A Fossil Forest
French paleoecologist Raymonde Bonnefille led TBI Field School students to Kalodirr last Friday, with hopes of finding fossil wood among the rocks. [...]
Hiking to the Napudet Hills
Close to completing their course on the modern ecology of the Turkana Basin, students hiked to an old growth tree grove adjacent to the [...]
More on the Ileret water pipeline
Another update from Ileret with images and text by Fraser Smith. This is the progress report on the water pipeline and the generator house [...]
Birdwatching, Nightwalks
TBI's Ecology course kept Field School students busy from sunrise until sunset and beyond, as Dino Martins led students on birdwalks, collecting [...]
Veronica’s Turkwel: Report # 2
Sweat is an abundant liquid around this neighborhood. TBI students and staff give out perhaps gallons of this stuff daily. On some Sundays we [...]
Rain and the Kerio River Delta
Turkana Basin Institute students, faculty and staff were astonished on Wednesday when a vigorous windstorm gave way to rain. The whole ecosystem of the [...]
Dino Martins arrives at TBI
Dino Martins arrived at TBI over the weekend and, on Monday, began teaching a weeklong course on the ecology the the Turkana lake basin. [...]
Evolution on Darwin’s Birthday
On Saturday, TBI students concluded their 2 week-long intensive course on human evolution by honoring the memory of Charles Darwin, exactly 202 years after [...]
Eliye Springs Hominin at Lake Turkana
Three decades ago a vacationing couple, while walking along the west shore of Lake Turkana, saw the back end of a human skull protruding [...]
Telesgaye Kitchen Construction Begins
The construction for the Telesgaye Primary School kitchen is now underway with the foundation complete and several courses of brick constructed. The grant was [...]
TBI Fossil Preparation Lab
TBI Field School Students began a study of fossil preparation on Tuesday, in an effort to better understand the process by which fossil remains [...]
Veronica’s Turkwel: Report 1
I am wary of bloggers and blogging, and have not done it much in the past. But here I am, reluctant to admit that [...]
Ileret Ward Connected to Water and Solar
TBI has began the second phase of improving the infrastructure of Ileret Health Centre through the $29,000 grant provided by the Australian High Commission [...]
TBI – Nakwaparit Football Match
During their day off on Sunday, TBI Field School students traveled south to Turkana's Nakwaparit elementary school for a friendly game of football (soccer [...]
Moruorot and a Hyena
Moruorot is found in the badlands north of TBI basecamp, on the west shore of Kenya's Lake Turkana. Literally meaning "Orot's Hill" in the [...]
Community Health Strenghtneing
TBI facilitated a two-day trip by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation (MOPHS) officials to Ileret to build capacity of Ileret Health Centre and [...]
Lothodok Range
As part of their study of the evolution of apes in East Africa, field school students visited a series of geological sites on Wednesday [...]
Building update from Ileret- Waffle Production
Due to the remoteness of Ileret and the expense of transporting building materials is very costly. Therefore new techniques are to be employed in [...]
Turkwel Laboratory January 2011
I have a few recent images of the large laboratory that is under construction at Turkwel. The basement which will be used as storage [...]
Cara Roure Johnson teaches Paleoanthropology
Turkana Basin Institute Field School students now begin an intensive two week course studying paleoanthropology, with a focus on East Africa and the Turkana [...]