Lydia Myers
Stony Brook University
Anthropology, Biology
A Lorisiform-like humerus from the middle Miocene at Napude, Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya,
2019
Without the Guiliano Fellowship, I would not have undertaken travel to Nairobi, and this project would not have been possible. My research in Kenya prepared me for graduate school, and helped me immensely in my field work in other African countries that I've done since this project. My position as a graduate scholar at the University of Texas at Austin is in part thanks to the Guiliano Fellowship.
About My Project
The Guiliano Fellowship funded my senior honors thesis research, which was focused on a small primate fossil found during field work in Kenya in the summer of 2019. I travelled to Nairobi and spent a week at the Nairobi National Museum's Paleontology Department, studying other small primate fossils dated to the same time period as the fossil we found during field work. The main objective of my trip was to use a laser surface scanner to record 3D models of the other primate fossils, and to collect measurements and photographs of them as well.
Updates
University of Texas Graduate Student Spotlight on Lydia Myers, 2019 Guiliano Fellow
“Just being where we’re finding bones, pottery, beads and other artifacts – right as it’s happening – is the coolest thing ever,” says Lydia Myers ’20, an undergraduate researcher who […]