Catherine Beck

Hamilton College

Locherangan Lead Inverstigator, Co-I. A sedimentologist and stratigrapher interested in paleoenvironmental reconstruction in the Turkana Basin.

Kim Berlin

Stony Brook University

Senior Systems Engineer directing the development of data warehouse modeling and analytics across university administrative data systems. My background also includes research in wildlife biology and a degree in ecology, evolution and behavior.

Melissa Boyd

Rutgers University

Field geologist interested in the sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Turkana Basin to contextualize the environments of evolution.

Stephen Cox

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

A geochronologist and noble gas geochemist focused on high-precision ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar and cosmogenic nuclide dating.

Craig Feibel

Rutgers University

A stratigrapher and sedimentologist working on the geological evolution of the Turkana Basin.

Mikael Fortelius

University of Helsinki

A mammal palaeontologist interested in functional evolution and environmental change.

Charlie Dov Schön Guterman

Hamilton College

Web Designer and Graphics. An artist and designer with a background in geology and environmental studies.

Sidney Hemming

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

A geologist and geochronologist specializing in ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating applications.

Gregory Henkes

Stony Brook University

A stable isotope geochemist interested in the development and application of new approaches to paleoclimate reconstruction.

Daeun Lee

University of Michigan

A climatologist using water isotope enabled global climate models to better understanding past climate changes.

Kari Lintulaakso

Finnish Museum of Natural History LUOMUS

Associate coordinator of the NOW fossil mammal database (nowdatabase.org). Data integration and ETL expert working in close collaboration with Kenyan colleagues on mammal fossil databases from TBI and NMK.

Sara Mana

Salem State University

An igneous geochemist and geochronologist interested in the tectonic and magmatic evolution of the East African Rift.

Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce

Appalachian State University

A sedimentary geologist and geochemist who is particularly interested in Neogene–Quaternary environmental and ecological change in East Africa.

Chris Poulsen

University of Michigan

Climate modeler; Co-I

Patricia Princehouse

Stony Brook University

Topernawi Lead Investigator

Christian Rowan

Rutgers University

A structural geologist and geochronologist interested in the tectonic evolution of the Turkana region.

John Rowan

SUNY Albany

A paleontologist and paleoecologist interested in the evolution of African mammals and ecosystems.

Mae Saslaw

Stony Brook University

A stable isotope geochemist interested in paleoclimate, particularly paleosols.

Sara Shedroff

Hamilton College

Undergraduate interested in soils and paleosols.

Tara Smiley

Stony Brook University

A paleobiologist interested in how climate and landscape history shape the diversity, biogeography, and ecological structure of mammalian faunas.

Frank Sousa

University of Oregon

Ruth Tweedy

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Peter Ungar

University of Arkansas

A paleoanthropologist who uses dental microwear and topography to reconstruct the diets of past mammals and the environments in which they lived.

Kevin Uno

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Co-I. A terrestrial paleoecologist who uses isotope and organic geochemistry to reconstruct past ecosystems and mammal diets.

Cora VanHazinga

Salem State University

Master’s student in GIS with background in Geology, researching magmatic strain accommodation in Turkana Basin using remote sensing.

Natasha Vitek

Stony Brook University

A paleontologist interested in morphometrics, variation and making sense of difficult taxonomic systems.

Marcella Wignet

Hamilton College

Undergraduate interested in stratigraphy of sedimentary and volcanic sequences.

Indrė Žliobaitė

University of Helsinki

A data scientist interested in evolution in nature and society.