Full Member
Christine Omuombo
Membership since:
2025
Field of activity:
Other Memberships/Affiliations
National Museums of Kenya
Degrees:
2020
Doctorate Astronomy, Space and Earth Sciences
Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironment, Biogeochemistry
Publications resulting from Research
Omuombo C (2021). Climate and environmental changes in the Mt. Kenya region. Past Global Changes Magazine, vol. 29(1), 44-45. DOI: 10.22498/pages.29.1.44
Olago D, Raini J, Omuombo C, Ogonda G, Muli J, Okello C, Memo W, Ong’ang’a O (2021). Lentic-Lotic Water System Response to Anthropogenic and Climatic Factors in Kenya and Their Sustainable Management, In Climate Change and Water Resources in Africa: Perspectives and Solutions Towards an Imminent Water Crisis. Pp 193-218. Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61225-2_9
Christine Omuombo, David Williamson and Daniel Olago (2020), Biogeochemical proxy evidence of gradual and mute geolimnological response of Lake Nkunga, Mt. Kenya to climate changes and human influence during the past 2000 years. Scientific African. DOI: 10.1016/j.sciaf.2020.e00416
Christine Omuombo, Arnaud Huguet, David Williamson and Daniel Olago, (2020), Application of GDGT- derived temperature proxies on Mt. Kenya. Africa Journal of Physical Sciences. ISSN 2313-3317
Sarah Coffinet, Arnaud Huguet, Nikolai Pedentchouk, Laurent Bergonzini, Christine Omuombo, David Williamson, Christelle Anquetil, Martin Jones, Amos Majule, Thomas Wagner, Sylvie Derenne, (2017), Evaluation of branched GDGTs and leaf wax n-alkane δ2H as (paleo) environmental proxies in East Africa. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2016.11.020
Emma Mbua, Soichiro Kusaka, Yutaka Kunimatsu, Denis Geraads, Yoshihiro Sawada, Francis H Brown, Tetsuya Sakai, Jean-Renaud Boisserie, Mototaka Saneyoshi, Christine Omuombo, Samuel Muteti, Takafumi Hirata, Akira Hayashida, Hideki Iwano, Tohru Danhara, René Bobe, Brian Jicha, Masato Nakatsukasa (2016), Kantis: A new Australopithecus site on the shoulders of the Rift Valley near Nairobi, Kenya, Journal of Human Evolution,Vol 94: 28 – 44. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.01.006
Omuombo C.A, Olago D.O and Odada E.O. 2013. Coastal waters, In Developments in Earth Surface Processes - Kenya: A Natural Outlook Geo- Environmental Resources and Hazards. Pp 109 - 114. 1st Edition, Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59559-1.00009-8
Omuombo C.A, Olago D.O and Odada E.O. 2013. Coastal erosion, In Developments in Earth Surface Processes - Kenya A Natural Outlook Geo- Environmental Resources and Hazards. Pp 331 – 339.1st Edition, Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59559-1.00022-0
Opiyo-Akech N., Omuombo C.A., and Masibo M. 2013. General geology, In Developments in Earth Surface Processes - Kenya: A Natural Outlook Geo- Environmental Resources and Hazards. Pp 3 – 10. 1st Edition, Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59559-1.00001-3
Matthew R. Bennett, John W.K. Harris, Brian G. Richmond, David R. Braun, Emma Mbua, Purity Kiura, Daniel Olago, Mzalendo Kibunjia, Christine Omuombo, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, David Huddart, Silvia Gonzalez (2009), Early Hominin Foot Morphology Based on 1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints from Ileret, Kenya, Science, Vol 323 no 5918:1197 – 1201. DOI: 10.1126/science.1168132