DAAD climapAfrica Postodoctoral Fellow
Nigeria Maritime University
Delta State
Nigeria
Gloria Okafor is an interdisciplinary research scientist with background skills in the field of hydrology and agrometeorology. Later, her interest evolved toward solving environmental issues related to climate variability and change. She is a recipient of COSPAR Fellowship and her work focuses on understanding the drivers and impacts of climate variability and change, investigating the vulnerability of human to climate and landuse change impacts and forecasting future water resources using the impacts of expected climate change. Currently, Gloria is a lecturer at the Department of Civil Engineering, Nigeria Maritime University, Delta State. In climapAfrica, her research challenge focus on the investigation of hydrological and climatic extremes and quantification of their impacts on ecosystems.
Climate change expertise and interests
- Climate variability and change,
- Climate vulnerability assessment and adaptation
- Climate and land-use change impact on catchment hydrology
- Extreme event (e.g. flood, drought) risk assessment
Publications (most recent)
Gloria C. Okafor, Thompson Annor, Samuel N. Odai, Isaac Larbi (2020). Land Use Landcover Change Monitoring and Projection in the Dano Catchment, Southwest Burkina Faso. International Journal of Advanced Remote Sensing and GIS, 9 (1), pp. 3185-3204. https://doi.org/10.23953/cloud.ijarsg.445
Gloria Okafor, Thompson Annor, Samuel Odai, Jacob Agyekum, (2019). Volta basin precipitation and temperature climatology: evaluation of CORDEX-Africa regional climate model simulations. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, (), 1-25. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00704-018-2746-4
I. Larbi, F.C.C. Hountondji, E. Bessah and G.C. Okafor (2019). ‘Farmers' Perceptions and Adaptive Responses to Climate Change in the Guinea Savanna Zone, Nigeria’ in Advancing Climate Change Research in West Africa: Trends, Impacts, Vulnerability, Resilience, Adaptation and Sustainability Issues. USA: Nova Science Publisher.
I participate at climapAfrica because...
ClimapAfrica offer unique opportunities for early career scientists from Africa to contribute to strategies for the implementation of practical and climate-relevant initiatives, mentoring opportunities, and facilitates to make new connections and network with both African and German researchers.
