES Open Science Meeting 16-20 May 2022.

2021

2020

Foerster, V., Asfawossen Asrat, Andrew S. Cohen, Melissa S. Chapot, Alan Deino, Daniel M. Deocampo, Walter Duesing, Christina Guenter, Annett Junginger, Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr, Henry F. Lamb, Christine Lane, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Helen M. Roberts, Céline Vidal, Frank Schaebitz, and Martin H. Trauth (2020): Assessing the role of climate change in human evolution and dispersal: a 600,000-year record from Chew Bahir, southern Ethiopia. EGU General Assembly 2020, EGU2020-18292, doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-18292.

Martin H. Trauth, Asfawossen Asrat, Andrew S. Cohen, Walter Duesing, Verena Foerster, Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr, Hauke Kraemer, Henry Lamb, Norbert Marwan, Mark A. Maslin, and Frank Schaebitz (2020): Recurrence quantification analysis of the ~620 kyr record of climate change from the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia. EGU General Assembly 2020, EGU2020-4660 https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-4660.

Arnold, G., Szczech, C., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Foerster, V., Schäbitz, F., Lamb, H. and Trauth, M.H. (2020): Advanced hyperspectral analysis of sediment core samples from the Chew Bahir Basin, Ethiopian Rift in the spectral range from 0.25 to 17 μm: support for climate proxy information. EGU General Assembly 2020, EGU2020-5233, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-5233.

Duesing, W.,Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Foerster, V., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Kraemer, H., Lamb, H.F., Marwan, N., Roberts, H.M. and Schaebitz, F. (2020): Climate beats from Africa: a statistical analysis of the 620 kyr Chew Bahir climate record, eastern Africa. EGU General Assembly 2020, EGU2020-13026, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-13026.

Fischer, M.L., Sittaro, F., Manntschke, C., Yost, C., Foerster, V.E., Schäbitz, F., Schepers, C., Trauth, M.H. and Junginger, A. (2020): Linking Paleo Vegetation Modelling with a Phytolith Record for the African Humid Period (15 - 5 ka BP) of the Omo-River-Lowlands and the Chew Bahir Basin, southern Ethiopia. EGU General Assembly 2020, EGU2020-5888, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-5888

Schäbitz, F., Foerster, V., Asrat, A. Cohen, A., et al., (2020): Human responses to hydroclimate fluctuations over the last 200 kyr in Ethiopia. EGU General Assembly 2020, EGU2020-11488, doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-11488.

Kaboth-Bahr, S., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Düsing, W., Foerster-Indenhuck, V., Lamb, H., Maslin, M.A., Schäbitz, F. and Trauth, M.H. (2020): An ocean view of African climate change during the last 620,000 years. EGU General Assembly 2020, EGU2020-10826, doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-10826.

2019

Gebregiorgis, D., Deocampo, D., Foerster, V. Schaebitz, F., Junginger, A., Markowska, M., Asrat, A. (2019 | upcoming): Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Recent Sediments in the Chew Bahir Basin: Implications for paleoclimatic interpretations of Pleistocene Paleorecords. AGU American Geophysical Union’s annual Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 9–13 December 2019.

Foerster, V.E., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Chapot, M.S., Deino, A., Deocampo, D.M., Duesing, W., Guenter, C., Junginger, A., Lamb, H.F., Lane, C., Ramsey, C.B., Roberts, H.M., Vidal, C., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H. (2019): Coring for climatic context of human origins key sites: The ~600,000-year climate record from Chew Bahir, southern Ethiopia. INQUA Congress, Dublin, Ireland, July 25 – 31 2019, P-4273.

Davies, S.J., Robson, P.J., Asrat, A., Ramsey, C.B., Chapot, M.S., Cohen, A., Dean, J., Deino, A., Foerster, V.E., Grove, M., Junginger, A., Lamb, H.F., Lane, C.S., Pearson, E., Raub, T.D., Roberts, H.M., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H., Viehberg, F., Vidal, C. (2019): Diatom assemblages from Chew Bahir, Ethiopia: High-resoltuion snapshots of Late Pleistocene and Holocene climate variability in a ~600 ka sequence. INQUA Congress, Dublin, Ireland, July 25 – 31 2019.

