ISOKEN TITO AIGHEWI, PH.D.

Isoken Tito Aighewi, Ph.D. is a Lecturer in the Department of Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (“UMES”), a position he has held since 2004 and where he teaches research, publication and public service.   Dr. Aighewi holds a Ph.D. in Soil Science with an emphasis on soil chemistry-fertility and a supporting program in soil pedaology/mineralogy and soil microbiology from the University of Minnesota’s School of Agriculture.  He received a Master of Science Degree in Plant and Soil Sciences with an emphasis on soil fertility – food science and human nutrition from Tuskegee University; a Master of Public Health – Environmental Health Sciences with an emphasis on environmental toxicology from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.  While matriculating at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, Dr. Aighewi minored in General Public Health.  He holds a Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Science from the School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University; a Bachelor of Science degree with Honors in Plant and Soil Sciences from Tuskegee University’s School of Agriculture; and an Associate of Science Diploma in General Agriculture from Akure, Nigeria’s University of Ife, IAR&T.

Prior to becoming a Lecturer in the Department of Natural Sciences at UMES, Dr. Aighewi was a Visiting Lecturer in UMES’ Department of Natural Sciences from 2003 through 2004 where he taught teaching, research and publication; a GIS analyst where he worked on GIS analyses and applications at Indiana University’s Polis Center from 2002 through 2003; an Enviromental Scientist III in the Indiana Department of Environmental Management where his focus was on statewide air quality monitoring and compliance from 2001 through 2002; head of the Department of Soil Science at the University of Benin in Benin City, Edo from 1998 through 2000 during which his focus encompassed teaching, research/publication, curriculum development, administration and student advising; an Assistant Professor (Lecturer I) in the Department of Soil Science from 1992 through 1998 where his focus comprised teaching, research/publication, curriculum development and consulting and student advising; a Research Associate at Columbia University’s Division of Environmental Science where his work encompassed research/publication and course development; a Soil Scientist/Research Assistant from 1985 through 1989 at USDA-ARS in Columbia University’s Soil Science Department where he taught research and laboratory management; a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Tuskegee University where he taught research and laboratory management in its Department of Plant and Soil Sciences; and a Laboratory Assistant where he performed chemical analysis.

Publications which Dr. Aighewi has authored include:

• Dabipi, I. O.E. Akinjide and I.T. Aighewi. 2005. Energy Sufficiency and Technology
Implications to the Economic Growth in Africa: Issues and Considerations. Center for Energy
Systems and control Proceedings of Sustainable Energy Sources and Technology Development in the 21st century. International Conference on Power Systems Operation and  Planning VI  (ICPSOP) Praia, Cape Verde. May 22nd. – 26th, 2005. Pp.5-9.

• Aighewi, I.T. 2000. Diagnostic Survey of soil management techniques by food crop
  farmers: A case study of Edo State, Nigeria. Nigerian J. of Soil Sci. 12: 22-34       

• Aighewi, I. T and J. E. Wilson 2004. GIS-based modeling Approach for Improved Potassium Management decision. Agronomy Abstract. Annual conference of Crop Science Society of  America-Soil Science Society of America-Agronomy Society of America (CSA), Seattle, WA.  Abstract # 3479.

• Aighewi, I.T. and Osaigbovo, U.A. 2003. Fertility capability classification of some Niger
    Delta soils of Nigeria. J. Sustainable Tropical Agricultural Research  8: 5-11. 

• Aighewi, I.T and E.O. Ekundayo. 2002. Monitoring of the Environment as a Whole.   In Environmental Monitoring, from Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). Developed under the auspices of the UNESCO. Eolss Publishers, Oxford U.K. [http://www.eolss.net]