Articles from Field Dispatches

Food Web Short Course

November 7, 2016 - 10:48pm by Anonymous (not verified)

This year we taught our first short course on food webs and stable isotope ecology in the Mara River. The course was taught by myself, David Post, Emma Rosi-Marshall and Frank Masese, with funding from the National Science Foundation. We had 12 participants from Yale University, the National Museums of Kenya, Egerton University and Eldoret University. Some of the course participants were senior scientists or professors interested in learning more about these topics, and others were undergraduate or graduate students still planning their research.

Graduation Day

November 7, 2016 - 9:37pm by Anonymous (not verified)

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 scientist, and providing a supportive home for me here at Yale!

Huge wildebeest drowning in the Serengeti

October 1, 2015 - 2:53pm by Anonymous (not verified)

Chris and I are currently back at Yale, but Geemi has been doing an outstanding job documenting wildebeest river crossings and drowning events this year in the Mara River. So far, there have been over 70 river crossings and just one drowning with 1,200 individuals. This is much fewer what we have documented over the past four years (an average of 5 drownings and ~7,000 individuals per year). All of our research thus far is on the Kenyan side of the border, but we just saw a report online of a huge wildebeest drowning that just happened on Sept. 29 in the Mara River on the Tanzanian side.

Logistics

March 21, 2014 - 1:59pm by Anonymous (not verified)

So here’s how Tuesday unfolded…

2:50 pm - Alternator bearing froze in the middle of the Mara. We had already been suspicious of the new sound coming from our engine, and a friend’s mechanic had checked it out, diagnosed the problem, and determined we could safely drive the 2 hours to the nearest town. We broke down a few hundred meters later.

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