Jimmy Adegoke
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James O. Adegoke | |
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| Nationality | South Africa Department of Science and Technology |
James O. Adegoke is a
Climate Change Committee of the Nigerian House of Representatives. In the United States, he has testified at the United States House of Representatives for the United States House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming
.
He serves on the Technical Advisory Board of several
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) project on the application of remote sensing for water resources and ecosystem management in Africa. At the invitation of the Nigerian Government, he served as Chair of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Agricultural Resilience in Nigeria (ACARN) which developed the National Agricultural Resilience Framework (NARF) for Nigeria in 2014. Prof. Adegoke is a distinguished member of the Advisory Board of NatureNews, Africa's foremost independent newspaper that is focused on Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Earth.[1]
Background
Adegoke majored in
Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University USA, focusing on satellite climatology. He completed postdoctoral work at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at Colorado State University, USA. He was also, in the early 1990s, a visiting research scholar at the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) at the University of Washington
, in Seattle.
Professor Adegoke is a globally recognized leader in the sub-specialty field of "land surface-atmosphere interactions" where he has made important scientific contributions over the last two decades. His current work focuses on societal impacts of
Association of American Geographers (AAG), and American Meteorological Society (AMS). He is on the Advisory Council or Boards of multiple programs or centers funded by major funding institutions such as the World Bank and the UK Research and Innovation
.
He has held research and teaching appointments at the
University of Missouri-Kansas City
.
References
- ^ "Professor Jimmy Adegoke - NatureNews Africa". Naturenews.africa. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
- Association of American Geographers
External links
- Jimmy Adegoke at the University of Michigan
- Jimmy Adegoke at American Association for the Advancement of Science. The Forum on Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development.
- Jimmy Adegoke at UNESCO
- Jimmy Adegoke at the University of Missouri Kansas City
- Jimmy Adegoke at the University of Missouri Kansas City