Dean, J., Leng, M., Viehberg, F., Asrat, A., Chapot, M., Cohen, A., Deino, A., Foerster, V., Just, J., Lamb, H., Roberts, H., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M. Ramsey, C.B., Lane, C., Vidal, C. (2019): A 600 kyr hydroclimate record from Chew Bahir, southern Ethiopia, and implications for Anatomically Modern Human dispersal out of Africa. INQUA Congress, Dublin, Ireland, July 25 – 31 2019.

Roberts, H.M., Ramsey, C.B., Chapot, M.S., Deino, A.L., Lane, C.S., Vidal, C., Foerster, V.E., Asrat, A., Lamb, H.F., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H. (2019): Using multiple chronometers to establish a long, directly-dated lacustrine record: constraining >600,000 years of envionmental change at Chew Bahir, Ethiopia. INQUA Congress, Dublin, Ireland, July 25 – 31 2019.

Lamb, H., Asrat, A., Ramsey, C.B., Cohen, A., Chapot, M., Davies, S., Dean, J., Deino, A., Duesing, W., Foerster, V., Grove, M., Junginger, A., Lane, C., Leng, M., Lupien, R., Pearson, E., Roberts, H., Russell, J., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M., Vidal, C. (2019): The 600,000-year paleoenvironmental record from Chew Bahir, Ethiopia: testing hypotheses of climate change and human origins. INQUA Congress, Dublin, Ireland, July 25 – 31 2019.

Lane, C., Vidal, C., Asrat, A., Deino, A., Foerster, V., Lamb, H., Roberts, H., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M. (2019). Tephra connections between records of past climate and early modern human evolution in Africa. INQUA Congress, Dublin, Ireland, July 25 – 31 2019.

Foerster, V. (2019): Reconstructing climate history during the evolution and dispersal of anatomically modern humans: authigenic minerals as sensitive climate proxy (Poster). Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Sino – German Frontiers of Science Symposium. Lübeck, May 23 – 26, 2019.

Foerster, V. (2019): Coring for Climate - Probing for Proxies: From Deciphering Paleoclimatic Information in Lake Sediments Towards an Environmental Context for Human Evolution. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Sino – German Frontiers of Science Symposium. Lübeck, May 23 – 26, 2019.

Foerster, V.E., Junginger, A., Klasen, N., Zeeden, C., Schaebitz, F. Session SSP1.3/CL1.27/GM6.8 : Integrating stratigraphy, sedimentology, palaeontology and paleoclimate in human evolution and dispersal studies - from early hominins to the Holocene. Co-organized Session at EGU Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 07.-12. April 2019.

Foerster, V. et al. (2019): From peaks and patterns to proxy and paleorecord: towards a reliable palaeoenvironmental record (Chew Bahir, southern Ethiopia). EGU Annual Mtg., Vienna, Austria, 07.-12. April 2019, Vol. 21, EGU2019-10863.

Deocampo, D., Gebregiorgis, D., Rabideaux, N., Minkara, K., Davis, D., Ashley, G., Kingston, J., Deino, A., Bernhardt Owen, R., Lowenstein, T., Renaut, R., Foerster, V., Schabitz, F., Asrat, A., Cohen, A., Campisano, C., Delaney, J., Cuadros, J., and Longstaffe, F. (2019): Silicate diagenesis and environmental change in eastern Africa: Examples from key hominin localities. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.

Duesing, W., Kraeme, H., Asrat, A., Chapot, M., Cohen, A., Deino, A., Foerster, V., Lamb, H., Marwan, N., Lane, C., Maslin, M., Ramsey, C., Roberts, H., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M., and Vidal, C. (2019): Differentiating local from regional climate signals using the ~600 ka Chew Bahir paleoclimate record from South Ethiopia. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.

