UMD Research is Published in Nature Magazine

Students Study African climate changes

Nature Magazine will be highlighting results of University of Minnesota Duluth research that could impact theories on human evolution.

A research process that began more than 20 years ago at UMD sheds light on centuries of different African climate conditions.

The research team included not only scientists from UMD but scientists from around the world including Africa, Australia and South America.

Erik Brown, a Professor at UMD, said “There are areas that are getting wetter and areas that are getting dryer and so the story will be a little complicated but a little more interesting than we had thought.”

The lake they researched is called Lake Malawi and it is a tropical lake that is as long as Lake Superior and is 700 meters deep.