Ileret Hosts its First Astronomy School
Between September 24 and October 7, the Turkana Basin Institute site at Ileret hosted for the first time an astronomy school. This school provided [...]
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. [...]
TBI Welcomes a new Chief Operations Officer and Chief Finance Officer
The Turkana Basin Institute is delighted to welcome our new Chief Operations Officer, Dr. CJ Jones, and Chief Finance Officer, Mr. Daniel Mbugua. [...]
Origins in Turkana
We’ve had an incredible first few weeks at TBI Turkwel! After our time at Mpala, we’ve hit the ground running and have been really [...]
Engineering Takeover!
Welcome to the field school where we study more than just rocks 😉 Are you wondering what engineering students do here at TBI? If [...]
Summer 2023 Field Schools Underway!
Jambo! The Summer 2023 Field Schools are underway!! This year, we have both an Origins Field School and a Global Innovation Field School, being [...]
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 [...]