Aliyu Hamza DAN'AGALAN

• Place of birth: Potiskum, Nigeria
• Place of birth: Yobe
• Date of birth: 03/04/70
• Nationality: Nigerian
• Marital status: Married

Danagalan, A., Potts, J., Goodhead, T., & Day, C. (2015). Innovative Policy Options for Shared Marine Fishery Resources Management: Lessons from the Nigeria-Sao Tome & Principle Joint Development Zone. Journal of Marine Science: Research and Development. 5(176), 1-4.

• Attended the 8th Annual Research and Knowledge Exchange Conference at the Portsmouth Business School (2011)

• Attended and presented at the Faculty of Science Postgraduate Research

Students’ Poster Conference, 2012

• Attended and presented at the Graduate School Poster Competition after securing nomination upon submission of the poster (2013).

• Attended the Maiden London International Boundaries Conference in April 2013 at the Royal Geographical Society in London.

• Attended and presented a poster at the 2nd International Ocean Research Conference in Barcelona titled ‘The use of selected indicators to examine marine Fishery Sustainability within the Nigeria-Sao Tome & Principe Joint Development Zone (JDZ)’ from 17th to 21st November 2014.

• ‘Challenges in applying Transboundary Waters Assessment Programme-Large Marine Ecosystem (TWAP-LME) indicators for the management and assessment of joint marine fishery resources: The Nigeria-Sao Tome & Principe Joint. Development Zone (JDZ)’. A paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Biodiversity held in Las Vegas, USA, from 15th to 17th June, 2015.

• ‘The applicability of the Transboundary Waters Assessment Programme-Large Marine Ecosystem (TWAP-LME) indicators to the Nigeria-Sao Tome & Principe Joint Development Zone (JDZ): an area of sub-LME scale.’. A paper was presented at the 3rd International Conference on Oceanography held in Philadelphia, USA, from 22nd to 24th June, 2015.

• Invited, participated and presented a paper titled ‘Developing sub-LME indicators for shared marine fishery resource sustainability: The Nigeria-Sao Tome & Principe Joint Development Zone (JDZ) perspective’ in the regional technical workshop on Deep-sea fisheries and Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems in the high seas areas of the eastern central Atlantic, co-organized with the Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF) by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations held in Dakar, Senegal, from the 8-10 November, 2016.

Panel Member, PTDF Overseas Scholarship Scheme (OSS) Interview Panel (2018 - to date)

• Conducted comprehensive interviews to evaluate candidates for the PTDF OSS scholarship.
• Assessed applicants' academic qualifications, professional experiences, and future potential.
• Collaborated with other panel members to ensure a fair and unbiased selection process.
• Provided feedback and recommendations to the scholarship committee.

• Awarded the 2011/2015 PhD scholarship award by the Petroleum Technology

Development Fund (P.T.D.F.) Nigeria, following the intervention of the office of the Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Marine Resource Management (Geography) in line with the capacity-building efforts and advancement of expertise for managing Nigeria’s Extended Continental Shelf (ECS) and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

• Awarded the 2009/2010 MSc scholarship award by the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (P.T.D.F.) Nigeria, following the nomination and intervention of the office of the Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, to pursue a master’s degree in Coastal & Marine Resource Management in line with the capacity-building efforts for Nigeria’s Extended Continental Shelf (ECS) project.

• Editorial board member of the Chronicle Publishers’ Journal of Environmental

Science from May, 2017 to date.