The TBI Field School Students visited the Kerio Delta this weekend. We visited the Kerio Delta as part of the Ecology module, looking at some of the different vegetation types and learning about some of the species that live in the deltas of Lake Turkana. One of the most important and beautiful groups of insects [...]
The Spring Field School has taken off at the Turkana Basin Institute at South Turkwel. Students have started exploring the ecology of the area. Understanding ecology involves an appreciation of the vegetation. Students have been conducting vegetation surveys to learn about the density, patterns and relationships between plants at TBI. We have been spending time [...]
On Friday 18 November, TBI Students completed their last course, Archaeology of the Turkana Basin, taught by Sonia Harmand. Students learned about the major steps in the development of early technologies in Africa, from the appearance of the first stone tools 2.6 Myrs ago to the Neolithic. Through practical study, drawing and refitting of archaeological [...]
Stony Brook University is hosting a Turkana Basin Field School information session on Wednesday, December 7th from 1:00-2:00 in the TBI Seminar Room.
This weekend TBI Students completed their third course, Vertebrate Paleontology and Ancient Environments in the Turkana Basin. The course was taught by René Bobe with contributions by Frederick Kyalo Manthi and Meave Leakey. Students learned about vertebrate osteology, the evolutionary history of the major groups of mammals in the region as well as how [...]
The students have been studying Vertebrate Paleontology with Profs Rene Bobbe and Kyalo Manthi for the current module As part of this they recently made a timeline of the Earth's History using toilet paper. Here are some of the highlights from this fun exercise... [...]
Hello - we have had a couple of interesting visitors at TBI last night and this morning. Just as I was heading to bed, the students came to get me saying there was a snake in the mess hall. I went over and found this beautiful snake clinging to one of the table legs. This [...]
Yesterday Kenya and the world celebrated the life of Prof. Wangari Maathai, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning environmentalist who recently passed away.