Fischer, M.L., Markowska, M., Bachofer, F., Foerster, V.E., Asrat, A., Junginger, A. (2019): EGU2019-8392: Between Deserts and Lakes: Determining the pace and magnitude of environmental changes in southern Ethiopia. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.

Guenter, C., Foerster, V., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Deocampo, D.M., Lamb, H.F., Malek, T., Schaebitz, F., and Trauth, M.H. (2019). What we can learn from deltoidal icositetrahedrons about climate: Authigenic mineral transformation as sensitive climate proxy in the Chew Bahir sediment cores (southern Ethiopia). EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.

Krueger, L., Arnold, G., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Foerster, V., Henkel, D., Schaebitz, F. Lamb, H., Trauth, M.H., and Guenter, C. (2019): Spectral analysis of selected sediment core samples from the Chew Bahir Basin, Ethiopian Rift in the spectral range from 0.3 to 17 um: support for climate proxy information. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. EGU2019-7712-1.

Markowska, M., Vonhof, H., Fischer, M.L., Zinaye, B., Foerster, V.E., Asrat, A., Lamb, H.F., Schaebitz, F., and Junginger, A. (2019): How wet is wet? Quantifying hydrological changes over the past 15,000 years in the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. EGU2019-14047.

Schaebitz, F., Asrat, A., Cohen, A., Dean, J., Deino, A., Deocampo, D.M., Dusing, W., Foerster, V., Christina, G., Junginger, A., Lamb, H.F., Lane, Ch., Leng, M.J., Lupien, R., Roberts, H.M., Ramsey, C., Rusell, J., Pearson, E., Vidal, C., Trauth, M., and the HSPDP - Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (2019): Good times for leaving home? The paleoenvironment of Chew Bahir in south Ethiopia: implications for human evolution, dispersal and technological innovation. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. EGU2019-6088.

Trauth, M.H., Asrat, A., Ramsey, C.R., Chapot, M.S., Cohen, A.S., Deino, A., Duesing, W., Foerster, V., Kraemer, H., Lamb, H., Lane, C., Marwan, N., Maslin, M., Roberts, H.M., Schaebitz, F., and Vidal, C. (2019): Recurring types of variability and transitions in the ~280 m long (~600 kyr) sediment core from the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. EGU2019-7644.

Günter, C., Asrat, A., Cohen, A., Deocampo, D.M., Junginger, A., Lamb, H.F., Malek, T., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H., Foerster, V.E. (2019): Deriving paleoclimatic information from the degree of authigenic mineral alteration. Annual ICDP-IODP Colloquium, Cologne, Germany, 18-20. March 2019.

Schaebitz, F., Asrat, A., Cohen, A., Dean, J.R., Deino, A., Deocampo, D.M., Duesing, W., Foerster, V.E., Guenter, C., Junginger, A., Lamb, H.F., Lane, C., Leng, M.J., Lupien, R., Roberts, H.M., Ramsey, C., Russel, J., Pearson, E., Vidal, C., Trauth, M.H., HSPDP Science Team (2019): Good times for leaving home? The paleoenvironment of Chew Bahir in south Ethiopia: implications for human evolution, dispersal and technological innovation. Annual ICDP-IODP Colloquium, Cologne, Germany, 18-20. March 2019.

Tiedemann, R., Krüger, J., Haventstein, K., Foerster, V., Hartmann, S., Trauth, M.H., Hofreiter, M. (2019): Metabarcoding on ancient eukaryotic DNA from Chew Bahir, Ethiopia: Reconstruction of past biodiversity as proxy for environmental change. Annual ICDP-IODP Colloquium, Cologne, Germany, 18-20. March 2019.

Foerster, V., Günter, C., Asrat, A., Cohen, A., Deocampo, D.M., Junginger, A., Lamb, H.F., Malek, T., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H. (2019): Deciphering climate information from authigenic mineral transformations in the Chew Bahir sediment cores. Annual ICDP-IODP Colloquium, Cologne, Germany, 18-20. March 2019.

