On the remote eastern edge of Lake Turkana, at the corner of Marsabit County and a stone throw from the Ethiopian boarder lies the Turkana Basin Illeret campus. Quiet yet full of discovery, experimentation, and purpose. The land itself is raw and beautiful with plants that have been growing for thousand [...]
Research Raises Questions About the Role of Competition in Human Evolution Turkana Basin Institute, Nairobi, Kenya - November 28th Members of the Koobi Fora Research Project in collaboration with National Museums of Kenya and Turkana Basin Institute are co-authors of a publication with Kevin Hatala, Ph.D., associate professor of Biology [...]
Photo of Dr. Martins on Lake Turkana’s Central Island courtesy of Liam Frederick Stony Brook University announced that noted Kenyan entomologist and evolutionary biologist Dr. Dino J. Martins will begin serving as the director of the world-renowned Turkana Basin Institute. Dr. Martins has served as the CEO of TBI (Kenya) Ltd. since [...]
Meet Rashid Nafwa and Vincent Okoth, students from the Technical University of Kenya (TUK) working with the telescope at TBI Ileret. Rashid and Vincent are completing an attachment to meet their final year requirements of gaining practical experience. Vincent Okoth and Rashid Nafwa preparing for a night of observations Astronomy in general is [...]
Hello! We are the DART - OPTiK team, a collaboration of researchers from the University of Edinburgh, STFC UKRI, Technical University of Kenya and the Turkana Basin Institute. We will be working at the TBI base in Ileret for the next couple of months to set up a portable telescope which will then take observations [...]
This July, Kevin Hatala (Chatham University), Neil Roach (Harvard University) and Louise Leakey (Stony Brook University) led a TBI team unearthing a new early Pleistocene footprint site at Koobi Fora. The first tracks were discovered last year by Louise’s team at the bottom of an important skeletal fossil excavation. This year’s excavation uncovered a large [...]
On the Eastern side of Lake Turkana, the sediments reveal information about the early evolution of humankind. The sedimentary sequences tell us what it would have been like for early humans such as Paranthropus boisei, Homo erectus, and early Homo species millions of years ago. However, in stark contrast to the ecosystem that was home [...]
Hi again! It’s Ava and Christine, Mechnical Engineering Undergraduate students from MIT D-Lab. After a beautiful few days spotting animals in the Masai Mara, we flew up to TBI's facility on the east side of Lake Turkana in Ileret to continue our evaporative cooling research! During our time in Ileret, we focused on understanding the [...]