Recent TBI geoBlog posts:
27.08.2010
TBI postdoc receives grant for Holocene research in Turkana
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TBI postdoctoral fellow Amanuel Beyin recently received a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation in the amount of $20,000 to conduct field research in the western Turkana Basin region this fall. Read full post
20.08.2010
Ileret student discovers fossil
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Ileret Primary School student Erek was one lucky girl to have worked and mingled with the hominid gang although for a short time when her discovered specimen ended up in… Read full post
19.08.2010
A rare visit from the wild
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The fly camp that the hominid gang has been occupying has been receiving rare visitors. Read full post
04.08.2010
Water Tank Construction Begins
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As a continuation of the Kijito water pump repair project, two 5,000 litre water tanks in Ileret are being installed to supply more community members with water. Read full post
01.08.2010
Revisiting area 105
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As technology here gets an injection of sophistication, we have been using a kite to take some pictures of the excavation. Read full post
16.07.2010
From Area 129
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The excavation crew have completed the first excavation after four weeks of work. They have now moved to a new site where fossil hunter Robert Moru found a hominid femur… Read full post
14.07.2010
Health Care closer to Home
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Access to health care is a problem in Turkana, in addition to the access to the facility, the predicament of getting an attendant at the facility has been the cry… Read full post
13.07.2010
TBI to offer field school in the Turkana Basin
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Beginning spring semester of 2011, the Turkana Basin Institute will offer a full-semester Field Education Program at Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, through Stony Brook University’s Study Abroad program. Read full post
08.07.2010
Supporting Food Security through Multi-storey Gardens
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In an area dependent on livestock, relief food, and rain in a dry region, the development and adaptation of multi-storey gardens (MSG) is an innovative and exciting way to address… Read full post
08.07.2010
Post Secondary Education for 13 students
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Poverty and unemployment are among the many problems that plague communities in the Turkana region. Read full post
05.07.2010
Kicking out HIV During the World Cup
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Beatrice the TBI nurse carrying out a rapid results test The TBI nurse and team have been very busy this world cup season but not watching the game. They have… Read full post
11.06.2010
Aerial views of TBI Turkwel
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Here are a few recent aerial views of TBI Turkwel to share with you. Once the six cottages are complete, construction will begin on the second large laboratory. Read full post
11.06.2010
Recent images from TBI Turkwel campus
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The construction is ongoing at the TBI Turkwel campus. Six self contained cottages are being built, the first of which is now complete. The remainder should be finished in the… Read full post
07.06.2010
Excavation progress
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Final week of first excavation in progress for the Koobi Fora Research Project. Read full post
05.06.2010
Water for Hygiene, Sanitation, and More
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Community member enjoys the first water flowing out of the wind pump It has been two weeks since the water pump in Ileret started working again. Taking advantage of this,… Read full post
03.06.2010
Field season begins again for 2010
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With the generous support of National Geographic Society Missions programs we are back to the field again. Read full post
16.05.2010
Wind Pump Technicians Commence Work
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Young boys eager to help tighten bolts of the wind pump After several months of anticipation, the wind pump (kijito) repairs have began at Ileret. Read full post
14.05.2010
TBI’s Visiting Senior Scholar, Spring Semester 2010
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Professor Simiyu Wandibba, TBI’s current Visiting Senior Scholar. TBI’s second Visiting Senior Scholar, Professor Simiyu Wandibba, has enjoyed a productive semester at Stony Brook University. Read full post
03.05.2010
SBU to Support Health Centre Construction in Ileret
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Past renovations supported at Ileret Health Centre About a year ago a team of health professionals from a variety of departments from Stony Brook University (SBU) visited Ileret. Citing the… Read full post
23.04.2010
Racing for a Cleaner Environment
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Short-distance sprint for girls’ competition The race for cleanliness in Ileret continues as the TBI Committee organized for a clean-up campaign with TBI bursary students and Ileret Primary School students… Read full post
16.04.2010
Another Reason to Prioritize Health
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TBI Mobile Driver observing patients that are to be evacuated Ileret froze still for a few hours in anticipation today. All were anxious for the air rescue of two medical… Read full post
12.04.2010
No Woman should suffer giving Life
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Unfortunately, to many women in rural Kenya, pregnancy and child bearing is a life-threatening experience. The Safaricom Foundation has come to the aid of Turkana women with a grant of… Read full post