2018

Foerster, V., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Dean, J.R., Deino, A., Deocampo, D.M., Duesing, W., Günter, C., Junginger, A., Kraemer, K.H., Lamb, H.F., Lane, C., Leng, M., Noren, A., Roberts, H.M., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H. & HSPDP Science Team (2018) Environmental history and human evolution in eastern Africa: the 550,000-year climate record from the Chew Bahir basin, an HSPDP key site in southern Ethiopia. GSA Annual Mtg., Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, 04.-07. November 2018, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 50, No. 6, ISSN 0016-7592, doi: 10.1130/abs/2018AM-317247.

Foerster, V.E., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Deocampo, D.M., Deino, A., Günter, C., Lamb, H.F., Roberts, H.M., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H. & HSPDP Science Team (2018) Defining indicators for wet, dry and hyper-arid climate intervals in the long Chew Bahir sediment records (Southern Ethiopia Rift). The African Quaternary (AFQUA) Congress, Nairobi, Kenya, 14.-22. July 2018.

Lamb, H., Asrat, A., Bronk-Ramsey, C., Chapot, M., Cohen, A., Dean, J., Deino, A., Duesing, W., Foerster, V., Junginger, A., Leng, M., Pearson, E., Roberts, H., Russel, J., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H. (2018). A 550,000 yr lacustrine environmental record from Chew Bhair, south Ethiopia: towards an understanding of climatic influences on early human populations. IPA-IAL Joint Meeting: Unraveling the Past and Future of Lakes, Stockholm (Sweden).

Zeeden, C., Bösken, J., Chu, W., Foerster, V.E., Joordens, J., Junginger, Klasen, N., Obreht, I., Veres, D. Session SSP2.10/CL4.30/GM6.9 : Integrating stratigraphy, sedimentology, palaeontology and paleoclimate in human evolution and dispersal studies - from early hominins to the Holocene. Co-organized Session at EGU Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 08.-13. April 2018.

Foerster, V., Asrat, A., Cohen, A., Deocampo, D.M., Deino, A., Düsing, W., Günter, C., Krämer, H., Lamb, H.F., Opitz, S:, Roberts, H., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H. (2018) If only mud could talk…what we can learn from minerals and grains in the Chew Bahir sediment cores (southern Ethiopia). EGU Annual Mtg., Vienna, Austria, 08.-13. April 2018, Vol. 20, EGU2018-10465, 2018.

Duesing, W., Asrat, A., Foerster, V., Kraemer, H., Lamb, H.F., Marwan, N., Schäbitz, F., Trauth, M.H. (2018) Trends, rhythms and transitions during the Late Quaternary in southern Ethiopia. EGU Annual Mtg., Vienna, Austria, 08.-13. April 2018, Vol. 20, EGU2018-19583, 2018.

Schäbitz, F., Opitz, S., Foerster, V., Asrat, A., Deino, A., Deocampo, D.M., Duesing, W., Günter, C., Junginger, A., Cohen, A.S., Lamb, H.F., Leng, M.J., Dean, J.R., Roberts, H.M., Trauth, M.H. and the HSPDP Science Team (2018) Is the Chew Bahir sediment record influenced by wet-dry fluctuations due to monsoonal changes? EGU Annual Mtg., Vienna, Austria, 08.-13. April 2018, Vol. 20, EGU2018-103111, 2018.

Trauth, M.H., Asrat, A., Duesing, W., Foerster, V., Kraemer, H., Lamb, H.F., Marwan, N., Maslin, M., Schäbitz, F. (2018) Classifying past climate variation in the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia, using recurrence quantification analysis. EGU Annual Mtg., Vienna, Austria, 08.-13. April 2018, Vol. 20, EGU2018-12746, 2018.

Foerster, V., Asrat, A., Cohen, A., Deocampo, D.M., Deino, A., Düsing, W., Günter, C., Krämer, H., Lamb, H.F., Opitz, S:, Roberts, H., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H. (2018) Authigenic minerals in the HSPDP-Chew Bahir sediment cores (southern Ethiopia): Using mineral alteration as sensitive climate proxy. Annual ICDP-IODP Colloquium, Bochum, Germany, 14.-16. March 2018.

