Adventures in the Mara

Made it back to the Mara this afternoon. Celebrated our first night back with Mexican food, old friends and a lion roaring surprisingly clos...

Today we left Nairobi at 6 am, headed for the Mara. It's now 4 pm, and we're almost at our camp. It's been a long, but beautiful...

Celebrating our return with a few cold Tuskers on the balcony of the hotel. It's a great place to sit and enjoy a beer, although you hav...

Thank you to everyone who voted on the number of bags we would need for this field season in Kenya. We really appreciated your optimism, wit...

Amanda and I are grateful to have had our work mentioned in several publications over the last few months. Cheryl Lyn Dybas wrote about o...

I believe this may be the most irresponsible thing by a safari guide that I have ever seen.  The problem here is not the depth of water......

Here is a shot of Amanda processing some of her samples on the flow analyzer.

Here is a quick picture of one of the analyses I'm doing on the samples I brought back from the Mara.  The different tubes have soil s...

One of the items we accomplished this summer was some intensive, 48-hour monitoring of several hippo pools.  Not everything worked out comp...

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