PEOPLE & AFFILIATIONS
Collaborative projects with other
institutions,
with researchers both local and
foreign are integral to the success
of the research. Collaborations with
scientists investigating other sites
in sub-saharan Africa are important for comparisons with
evidence from elsewhere. The collaborations will continue
to be developed. These projects are important in
facilitating comparative studies and also in providing
important training opportunities for students.
COLLEAGUES
FROM OTHER INSTITUTIONS:
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Australia National University
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Dr. Ian McDougall,
dating of tephra from Turkana Basin. |
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University of Utah |
Dr. Frank Brown,
geology and stratigraphy of the Turkana Basin.
Dr. Thure Cerling,
analysis of stable carbon, oxygen and nitrogen
isotopes |
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University College London
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Dr. Fred Spoor,
description, comparison and analysis of fossil hominid
material. |
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California Academy of
Sciences |
Dr. Nina Jablonski,
description of fossil cercopithecoids
Dr. George Chaplin, GIS
project advisor |
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Smithsonian Institution |
Drs. Rene Bobe and
Kay Behrensmeyer, The Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems
Program (ETE) |
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Los Angeles County Museum |
Dr. John Harris,
descriptions and evolution of faunal assemblages in
the Turkana Basin, and analysis of stable carbon
isotopes |
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Rutgers University |
Dr. Craig Feibel,
geological studies and analysis |
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New York
University |
Dr. Susan Anton,
comparisons of Homo erectus from Turkana Basin and
Eurasia |
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Forschungsinstitut
Senkenberg |
Dr. Friedemann Schrenk,
regional comparisons of faunal assemblages |
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Free University Amsterdam |
Josephine Joordens, evolution of
mollusk assemblages in reconstruction of lake basin
history |
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Humboldt University,
Berlin |
Dr. Matthias Glaubrecht,
analysis of mollusc assemblages in reconstruction of
palaeoenvironments |
|
Swedish Museum of Natural
History |
Dr. Lars Werdelin,
evolution and analysis of fossil carnivores |
Cape Town University,
South Africa |
Fredrick Kyalo Manthi -
microfauna from Kanapoi |
KENYAN SCIENTISTS
|
Anthony Macharia |
California State
University, USA, with support from the California
Academy of Science (GIS project). |
|
Nasser Malit
|
Binghamton,
State University of New York, USA (human evolution). |
|
Francis Kirera |
University of
Arkansas, USA, (faunal assemblages and mammalian
evolution). |
|
Patrick Gathogo |
University of
Utah, USA, (geology of Turkana Basin). |
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Maina Gachaga |
BSc
graduate from the University of Nairobi is further
developing the GIS component of the Turkana Basin
research. |
FIELD
CREW
With out
the field crew nothing would be found. It is their keen
eyes and skill in finding small fragments of fossil on the
surface, their ability to recognise a fragment of pig
tooth from an antelope tooth, a carnivore toe bone from
that of a hominid or a piece of skull the size of a bottle
top that result in the spectacular finds. Each day we are
in the field the crew go out into the fossil exposures and
walk slowly over the surface looking for anything that
might be eroding out of the slopes. Some of
the field crew are from the west side of Turkana, some
from the east and others are the relations of the previous
generation who worked at Turkana in the 1970’s. The
field operation also includes a full time mechanic, a cook
and camp crew.
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