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. [...]
Studying prehistoric archaeology in the Turkana Basin
Hello again! I’m Ian, and I’m back this week with Owich to talk about the beginning of our last module, Prehistoric Archaeology, taught by [...]
The end is nigh….presentations, goat butchering and graduation!
We arrived back to TBI Turkwel Campus from Nariokotome on Tuesday, tired but happy. The day was spent resting and preparing for the final [...]
A Week in the Life of a Field School Student.
Hello everyone my name is Flor Perez and I am from New York. I graduated from Stony Brook University in 2020. I am one [...]
Paleoanthropology in South Turkwel
Hello, I am Tom Otube, an environmental science graduate from Kabarak University. This week we started our Human Evolution module which is taught by [...]
Technical University Astronomy Students in Ileret
Meet Rashid Nafwa and Vincent Okoth, students from the Technical University of Kenya (TUK) working with the telescope at TBI Ileret. Rashid and Vincent [...]
Paleontology in Napudet
Hello! My name is Patricia Nyaga, I just completed my undergraduate degree, Bachelor of Arts in History and Archaeology from Maseno University, expecting to [...]
Learning about Vertebrate evolution in Turkana Basin
Hello! I’m Ian McMahon, a graduate student here at TBI. I graduated from SUNY Potsdam in 2020 with a degree in archaeology, specializing in [...]
Geology in Lothagam and Napudet
Hello! My name is Owich and I am an anthropology graduate from the University of Nairobi. We began our second week of geology with [...]
Digging into the geology of the Turkana Basin
Hello, my name is Amelia and I am currently majoring in Anthropology through SUNY Albany in New York. This week we dove into our [...]
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 [...]