Dr. Nick Oguge

Dr. Nick Oguge, Earthwatch Field Director in Kenya continues, "The recovery of the country is dependent on support from the international community.

Dr. Nick Oguge, Earthwatch Field Director in Kenya, said, "The recovery of the country is dependent on support from the international community.

Speakers include archaeologist Dr. Charles Adams (University of Arizona) on the ancestors of the Hopi in Arizona, Dr. Ana Cañadas (University of Madrid) on Spanish dolphins, Boston University's Dr. Tigga Kingston on Malaysian bat conservation, palaeontologist Dr. Oscar Alcober (Universidad Nacional de San Juan) on the dawn of the dinosaur age in Argentina, Dr. Frederieke Kroon (CSIRO Australia) on tropical fish ecology of Queensland, Australia, and Dr. Nick Oguge, field director of the Earthwatch Samburu Conservation Research Initiative in Kenya.

Dr. Nicholas O. OgugePrincipal Investigator

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Dr. Paul Muoria and Dr. Nick Oguge are gathering this information to help reduce competition with humans and protect the remaining 2000 Grevy's zebras.
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Dr. Nicholas O. Oguge

Field Director, Earthwatch Institute
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Dr. Nicholas O. OgugePrincipal Investigator

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Dr. Nicholas Oguge is the Conservation Field Director of the Samburu Research Initiative in Kenya.In this role, he oversees the development and progression of the African CRI in collaboration with the Earthwatch Institute, Oxford, England office.

Dr. Oguge received his PhD in Animal Physiology in 1992 from Lincoln University in Canterbury, New Zealand.Oguge spent three years as the head of the Zoology department in the School of Pure and Applied Sciences at Kenyatta University, Kenya.His other studies have included fertility regulation of rabbits in New Zealand and diet, demography and habitat use of rodents in a Savannah ecosystem.Oguge developed a crop control program for the Crop Protection Division of the Ministry of Agriculture in Kenya.Dr. Oguge has also studied the habitat quality of rodent communities and parisitology and population processes in the fragmented, moist forests of the Taita Hills in collaboration with the university of Antwerp (RUCA) and the Royal Belgium Institute of Natural Sciences.

Nick Oguge, Ph.D. - Conservation Field Director, Samburu, CRI