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NAME Dr. WILLIAM OWEKE OJWNG ( PhD ) 
   
DATE OF BIRTH : 3rd March 1963 
    
CURRENT POSITION : Senior Research Officer
                       
     
ACADEMIC BACKROUND:

Kenyatta University, Kenya (Bsc. 1989)
Boston University, Marine Program (BUMP), USA, (MA – Marine Biology 2001)
Boston University, Centre for Ecology, Behaviour and Evolution (EBE), USA (PhD-Biology 2006)

 
 
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING :

Course in Fish Taxonomy and Sytematics, Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium

  
 

 
 
     

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
    • Program Coordinator-Fisheries, KMFRI Inland waters
    • Scientific advisor to the Lake Victoria Species Survival Program (LVSSP) of the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA)

     
PROJECTS:
  • PI Lake Victoria Basin Biodiversity Informatics Project (LAVIBI), J.R.S Biodiversity Foundation grant
  • PI Lake Victoria C.A.R.E.S Conservation through Education project, American Cichlid Association grant
  • Project Coordinator-KMFRI/GOK Lake Turkana project
     

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS:
  • Taxonomy and Systematic
  • Feeding Ecology
  • Behavioural Ecology
  • Physiology

. Teaching, soccer, travelling, sight seeing and leisure reading

 
PROFESSIONAL BODIES:

Society for Conservation Biology (SCB)

International Symbiosis Society (ISS)

Member of Earthwatch Institute

Global DNA Bar-coding Initiative