A Tale of Hominins & Hippos: Human Evolution at Ileret Campus
Hello! It’s Ruth and Libby here to tell you all about our human evolution module, taught by Dr. Carrie Mongle and Dr. Louise [...]
Buluk 2024: A Paleontological dream meets a Meteorological nightmare!
Hello readers of the TBI Origins Field School blog, providing updates and a recap of this past week are students Maddie, an undergraduate [...]
A stormy tale of cladistics and bone identification at Ileret.
This week’s blog comes from Simone and Sedona, and we’ll be talking about our experiences during the first week of the vertebrate paleontology [...]
Field geology at Lothagam and Napudet
In our final week of Geology, Dr. Gathogo took the students out in the field to explore the Miocene and Pliocene sediments in the [...]
The Intricate Beauty of Geology
Greetings from the hot and sunny Turkwel, Turkana! It's Mishy and Alisa reporting on our first week of the Geology module with Professor [...]
An ecological shift: from Mpala to Turkana!
Hello all, this entry of the blog comes to you from Edmond and Phoebe, two students at the TBI Origins Field School. [...]
The Great Grevy’s Rally
The students spent their weekend at Mpala Research Centre taking part in a unique community science research project. The Grevy’s zebra is a [...]
Ecological adventures at Mpala Research Centre, Laikipia County
The first week of the semester kicked off with the ecology module at Mpala Research Centre (MRC) led by Dr Dino Martins, who [...]
The Spring 2024 field school begins!
Happy new year! I hope you all had peaceful holidays. The spring 2024 TBI field school is off to a great start. The [...]
Ileret Hosts its First Astronomy School
Between September 24 and October 7, the Turkana Basin Institute site at Ileret hosted for the first time an astronomy school. This school [...]
TBI Welcomes a new Chief Operations Officer and Chief Finance Officer
The Turkana Basin Institute is delighted to welcome our new Chief Operations Officer, Dr. CJ Jones, and Chief Finance Officer, Mr. Daniel Mbugua. [...]
Origins in Turkana
We’ve had an incredible first few weeks at TBI Turkwel! After our time at Mpala, we’ve hit the ground running and have been really [...]
Engineering Takeover!
Welcome to the field school where we study more than just rocks 😉 Are you wondering what engineering students do here at TBI? If [...]
Summer 2023 Field Schools Underway!
Jambo! The Summer 2023 Field Schools are underway!! This year, we have both an Origins Field School and a Global Innovation Field School, being [...]
Studying prehistoric archaeology in the Turkana Basin
Hello again! I’m Ian, and I’m back this week with Owich to talk about the beginning of our last module, Prehistoric Archaeology, taught by [...]
The end is nigh….presentations, goat butchering and graduation!
We arrived back to TBI Turkwel Campus from Nariokotome on Tuesday, tired but happy. The day was spent resting and preparing for the final [...]
A Week in the Life of a Field School Student.
Hello everyone my name is Flor Perez and I am from New York. I graduated from Stony Brook University in 2020. I am one [...]
Paleoanthropology in South Turkwel
Hello, I am Tom Otube, an environmental science graduate from Kabarak University. This week we started our Human Evolution module which is taught by [...]
Technical University Astronomy Students in Ileret
Meet Rashid Nafwa and Vincent Okoth, students from the Technical University of Kenya (TUK) working with the telescope at TBI Ileret. Rashid and Vincent [...]
Paleontology in Napudet
Hello! My name is Patricia Nyaga, I just completed my undergraduate degree, Bachelor of Arts in History and Archaeology from Maseno University, expecting to [...]