Professional Experience
Nov 2018 – March, 2021: International and Oversea Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, University of Nagasaki, Japan (https://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-fellow/data/30-2-e.pdf)
Funder: The Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) – The Japanese Government
Status: Visiting Associate Research Professor – I made 115-merit lists of 1267 total applicants
Title of research: Experimental autostratigraphy of Quaternary Niger Delta and environmental variation of the West African equatorial region
Host: Professor Tetsuji Muto
May, 2018 – July, 2018: Adjunct Teaching Assistant Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, U.S.
- Taught full time on evolution of earth , petrology, micropaleontology, coastal sedimentology, and meteorology / climate change and physical oceanography
2008 – Present (Incorporated in 2016): Director of the Cupate Geosolutions Company LTD
Oversee the following for the company:
- Mining, quarrying, solid and mineral exploration
- Petroleum prospecting and exploration
- Environmental pollution control
- Engineering geological studies, hydrogeological studies and water borehole drilling
- Agriculture, including machineries, crops, livestock trading, marketing, sales, supplies, to buy, and sell
- Personnel and competent man power training
Feb. 2017 - present: Assessor to Petroleum Technology Development Fund Agency of Nigeria
-Examined students for foreign study in Geosciences for universities in the U.S., U.K., Europe & Australia
-Liaised between PTDF, scholars, and potential universities for payment of fees
-Career and professional advisor to potential scholars seeking admission to foreign universities
Nov. 2016 – May, 2018: Post-Doctoral and Adjunct Teaching Fellow, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, U.S.
Part 1 Teaching:
-Taught full time on petroleum geology, coastal sedimentology, sea level geochemistry, evolution of the earth, historical geology and meteorology / climate change
-Taught and assisted lead tutor on environmental change, macropaleontology, micropaleontology (palynology, foraminifera, and paleoecology), coastal sedimentology, sea level geochemistry, and climate change
- Wrote grant proposal and publications
- Presented and disseminated academic activities
- Supervised PG and junior thesis / lab members
- Mentored and promoted leadership initiatives
Part 2 Post-Doctoral Research:
Understanding the evolution of the Tropical Eastern Pacific, Central America: The role of climate, sediment supply and upwelling pattern
Nov. 2010 - Jan. 2017 (study leave 2013 -2016):
Lecturer, Department of Earth of Science, Salem University, Lokoja, Nigeria
- Taught macropaleontology, micropaleontology (palynology and foraminifera) and geochemistry to undergraduate students
- Taught the basic principles of sedimentary depositional systems to undergraduate students
- Taught petroleum geology, advanced paleoclimate and physical oceanography courses to M.Sc. students
- Supervised graduate (MS and PhD) student research projects
Feb. - May 2015:
Research Geologist/Stratigrapher, CCG Robertson Research Company, Llandudno, North Wales, U.K
- Supported senior reservoir geologist and palynologist in daily preparation of sample
- Classified the total particulate organic matter to determine the sedimentary facies source rock, biogenic productivity zones, and complement interpretation
- Plotted climate curves based on the spikes and excursion of graphical deflection obtained from palynomorph (vegetation and dinoflagellate cysts pattern) and particulate organic matter (productivity zones) for sequence stratigraphy determination.
Oct. 2013 - Nov. 2016: Teaching Assistant and Demonstrator, School of Environmental Sciences (Geology, Ocean and Ecology) University of Liverpool, U.K (4 year)
- Taught introductory geography / palynology courses and AMS dating to freshman students
- Participated in organizing and teaching field camp
- Taught advanced sedimentary depositional systems, paleoclimate and physical oceanography courses to undergraduate students
- Supervised undergraduate (senior) students research projects
Jan. 2009 - Dec. 2010: Research Geologist/Stratigrapher, Shell Petroleum Development Company, Warri (Now Portharcourt), Nigeria
- Constructed 3D geologic and petrophysical models for Kolo creek fields in which core- and log-derived grids of reservoir properties were exported to computer models that simulated fluid flow into and out of the reservoirs
- Provided maximum input into the generation of evaluation plans for future developments and productions
- Allocated and transposed biofacies, lithofacies and chemofacies identified during exploration to their correct depositional environment for unconventional resources determination
- Provided input into regional evaluation, basin analysis and prospect identification for frontier basins, prospect generation and appraisal for unconventional resources in Bonga field (Nigeria)
-Perform geological interpretation in a variety of structural and stratigraphic plays integrating a diversity of geophysical and geological data-set
- Constructed 3D geologic and petrophysical models for Kolo creek fields in which core- and log-derived grids of reservoir properties were exported to computer models that simulated fluid flow into and out of the reservoirs
- Allocated and transposed each pollen/spore taxon identified to their correct phytoecological/vegetational groupings (Lowland Rainforest, Montane, Savanna, and Mangrove)
- Plotted the palynological zones, palynomorph abundance, and diversity to determine vegetation changes, major driver, and climate control of environmental and sedimentary settings
July 2008 - June, 2009: Rued Environmental Systems, Port-Harcourt, Nigeria
- Monitored monthly pollution control and environmental management at the Omogwa Airport, Nigeria
2003 - 2004: Geologist/Petrophysicist, Nigeria National Petroleum Co-operation (IDSL), Benin, Nigeria
- Attended well logging training and formation evaluation on the field and in the office workstation
- Analysed sedimentary cores and described ditch cutting to determine depositional environment
- Studied the palynology of the Kolo Creek Field, Nigeria (including palynomorph identification and age dating)