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 provided [...]
MIT D-Lab Students Start Evaporative Cooling Research at TBI Turkwel
Hello! We are Ava and Christine, from MIT D-Lab, and this summer we are working with the Turkana Basin Institute and our PI, Dr. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]