Ovie Augustine Edegbene

Biography

Ovie is an Associate Professor/Researcher, Head of Department and Deputy Director at the Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo, Nigeria. Ovie holds a Ph.D in Water Resource Science, and another Ph.D in Hydrobiology and Fisheries. Ovie has over 11 years teaching and research experience at University level and has trained and mentored several honours (B.Sc. and B.Tech.) and postgraduate (M.Sc. and Ph.D) candidates. Ovie research areas span applied ecology/predictive ecology, biodiversity conservation, biostatistics, transdisciplinary research, socio-ecology, climate change and one health. One of Ovie’s research interests, which centers on developing stressor-specific taxonomic and trait-based biomonitoring approaches for assessing riverine health, serves as utilities for ecosystem management and sustainability, and this research has been transformative in advancing the science of ecosystems biomonitoring in Africa and globally. Ovie developed the first ever regional macroinvertebrate-based biotic index in West Africa, and he has been stepping down the same knowledge to both his honours and graduate students. Ovie is an environmental consultant and has served in various capacities as an environmental consultant to multinational environmental firms, and government ministries, agencies and departments (MDAs). Ovie has over 10 years’ experience as reviewer and editor for various academic journals and publishing outlets including Scientific Reports (Nature portfolio), Water Research (Elsevier), Hydrobiologia (Springer Nature), Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology (Elsevier), Frontiers in Environmental Science, Frontiers in Conservation Science, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Sustainability (MDPI), Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (MDPI), Diversity (MDPI) among others.

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