Grant Awards
2022-present GMES & Africa phase-2 project grant; with fellow team members Prof. George Wiafe, Dr. Kwame Agyekum, Mr. Ignatius K. Williams, Mr. Dogbeda Azumah, Ms. Afia Adoma Boakye; Euro 3,057,074.00: Project No. ESTI/ST/501/2/667/10/21, Marine and Coastal Areas Management in North and West Africa.
2021 UNESCO International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) grant, with fellow team members Tunde Adebola, Malle Gueye, Isaac Okyere, Ibrahima Gueye and Funmi Eyeoyibo, $5,000: Project No. 719, Building Research Capacity for Coastal Resilience in West Africa.
2019-2020 Open Science Foundation Enhancing Efficiency and Effectiveness (OSF-EEE): Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Development Research, University of Ghana, $5,000: PhD. research grant.
2018-2021 GMES & Africa phase-1 project grant; with fellow team members Prof. George Wiafe, Dr. Kwame Agyekum, Mr. Ignatius K. Williams, Mr. Dogbeda Azumah, Ms. Afia Adoma Boakye; Euro 1,504,625.00: Project No. HRST/ST/ GMES&Africa/CALL1/2017, Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa; EU and AUC sponsored.
Fellowships and Honours
2018 Best Poster Award - SAFARI 2 International Symposium on Remote Sensing for Ecosystem Analysis and Fisheries. 15-17 January 2018, ICAR-CMFRI, Kochi, India.
2016 Best Oral Presentation – 11th International Conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE). 24-28 October 2016. Kampala, Uganda.
2014 Best oral communication – ICAWA International Conference. 9-11 December 2014, Dakar, Senegal.
2009 NF-POGO Scholar, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, Bermuda
Professional Service
2021-present International Mentor for Trevor Platt Science (TPS) Foundation. https://sites.google.com/view/tpsfoundation/mentorship/available-mentors?authuser=0
2022 International mentor for OceanChallenge4Africa competition. https://eventornado.com/event/OceanChallenge4Africa#mentors
2020-present Editor on Special Issue of the Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Science journal. “Earth Observation Information Application in the West African Sub-region”. https://www.springer.com/journal/41976/updates/17947644
2019-2021 Member of organizing committee for the International Operational Satellite Oceanography Symposium (OSOS). (https://www.eventsforce.net/eumetsat/frontend/reg/tOtherPage.csp?pageID=8042&ef_sel_menu=145&eventID=18)
2021 Reviewer for IEEE-Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
May 2018 Editor-in-Chief for NANO NEWS 14 newsletter
(https://issuu.com/nano4oceans/docs/nn14_8mai18)
2012-2020 West African Quaternary Research Association (WAQUA) – Publicity Secretary / Newsletter Editor (2012)
Professional International Memberships
2022-present GEO Blue Planet Steering Committee and Working Group Member
2020-present West Africa-US Coastal Resilience Research Consortium (CRRC)
2020-present AFQUA/INQUA Coastal and Marine Process Commission
2012-2020 West African Quaternary Research Association (WAQUA)
2010-present Nippon Foundation-Partnership for the Observation of the Global Ocean (NF-POGO) Alumni Network for Oceans (NANO)