That’s a Wrap: Global Innovation 2018
This blog was written in collaboration with Natalie Lubaszka: On Monday June 18th we took a trip to see one of the hand pumps [...]
To Ethiopia and Beyond!
This blog was written in collaboration with Winnie Wang: Monday, June 11th marked the first day of the second class in the Global Innovation [...]
Ileret Primary School Spotlight Teacher: Margaret Shuoro
Meet Margaret Shuoro! A teacher at Ileret's primary school. She became a teacher just a year ago but has already inspired many students. [...]
Short-Term Projects for Long-Term Memories
This blog was written in collaboration with Konnie Xu: Monday morning the team was energized for a week of finishing up their short-term projects, [...]
Hydroponic gardening at TBI’s research facilities
In our effort to produce fruit and green vegetables locally, to supply the Turkana Basin Institute field stations at Ileret and Turkwel, we [...]
Students arrive in Kenya for the 2018 Global Innovation Field School
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Thrown in at the Deep End: Ileret
This blog was written in collaboration with Sam van der Poel: On the morning of our first full day in Ileret, we were fortunate [...]
Elephants and Lions and Students, Oh My!
This blog was written in collaboration with student Emily Aviles: Wednesday night the Global Innovation crew went to bed early after dinner and a [...]
On the Road Again: Global Innovation 2018
This blog was written in collaboration with Professor Rodrigo Peña: The Global Innovation Field School is on the road again. As we arrived to [...]
The Field School’s Final Weeks: Archaeology, Goat Butchery and Graduation!
The students were very busy in our last two weeks in Kenya. The Archaeology module took us to many sites around Turkana where there [...]
Practising Archaeology
Photo: Esther Kadaga Our journey through the Archaeology module is coming to an end. We had a few site visits this week [...]
Stone tools and the Nariokotome camping trip
Stone tools which were a vital technological invention of early humans, enabling them to do things like butchering. Oldowan and Acheulean stone tool technologies [...]
Saying Goodbye to Ileret, and Hello to Turkwel!
On Friday the field school said goodbye to our camp at Ileret where we've lived for the past 7 weeks and got on the TBI plane to fly over the "Jade Sea" (Lake Turkana) to our new home, the Turkwel campus.
Our Complex Human Origins Story
We are into the last week of the Human Origins module. As the students have come to find out, the phylogenetic tree of human ancestry is more bushy than expected.
Tracing our Ancestry
This Week, the students have been introduced to the story of being and becoming human. The scientific story of human evolution. Humans have always [...]
Studying Vertebrate Paleontology in Turkana
The students are now well into the Vertebrate Paleontology course with Dr. Bill Sanders from the University of Michigan. Professor Sanders has been teaching [...]
Visit to Ileret Town
A Dasenach village. Photo: Rosie Bryson The students visited a village in Ileret and got to know more about the culture of [...]
Performing Geologic Autopsies and More
In the last week, we have been delving deeper into the geology of the Turkana Basin. This included seeking to understand how stratigraphic [...]
Reading the Rocks in the Cradle of Humanity
Our Geology module with Dr. Craig Feibel and Dr. Robert Raynolds continues at the TBI campus! Dr. Feibel started off the week with an [...]
A Journey through Time in Sediments
Photo: Deming Yang The ecology module has ended. The next module, Geology, has started. Dr Craig Feibel and Dr. Bob Raynolds are [...]