Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School In Nigeria and Ghana

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The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School In Nigeria and Ghana is an international collaboration aimed at building capacity in oceanographic and environmental sciences in Ghana and Nigeria.  A long-term goal of the school is to increase the presence of African scientists at international science meetings.  Summer schools have been held in-person in Ghana every year from 2015 to 2019, and have been held virtually, in response to COVID-19, in 2020 and 2021. In 2022, COESSING was held for the first time in Nigeria as a hybrid in-person/online event. Funding has been secured for a 2023 school in Ghana and a 2024 school in Nigeria. Pending successful funding efforts, we will continue to hold the summer schools far into the future.  We have built links with institutions in Ghana, Nigeria, and other African countries, and have incorporated research partnerships into the summer school, alongside lectures, labs, field trips, panels, and tutorials.

COESSING is an endorsed project of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development

Participants

Participants in the Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School include students and faculty, government officials and private sector professionals from across Ghana and Nigeria, and some neighboring countries including Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, and Mali.  The 2015 summer school featured about 50 African participants. The 2016-2022 summer schools featured over 100 participants, coming from multiple institutions in Ghana and Nigeria, including:

  • University of Ghana (Ghana)
  • Regional Maritime University (Ghana)
  • Kwami Nkumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana)
  • University of Cape Coast (Ghana)
  • University of Energy and Natural Resources (Ghana)
  • University of Mines and Technology (Ghana)
  • The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (Ghana)
  • Ghana Shippers Authority (Ghana)
  • Hydrological Services Department (Ghana)
  • Department of Urban Roads (Ghana)
  • Ghana Meteorological Agency (Ghana)
  • Ministry of Petroleum (Ghana)
  • Ghana National Petroleum Commission (Ghana)
  • Anglogold Ashanti Iduapriem Ltd. (Ghana)
  • Endeavor Mining Corporation (Ghana)
  • University of Abuja (Nigeria)
  • Federal University of Abuja (Nigeria)
  • University of Ibadan (Nigeria)
  • Ekiti State University (Nigeria)
  • Lead University Ibadan (Nigeria)
  • Obafemi Awolowo University Ile Ife (Nigeria)
  • Nigerian Institute of Marine and Oceanography Lagos (Nigeria)
  • University of Lagos (Nigeria)
  • Federal University of Technology Minna (Nigeria)
  • Ado Ekiti University (Nigeria)
  • Federal University of technology Akure (Nigeria)
  • Ahmadu Bello University Zaria (Nigeria)
  • Lagos state University (Nigeria)
  • Nigeria Meteorology and Space agency (Nigeria)
  • Rivers state University Port Harcourt (Nigeria)
  • Anchor University Lagos (Nigeria)
  • University of Ilorin (Nigeria)

Additional participants come from other countries including Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Mali, India, Cameroon, Malaysia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Togo.

 

Instructors and Topics:

Instructors come from many institutions including:

  • University of Ghana (Ghana)
  • Regional Maritime University (Ghana)
  • Plastic Punch NGO (Ghana)
  • Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research (Nigeria)
  • Koladaisi University (Nigeria)
  • University of Michigan (USA)
  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography (USA)
  • University of New Orleans (USA)
  • Oregon State University (USA)
  • University of Southern Mississippi (USA)
  • Naval Research Laboratory (USA)
  • Louisiana State University (USA)
  • NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (USA)
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (USA)
  • Hampton University (USA)
  • University of South Florida (USA)
  • Mississippi State University (USA)
  • Columbia University (USA)
  • The Ocean Foundation (USA)
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA)
  • University of North Carolina – Wilmington (USA)
  • Johns Hopkins University (USA)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
  • California Institute of Technology (USA)
  • International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Italy)
  • Université de Bretagne Occidentale (France)
  • Australian National University (Australia)

The topics covered in the school include:
–Coastal and estuary dynamics
–Physical Oceanography
–Tides
–Organic and isotope biogeochemistry
–Satellite and field oceanography
–Numerical modeling of the ocean
–Data analysis techniques
–Oil and gas basin development
–Mineral Geochemistry
–Fisheries management
–Pollutant dispersal
–Maritime affairs
–Scientific Python
–Ocean Data View
–Atmospheric Science
–Sediment coring and spectroscopy
–Cloud computing

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