Publications
PUBLICATIONS
Rech JA, Currie BS, Jordan TE, Riquelme R, Lehmann SB, Kirk-Lawlor NE, Li S, Gooley J, 2019, Massive Middle Miocene gypsic paleosols in the Atacama Desert and the formation of the Central Andean rainshadow. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 506; 184-194.
Hu H, Passey BH, Lehmann SB, Levin NE, Johnson BJ, accepted, Modeling and interpreting triple oxygen isotope variations in animal body water, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
Lehmann SB, Levin NE, Braun, DR, le Roux P, Zhu M, Sealy J, 2018, Strontium isotope ratios of fossil herbivore and carnivore tooth enamel and the environment and ecology of mid-Pleistocene Elandsfontein and southwestern South Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
Forrest FL, Stynder DD, Bishop, LC, Levin NL, Lehmann SB, Patterson DB, Matthews T, Braun DR, 2018, Zooarchaeological reconstruction of newly excavated Middle Pleistocene deposits from Elandsfontein, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 17, 19-29.
Patterson DB, Braun DR, Barr WA, Behrensmeyer AK, Lehmann SB, Manthi FK, Merritt S, Reeves J, Bobe R, 2017, Landscape-scale heterogeneity in the distribution and diet of the East Turkana mammal community during Okote Member times, Journal of Human Evolution, 112; 148-161.
Lehmann SB, Braun DR, Dennis KJ, Patterson DB, Stynder DD, Bishop LC, Forrest F, Levin NE, 2016, Stable isotopic composition of fossil mammal teeth and environmental change in southwestern South Africa during the Pliocene and Pleistocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 457; 396-408
Patterson DB, Lehmann SB, Matthews T, Levin NE, Stynder D, Braun DR, 2016, Stable isotope ecology of Cape dune mole-rats (Bathyergus suillus) from Elandsfontein, South Africa: implications for C4 vegetation and hominin paleoecology in the Cape Floral Region. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 457; 409-421
Braun DR, Levin NE, Stynder D, Herries AIR, Archer W, Forrest F, Roberts DL, Bishop LC, Matthews T, Lehmann SB, Pickering R, Fitzsimmons KE, 2013, Mid-Pleistocene hominin occupation at Elandsfontein, Western Cape, South Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews, 82; 145-166.
Kirk-Lawlor NE, Jordan TE, Rech JA, Lehmann SB, 2013, Late Miocene to Early Pliocene paleohydrology and landscape evolution of northern Chile, 19° to 20° S. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 387; 76-90.
Rech JA, Pigati JS, Lehmann SB, McGimpsey CN, Grimley DA, Nekola, JC, 2011, Assessing open-system behavior in of 14C in terrestrial gastropod shells. Radiocarbon, 53; 325-335.
PUBLICATIONS – in preparation
Lehmann SB, Levin NE, Passey BP, Hu H, Miller JH, Hoppe KA, Arppe L, Hynek S, Cerling TE, in prep, Triple oxygen isotopes in bioapatite: modern range, primary influences and potential geological application, Target journals are Earth and Planetary Science Letters or Geology. Plan to submit in Winter 2019.
Hatfield RG, Woods AS, Lehmann SB, Weidhaas N, Chen CY, Abbott MB, Rodbell D, Stoner JS, ready to submit, Stratigraphic correlation and splice generation for sediments recovered from a large lake drilling project: an example from Lake Junín, Peru, Journal of Paleolimnology.
Lehmann SB, Steinman BA, Abbott MA, in prep, Prolonged Early to Middle Holocene drought history in the American Northwest, Target journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Plan to submit in Winter 2018.
Lehmann SB, Steinman BA, Abbott MA, in prep, Lake water oxygen isotopes and weather data from Castor Lake, WA, 2008 -2018.
