Adventures in the Mara

One of the great traditions in East Africa is the sundowner, where you head out into the savanna, armed with a box of wine or a cold Tusker...

Ella has been able to collect detailed data on gas emissions from 13 hippo pools, in addition to the 12 hippo pools we sampled last year. T...

Over the last few weeks, Ella has been collecting water samples from a lot of different hippo pools in order to measure how hippo pools m...

In August, Chris taught a course on low-cost sensor technology for the Tanzania water resource management authorities. This course was par...

This summer Chris set up one of the big experiments for his dissertation. He is interested in studying the influence of the microbial comm...

We drove up to the Old Mara Bridge today and could see huge expanses of the wildebeest herd as far as the eye could see, meandering across...

After 6 weeks of studying, sampling and running an experiment in the Mara, it's time for James to head home. For his farewell dinner, ...

Our little streams continue to run beautifully, and so far nothing has disturbed them. Geemi and James have been taking turns spending the...

It's been a really busy few weeks! James's experiment is underway, Ella is busy collecting samples in the field and Chris is gett...

We have had a great team of folks in the field this summer. David was able to come for 3 weeks, to help teach the food web course and start...