2017

Foerster, V.E., Asrat, A., Bronk Ramsey, C., Chapot, M.S., Cohen, A.S., Dean, J.R., Deocampo, D.M., Deino, A., Günter, C., Junginger, A., Lamb, H.F., Leng, M.J., Roberts, H.M., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M. H., (2017) Providing the climatic component in human-climate interaction studies: 550,000 years of climate history in the Chew Bahir basin, an HSPDP key site in southern Ethiopia. AGU Annual Mtg., New Orleans, USA, 11.-15. December 2017, AGU2017-250439.

Foerster, V.E., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Deino, A., Deocampo, D.M., Duesing, W., Günter, C., Junginger, A., Krämer, H., Lamb, H.F., Roberts, H.M., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M. H., (2017) Between wet, dry and hyperarid: Climatic changes during the last >500 ka in the Chew Bahir basin, a key HSPDP site in southern Ethiopia. Climate Change in Africa (CCA 2017), Marrakesh, Morocco, 06.-11. November 2017.

Foerster, V.E., Asrat, A., Bronk Ramsey, C., Chapot, M.S., Cohen, A.S., Dean, J.R., Deocampo, D.M., Deino, A., Günter, C., Junginger, A., Lamb, H.F., Leng, M.J., Roberts, H.M., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M. H., (2017) The Chew Bahir Drilling Project (HSPDP). From mud, grains and crystals to >500,000 years of continuous climate history in southern Ethiopia. GSA Annual Mtg., Seattle, Washington StateUSA, 22.-25. October 2017, GSA2017-305157.

Foerster, V.E., Asrat, A., Chapot, M.S., Cohen, A.S., Deino, A., Duesing, W., Günter, C., Junginger, A., Kraemer, H., Lamb, H.F., Opitz, S., Roberts, H.M., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M. H., (2017) Between wet, dry and super-dry: Climatic changes during the last 550,000 years in the Chew Bahir basin, an HSPDP key site in southern Ethiopia. GeoBremen 2017, Bremen, Germany, 24.-29. September 2017.

Foerster, V.E. (convener), Chapot, M., Douillet, G.A., Joordens, J., Junginger, A., Lehmkuhl, F., Weissert, H., Wilkinson, K., Zeeden, C. Session SSP4.7/CL1.08/NH2.9/SM1.4: Integrating stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleontology and paleoclimate in human evolution and dispersal studies - from early hominins to the Anthropocene (co-organized). Co-organized Session at EGU Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria, April 2017.

Foerster, V.E., et al., (2017). The Chew Bahir Drilling Project (HSPDP). Deciphering climate information from the Chew Bahir sediment cores: Towards a continuous half-Million Year climate record from the source region of Homo sapiens. EGU Annual Mtg., Vienna, Austria, April 2017, Vol. 19, EGU2017-6550, 2017.

Foerster, V.E. et al., (2017). Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: The 500.000 year climate record from Chew Bahir, the key site in southern Ethiopia. EGU Annual Mtg., Vienna, Austria, April 2017, Vol. 19, EGU2017-6681, 2017.

Foerster, V.E., Asrat, A., Chapot, M.S., Cohen, A.S., Dean, J.R., Deino, A., Duesing, W., Günter, C., Junginger, A., Lamb, H.F., Leng, M.J., Roberts, H.M., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M. H., (2017) Deciphering climate information from the Chew Bahir sediment cores: Towards a continuous half-Million Year climate record from the Southern Ethiopian Rift. ICDP/IODP Colloquium 2017, Braunschweig, Germany, March 2017.

2016

Junginger, A., Foerster, V., Beck, C., Cohen, A., Session PP013. From mud and dust to curves and concepts: New findings on the environmental context of human evolution. Session at AGU Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, December 2016.

