NF-POGO Centre of Excellence Year 2 Report

September 2009) and SAFARI'10 workshop and conference(Kochi, Feb. 2010)SmatiHossemEdineAyala Campos ReneJoshiMatiasNimitkumarDilipbhaiCatia IsabelPereiraLartey-Antwi Lailah GiftyAkinnigbagbe AkintoyeEdwardAttended the AGU Ocean Sciences meeting and presented hisPOGO researchFormulating PhD research project ideas based on models ofzooplankton population dynamics in the economic zone of NewCaledonia based on a 12 year time series of acoustic dataFinished graduate degreeCreated a civil association to protect the environmentIn late stages of finishing PhDCurrently working with an NGO with a mandate of coastalbiodiversity surveys and pollution monitoring. Recentlypromoted to position of ecologist within the NGO.Nominated as a trustees in another NGO focused onenvironmental issues such as whale sharks and turtle rescues.-- did you get a promotionAttended SAFARI symposium at Cochi and connected with TiagoQueiroz, Drs. Platt and SathyendranathFinished MSc degreeo Used POGO project as MSc thesis researchCurrently working on fellowship at home university on researchproject related to interannual variability in seasonalphytoplankton biomass in southern Portugal as determined byremote sensingParticipated in OTN (Ocean Tracking Network) workshop, whosegoal is to place acoustic receivers in several key places in theglobal ocean to track different speciesSpeaker at the conference on Biogeochemical Impacts of Climateand Land-use Changes on Marine Ecosytems, Trieste, Itlalyo Research topic was based on the oyster project researchconducted at BIOSOfficially finished graduate schoolVisited NF on 26 April 2010o Thanks to help of Mr. Makoto WadaPresentation at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technologyon 30 April 2010o Topic: Solid Waste (garbage, dumping sites, leachate and e-waste) in Ghanao Funds provided by Scientist Emeritus Dr. John Farrington(WHOI) who arranged contribution from Prof. TAKADA topartially cover travel expensesMarried on June 12Represents Department at home Institute when visitors are presentAttended or invited to attend workshops outside Nigeria,o Attended one in Australiao Attended one in Belgium based on an invitation from20