Daniel Adjei-Boateng  
Position: Project Manager

Email Address: adjeibd@gmail.com/daboateng.frnr@knust.edu.gh

Daniel, a senior lecturer in the Department of Fisheries and Watershed Management, Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, obtained his BSc. in Natural ResourcesManagement in 2000 at KNUST, Kumasi. He went on to complete his MSc. in Aquaculture at the University of Ghent, Belgium. He was appointed lecturer in the Department of Fisheries and Watershed Management, KNUST in January 2005. His PhD. in Zoology was completed in 2011 at the Trinity College Dublin, Ireland specializing in the reproductive biology of the freshwater clam, Galatea paradoxa. He has a broad training in aquaculture including the breeding and culture of tilapia, African catfish and the African river prawn, Macrobrachium vollenhovenii in ponds, tanks and in low-volume-high-density (LVHD) cages in reservoirs in northern Ghana.

 

Steve Amisah  
Position: Project Coordinator

Email address: steveamisah1@yahoo.co.uk

Steve is a professor and Dean of the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, KNUST, Kumasi.  He obtained his BSc. in Zoology from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana in 1981. He went on to complete an MPhil. in Biological Sciences at KNUST, Kumasi in 1986. Steve then went on to obtain an MSc. in Fisheries Biology at the University of Buckingham, UK. His PhD. in Fisheries Studies was completed in 1998 at the University of Hull, UK. His research focuses on effluent discharges from aquaculture production units and their effects on receiving surface water bodies, and on the feeding and ecology of aquaculture species. He also has research experiences in aquaculture nutrition, particularly the replacement of fishmeal with cheaper plant protein alternatives in Nile tilapia and African catfish diets.

 

Benjamin Betey Campion 
Position: Researcher/Supervisor

Email Address: bbcampion@gmail.com

Benjamin has a very diverse academic upbringing traversing botany, aquatic ecology, resources management (with emphasis on forest resources), climate and vegetation geography. This upbringing has diversified his areas of work and research interest. Benjamin has been working on the characterization of water and soil resources, hydrological modelling and applications of hydrological models in water resources management as well as on the effects of land use and climate change on groundwater recharge and quality of surface water bodies. As fallouts from his PhD. he has also continued to work on urban ecology, bioremediation, ecology and management of streams, lakes and coastal water bodies (estuaries and lagoons) and wetlands associated with urban environments.  

 

Nelson Agbo   
Position: Researcher/Supervisor

Email Address: nelagbo@gmail.com

Nelson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Fisheries and Watershed Management, KNUST, Kumasi. He holds an MSc. in Water Bioresources and Aquaculture from the Kaliningrad State Technical University, Russia. He went on to complete a PhD. in Aquaculture Nutrition at the Institute of Aquaculture, Stirling University, Scotland, UK in 2008. Nelson is an aquaculture professional whose research interests span across aquaculture systems and technologies (including waste-water aquaculture), aquaculture nutrition studies on the use of cheap alternative feedstuffs as protein sources and exploring feeding strategies to reduce feeding cost, and the development and diversification of species for aquaculture in Ghana (conserving and using indigenous fish species for aquaculture). He also has other research interests including exploring sustainable water usage to mitigate the impacts of climate change and the taxonomy and systematics of fishes, particularly those of the Volta Basin system and other inland waters of Ghana.

 

Regina Edziyie  
Position: Researcher/Supervisor

Email Address: edziyie@gmail.com  

Regina is a lecturer in the Department of Fisheries and Watershed Management, KNUST, Kumasi. Her areas of research interest include pond water quality and plankton ecology, aquatic ecology, aquatic toxicology, culture of ‘new’ aquaculture species, environmental science and education and applied geography. Regina holds a BSc. in Natural Resources Management (Fisheries Major) from the KNUST. She also holds an MSc. degrees in Aquaculture/Fisheries and Applied Geography - Water Resources from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, USA and the University of North Texas, USA respectively. She obtained her PhD in Environmental Sciences- Aquatic Ecology & Toxicology from the University of North Texas, USA.

 

Peter Vilhelm Skov
Position: Researcher/Supervisor

Peter is an associate professor at the Section for Aquaculture of the National Institute of Aquatic Resources of the Technical University of Denmark based in Hirtshals, Denmark. Prior to that, he held the position of Assistant Research Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark from 2004-2008. He obtained an MSc. from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark in 2000. He went on to complete a PhD in Fish Physiology from the University of Queensland, Australia in 2004. Peter’s general research interests are mainly on fish nutrition, physiology and bioenergetics. More specifically, his research focuses on stress tolerance and metabolic physiology of different aquaculture fish species, particularly the effects of dietary treatments and varying environmental stressors such as temperature and oxygen on metabolic activities. Peter also has research interests in alternative protein sources in aquafeeds and their effects on digestibility, growth and postprandial metabolic responses in both temperate and tropical aquaculture fish species.

 

Anne Johanne Tang Dalsgaard 
Position: Researcher/Supervisor

Anne Johanne has been a Senior Research Scientist, Section for Aquaculture, National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU Aqua), Technical University of Denmark since 2012. She has held previous positions of Research Scientist at the Section for Aquaculture from 2008-2012, and Research Assistant at Danish Institute for Fisheries Research (DIFRES) from 2003-2004 and 2005-2008. In 1999, she obtained an M.Sc. in Resource Management and Environmental Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada. She went on to obtain a PhD from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2003). Her research interests couple between fish feed utilization and water quality (composition and form of nutrient waste), development and refinement of modeling tool used throughout the Danish aquaculture sector for predicting nutrient waste from fish production prior to water treatment, development of modeling tools for predicting the expected end discharge of nutrients from fish farms after in-farm and end-op-pipe treatment. She also has special research interests in studying the effects of substituting traditional feed nutrients of marine origin with alternative plant-based ingredients, the application of exogenous enzymes in fish feed as a means to improve nutrient utilization and reduce waste production and the use of biomarkers (lipids and isotopes) to resolve trophic interactions in marine ecosystems.

 

Bodil Katrine Larsen
Position: Researcher/Supervisor 

Bodil has held the position of Senior Research Scientist, Section for Aquaculture, National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU Aqua), Technical University of Denmark since 2012. She has previously held several research positions including Research Scientist at the Section for Aquaculture, National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU Aqua), Technical University of Denmark (2008-2012), Senior Research Scientist at the International Research Institute of Stavanger (IRIS), Norway (2007-2008) and a Postdoc position on the Environmental Toxicology Research Program of the University of Mississippi, USA (1998-2000). She obtained her PhD in Fish physiology/ecotoxicology from the Institute of Biology, Odense University, Denmark in 1996. Her specialised areas of research include various aspects of fish nutrition, particularly, amino acid uptake in fish and the effects on muscle protein synthesis and regulation related to fish growth and the importance of amino-acid composition of feed and optimal timing of amino acid absorption on protein synthesis and growth. Bodil also has a previous research experience in aquatic ecotoxicology which was aimed at evaluating effects of organic pollutants on aquatic organisms.