Turkana Basin Institute field assistant Hillary sale is at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi for training on the sieving and preparation of micro-mammals.
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.
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Hillary who travelled to Nairobi last week is expected to be working at the Museum’s laboratory for a week or so and is expected to be tutored by NMK’s Senior Scientist Dr. Fredrick Manthi who specialises on Micro-mammals study.
While there, Sale is sure to learn much, and also have a feel of how the Museum’s laboratory works and also get a chance to intermingle with other scientists and colleagues working in Nairobi. He is also expected to take back a wealth of experience and help other field assistants in the sieveing process as micro-mammals have become another very important study in this part of the Turkana Basin.