The Turkana Residency: Disrupting the Nature Narrative
An Intersection of poetry, science, and ancestral memory Poetry equals art, or perhaps, it’s the other way around. But what [...]
Exploring Kenya’s Living Landscape: Immersed in Nature
The Spring 2025 Origins Field School launched earlier this year with students from Stony Brook, University College London, the University [...]
Stargazing in Turkana: Inspiring Africa’s Future in Astronomy
In the Turkana Basin, where fossils tell stories of evolution, a different kind of exploration is taking place. Scientists at [...]
Exploring Science, Culture and Sustainability in Turkana
Something exciting is happening at the Turkana Basin Institute (TBI), 16 students from Stonybrook University under the Simons STEM Scholars [...]
Harvard Summer Program in Kenya: Week Six
The sixth and final week of the Harvard Summer Program in Kenya began with a day of R&R back at [...]
Fossil Footprints Offer Direct Evidence for Two Different Human Species
Research Raises Questions About the Role of Competition in Human Evolution Turkana Basin Institute, Nairobi, Kenya - November 28th [...]
Harvard Summer Program in Kenya: Week Five
Week five of the Harvard Summer Program in Kenya began on Sunday, June 30th: our first full day back at TBI after [...]
Dr. Dino J. Martins becomes Director of TBI, beginning September 1st, 2024
Photo of Dr. Martins on Lake Turkana’s Central Island courtesy of Liam Frederick Stony Brook University announced that noted Kenyan entomologist [...]
Harvard Summer Program in Kenya: Week Four
The fourth week of the Harvard Summer Program in Kenya began with a day of rest and relaxation at Eliye Springs Resort on [...]
Harvard Summer Program in Kenya: Week Three
The third week began with a rest day on Sunday, June 16th. Students practiced Swahili with Duncan over [...]
Harvard Summer Program in Kenya: Week Two
After a rest day on Sunday, June 9th, Monday began with a Swahili lesson followed by the introduction of a new module on [...]
Harvard Summer Program in Kenya: Week One
The Harvard Summer Program in Kenya commenced on the morning of June 1, 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya. There are 16 students in the [...]
Welcome to the final blog post of the Spring 2024 TBI Origins Fieldschool!
For the final two weeks of the fieldschool, the students returned across to the West side of Lake Turkana to the TBI Turkwel [...]
A Tale of Hominins & Hippos: Human Evolution at Ileret Campus
Hello! It’s Ruth and Libby here to tell you all about our human evolution module, taught by Dr. Carrie Mongle and Dr. Louise [...]
Buluk 2024: A Paleontological dream meets a Meteorological nightmare!
Hello readers of the TBI Origins Field School blog, providing updates and a recap of this past week are students Maddie, an undergraduate [...]
A stormy tale of cladistics and bone identification at Ileret.
This week’s blog comes from Simone and Sedona, and we’ll be talking about our experiences during the first week of the vertebrate paleontology [...]
Field geology at Lothagam and Napudet
In our final week of Geology, Dr. Gathogo took the students out in the field to explore the Miocene and Pliocene sediments in the [...]
The Intricate Beauty of Geology
Greetings from the hot and sunny Turkwel, Turkana! It's Mishy and Alisa reporting on our first week of the Geology module with Professor [...]
An ecological shift: from Mpala to Turkana!
Hello all, this entry of the blog comes to you from Edmond and Phoebe, two students at the TBI Origins Field School. [...]
The Great Grevy’s Rally
The students spent their weekend at Mpala Research Centre taking part in a unique community science research project. The Grevy’s zebra is a [...]