Recent studies on the deep structure beneath East Africa show that dynamic processes in the mantle may influence rifting and climate change. We encourage submissions from a wide range of disciplines that deal with observations and numerical modeling in relation to the East Africa rift system. This session brings together geophysicists, petrologists, structural geologists, sedimentologists, geochemists, paleoclimatologists, climate and geodynamic modelers to discuss tectonics-climate interactions in a complex geologic setting.