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About Dr. Dino Martins

Hello! I'm Dino Martins, an entomologist interested in how insects keep the planet running, the biology of vectors and more broadly in the evolution of life and our role in a sustainable world. I teach for the Turkana Basin Field School and serve as the Academic Field Director and am a Research Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University.

Field trip to the Napedet Hills

A few days ago we all took a trip to the Napedet Hills that lie southwest of TBI. The drive to the hills was partly across grass-covered plains. A rare and beautiful sight in the desert. The last time we climbed the hills in February earlier this year there wasn't a blade of grass to [...]

By |2017-01-04T18:05:23+03:00October 7th, 2011|Field Schools|Comments Off on Field trip to the Napedet Hills

Desert filled with bees…

The rains that have brought out the flowers around TBI have also brought out a large number of insects. Like many of the plants, the insects are active and taking opportunity of the greenery to forage and breed. And like the plants they are all under intense pressure to complete their life-cycles. For insects this [...]

By |2017-01-04T18:05:24+03:00October 3rd, 2011|Field Schools|Comments Off on Desert filled with bees…
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