Lehmann SB, Werne PJ, Brown ET, Halbur J, Schouten S, Damsté JS, Anthropogenic impacts on Lake Malawi, Target journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Plan to submit Winter 2018
Lehmann SB, Levin NE, Passey BP, Hu H, Miller JH, Hoppe KA, Arppe L, Hynek S, Cerling TE, in prep, Triple oxygen isotopes in bioapatite: modern range, primary influences and potential geological application, Target journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Plan to submit in Winter 2018.
Lehmann SB, Rech JA, Currie BS, Jordan TE, Riquelme R, Kirk-Lawlor NE, in prep, Climatic implications of a mid-Miocene landscape: examination of the Tarapacá pediplain, Atacama Desert, northern Chile, Target journal is Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Plan to submit in Summer 2019.
Patterson DB, Braun DR, Behrensmeyer AK, Lehmann SB, Merritt S, Reeves J, Villaseñor A, Wood BA, Bobe R, in revision, Stable isotopic evidence for unique behavioral evolution in the genus Homo at East Turkana, northern Kenya. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
ON-LINE REPORTS AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Kirk-Lawlor NE, Jordan TE, Rech J, and Lehmann SB, 2012, Paleolago Tiliviche y sus relaciones estratigráficas y paleoclimáticas, Cuenca Pampa del Tamarugal, I Región, Chile. Proceedings 13th Congreso Geológico Chileno, 631-633.
Lehmann SB, Rech JA, 2009, NSF Vignette Online Contribution- Key Concepts in Geomorphology: Soils, relict landscapes and paleoclimate in the Atacama Desert, Chile. http://serc.carleton.edu/41080.
PRESENTATIONS – first author (* indicates student work)
Lehmann SB, Steinman BA, Abbott MB, Aridity in the American Northwest during the early to mid-Holocene as indicated by lake carbonate oxygen isotopes and sediment from Castor Lake, WA. Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, December 2018. Abstract PP035-466577.
*Christiansen S, Bustamante MG, Lehmann SB, Woods AS, Mark S, Steinman BA, Abbott AB, A Holocene lake level history of Celestine Lake, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, December 2018. Abstract PP035-439801.
*Woods AS, Lehmann SB, Chen CY, Hatfield RG, Stoner JS, McGee D, Abbott MA, Rodbell DT, Extra-tropical influence on hydrologic balance inn the high elevation Andes: physical sedimentology evidence from Lake Junín, Peru during the Last Glacial Period. Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, December 2018. Abstract PP035-465971.
Levin NE, Bedaso ZK, Beverly EJ, Cerling TE, Lehmann SB, Moerman JW, Passey BH, Quade J, Hotter, drier, and more open? Geochemical perspectives on 10 myr of environmental change and human evolution in Africa. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 2018.
Lehmann SB, Levin NE, Passey BH, Cerling TE, Hu H, 2016, Evaluating aridity using triple oxygen isotopes in tooth enamel. 35th International Geological Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, 27 August – 4 September 2016
Lehmann SB, Levin NE, Passey BH, Cerling TE, Hu H, 2015, Triple oxygen isotopes in teeth: implications for reconstructing paleoaridity. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1-4 November 2015. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 47(7); 285
Lehmann SB, Levin NE, Braun DR, Dennis KJ, Stynder DD, Bishop LC, Forrest F, 2014, A Plio-Pleistocene record of vegetation, climate, and hydrology in western South Africa using carbon and oxygen isotopic composition of fossil tooth enamel. 4th Southern Deserts Conference, Mendoza, Argentina, November 2014. Program page 17
Lehmann SB, Patterson DB, Braun DR, Stynder DD, Matthews T, Levin NE, 2013, Regional and landscape-scale Pleistocene paleoecology using carbon and oxygen isotopes from in situ macro- and micromammal tooth enamel at Elandsfontein, Western Cape, South Africa. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, Los Angeles CA, Oct 30-Nov 2, 2013. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33: Program and Abstracts, p. 161
Lehmann SB, Levin NE, Dennis KJ, Bishop LC, Stynder DD, Braun DR, 2013, Trends in climate and vegetation of Plio-Pleistocene South Africa: using fossil enamel isotopic data to address questions of regional environmental change. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, October 2013. Abstract 187-15. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program. 45(7): 458
