Palaeontology Module Begins!
The Turkana Basin Field School proceeds apace. Today the palaeontology module began with Prof Doug Boyer of Duke University who arrived at TBI yesterday. [...]
River Sediments and a Trip to Lothagam
A major theme in this week’s Geology lectures has been sedimentology and river systems. For their lab practical, the students collected and analyzed sediment [...]
Visit to Central Island
One of the high points of the TBI Field School is the trip to Central Island. We visited the island at the end of [...]
Field Geology in Motion
The first week of the Geology module wrapped up with a field excursion to the Lothidok Range. Some outcrops at Lothidok expose Oligocene and [...]
To the Rocks!
The Geology module of the Fall 2013 Field School is underway and the students are enthusiastically hard at work. Dr. Chris Lepre of Rutgers [...]
Exploring the Turkwel River
As part of the Ecology Module we have been exploring the Turkwel River next to the Turkana Basin Institute. Learning about river life [...]
Visit to the Kerio Delta
A major ecological issue that the students have been learning about is that of invasive species. As humans have moved about the planet and [...]
Of Goats and (over)grazing…
One of the most fascinating aspects of life around TBI is how different organisms cope with the heat and drought. The main mammal herbivores [...]
Fall 2013 Field School Begins!
The Turkana Basin Field School for Fall 2013 has begun! The students made their long journey to Kenya from New York and set off [...]
Kite flying captures site views from above
One of the techniques we use to document a site that we excavate is to get an aerial view from above and so we [...]
Visit to Turkana Basin Institute by Kenya’s Deputy President
We had a high profile visit a few weeks ago at TBI-Turkwel and TBI-Ileret by the Deputy President William Ruto, Dr. Hassan Wario, Minister [...]
TBI Ileret building construction update
Over the past year at Ileret there has been great progress with the building of the permanent facility. Three buildings are now completed and [...]
Fossil specimens from Area 13
Last year much of a pig skeleton was recovered from a rugged and rocky hillside covered in a tumbling dark and broken slabs of [...]
Koobi Fora Research Project back in the field
The Koobi Fora Research Project is back in the field again this year.Its been busy and exciting so far so finally a few [...]
Low cost 3D Printing workshop- Trieste, Italy
As part of the 3D Printing for Science and Sustainable Development workshop, Louise Leakey was invited to speak about the African Fossils project in [...]
Meave Leakey elected to National Academy of Sciences
Renowned anthropologist Meave Leakey, a research professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Turkana Basin Institute at Stony Brook University, has been named [...]
Graduation and Goodbye
In Kenya, rain is a blessing. It is something to celebrate if you have rain on your wedding day. If rain is a blessing, [...]
Lobolo and Eliye Springs: The final field for the field school
The Pleistocene is sometimes called the Ice Age, but ice was as rare 2 million years ago as it is today in the Turkana [...]
Crawling to figure out how we stood
When scientists first set out to study human origins, the Victorian armchair theorists figured it was our big brains that set us apart from [...]
Basin of the Apes
Human ancestors. This is why the Turkana Basin is on the paleontological map. Sure it preserves an intact record of the grassland ecosystem taking [...]