Press & Publications

Inglis, G.N., Jonge, C.D., Häggi, C., Feakins, S.J., Guo, J., Dercon, G., Bertassoli, D.J., Akabane, T.K., Bentley, M.R., Beverly, E., Naafs, D.A., Pancost, R.D., 2025, Hopanoid distributions differ in mineral soils and peat: a re-evalutation of hopane-based pH proxies, Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, v. 2025, p. 1-13. 

Kovach, T.Z., Raczynski-Henk, Y., Frahm, E., Gill, J.P., Wilkinson, K.N., Petrosyan, A., Beverly, E.J., Gasparyan, B., and Adler, D.S., 2025, Contextualizing the Upper Paleolithic of the Armenian Highlands: New data from Solak-1, Central Armenia, Journal of Human Evolution, v. 199, p. 103632. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2024.103632

Okafor, B, Da, J, Beverly, E.J., Driese, S., Nordt, L., Breecker, D.O., 2025, A component of atmospheric vapor in the water of a floodplain Vertisol, Journal of Hydrology, v. 661, part A, p. 133538. 

Slawson, J., Plink-Bjorklund, P., Beverly. E.J., and Bachtadse, V., 2025, Paleosol‐based reconstruction indicates decoupling of mean annual precipitation and precipitation intensity during the Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Uinta Basin, Utah: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, v. 40 p. e2024PA004966. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024PA004966

Arellano, L.N., Beverly, E.J., Khan, S., Voarintsoa, N.R., Skinner, C.B., Steig, E.J., and Schauer, A.J., 2024, Triple oxygen isotope variability of precipitation in a tropical mountainous region, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 385, p. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2024.09.024

Arellano, L.N., Beverly, E.J., Selker, J.S., Udell, C., Nelke, M., Singh, G., and Walker, C., 2024, Testing triple oxygen isotope preservation in the new OPEnS totalizer against conventional monthly rainfall collectors: Chemical Geology, v. 668, p. 122351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.122351

Obrist-Farner, J., Anderson, L., Baker, P., Berke, M.A., Beverly, E.J., Brigham-Grette, J. Brown, E., Castañeda, I., Deino, A.L., Fritz, S.C., Goldstein, S.L., Kehrwald, N.M., Kirby, M., Miller, K.G., Olsen, P., Park Boush, L., Robinson, M.M., Russel, J., Soreghan, G.S., 2024, The palaeoclimate potential of continental scientific drilling, Nature Geoscience, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01603-1

Berk, M.A., Peppe, D.J. and LVDP team, 2023, ICDP workshop on the Lake Victoria Drilling Project (LVDP): scientific drilling of the world’s largest tropical lake: Scientific Drilling, v. 11, p. 1-11. 

Beverly, E.J., 2023, Using climate to model ancient human migration: Science, v. 381, p. 605–606. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adj4631

Kelson, J.R., Huth, T.E., Passey, B.H, Levin, N.E., Petersen, S.V., Ballato, P., Beverly, E.J., Breecker, D.O., Hoke, G.D., Hudson, A., Ji, H.., Licht, A., Oerter, E.J., and Quade, J., 2023, Triple oxygen isotopes in pedogenic carbonates reveal widespread soil water evaporation: Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 355, p. 138-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2023.06.034

Lehmann, S.B, Levin, N.E., Passey, B.H., Hu, H., Cerling, T.E., Arpee, L., Beverly, E.J., Hoppe, K.A., Luyt, J., Miller, J.H., and Sealy, J., 2022, Triple oxygen isotope distribution in modern mammal teeth and potential geologic applications: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 331 p. 105-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2022.04.033

Peaple, M.D., Beverly, E.J., Garza, B., Baker, S., Levin, N.E., Tierney, J.E., Häggia, C., and Feakins, S.J., 2022, Identifying the drivers of GDGT distributions in alkaline soil profiles within the Serengeti Ecosystem: Organic Geochemistry, v. 169, p. 104433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2022.104433

Sherriff, J., Wilkinson, K.N., Harding, P., Hawkins, H., Timms, R.G., Adler, D.S., Beverly, E.J., Blockley, S., Gasparyan, B., Manning, C., and Mark, D, 2021, Middle Pleistocene environments, landscapes and tephrostratigraphy of the Armenian Highlands: evidence from Bird Farm 1, Hrazdan Valley: Journal of Quaternary Science, v. 37, p. 6-27. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3370

Zhang, D., Beverly, E.J., Levin, N.E., Vidal, E., Matia, Y., and Feakins, S.J., 2021, Carbon isotopic composition of plant waxes, bulk organics, and carbonates from soils of the Serengeti grasslands: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 311, p. 316-331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2021.07.005