Lehmann SB, Levin NE, Stynder DD, Bishop LC, Forrest F, Braun DR, 2012, New tooth enamel isotopic data from the West coast of South Africa and a comparison of terrestrial and marine records of Plio-Pleistocene climate change. Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco CA, December 2012. Abstract PP51B-2122
Lehmann SB, Rech JA, Currie BS, Jordan TE, Riquelme R, 2010, Climatic and tectonic implications of a mid Miocene landscape: examination of the Tarapacá Pediplain, northern Atacama Desert, Chile. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver CO, October 2010. Abstract 251-6. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program 42(5): 597
Lehmann SB, Rech JA, Currie BS, Jordan TE, Riquelme R, 2009, Redefining the Tarapacá Pediplain; analysis of relict soils in the northern Atacama Desert, Chile. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver CO, October 2009. Abstract 244-33. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 41(7): 624
Lehmann SB, Belding E, Wiles GC, Brush N, 2007, Development and climatic analysis of a 465-year tree ring chronology from northeast Ohio. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver CO, October 2007. Abstract 237-6. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program 39(6): 637
Lehmann SB, Wiles GC, Cook ER, 2006, Use of stream flow and precipitation records for validating dendrochronological findings related to climate in Northeast Ohio. Geological Society of America North-Central Session, Akron OH, April 2006
Lehmann SB, Wiles GC, Cook ER. 2006. Extending drought-sensitive oak tree-ring chronologies by dating historical structures in Northeastern Ohio. Geological Society of America North Central Section, Akron Ohio, April 2006. Abstract 20-5. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, North-Central Section 38(4): 27
Lehmann SB, Wiles GC, 2005, Dendroarchaeology: tree ring dating of historical structures in Northeastern Ohio. Midwest Archaeological Conference, Dayton, OH, October 20-23, 2005. Program and Abstracts page 68. http://www.midwestarchaeology.org/storage/2005Program.pdf
Rech JA, Currie BS, Jordan TE, Riquelme R, Lehmann SB, Kirk-Lawlor NE, Li S, Gooley J, 2019, Massive Middle Miocene gypsic paleosols in the Atacama Desert and the formation of the Central Andean rainshadow. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 506; 184-194.
Hu H, Passey BH, Lehmann SB, Levin NE, Johnson BJ, accepted, Modeling and interpreting triple oxygen isotope variations in animal body water, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
Lehmann SB, Levin NE, Braun, DR, le Roux P, Zhu M, Sealy J, 2018, Strontium isotope ratios of fossil herbivore and carnivore tooth enamel and the environment and ecology of mid-Pleistocene Elandsfontein and southwestern South Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
Forrest FL, Stynder DD, Bishop, LC, Levin NL, Lehmann SB, Patterson DB, Matthews T, Braun DR, 2018, Zooarchaeological reconstruction of newly excavated Middle Pleistocene deposits from Elandsfontein, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 17, 19-29.
Patterson DB, Braun DR, Barr WA, Behrensmeyer AK, Lehmann SB, Manthi FK, Merritt S, Reeves J, Bobe R, 2017, Landscape-scale heterogeneity in the distribution and diet of the East Turkana mammal community during Okote Member times, Journal of Human Evolution, 112; 148-161.
Lehmann SB, Braun DR, Dennis KJ, Patterson DB, Stynder DD, Bishop LC, Forrest F, Levin NE, 2016, Stable isotopic composition of fossil mammal teeth and environmental change in southwestern South Africa during the Pliocene and Pleistocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 457; 396-408
Patterson DB, Lehmann SB, Matthews T, Levin NE, Stynder D, Braun DR, 2016, Stable isotope ecology of Cape dune mole-rats (Bathyergus suillus) from Elandsfontein, South Africa: implications for C4 vegetation and hominin paleoecology in the Cape Floral Region. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 457; 409-421
Braun DR, Levin NE, Stynder D, Herries AIR, Archer W, Forrest F, Roberts DL, Bishop LC, Matthews T, Lehmann SB, Pickering R, Fitzsimmons KE, 2013, Mid-Pleistocene hominin occupation at Elandsfontein, Western Cape, South Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews, 82; 145-166.
