Field trips, lab exercises, and lectures throughout the Field Education Program will include the following:
- Field transects & landscape mapping
- Comparison of modern and prehistoric flora and fauna
- Hands-on experience with fossil prospecting, identification, and taphonomy
- Learning techniques of paleoenvironmental reconstruction
- Practical training in archaeological and paleontological survey and excavation techniques
- Field trips to important paleontological and archaeological sites, diverse ecological settings, and remarkable geological features throughout the Turkana Basin
- Labs and lectures covering the latest topics and most current research in the Turkana Basin
- Presentations on important human prehistory discoveries by senior paleoanthropologists
