Adventures in the Mara

This summer we have a new field assistant joining us in the Mara... Lily will be coming along on her first field expedition! It will be a ...

On our way to Kenya for our 2016 field season, we stopped by to visit our colleagues, Jonas Schoelynck and Eric Struyf, at the Univers...

Thank you so much to my advisor, Dr. David Post, for taking me on as a student, giving me unparalleled opportunities to grow as a scient...

Chris and I are currently back at Yale, but Geemi has been doing an outstanding job documenting wildebeest river crossings and drowning eve...

Amanda, Lily and I are at the Ecological Society of America meeting in Baltimore this year.  Amanda co-hosted a session called "Danse ...

Some photos of Geemi documenting hippo aggregation numbers during extremely low flows (Thanks to Angela @ The Mara Conservancy for the pho...

A herd of zebra and wildebeest just crossed the Mara River, North of Serena.  Geemi got a few good pictures of it.  Here is one of them... ...

So here's how Tuesday unfolded... 2:50 pm - Alternator bearing froze in the middle of the Mara. We had already been suspicious of th...

Wouldn't be a true safari experience without a breakdown! Alternator bearing froze approximately 500 meters after a mechanic told us we ...

After our test run with the robotic boat the other day, we were feeling pretty confident the boats would be fine in the river... it was ju...