Lake Challa is a crater lake in equatorial eastern Africa at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro. The lake's sediments host an archive of past climatic and ecosystem dynamics of at least the past 250.000 year, or the past two full glacial-interglacial cycles. The DeepCHALLA ICDP project aims to obtain a core to generate high-resolution records of tropical climate variability at inter-annual to millennial timescales.
Loes and Francien from the Organic Geochemistry group at Utrecht University have joined the international group of scientists on the drilling expedition, and will post updates on the project on this blog (internet connection permitting).
Loes and Francien from the Organic Geochemistry group at Utrecht University have joined the international group of scientists on the drilling expedition, and will post updates on the project on this blog (internet connection permitting).