College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Community Sustainability

While the primary focus of research projects facilitated by TBI is human prehistory, research in the Turkana Basin has expanded to include areas of sustainability, climate change, and modern human culture and diversity. Further, new advances in technology such as DNA testing, remote sensing, GIS applications, and high-resolution aerial photography have opened new doorways in the sciences of archaeology, paleontology, and biological evolution, leading to an unprecedented wealth of new data. TBI has built research centers on both sides of Lake Turkana to reduce the enormous logistical challenge of accessing many of the most important sites in the vast and remote Turkana Basin, allowing year-round research to take place.