General

Ecology in Turkana

Paivaa/hello! Welcome to another installment of TBI’s field school blog! This weeks blog post is written by me, Onni Purhonen. I’m a biology student from the University of Helsinki in Finland, currently in my second year of studies and specializing in ecology and evolutionary biology. The current field school-module on ecology with Dr. Dino J. [...]

By |2022-11-18T15:36:42+03:00September 30th, 2022|Fall 2022, Featured, Field Schools, General, Origins Field School|Comments Off on Ecology in Turkana

A week of learning about and living in Mpala’s incredible ecosystem.

Personal journal excerpt: It is Tuesday evening; I am relaxing in Mpala research center reminiscing a productive day. I am inspired to write a short account of the ant-acacia relationship we learned earlier today:   Picture an ant, One ferocious and alert, She tends and serves, To protect her reserves!   Picture another ant, One [...]

By |2022-11-18T15:36:56+03:00September 20th, 2022|Fall 2022, Featured, Field Schools, General, Origins Field School|Comments Off on A week of learning about and living in Mpala’s incredible ecosystem.

Origins Field School Fall 2022 Begins!

Jambo!  Welcome to the TBI Origins Field School blog for Fall 2022! My name is Medina Lubisia, the Resident Academic Director for the Fall Field School. I will be accompanying students throughout the field school as they undertake five modules that will be credited for their Fall semester. The students arrived safely in Nairobi and [...]

By |2022-11-18T15:36:29+03:00September 14th, 2022|Fall 2022, Featured, Field Schools, General, Origins Field School|Comments Off on Origins Field School Fall 2022 Begins!

Installing a Telescope in Ileret

Hello! We are the DART - OPTiK team, a collaboration of researchers from the University of Edinburgh, STFC UKRI, Technical University of Kenya and the Turkana Basin Institute. We will be working at the TBI base in Ileret for the next couple of months to set up a portable telescope which will then take observations [...]

By |2022-11-18T15:36:29+03:00September 7th, 2022|Development, Discovery, Featured, General, Projects, Research|Comments Off on Installing a Telescope in Ileret

Updates from the field: Discovering new early Pleistocene footprints at Koobi Fora

This July, Kevin Hatala (Chatham University), Neil Roach (Harvard University) and Louise Leakey (Stony Brook University) led a TBI team unearthing a new early Pleistocene footprint site at Koobi Fora. The first tracks were discovered last year by Louise’s team at the bottom of an important skeletal fossil excavation. This year’s excavation uncovered a large [...]

By |2022-11-18T15:36:08+03:00August 29th, 2022|Discovery, Featured, General, Koobi Fora Research Project, Projects, Research|Comments Off on Updates from the field: Discovering new early Pleistocene footprints at Koobi Fora

Evaporative Cooling in the Field

This past weekend we visited the West Turkana Archaeological Project(WTAP) campsite at Lomekwi and had the opportunity to set up and test a charcoal evaporative cooler and a hanging evaporative cooler. The field research camps have limited access to electricity and cold storage for fruits and vegetables, so evaporative cooling is a potential solution to [...]

By |2022-07-22T08:41:06+03:00July 6th, 2022|Featured, General|Comments Off on Evaporative Cooling in the Field

The Rocky Framework to the Rift

Mountains south of Lokichar. These rocks form the core of a Neoproterozoic island arc. Turkana and the East African Rift. The ‘cradle of humanity’. But what is this cradle actually made of? And why is The Rift where it is anyway? The Rift is such an important feature for nurturing primates and hominids [...]

By |2022-07-15T14:22:03+03:00June 29th, 2022|Featured, General, Research|Comments Off on The Rocky Framework to the Rift

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. Eric Verploegen, to research evaporative cooling as a means of post harvest fruit and vegetable storage. In regions of the world where access to food preservation methods is limited, up to [...]

By |2022-07-10T09:41:50+03:00June 28th, 2022|Featured, General, Research|Comments Off on MIT D-Lab Students Start Evaporative Cooling Research at TBI Turkwel
Go to Top