Kirk-Lawlor NE, Jordan TE, Rech JA, Lehmann SB, 2013, Late Miocene to Early Pliocene paleohydrology and landscape evolution of northern Chile, 19° to 20° S. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 387; 76-90.
Rech JA, Pigati JS, Lehmann SB, McGimpsey CN, Grimley DA, Nekola, JC, 2011, Assessing open-system behavior in of 14C in terrestrial gastropod shells. Radiocarbon, 53; 325-335.
PUBLICATIONS – in preparation
Lehmann SB, Levin NE, Passey BP, Hu H, Miller JH, Hoppe KA, Arppe L, Hynek S, Cerling TE, in prep, Triple oxygen isotopes in bioapatite: modern range, primary influences and potential geological application, Target journals are Earth and Planetary Science Letters or Geology. Plan to submit in Winter 2019.
Hatfield RG, Woods AS, Lehmann SB, Weidhaas N, Chen CY, Abbott MB, Rodbell D, Stoner JS, ready to submit, Stratigraphic correlation and splice generation for sediments recovered from a large lake drilling project: an example from Lake Junín, Peru, Journal of Paleolimnology.
Lehmann SB, Steinman BA, Abbott MA, in prep, Prolonged Early to Middle Holocene drought history in the American Northwest, Target journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Plan to submit in Winter 2018.
Lehmann SB, Steinman BA, Abbott MA, in prep, Lake water oxygen isotopes and weather data from Castor Lake, WA, 2008 -2018.
Lehmann SB, Werne PJ, Brown ET, Halbur J, Schouten S, Damsté JS, Anthropogenic impacts on Lake Malawi, Target journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Plan to submit Winter 2018
Lehmann SB, Levin NE, Passey BP, Hu H, Miller JH, Hoppe KA, Arppe L, Hynek S, Cerling TE, in prep, Triple oxygen isotopes in bioapatite: modern range, primary influences and potential geological application, Target journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Plan to submit in Winter 2018.
Lehmann SB, Rech JA, Currie BS, Jordan TE, Riquelme R, Kirk-Lawlor NE, in prep, Climatic implications of a mid-Miocene landscape: examination of the Tarapacá pediplain, Atacama Desert, northern Chile, Target journal is Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Plan to submit in Summer 2019.
Patterson DB, Braun DR, Behrensmeyer AK, Lehmann SB, Merritt S, Reeves J, Villaseñor A, Wood BA, Bobe R, in revision, Stable isotopic evidence for unique behavioral evolution in the genus Homo at East Turkana, northern Kenya. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
ON-LINE REPORTS AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Kirk-Lawlor NE, Jordan TE, Rech J, and Lehmann SB, 2012, Paleolago Tiliviche y sus relaciones estratigráficas y paleoclimáticas, Cuenca Pampa del Tamarugal, I Región, Chile. Proceedings 13th Congreso Geológico Chileno, 631-633.
Lehmann SB, Rech JA, 2009, NSF Vignette Online Contribution- Key Concepts in Geomorphology: Soils, relict landscapes and paleoclimate in the Atacama Desert, Chile. http://serc.carleton.edu/41080.
PRESENTATIONS – first author (* indicates student work)
Lehmann SB, Steinman BA, Abbott MB, Aridity in the American Northwest during the early to mid-Holocene as indicated by lake carbonate oxygen isotopes and sediment from Castor Lake, WA. Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, December 2018. Abstract PP035-466577.
*Christiansen S, Bustamante MG, Lehmann SB, Woods AS, Mark S, Steinman BA, Abbott AB, A Holocene lake level history of Celestine Lake, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, December 2018. Abstract PP035-439801.