Muiruri, V., Owen, R.B., Potts, R., Deino, A.L., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Riedl, S., Rabideaux, N., Beverly, E.J., Dommain, R., Renaut, R., Moerman, J.W., Deocampo, D., Faith, J.T., Noren, A., Cohen, A.S., Shannon, K.B., and Dommain, R., 2021, Quaternary diatoms and paleoenvironments of the Koora Plain, southern Kenya Rift: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 267, p. 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107106

Lupien, R.L., Russell, J.M., Subramanian, A., Kinyanjui, R., Beverly, E.J., Uno, K.T., de Menocal, P., Dommain, R., and Potts, R., 2021, The history of eastern African environmental variation and its role in the evolution and technological advancement of Homo since 1 Ma: Journal of Human Evolution, v. 157, p. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103028

Beverly, E.J., Levin, N.E., Passey, B.H., Aron, P., Yarian, D.A., Page, M. and Pelletier, E.M., 2021, Triple oxygen and clumped isotopes in modern soil carbonate along an aridity gradient in the Serengeti, Tanzania: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 567, p. 1-13. 

Bernasconi, S.M., Daëron, M., Bergmann, K.D., Bonifacie, M., Meckleer, A.N., Affek, H.P., Anderson, N., Bajnai, D., Barkan, E., Beverly, E.J., Blamart, D, Burgener, L., Calmels, D., Chaduteau, C., Clog, M., Davidheiser-Kroll, B., Davies, A., Dux, F., Eiler, J., Elliot, B., Fetrow, A.C., Fiebig, J., Goldberg, S., Hermoso, M., Huntington, K.W., Hyland, E., Ingalls, M., Jaggi, M., John, C.M., Jost, A.B., Katz, S., Kelson, J., Kluge, T., Kocken, I.J., Laskar, A., Leutert, T.J., Liang, D., Lucarelli, J., Mackey, T.J., Mangenot, X. , Meinicke, N., Modestou, S.E., Müller, I.A., Murray, S., Neary, A. Packard, N., Passey, B.H., Pelletier, E., Petersen, S., Piasecki, A., Schauer, A., Snell, K.E., Swart, P.K., Tripati, A., Upadhyay, D., Vennemann, T., Winkelstern, I., Yarian, D., Yoshida, N., Zhang, and N., Ziegler, 2021, InterCarb: A community effort to improve inter-laboratory standardization of the carbonate clumped isotope thermometer using carbonate standards: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 22, p. 1-25.  

Aron, P.G., Levin, N.E., Beverly, E.J., Huth, T.E., Passey, B.H., Pelletier, E.M., Poulsen, C.J., Winkelstern, I.Z., and Yarian, D.A., 2021, Triple oxygen isotopes in the water cycle: Chemical Geology v. 565, p. 1-23. 

Potts, R., Dommain, R., Moerman, J., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Deino, A., Owen, R.B., Beverly, E.J., et al., 2020, Increased ecological resource variability during a critical transition in hominin evolution: Science Advances, v.6, p. 1-14.

Gegregiogis, D., Deocampo, D., Longstaffe, F., Ashley, G., Beverly, E.J., Delany, J., Cuadros, J., 2020, Quantitative lacustrine paleosalinity from clay mineral oxygen isotopes: Pleistocene orbital controls at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 47, p. 3-8. 

Beverly, E.J., White, J.D., Peppe, D.J., Faith, J.T., and Tryon, C.A., 2020, Late Pleistocene desiccation and the future of Africa’s Lake Victoria: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 530, p.1-11.

Sherriff, J.E., Wilkinson, K.N., Adler, D.S., Arakelyan, D., Beverly, E.J., Blockley, S.P.E, Gasparyan, D.F., Mark, D.F., Meliksetya, K., Nahapetyan, S., Preece, K.J., and Timms, R.G.O., 2019, Pleistocene volcanism and the geomorphological record of the Hrazdan valley, central Armenia: linking landscape dynamics and the Palaeolithic record : Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 226, p. 1-26. 

Deino, A.L., Dommain, R., Keller, B., Potts, R., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Beverly, E.J., King, J., Heil, C.W., Stockhecke, M., Brown, E.T., Moerman, J., DeMenocal, P., ODP Scientific Team, 2019, Chronostratigraphic model of a high-resolution drill core record of the past million years from the Koora Basin, south Kenya Rift: Overcoming the difficulties of variable sedimentation rates and hiatuses: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 215, p. 213-231. 

Stinchcomb, G.E. and Beverly, E.J., 2019, Editorial: The Role of the Paleo-Critical Zone in Shaping Quaternary Hominin Evolution: Frontiers in Earth Sciences, v. 7,  p. 1-2.

Beck, C.C., Allen, M.M., Feibel, C.S., Beverly, E.J., Stone, J.R., and Wilson, C.L., 2019, Living in a swampy paradise: Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of an African Humid Period 

Beverly, E.J., Lukens, W.E., Stinchcomb, G.E., 2018, Paleopedology as a Tool for Reconstructing Paleoenvironments and Paleoecology, in D.A. Croft, S.W. Simpson, and D.F. Su (eds.), Methods in Paleoecology: Reconstructing Cenozoic Terrestrial Environments and Ecological Communities. Springer (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series), Cham, Switzerland.

