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She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in geology in 1975 from the University of Paris with a thesis on the evolution of Lake Abhé.
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Serge Segba
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Her seminal work allowed the reconstruction of the Quaternary climate throughout Africa and western Asia and the African paleoclimate. Her work became the first continuous dated African Pliocene-Pleistocene diatom record. She entered the French National Centre for Scientific Research (National Center for Scientific Research) and joined the Hydrology and Isotope Geochemistry lab of the Paris-Sud University in 1986, under the direction of professor Jean-Charles Fontes.
She moved to the Centre de Recherche et d’Enseignement de Géosciences de l’Environnement (CEREGE) in 1998.
In 2005 she became the first woman to receive the Vega Medal from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography. In 2010, she was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal bestowed by the European Union of Geosciences for her "contribution to the reconstruction of climate variability during the Holocene from continental archives and to a better understanding of climate mechanisms involved during this period.".
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Ivory Coast