*Woods AS, Lehmann SB, Chen CY, Hatfield RG, Stoner JS, McGee D, Abbott MA, Rodbell DT, Extra-tropical influence on hydrologic balance inn the high elevation Andes: physical sedimentology evidence from Lake Junín, Peru during the Last Glacial Period. Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, December 2018. Abstract PP035-465971.
Levin NE, Bedaso ZK, Beverly EJ, Cerling TE, Lehmann SB, Moerman JW, Passey BH, Quade J, Hotter, drier, and more open? Geochemical perspectives on 10 myr of environmental change and human evolution in Africa. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 2018.
Lehmann SB, Levin NE, Passey BH, Cerling TE, Hu H, 2016, Evaluating aridity using triple oxygen isotopes in tooth enamel. 35th International Geological Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, 27 August – 4 September 2016
Lehmann SB, Levin NE, Passey BH, Cerling TE, Hu H, 2015, Triple oxygen isotopes in teeth: implications for reconstructing paleoaridity. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1-4 November 2015. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 47(7); 285
Lehmann SB, Levin NE, Braun DR, Dennis KJ, Stynder DD, Bishop LC, Forrest F, 2014, A Plio-Pleistocene record of vegetation, climate, and hydrology in western South Africa using carbon and oxygen isotopic composition of fossil tooth enamel. 4th Southern Deserts Conference, Mendoza, Argentina, November 2014. Program page 17
Lehmann SB, Patterson DB, Braun DR, Stynder DD, Matthews T, Levin NE, 2013, Regional and landscape-scale Pleistocene paleoecology using carbon and oxygen isotopes from in situ macro- and micromammal tooth enamel at Elandsfontein, Western Cape, South Africa. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, Los Angeles CA, Oct 30-Nov 2, 2013. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33: Program and Abstracts, p. 161
Lehmann SB, Levin NE, Dennis KJ, Bishop LC, Stynder DD, Braun DR, 2013, Trends in climate and vegetation of Plio-Pleistocene South Africa: using fossil enamel isotopic data to address questions of regional environmental change. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, October 2013. Abstract 187-15. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program. 45(7): 458
Lehmann SB, Levin NE, Stynder DD, Bishop LC, Forrest F, Braun DR, 2012, New tooth enamel isotopic data from the West coast of South Africa and a comparison of terrestrial and marine records of Plio-Pleistocene climate change. Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco CA, December 2012. Abstract PP51B-2122
Lehmann SB, Rech JA, Currie BS, Jordan TE, Riquelme R, 2010, Climatic and tectonic implications of a mid Miocene landscape: examination of the Tarapacá Pediplain, northern Atacama Desert, Chile. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver CO, October 2010. Abstract 251-6. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program 42(5): 597
Lehmann SB, Rech JA, Currie BS, Jordan TE, Riquelme R, 2009, Redefining the Tarapacá Pediplain; analysis of relict soils in the northern Atacama Desert, Chile. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver CO, October 2009. Abstract 244-33. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 41(7): 624
Lehmann SB, Belding E, Wiles GC, Brush N, 2007, Development and climatic analysis of a 465-year tree ring chronology from northeast Ohio. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver CO, October 2007. Abstract 237-6. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program 39(6): 637
Lehmann SB, Wiles GC, Cook ER, 2006, Use of stream flow and precipitation records for validating dendrochronological findings related to climate in Northeast Ohio. Geological Society of America North-Central Session, Akron OH, April 2006
Lehmann SB, Wiles GC, Cook ER. 2006. Extending drought-sensitive oak tree-ring chronologies by dating historical structures in Northeastern Ohio. Geological Society of America North Central Section, Akron Ohio, April 2006. Abstract 20-5. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, North-Central Section 38(4): 27
Lehmann SB, Wiles GC, 2005, Dendroarchaeology: tree ring dating of historical structures in Northeastern Ohio. Midwest Archaeological Conference, Dayton, OH, October 20-23, 2005. Program and Abstracts page 68. http://www.midwestarchaeology.org/storage/2005Program.pdf