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Dr. Dino J. Martins becomes Director of TBI, beginning September 1st, 2024

Photo of Dr. Martins on Lake Turkana’s Central Island courtesy of Liam Frederick Stony Brook University announced that noted Kenyan entomologist and evolutionary biologist Dr. Dino J. Martins will begin serving as the director of the world-renowned Turkana Basin Institute. Dr. Martins has served as the CEO of TBI (Kenya) Ltd. since [...]

By |2024-09-03T16:41:12+03:00September 2nd, 2024|Featured, From the Director, General, Research, Sticky|Comments Off on Dr. Dino J. Martins becomes Director of TBI, beginning September 1st, 2024

Harvard Summer Program in Kenya: Week Four

The fourth week of the Harvard Summer Program in Kenya began with a day of rest and relaxation at Eliye Springs Resort on the western shores of Lake Turkana. Students swam, roasted coffee, and pet kittens, and a few of us bought handmade baskets after finding a group of people selling them nearby. For [...]

By |2024-08-20T14:52:10+03:00August 9th, 2024|Featured, Field Schools, General, Harvard Summer Program, Sticky, Summer 2024|Comments Off on Harvard Summer Program in Kenya: Week Four

Harvard Summer Program in Kenya: Week Three

The third week began with a rest day on Sunday, June 16th. Students practiced Swahili with Duncan over lunch and organized a soccer match in the afternoon. On Monday, we left camp early for a trip to Ngare Ndare forest, which is about two hours away by car. The [...]

By |2024-08-20T14:51:51+03:00July 31st, 2024|Featured, Field Schools, General, Harvard Summer Program, Sticky, Summer 2024|Comments Off on Harvard Summer Program in Kenya: Week Three

Harvard Summer Program in Kenya: Week Two

After a rest day on Sunday, June 9th, Monday began with a Swahili lesson followed by the introduction of a new module on infectious diseases. Dr. Jon Epstein, an infectious disease specialist who works at EcoHealth Alliance in New York City and who spent a few days with us at Mpala, gave a lecture [...]

By |2024-08-20T14:51:11+03:00July 3rd, 2024|Featured, Field Schools, General, Harvard Summer Program, Sticky, Summer 2024|Comments Off on Harvard Summer Program in Kenya: Week Two

Harvard Summer Program in Kenya: Week One

The Harvard Summer Program in Kenya commenced on the morning of June 1, 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya. There are 16 students in the program, 9 of whom are Harvard University undergraduates, 1 of whom is a graduate student from China, and 5 of whom are students from Kenya at various stages in their academic [...]

By |2024-08-20T14:51:58+03:00June 30th, 2024|Featured, Field Schools, General, Harvard Summer Program, Sticky, Summer 2024|Comments Off on Harvard Summer Program in Kenya: Week One

Welcome to the final blog post of the Spring 2024 TBI Origins Fieldschool!

For the final two weeks of the fieldschool, the students returned across to the West side of Lake Turkana to the TBI Turkwel campus. Although it was hard to say goodbye to the wonderful staff, wildlife and landscapes of Ileret, we were also excited to get back to Turkwel, especially to see the camp [...]

By |2024-04-29T11:54:37+03:00April 18th, 2024|Featured, Field Schools, General, Origins Field School, Spring 2024, Sticky|Comments Off on Welcome to the final blog post of the Spring 2024 TBI Origins Fieldschool!

A Tale of Hominins & Hippos: Human Evolution at Ileret Campus

Hello! It’s Ruth and Libby here to tell you all about our human evolution module, taught by Dr. Carrie Mongle and Dr. Louise Leakey. We started our week out with some lectures about why we are here in the Turkana Basin to learn about human evolution. East Africa and Kenya specifically have been at [...]

By |2024-04-23T14:31:11+03:00April 18th, 2024|Featured, Field Schools, General, Origins Field School, Spring 2024, Sticky|Comments Off on A Tale of Hominins & Hippos: Human Evolution at Ileret Campus

Buluk 2024: A Paleontological dream meets a Meteorological nightmare!

Hello readers of the TBI Origins Field School blog, providing updates and a recap of this past week are students Maddie, an undergraduate at Stony Brook University, and David, a postgraduate student at Kenyatta University! After a relaxing Sunday at Ileret spent playing football alongside the locals at the nearby village, and some sodas [...]

By |2024-04-23T12:28:54+03:00March 24th, 2024|Featured, Field Schools, General, Spring 2024, Sticky|Comments Off on Buluk 2024: A Paleontological dream meets a Meteorological nightmare!
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