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4 days and 3 Nights in Buluk

Welcome to the Buluk Blog of the TBI Origins Field School: Spring 2025. I’m your author, Katie, a senior at Stony Brook University majoring in Anthropology. In this blog, I am going to take you through our field trip to Buluk, a fossil locality approximately 4 hours east of the TBI [...]

By |2025-05-13T08:40:37+03:00May 9th, 2025|Featured, Field Schools, General, Origins Field School, Spring 2025, Sticky|Comments Off on 4 days and 3 Nights in Buluk

Turkana Basin Institute 2024 Annual Report

Dear Friends and Supporters, Many greetings and it is my great pleasure to share our 2024 Annual Report with you. 2024 has continued our trajectory of growth and discovery at the Turkana Basin Institute (TBI). Our research continues to thrive with scientists from around the world and East Africa undertaking research and expeditions, alongside new and returning field [...]

By |2025-05-08T13:39:17+03:00May 5th, 2025|Featured, From the Director, Sticky|Comments Off on Turkana Basin Institute 2024 Annual Report

The Turkana Residency: Disrupting the Nature Narrative

An Intersection of poetry, science, and ancestral memory Poetry equals art, or perhaps, it’s the other way around. But what of science? What could poetry and science possibly share? Plenty, it turns out. Ancient rocks from the heart of the Turkana Basin, or better yet, the actual term, Geology, telling stories [...]

By |2025-04-15T14:12:50+03:00April 15th, 2025|Featured, General, Sticky|Comments Off on The Turkana Residency: Disrupting the Nature Narrative

Exploring Kenya’s Living Landscape: Immersed in Nature

The Spring 2025 Origins Field School launched earlier this year with students from Stony Brook, University College London, the University of Helsinki and Kenya heading into the field with Professor Dino J. Martins to explore the world around them and uncover the connections between People and Nature. How and why do [...]

By |2025-03-24T15:32:07+03:00March 24th, 2025|Featured, Field Schools, General, Origins Field School, Spring 2025, Sticky|Comments Off on Exploring Kenya’s Living Landscape: Immersed in Nature

Stargazing in Turkana: Inspiring Africa’s Future in Astronomy

In the Turkana Basin, where fossils tell stories of evolution, a different kind of exploration is taking place. Scientists at the Turkana Basin Institute (TBI) have spent decades uncovering secrets of human evolution from sediments, a new group of explorers is looking in the opposite direction, toward the stars. This year, [...]

By |2025-03-04T18:51:58+03:00March 4th, 2025|Astronomy, Featured, Field Schools, General, Sticky|Comments Off on Stargazing in Turkana: Inspiring Africa’s Future in Astronomy

Exploring Science, Culture and Sustainability in Turkana

Something exciting is happening at the Turkana Basin Institute (TBI), 16 students from Stonybrook University under the Simons STEM Scholars Program are experiencing hands on research and learning scientific discoveries beyond class walls. Supported by faculty members from Stony Brook University and TBI, Dr Dino Martins- Turkana Basin Institute Director, Medina [...]

By |2025-01-23T09:19:20+03:00January 22nd, 2025|Featured, Field Schools, General, STEM Scholars Program 2025, Sticky|Comments Off on Exploring Science, Culture and Sustainability in Turkana

Harvard Summer Program in Kenya: Week Six

The sixth and final week of the Harvard Summer Program in Kenya began with a day of R&R back at the Eliye Springs Resort on the shores of Lake Turkana, about 10 kilometers from the TBI camp. Monday, July 8th began with a lecture by Emmanuel about primate evolution and anatomy, [...]

By |2024-12-04T07:05:50+03:00December 3rd, 2024|Featured, Field Schools, General, Harvard Summer Program, Sticky, Summer 2024|Comments Off on Harvard Summer Program in Kenya: Week Six

Fossil Footprints Offer Direct Evidence for Two Different Human Species

Research Raises Questions About the Role of Competition in Human Evolution  Turkana Basin Institute, Nairobi, Kenya - November 28th Members of the Koobi Fora Research Project in collaboration with National Museums of Kenya and Turkana Basin Institute  are  co-authors of a publication with Kevin Hatala, Ph.D., associate professor of Biology [...]

By |2024-11-29T06:51:40+03:00November 15th, 2024|Discovery, Featured, General, Research, Sticky|Comments Off on Fossil Footprints Offer Direct Evidence for Two Different Human Species
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