John Cavallo

CHES Associate John Cavallo received his Master's degree and Ph.D. from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in the USA. From 1987 through 1990 he conducted a study of leopard behavior and ecology in the Seronera Valley of Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. His doctoral research focused on leopards and their relationships with other large predators, vultures, and early hominids. This study has been widely cited in the popular and scientific literature of human origins research. He is a regular consulting big cat expert for the Discovery Channel and has been twice featured on their web site. He has lectured extensively and his articles and wildlife photographs have appeared in the Journal of Human Evolution, Scientific American, Natural History magazine, and Zoogoer, the magazine of the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoo. John has first hand knowledge of on-going research at Olduvai Gorge as well as wildlife and conservation issues and strategies in East Africa.

Rob Blumenschine

Robert Blumenschine is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies at Rutgers University. He has co-directed the large-scale, international human origins research program at Olduvai Gorge with Dr. Fidelis Masao since 1989, and has conducted additional human origins research in India, Kenya, South Africa, and Ethiopia. Since 1983, he has also carried out long-term studies of modern savanna-woodlands in the Serengeti and Manyara National parks and Ngorongoro Conservation Area in an effort to model the landscapes inhabited by early, tool-using hominids and to understand their lifestyles. His work is published widely in the scientific literature, and has been featured in television specials produced by Nova, the Discovery Channel, the Learning Channel, and the BBC. Rob is dedicated to learning and teaching about the uniquely rich record of humankind's deep natural and cultural heritage that is preserved in Tanzania's Serengeti ecosystem and the Olduvai Gorge.

Fidelis Masao

Fidelis Masao received his M.A. from Colorado University and his Ph.D. at Simon Frazer University in Canada. In addition to his position as co-Director of research at Olduvai Gorge, he has done extensive research on the Later Stone Age and rock paintings and is Chairman of the East African Rock Art Research Association. Fidelis has taught at the University of Dar es Salaam and is currently teaching at the Open University of Tanzania. He was the first Director of the Tanzania National Museums. He is coordinator of a Cultural Resource Management consultancy service and has made several guest appearances on Tanzanian television.

Home : Safari : Safari Highlights : Tanzania : CHES : Contact