Foerster, V.E., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Junginger, A., Lamb, H.F., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M. H., and Vogelsang R. (2016) How Dry was too Dry? Evaluating the Impact of Climatic Stress on Prehistoric Human Populations in southern Ethiopia. AGU Annual Mtg., San Francisco, CA. Foerster et al 2016 AGU San Francisco.pdf

Schäebitz, F., Asrat, A., Lamb, H.F., Trauth, M., Junginger, A., Foerster, V.E., Günter, C., Viehberg, F., Just,J., Roberts, H.M., Chapot, M.S., Leng, M.J., Dean, J., and Cohen, A.S. (2016) Chew Bahir, southern Ethiopia: an archive of environmental history during the evolution and dispersal of anatomically modern humans. AGU Annual Mtg., San Francisco, CA.

Junginger, A., Vonhof, H., Foerster, V.E., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Lamb, H.F., Schaebitz, F., and Trauth, M. H. (2016) How wet is wet? Strontium isotopes as paleo-lake level indicators in the Chew Bahir basin (S-Ethiopia). AGU Annual Mtg., San Francisco, CA.

Foerster, V., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Gromig, R., Günter, C., Junginger, A., Lamb, H.F., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M. and the HSPDP Science Team. Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project. Chew Bahir, southern Ethiopia: How to get from three tonnes of sediment core to >500 ka of continuous climate history? European Geosciences Union Ann. Mtg., Vienna, Austria, 18.-22. April 2016, EGU2016-2797.

Foerster, V., Asrat, A., Cohen, A. Gromig, R., Günter, C., Junginger, A.,. Lamb, H.F., Schäbitz, F., Trauth, M.H. and, the HSPDP science team, (2016) The long HSPDP-Chew Bahir record from southern Ethiopia:Scientific Drilling in search of the environmental context of human evolution, ICDP/IODP Colloquium 2016, Heidelberg, March 2016, Talk.

2015

Schäbitz, F., Asrat, A., Lamb, H., Trauth, M., Foerster, V., Junginger, A., Raub, T.D., Gromig, R., Viehberg, F.A., Roberts, H.M., Cohen, A., & the HSPDP Science team, 2015. Chew Bahir: A key site within the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project, towards a half million-year climate record from southern Ethiopia. AGU in San Francisco (USA).

Lamb, H., Cohen, A., Asrat, A., Arrowsmith, R., Campisano, C., Deino, A., Feibel, C., Foerster, V., Kingston, J., Lowenstein, T., Olago, D., Owen, B., Renault, R., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.h., 2015. The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: testing hypotheses of climate-driven human evolution and dispersal. 31st IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Krakow (Poland).

Junginger, A., Vonhof, H., von der Lubbe, J.L., Joordens, J.C.A., Foerster, V., Asrat, A., Cohen, A., Lamb, H.F., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H., and the HSPDP science team, 2015. The potential of strontium isotopes in detecting water level changes and basin connectivity of east african paleo-lakes investigated within the HSPDP project. 6th International Limnology Congress in Reno.

Foerster, V., Asrat, A., Cohen, A., Junginger, A., Gromig, R., Lamb, H.F., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H., and the HSPDP science team, 2015. Towards a half million year environmental record from the hominin sites and paleolakes drilling project in chew bahir, southern Ethiopia. 6th International Limnology Congress in Reno (USA).

Dean, J., Asrat, A., Cohen, A., Foerster, V., Lamb, H.F., Leng, M.J., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H., Viehberg, F., Wagner, B. & Chew Bahir Project members. The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: Testing Hypotheses of Climate-Driven Human Evolution and Dispersal at Chew Bahir, Ethiopia. 6th International Limnology Congress in Reno (USA).

Cohen, Campisano, Asrat, Arrowsmith, Deino, Feibel, Foerster, Hill, Ivory, Kingston, Lamb, Lowenstein, Olago, Owen, Renaut, Schäbitz, and the HSPDP drilling and ICD group. Initial results of the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP): Collection and interpretation of high resolution lacustrine drill cores from key Plio-Pleistocene paleoanthropological sites in East Africa. INQUA Congress XIX, Nagoya (Japan).

