On Sunday, the students returned to the Nakwaperit Primary School to start off a project to give color to the walls of the main classroom. The students started off with painting a white base as a foundation for the mural. Students applying a white base coat to the Primary School walls Amna [...]
The Paleontology module is winding down to a close, and for our last trip we returned to Lothagam - one of the most important Miocene fossil bearing sites in the Rift Valley. Professor Boyer leads the students through the ancient formations in search of fossils The students open their fossil-finding eyes as [...]
The game is on! TBI (right) faces Nakwaperit Primary School (left). The Turkana Basin Institute Field School students and staff visited the Nakwaperit Primary School over the weekend to play a competitive, yet casual, football match. TBI students and staff pursue the ball. We held up a good defense, but our [...]
Today the Field School students spent the day in the field looking for fossils in three different sites: Lothodok, the edge of the Kalodir deposits and Maurorot. All these sites are north of TBI and represent different slices of time that have been preserved in the fossil record. Prof Boyer explains the importance of [...]
Professor Doug Boyer teaches the students about taxonomic features. The Field School students spent the morning looking at some of the skeletal collections that the Institute has to offer. From the tiny Rock Hyrax to the massive Elephant, the students were able to familiarize themselves with anatomical terminology and variation in African mammals. [...]
The Field School students visited different deposits in the Napedet Hills south of TBI this morning to look for fossils. This was to introduce the students to fieldwork and how fossils are located in the field, then how they get documented. We started at a Pleistocene Site The first fossil discovery of the [...]
The Turkana Basin Field School proceeds apace. Today the palaeontology module began with Prof Doug Boyer of Duke University who arrived at TBI yesterday. Prof Doug Boyer of Duke University One of the first exercises was putting the earth's history and timeline into perspective. It all started with a bang a [...]
A major theme in this week’s Geology lectures has been sedimentology and river systems. For their lab practical, the students collected and analyzed sediment samples from different sites of the Turkwel River. By applying a depositional model, the students hypothesized about the river’s flow history. This semester’s first overnight field excursion was to Lothagam. The [...]