Dr. Tunde Adebola

Assistant Research Professor, Department of Marine & Environmental Sciences
Hampton University (HU)

Phone: (240) 477 3429 | Email: tunde.adebola@hamptonu.edu 

Curriculum Vitae 

Education

George Mason University (2017)
Ph.D., Environmental Science and Public Policy 

University of Maryland Eastern Shore, MD, USA (2011)
M.S. Marine Estuarine and Environmental Science 

University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA (2007)
Advance Specialty Studies

Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria (2003)
B.S. Fisheries Science

Research Interests

  1. Survey of public attitude to climate change and energy behavior for policy support
  2. Field work in fish surveys for anadromous clupeids in the Potomac River
  3. Preservation, sorting and identification of larval fish in the laboratory.
  4. Collating data and developing biological environmental dataset for Gulf of Mexico fisheries ecosystem models
  5. Diet studies for Astropecten americanus collected from Georges Bank and the Mid-Atlantic Bight
  6. Developing an ecosystem fisheries management model for Nigerian coastal waters
  7. Verifying anthropogenic impacts in coastal fisheries of West Africa using Agent Based Models

Selected Publications

  1. T. Adebola and K. de Mutsert. Comparative network analyses for Nigerian coastal waters using two Ecopath models developed for the years 1985 and 2000. Fisheries Research. 213, (2019), Pp 33-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2018.12.028
  2. T. Adebola and K. de Mutsert. Spatial simulation of redistribution of fishing effort in Nigerian coastal waters using Ecospace. Ecosphere (2019) Doi: 10.1002/ecs2.2623
  3. T. Adebola and K. de Mutsert. Investigating fishing impacts in Nigerian coastal waters using the marine trophic index analyses. Marine and Coastal Fisheries. https://doi.org/10.1002/mcf2.10077

Manuscripts in Preparation and Review

  1. T. Adebola, D. Hart and P. Chigbu. Bathymetric trends in body size, and diet of Astropecten americanus in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean
  2. Population-Level Patterns of Prostate Cancer Occurrence in Virginia 

Biosketch

Dr. Tunde Adebola is a fish ecologist who studies anthropogenic impacts on coastal ecosystems using ecosystem fisheries management approaches. He has a Bachelor of Science in Fisheries from Lagos State University, Nigeria and a Master of Science in Marine Estuarine and Environmental Science from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, USA. He obtained his doctoral degree in Environmental Science and Public Policy from George Mason University, where he developed an Ecopath with Ecosim model and with this model examined the ecosystem consequences of spatial redistribution of fishing effort in nearshore waters of the Nigerian coastal system. He has published several papers from this work. After his graduation he held a postdoctoral research fellowship at Hampton University (HU) Minority Men’s Health Institute and served as instructor for Biology courses in the Biology Department. Tunde has recently accepted a Research Faculty position at Hampton University’s Marine Science Program.

NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center
University of Maryland Eastern Shore (Lead Institution)
(410) 651-7870
Award numbers: FY 2021 Award #NA21SEC4810005
Funding Agency: NOAA Educational Partnership Program with Minority-Serving Institutions (EPP/MSI)

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