Beverly, E.J., White, J.D., Peppe, D.J., Faith, J.T., Blegen, N. and Tryon, C.A., 2017, Reconstruction of Late Pleistocene Paleoenvironments using bulk geochemistry of paleosols from the Lake Victoria Region: Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 5, article 93, p. 1-12.

Deocampo, D.M., Berry, P.A., Beverly, E.J., Ashley, G.M., and Jarrett, R.E., 2017, Whole-rock geochemistry tracks precessional control of Pleistocene lake salinity at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: a record of authigenic clays: Geology, v. 45, 683-686.

Frahm, E., Sherriff, J., Wilkinson, K.N., Beverly, E.J., Adler, D.S., and Gasparyan, B., 2017, Ptghni: A new obsidian source in the Hrazdan Basin, Armenia: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v. 17, 55-64. 

Tryon, C.A., Faith, J.T., Peppe, D.J., Beverly, E.J., Blegen, N., Blumenthal, S., Chritz, K., Driese, S.G., Patterson, D., 2016, The Pleistocene prehistory of the Lake Victoria basin: Quaternary International, v. 404 Part B, 100-114.  

Driese, S.G., Peppe, D.J., Beverly, E.J., DiPietro, L., Arellano, L.N., and Lehmann, T., 2016, Paleosols and paleoenvironments of the early Miocene deposits near Karungu, Lake Victoria, Kenya: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 443, 167-182.

Beverly, E.J., Driese, S.G., Peppe, D., Arellano, L. N., Blegen, N., Faith, J.T., and Tryon, C.A., 2015, Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a semi-arid Late Pleistocene paleocatena from the Lake Victoria Region, Kenya: Quaternary Research, v. 84, 368-381.

Beverly, E.J., Driese, S.G., Peppe, D., Johnson, C.R., Michel, L.A., Faith, J.T., and Tryon, C.A., 2015, Recurrent spring-fed rivers in a Mid to Late Pleistocene semi-arid grassland: Implications for environments of early modern humans in the Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya: Sedimentology, v. 62, 1611-1635. 

Blegen, N., Tryon, C.A., Faith., J.T., Peppe, D.J., Beverly, E.J., Jacobs, Z., and Bo, L., 2015, Distal tephras of the eastern Lake Victoria Basin, Equatorial East Africa: Correlations, chronology, and a context for early modern humans: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 122, p. 89-111. 

Faith, J. T., Tryon, C. A., Peppe, D.J., Beverly, E. J., Blegen, N., Blumenthal, S., Chritz, K. L., Driese, S.G., and Patterson, D., 2015, Paleoenvironmental context of the Middle Stone Age record from Karungu, Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya, and its implications for human dispersals in East Africa: Journal of Human Evolution, v. 83, 28-45.

Beverly, E. J., Ashley, G.M, and Driese, S. G., 2014, Reconstruction of a Pleistocene Paleocatena using Geochemistry of Lake Margin Paleo-Vertisols, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: Quaternary International, v. 322-323, p. 78-94.

Ashley, G.M., Beverly, E.J., Sikes, N.E., and Driese, S.G., 2014, Paleosol diversity in the Olduvai Basin, Tanzania: effects of geomorphology, parent material, depositional environment, and groundwater on soil development: Quaternary International, v. 322-323, p. 66-77. 

Ashley, G.M., Bunn, H.T., Delaney, J.S., Barboni, D., Domínguez-Rodrigo, M., Mabulla, A.Z.P., Gurtov, A.N., Baluyot, R., Beverly, E.J., and Baquedano, E., 2014, Paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental framework of FLK North archaeological site, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: Quaternary International, v. 322-323, p. 54-65. 

Surpless, K.D. and Beverly, E.J., 2013, Understanding a critical link in Cretaceous Cordilleran paleogeography: Detailed provenance of the Hornbrook Formation, Oregon and California: GSA Bulletin, v. 125, no. 5-6, p. 709-727. 

Danley, P.D., Husemann, M., Ding, B., DiPietro, L., Beverly, E.J., and Peppe, D.J., 2012, The impact of the geologic history and paleoclimate on the diversification of East African cichlids:, v. 2012, p. 1-20. 

Sims, D.W., Morris, A.P., Wyrick, D.Y., Ferrill, D.A., Waiting, D.J., Franklin, N.M., Colton, S.L., Umezawa, Y.T., Takanashi, M., and Beverly, E.J., 2012, Analog modeling of normal faulting above Middle East domes during regional extension: AAPG Bulletin, v. 97, no. 6, p. 877–898.