2012 Field Season

  • Amanda and Geemi collecting gas samples
  • Wes checking a fish trap
  • Hyena researchers helping us collect bugs
  • Collecting bugs with Frank Masese
  • Resting giraffes
  • Working with WWF to install a telemetry kit for our water quality meter
  • Nile monitor
  • Chris and the Warden
  • Amanda checking our tiles... destroyed again!
  • Paradise flycatcher nesting in our camp
  • Amanda pulling an experiment
  • Chris deploying carcass litterbags
  • Wildebeest carcasses floating downstream after a drowning event
  • Pulling a carcass out of the river
  • Wildebeest migration in the Mara
  • Acid washing bottles at camp
  • Mara Conservancy staff installing a permanent housing for our water quality meter
  • Hot air balloon ride with friends from WWF and Fisi Camp
  • WWF Mara Life project filming our research
  • Hippo carcass in the Mara, next to a wildebeest carcass
  • Chris downloading data next to wildebeest carcasses
  • Vulture and maribou storks roosting near the river
  • A Mara Conservancy ranger next to our ISCO, sampling downstream of carcasses
  • Collecting water samples downstream of wildebeest carcasses
  • Wildebeest carcasses in the Mara River after a drowning event
  • Collecting samples in the Mara River with an armed ranger nearby
  • Male lion near Governor's Camp
  • Female lions and their cubs near Governor's Camp
  • Amanda, Emma, and Pat entering the Mara Triangle
  • Emma collecting bugs in the Mara River
  • Pushing Brian Heath's plane into place for a trip to the upper Talek
  • Brian Heath and Emma at a hippo pool in the upper Talek
  • Hippo pool on the Talek River
  • Emma and Amanda with the WRMA guys installing new monitoring stations
  • The first annual Mara Day at the Mara River Water Users Association in Mulot
  • A hippo grazing during the day
  • Emma running nutrient chemistry in a tent in the Maasai Mara
  • Wildebeest crossing the Mara River
  • Wildebeest crossing the Mara River
  • Wildebeest having trouble getting out of the river
  • Wildebeest jumping into the Mara River
  • Wary zebra
  • Chris, KT, and David enjoying a sundowner in the Mara
  • Maribou storks feeding on wildebeest carcasses
  • Amanda and a Mara Conservancy ranger, Charles, walking the river and counting carcasses
  • Crocodiles basking among wildebeest carcasses
  • Amanda scrubbing tiles
  • A hippo walking upstream in the Mara River
  • Chris collecting benthic samples from a hippo pool
  • Amanda collecting benthic microbe samples
  • Amanda collecting hippo feces
  • A cheetah and her cubs in the Mara Triangle
  • A hippo trail through the savanna
  • Chris, Amanda, and Iman in the Mara Triangle
  • Wildebeest migration
  • Mwanza flat-headed rock agama
  • Ruppell's griffon vultures overlooking the Mara River
  • Lions chasing a wildebeest
  • Zebras in the Mara Triangle
  • Lazy lions in the Mara Triangle
  • Hippo pool in the Mara River
  • Nile crocodile basking in the Mara River
  • Female ostrich in the Mara
  • A male lion feeding on a kill
December 14, 2012