Biography

2011

Dr. rer. nat. in Paleoclimatology, University of Potsdam: "East African climate variability on different time scales: The Suguta Valley in the African-Asian monsoon domain.".

2007 - 2011

DFG GRK1364 Stipend, University of Potsdam.

2006

Diploma in Geology, University of Potsdam: "Mikrofazielle Untersuchungen an laminierten Sedimenten des Lake Nakuru, Kenia".

1999 - 2005

University of Potsdam: Geology, Meteorology, Hydrology.

Publications

Articles

Foerster, V., Junginger, A., Langkamp, O., Gebru, T., Asrat, A., Umer, M., Lamb, H., Wennrich, V., Rethemeyer, J., Nowaczyk, N., Trauth, M., Schäbitz, F., Climatic change recorded in the sediments of the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia, during the last 45,000 years. Quaternary International (in review).

Stoof-Liechsenring, K., Junginger, A., Olaka, L.A., Tiedemann, R., Trauth, M.H. (2011) Environmental variability in Lake Naivasha, Kenya, over the last two centuries. Journal of Paleolimnology, 45, 353-367.

Trauth, M.H., Maslin, M.A., Deino, A., Junginger, A., Lesoloyia, M., Odada, E., Olago, D.O., Olaka, L., Strecker, M.R., Tiedemann, R. (2010) Human Evolution and Migration in a Variable Environment: The Amplifier Lakes of East Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29, 2981-2988.

Garcin, Y., Junginger, A., Melnick, D., Olago, D.O., Strecker, M.R., Trauth, M.H. (2009) Late Pleistocene-Holocene rise and collapse of the Lake Suguta, northern Kenya Rift. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28, 911-925.

Conference abstracts (selection)

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. The Chew Bahir Project, Reconstructing East African paleoenvironments in the source region of modern man, 5-9 December 2011, Poster.

Foerster, V., Junginger, A., Langkamp, Ol., Asrat, A., Umer, M., Lamb, H., Wennrich, V., Rethemeyer, J., Nowaczyk, N., Trauth, M.H., Schaebitz, F. The Chew Bahir Project, INQUA, Bern, 21-27 July 2011, Poster.

Junginger, A., Trauth, M.H. Solar variations and Holocene East African climate, EGU, Vienna, 4-8 April 2011, Poster.

Junginger, A., Olago, D.O., Trauth, M.H. The palaeo-lake Suguta and its importance for understanding lake level fluctuations in the East African Rift System, AGU, San Francisco, 13-17 December 2010, Poster.

Junginger, A., Trauth, M.H. Environmental instabilities in the Suguta Valley, Northern Kenya Rift during the ‚African Humid Period‘, AGU, San Francisco, 14-18 December 2009, Poster.

Junginger, A., Trauth, M.H., Garcin, Y.,  Olago, D., Maslin, M. Multiple Cenozoic lake episodes in the Suguta Valley, Northern Kenya Rift: Testing hypotheses for evolution-climate linkages, EAGLE, Potsdam, 17-18 October 2008, Talk.  

Junginger, A., Garcin, Y., Trauth, M.H., Maslin, M., Melnick, D., Strecker, M.R., Olago, D. Multiple Cenozoic lake episodes in the Suguta Valley, Northern Kenya Rift, EGU, Vienna, 13-18 April 2008, Poster.

Marwan, N., Junginger, A., Trauth, M., Bergner, A., Garcin, Y. Recurrence in climate variability – a comparison of modern climate data from Nakuru, Kenya, with Early Holocene palaeo-climate records, EGU, Vienna, 15-20 April 2007, Poster.

Junginger, A., Mingram, J., Bergner, A., Trauth, M. High-resolution analysis of 16 kyr old laminated sediments from Lake Nakuru, Kenya, EGU Annual Meeting, Vienna April 2006, Poster.