Junginger, A., Vonhof, H., van der Lubbe, J.L., Joordens, J.C.A., Foerster, V., Asrat, A., Cohen, A., Lamb, H.F., Schäbitz, F., Trauth, M.H. & HSPDP Science Team. The Potential of Strontium Isotopes in Detecting Water Level Changes and Basin Connectivity of East African Paleo-Lakes Investigated Within the HSPDP Project. ILIC International Limnological Congress 6 in Reno, Nevada (USA).

Schaebitz, F., Wagner, B., Viehberg, F., Wennrich, V., Rethemeyer, J., Just, J., Klasen, N., Asrat, A., Lamb, H.F., Trauth, M.H., Junginger, A., Foerster, V., Cohen, A., and the HSPDP science team, 2015. Preliminary results from the deep drilling at Chew Bahir, south Ethiopia. ICDP/IOD meeting in Bonn (Germany).

Foerster, V., Asrat, A., Cohen, A., Junginger, A., Lamb, H.F., Schaebitz, F., Trauth, M.H., and the HSPDP science team, 2015. Three promising tonnes of sediment cores from Chew Bahir, south Ethiopia, to reconstruct 0.5 Ma of climatic history. ICDP/IOD Kolloquium in Bonn (Germany).

Schäbitz, F., Wagner, B., Viehberg, F., Wennrich, V., Rethemeyer, J., Just, J., Klasen, N., Asrat, A., Lamb, H., Foerster, V., Trauth, M., Junginger, A., Cohen, A.S. and the HSPDP science team, 2015, First results from the deep drilling at Chew Bahir (S-Ethiopia). African Quaternary Conference and Workshop., Capetown (South Africa).

Lamb, H.F., Cohen, A., Schäbitz, F., Asrat, A., Barker, P., Bates, R., Davies, S., Deino, A., Foerster, V., Grove, M., Huws, D., Junginger, A., Konrad-Schmolke, M., Lane, C., Leng, M., Mark, D., Martin-Jones, C., Pearce, N., Pearson, E., Ramsey, C., Raub, T., Rethemeyer, J., Roberts, H., Rogass, C.,Trauth, M., Viehberg, F., Woldegabriel, G. The Hominin sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: testing hypotheses of climate-driven human evolution and dispersal at Chew Bahir, Ethiopia. AFQUA in Cape Town (South Africa).

2014

Foerster, V., Vogelsang, R., Junginger, A., Asrat, A., Lamb, H.F., Viehberg, F., Trauth, M.H., Schaebitz, F., 2014. Climatic stress events in the source region of modern man. Matching the last 20 ka of the Chew Bahir climate record with occupation history of adjacent refugia. EGU in Vienna (Austria).

Viehberg, F., Gebru, T., Foerster, V., Schaebitz, F., Wagner, B., 2014. Limnocythere (Ostracoda) distribution pattern in the Southern Ethiopian Rift during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. EGU in Vienna (Austria).

Gebru, T., Viehberg, F. A., Frank, U., Asrat, A., Umer, M., Weber, M.E., Foerster, V., Wennrich, V., Rethemeyer, J., Brown, M.C., Lehndorf, E., Lamb, H., Schäbitz, F., 2014. Fire and climate change in southern Ethiopia Rift Valley during the last 9000 years from charcoal, geophysical and geochemical analyses of Lake Chamo. AAG Annual Meeting, At Tampa, Florida (USA).

Foerster, V., Junginger, A., Vogelsang, R., Asrat, A., Lamb, H. F., Wennrich, V., Weber, M., Rethemeyer, J., Frank, U., Brown, M.C., Trauth, M.H. and Schaebitz, F., 2014. Wet-dry shifts in the source region of modern man: A Late Quaternary climate record from Chew Bahir, southern Ethiopia. ICDP/IODP Kolloquium in Erlangen (Germany).

