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 been able to afford to travel to Nairobi and collect the data I needed or be as prepared to enter graduate school as I am now. This project also proved to me that I was able to conduct research on my own, as I travelled to Nairobi by myself. It was a liberating experience and made me proud of myself.
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
“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 […]