Category: Research Work

Partnership with IOI Malta on socioeconomic studies of fishing communities

Partnership with GMES on follow up continental initiative of Africa Monitoring of the Environment for sustainable development

Collaboration with THE NIPPON FOUNDATION on NF-POGO (Partnership for Observation of Global Ocean) on early scientist training and data collection

Collaboration with European Union on ASTRAL (All Atlantic Ocean Sustainable, Profitable and Resilient Aquaculture) with the goal to increase value & sustainability for integrated multi-tropic aquaculture (IMTA) production

Establishment of toxicity ranking for common heavy metals in the Nigerian environment and susceptibility ranking of some estuarine animals to intoxication by the identified metals

Identification of the sources, distribution and biological effects of some inorganic and organic pollutants and industrial effluents

Mapping of dead coral banks on the western Nigerian continental shelf

Identification and constant monitoring of erosion – prone sites along the country’s entire coastline

Geological and Geophysical survey (bathymetry, current and sediment) of Lagos Lagoon, Benin Escravos, Forcados

Survey of heavy minerals in Nigerian Coastal waters for possible identification of economic mineral deposits