2013

Gebru, T., Viehberg, F.A., Frank, U., Asrat, A., Umer, M., Weber, M.E., Foerster, V., Wennrich, V., Rethemeyer, J., Brown, M.C., Lamb, H.F., Schäbitz, F., 2013. A multi-proxy record of Holocene environmental change from Lake Chamo, southern Ethiopia. EGU in Vienna, (Austria).

Foerster, V., Junginger, A., Asrat, A., Umer, M., Kassa, T., Lamb, H., Wennrich, V., Rethemeyer, J., Nowaczyk, N., Brown, M., Trauth, M.H., Schaebitz, F., 2013. The Chew Bahir Drilling Project, southern Ethiopia: Towards reconstruction of Quaternary climate shifts in the cradle of humankind. ICDP/IODP Kolloquium 2013 in Freiberg (Germany).

2012

Foerster, V., 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., Schaebitz, F., 2012. From mud and grains to curves and concepts: Late Quaternary climatic history from Chew Bahir, southern Ethiopia. AGU in San Francisco (USA).

Brown, M.; Frank, U., Foerster, V., Gebru, T., Nowaczyk, N., Schäbitz, F., Korte, M., 2012. Holocene Paleomagnetic Field Variations Recorded in Lake Sediments from Southern Ethiopia. AGU in San Francisco (USA).

Foerster, V., Junginger, A., Langkamp., Gebru, T., Asrat, A., Umer, M., Lamb, H.F., Wennrich, V., Rethemeyer, J., Nowaczyk, N., Trauth, M.H., Schäbitz, F., 2012. The Chew Bahir Project: reconstructing East African palaeoenvironments in the source region of modern man. 12th International Paleolimnology Symposium (IPS) in Glasgow (UK).

Foerster, V., 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., Schaebitz, F., 2012. New paleoenvironmental data from the source region of modern man: the Chew Bahir. IGC in Cologne (Germany).

Foerster, V., 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., Schaebitz, F. 2012. Walking on sunshine or getting wet feet: Reconstruction of wet-dry variations in the source region of modern man. EGU in Vienna (Austria).

Gebru, T., Viehberg, F. A., Foerster, V., Asrat, A., Lamb, H.F., Schäbitz, F., 2012. A Holocene environmental Record from Lake Chamo, southern Ethiopia, based on ostracod analysis. 14th International German Ostracodologists’ meeting in Cologne, (Germany).

Foerster, V., Junginger, V., 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., Schaebitz, F., 2012. Reconstructing East African Paleoenvironments in the source region of modern man. ICDP/IODP Kolloquium in Kiel (Germany).

2011

Foerster, V., Junginger, A., Asrat, A., Umer, M., Kassa, T., Lamb, H., Wennrich, V., Rethemeyer, J., Nowaczyk, N., Brown, M., Trauth, M.H., Schaebitz, F., 2011. The Chew Bahir Project, Reconstructing East African paleoenvironments in the source region of modern man. AGU in San Francisco (USA).

Frank, U., Brown, M. C., Förster, V., Schäbitz, F., 2011. Paleomagnetism of Lake Sediments, Chew Bahir, Ethiopia. AGU American Geophysical Union’s 44th annual Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 5-9 December 2011.

Foerster, V., Junginger, A., Langkamp, Ol., Asrat, A., Umer, M., Lamb, H., Wennrich, V., Rethemeyer, J., Nowaczyk, N., Trauth, M.H., Schaebitz, F., 2011. Towards a 200 ka paleoenvironmental record in the source region of modern man, INQUA in Bern (Switzerland).

Foerster, V., 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., Schaebitz, F., 2011. First steps towards a paeloenvironmental reconstruction for South Ethiopia. ICDP/IODP Kolloquium in Münster (Germany).

2009

Foerster, V., Langkamp, O., Schäbitz, F. and the PASADO Science Team, 2009. Pollensedimentation in Laguna Potrok Aike: Little Ice Age compared to present. ICDP/IODP Kolloquium in Potsdam (Germany).

UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

Faculty of Mathematics and Natural SciencesInstitute of Geography Education Institute of Geography Education