Volunteer Profiles

John Mwangi, Kenya

Program Leader and member of staff of the National Museums of Kenya since 1994, currently based in the Archeology Division, Department of Earth Sciences; public outreach related to biodiversity, nature conservation and paleoanthropology; field work in the Turkana Basin, Western Kenya and Nyanza; camp manager with the international Koobi Fora Paleoanthropological Field School and with the international Primatology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Field School for several years

Education background: Natural History Museum London, Koobi Fora Paleoanthropological Field School / Rutgers University and Geo-Spatial Database Development and Management using ArcGIS at the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development

Purity Kiura, Kenya

Senior Advisor of the Expeditions to Prehistoric Sites Program, Head of Archeology, Department of Earth Sciences, National Museums of Kenya

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Marcel Bigger, Switzerland

External Advisor and Web Developer of the Expeditions to Prehistoric Sites Program; Visiting Researcher in the Department of Earth Sciences 2012-2013, National Museums of Kenya; formerly member of the management of a large Swiss financial services group and economist in the Polish and Swiss Governments

Educational background: University of California, Purdue University (BSc Econ), London School of Economics and Political Science (MSc), Open University (Cert APS), Koobi Fora Paleontological Field School / Rutgers University, Turkana Basin Institute Field School / State University of New York

Research Interest: Geometric morphometrics, spectroscopy