Postdoctoral Researcher · Climate Science
Studying how West African communities adapt to a changing climate — through data, fieldwork, and the wisdom of the land.
Research
My projects sit between field, model, and policy — and they all begin with the people who live with the weather.
2024 — present
A four-year longitudinal study tracking how 1,200 smallholder farmers across northern Nigeria and Niger adjust cropping calendars in response to shifting monsoon onset dates.
2023 — present
Quantifying blue-carbon stocks in degraded and restored mangrove forests, in partnership with the Nigerian Conservation Foundation.
2022 — 2024
Documenting indigenous seasonal indicators among Yoruba farming communities and integrating them with satellite-derived phenology data.
2021 — 2023
Open-source flood-risk maps for the Lagos metropolitan area combining sea-level rise scenarios with informal-settlement census data.