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TBI is a research institution supporting
scientific projects in the Turkana Basin, Kenya.
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    • HEW XGeological History of the Turkana Basin
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    • HEW VIIIHalf a Century after Zinj: Paranthropus boisei in Context
    • HEW VIIHobbits in the Haystack: Homo floresiensis and Human Evolution
    • HEW VIFrom Fishers to Herders: Holocene Subsistence Intensification in the Turkana Basin
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    • HEW IVDiversity in Australopithecus: Tracking the Earliest Bipeds
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Mud-Flat Life…

Posted by Dr. Dino Martins on February 4th, 2012. Category: Field School

The first module of the Turkana Basin Institute of Ecology is just coming to and end. We spent a couple of days this week learning about and exploring the aquatic habitat of the Turkwel River next to TBI.   One ...

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Good Bugs and Bad Bugs

Posted by Dr. Dino Martins on February 1st, 2012. Category: Field School

Good Bugs and Bad Bugs One of the important topics that we have been exploring as part of the Ecology Module is the question of ‘ecosystem services’ and how biodiversity, basically wild species, ...

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Of Goats and Grasshoppers…

Posted by Dr. Dino Martins on January 31st, 2012. Category: Field School

Goats vs. Grasshoppers The two main herbivores present around the Turkana Basin Institute are goats and grasshoppers. The goats are obvious as you travel around – there are small groups of them moving ...

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Field School visits the Kerio Delta

Posted by Dr. Dino Martins on January 30th, 2012. Category: Field School

The TBI Field School Students visited the Kerio Delta this weekend. We visited the Kerio Delta as part of the Ecology module, looking at some of the different vegetation types and learning about some ...

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Spring Field School Begins

Posted by Dr. Dino Martins on January 27th, 2012. Category: Featured, Field School

The Spring Field School has taken off at the Turkana Basin Institute at South Turkwel. Students have started exploring the ecology of the area. Understanding ecology involves an appreciation of the ...

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Dr. Lawrence Martin assumes full-time directorship of TBI

Posted by Scott Bjelland on January 12th, 2012. Category: Featured, General

Stony Brook University's Dr. Lawrence Martin has agreed to serve, on a full-time basis, as Director of the Turkana Basin Institute. Martin has been at the heart of TBI activities since its creation ...

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Field School Students finish Archaeology of the Turkana Basin

Posted by Sonia Harmand on December 1st, 2011. Category: Field School

On Friday 18 November, TBI Students completed their last course, Archaeology of the Turkana Basin, taught by Sonia Harmand. Students learned about the major steps in the development of early technologies ...

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Louise Leakey and Autodesk launch 3D fossils website

Posted by Scott Bjelland on November 30th, 2011. Category: Featured, General

Dr. Louise Leakey (TBI, Stony Brook University) and 3D software company Autodesk have teamed up with the National Museums of Kenya to create an ongoing interactive showcase famous fossil discoveries from ...

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Upcoming Field School info session at Stony Brook

Posted by Scott Bjelland on November 29th, 2011. Category: Events, Field School

Stony Brook University is hosting a Turkana Basin Field School information session on Wednesday, December 7th from 1:00-2:00 in the TBI Seminar Room. ...

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TBI Field School Students finish Vertebrate Paleontology

Posted by Kait Gierlich on October 28th, 2011. Category: Field School

This weekend TBI Students completed their third course, Vertebrate Paleontology and Ancient Environments in the Turkana Basin. The course was taught by René Bobe with contributions by Frederick Kyalo ...

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  • Mud-Flat Life…
  • Good Bugs and Bad Bugs
  • Of Goats and Grasshoppers…
  • Field School visits the Kerio Delta
  • Spring Field School Begins
  • Dr. Lawrence Martin assumes full-time directorship of TBI

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