Adventures in the Mara

It's always bittersweet leaving the Mara. This place is our second home, and we have a beautiful camp, good friends and an amazing rive...

It's really important for our research to be able to measure water quality in the river on a continual basis over long periods of time....

Hippos and wildebeest load a lot of nutrients into the Mara River... like, a lot . All of those nutrients should fertilize the river and...

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, ...