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This past Saturday, TBI Field School students ended their Ecology module and finished their major project on disease vectors. Their professor, Dr. Dino Martins, had noticed that a blinding disease called trachoma was endemic in the Turkana area and almost no data existed for this remote region.  Therefore, students researched background information on trachoma and conducted [...]

On Sunday, the TBI Field School students spent a hot day out on Lake Turkana with a boat ride to Central Island.   Our first stop was to a small fishing village to talk with the locals and to observe life at the lakeshore. Sacred Ibis at the shoreline with a locally made raft in the [...]