The BioEE 2650 Kenya Field Course is a special opportunity to immerse yourself in the wonders and challenges of tropical field biology. This course offers a small group of students the chance to study ecology, evolution, animal behavior, and conservation biology in one of the world’s most biologically spectacular settings, the savanna at the base of Mount Kenya. Students spend three weeks in Kenya immersed in an intensive field experience. In addition to sophisticated training in fieldwork and biological research, this course presents ample opportunities to observe and study the region’s spectacular diversity of wildlife--from lions and elephants, to bush-babies and secretary birds.

This course is based at the Mpala Research Centre, a 50,000 acre field station renowned for hosting many important studies of African ecology and conservation biology, as well as for its leadership in creating strategies for humans and wildlife to coexist successfully and sustainably. The Mpala Research Centre is safe and secure. It is jointly operated and overseen by Princeton University, the Smithsonian Institution, the Kenya Wildlife Service, and the National Museums of Kenya. The Centre’s primary mission is scientific research. Many Cornell faculty and students have worked at the Centre over the past two decades, which gives us the unusual opportunity to bring undergraduate groups to Mpala.