11.04.2010
Deaf Girl Attends School
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Disabled children in Turkana as in many poor communities are neglected and education for them is a far fetched dream. That was the case for Akal Ekidor, an eleven year… Read full post
09.04.2010
New Australopithecus sediba hominin fossils featured on 60 MINUTES
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A fossil skull of the newly announced species Australopithecus sediba courtesy 60 MINUTES / CBS Television Network Richard Leakey joins other scientists in discussing Lee Berger's amazing new "treasure trove"… Read full post
07.04.2010
Ileret Bursary Students Team Building Activities
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Twenty six of the 38 TBI Bursary students form Ileret. A schedule of activities has been selected for TBI Bursary students from Ileret while they are on school holidays this… Read full post
07.04.2010
Ileret Community Mobilizes for Wind Pump Repairs
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Ileret youth bringing down the old wind pump. Following the grant provided by the Australian High Commission, the Ileret community has mobilized resources to bring down the old wind pump… Read full post
02.04.2010
Fossil Hunter Hillary Sale in Nairobi for training
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Hillary Sale checking micro-mammal fossil remains using a microscope at the NMK's Nairobi laboratory. Looking on is Steven Munge of NMK's Department of Earth Sciences. Turkana Basin Institute field assistant… Read full post
18.03.2010
Science to Benefit Humanity
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Two of the girls sponsored by TBI Bursary Fund. It has been another busy January and Febrauary, with an overwhelming number of high school boys and girls seeking financial support… Read full post
19.01.2010
Introducing the TBI geoBlog
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The TBI geoBlog brings a geographic context to our blog posts. Ever wonder where many of the most significant fossils of our earlient human ancestors were found? Curious about where… Read full post
05.01.2010
Big Funding Boost for TBI
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Richard Leakey speaks at the event in Vancouver. The evening raised a total of 1.2 million Canadian dollars and this was generously matched dollar for dollar by Jim Simons' challenge… Read full post
03.12.2009
Images of the completed Mess and Accommodations Block at TBI Turkwel
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Here are some images of the buildings that were completed just in time for the conference held at Turkwel in August 2009. Read full post
17.11.2009
TBI scientists featured on NOVA documentary
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Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors. Image courtesy of NOVA. Several Turkana Basin Institute scientists and Stony Brook University faculty members were featured in a recent documentary exploring the latest… Read full post
09.11.2009
TBI celebrates fifty years of "Zinj" in NYC
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The symposium speakers gather with Garniss Curtis, who performed radiometric dating on Olduvai Gorge. (L to R: Yoel Rak, Marta Lahr, Garniss Curtis, Frank Brown, Meave Leakey, Richard Leakey). Photo… Read full post
27.10.2009
TBI postdoc receives SVP award
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STONY BROOK, NY--Frederick Kyalo Manthi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Scholar-in-Residence at the Turkana Basin Institute, recently received an award to attend and present a paper at the annual meeting of… Read full post
12.10.2009
Volkswagen Foundation / DAAD Summerschool 2009
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In Hell's Gate park, Kenya. In September 2009 the first VolkswagenFoundation/DAAD Summerschool was conducted in the Central and Southern Kenya Rift and at the University of Nairobi. Read full post
05.10.2009
TBI celebrates 50 years of Zinjanthropus with symposium and workshop in Kenya
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Workshop participants gathered at TBI's Turkwel facility, on the west side of Lake Turkana. The 8th Human Evolution workshop and symposium, “Half a Century after Zinj - Paranthropus boisei in… Read full post
22.06.2009
Latest images from the west side camp at Turkwel
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The following images show the construction progress at TBI's Turkwel research facility. Read full post
03.04.2009
First-ever cast of 'Hobbit' unveiled at Stony Brook University
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Image: Skull of Homo floresiensis. Photo credit: Michael J. Morwood. World-Renowned Anthropologist Richard Leakey Convenes Top Researchers To Discuss 'Flo,' The Enigmatic 'Hobbit' Read full post
02.03.2009
From Turkwel, end of February
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Some more images of the building progress have just come in. Windows are being put in to the buildings now and the plastering has begun on the outside walls. Read full post
18.12.2008
Origin of Rift Valley Ecosystems Project
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Origin of Rift Valley Ecosystems (ORVE) is a research program comprising a number of projects working on both sides of Lake Turkana. Three ORVE projects are currently underway; two on… Read full post
20.11.2008
Drilling Deep for Human Origins
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A 5 meter cliff section of lake clays exposed along the dry river Kaitio in West Turkana. The white band near the top is the KBS Tuff, a volcanic ash… Read full post
14.05.2008
Reconnaissance of Late Cretaceous sediments in the Turkana Basin
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During the summer of 2008, Turkana Basin Institute scientists Erik Seiffert and Joe Sertich joined scientists from the National Museums of Kenya for a return trip to the Turkana Basin… Read full post
