BSc., MSc., PhD
Email: chukwudi.nwaogu@futo.edu.ng
Chukwudi Nwaogu prefers to be called Chu. Chu’s research lab is open to discussion research intentions and opportunities from interested students, scholars, and the general public. Chu is a fan of adventure and traditional movies, likes cooking, football, soul lifting songs.
Academic Qualification
Ph.D. in Ecology (Soil and Plant).
Ph.D. in Geoinformatics and Cartography.
Master’s in Applied/Engineering Ecology (specialty: Nature Conservation).
Master’s in Geographic Information System (GIS).
Teacher Diploma Certificate: IGCSE Environmental Management.
Cambridge International Diploma for Teachers and Trainers.
Post-Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE).
B.Sc. in Geography and Regional Planning.
Honours/Awards
Affiliations
Courses Assigned to Teach
Environmental Management, and Geography 2007-2012 – The Regent British School, Abuja, Nigeria.
Applications of Geoinformatics in Environment and natural resources management – Erasmus Students, Department of Geoinformatics, University of Palacky, Olomouc, Czechia (2015- 2018).
Postdoc Fellow, Czech University of Life Sciences (CULS), Prague, Czechia.
Department of Environmental management, School of Environmental Sciences, Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO), Nigeria. (2020 – date*) *Resumption at the end of postdoc.
Postdoc fellow (2022), Department of Soil Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Research Interest
Soil and plant ecology, Agronomy, Environmental Education and Management, Sustainable Development, GIS applications in agriculture, forestry, changes in land use and climate
Publications
Isaac Nyarko, Chukwudi Nwaogu, Hajek Miroslav (2023). Forest Bioeconomy in Ghana: Understanding the Potential Indicators for Its Sustainable Development. Forests, 14, 804. https://doi.org/10.3390/f14040804
Mathy Sane, Miroslav Hajek, Joseph Phiri, Jamilu S. Babangida, Chukwudi Nwaogu (2022). Application of Decoupling Approach to Evaluate Electricity Consumption, Agriculture, GDP, Crude Oil Production, and CO2 Emission Nexus in Support of Economic Instrument in Nigeria. Sustainability, 14, 3226. https:// doi.org/10.3390/su14063226.
Samuel Kudjo Ahado, Chukwudi Nwaogu, Vincent Yaw Oppong Sarkodie, Luboš Borůvka (2021). Modeling and Assessing the Spatial and Vertical Distributions of Potentially Toxic Elements in Soil and How the Concentrations Differ. Toxics, 9, 181. https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics9080181.
Isaac Nyarko, Chukwudi Nwaogu, Miroslav Hájek, Prince Opoku Peseu (2021). Socio-Economic Analysis of Wood Charcoal Production as a Significant Output of Forest Bioeconomy in Africa. Forests, 12, 568. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12050568.
Mathy Sane, Miroslav Hajek, Chukwudi Nwaogu, Purwestri, R.C. (2021). Subsidy as An Economic Instrument for Environmental Protection: A Case of Global fertilizer Use. Sustainability, 13(16), 9408. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13169408.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Vilém Pechanec, Vit Vozenilek (2019). Responses of soil and plants to spatio-temporal changes in landscape under different land-use in Imo watershed. Archives of Agronomy and Soil Sciences, 65(10): 1460-1476. https://doi.org/10.1080/03650340.2019.1566714.
Jan Gaisler, Lenka Pavlů, Chukwudi Nwaogu, Klara Pavlů, Michal Hejcman, Vilém Pavlů (2019). Long-term effects of mulching, traditional cutting and no management on plant species composition of improved upland grassland in the Czech Republic. Grass and Forage Science, 1–13.http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gfs.12408.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Simon Idoko Okweche (2019). Soil conservation, nutrient enrichment, and pest control using Allium cepa and Allium sativa in a long-term white-curl grub (Phyllophaga spp) larva infested cassava farmland. International Journal of Recent Advances in Multidisciplinary Research, 6(3): 4728-4732.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Onyedikachi J. Okeke, Olutoyin Fashae, Hycienth Nwankwoala (2018). Soil organic carbon and total nitrogen stocks as affected by different land use in an Ultisol in Imo Watershed, southern Nigeria. Chemistry and Ecology, 34(9): 854-870. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02757540.2018.1508461.
Vilém Pechanec, Jan Purkyt, Antonín Benc, Chukwudi Nwaogu, Lenka Štěrbová, Pavel Cudlín (2018). Modelling of the carbon sequestration and its prediction under Climate Change. Ecological Informatics, 47: 50–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2017.08.006.
Jan Titěra, Henning Haase, Teowdroes T. Kassahun, Chukwudi Nwaogu, Klára Pavlů, Matthias Kändler, et al. (2018). Divergrass – a cross border project to promote sustainable management of grasslands. ACC Journal, 24 (1): 61-80. http://dx.doi.org/10.15240/tul/004/2018-1-001.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Henry D. Ogbuagu, Selegha Abrakasa, Modupeola A. Olawoyin, Vilém Pavlů (2017). Assessment of the impacts of municipal solid waste dumps on soils and plants. Chemistry and Ecology, 33: 589-606. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02757540.2017.1337101.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Onyedikachi J. Okeke, Olusola O. Fadipe, Kehinde A. Bashiru, Vilém Pechanec (2017). Is Nigeria losing its natural vegetation and landscape? Assessing the landuse-landcover change trajectories and effects in Onitsha using remote sensing and GIS. Open Geosciences, 9:707–718. https://doi.org/10.1515/geo-2017-0053.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Modupeola A. Olawoyin, Vincent A. Kavianu, Vilém Pavlů (2016). Soil dynamics, Conservation and food supply in the grassland ecological zone of Sub-Sahara Africa: The need for sustainable agroecosystem management for maize (Zea mays). Development, Environment and Foresight, 2 (2): 61-79, ISSN: 2336-6621.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Modupeola A. Olawoyin, Samuel K. Ahado, Edwin Wallace, Richard Gardiner (2016). Socio – Economic Implications of Climate Seasonality: A Comparative Assessment of Road Transport Inequalities Between Rural and Urban Areas. International Journal of Technology Enhancements and Emerging Engineering Research, 4(3): 1-8. ISSN 2347-4289.
Pavel Krám, Juraj Farkaš, Anna Pereponova, Chukwudi Nwaogu, Veronika Štědrá, Jakub Hruška (2014). Bedrock Weathering and Stream Water Chemistry in Felsic and Ultramafic Forest Catchments. Procedia Earth and Planetary Science, 10: 52-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeps.2014.08.010.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Dodo James, Vilém Pechanec (2016). GIS-Based Assessment of Land-Use and Navigational Facilities at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Ikeja-Lagos, Nigeria. International Journal of Science and Research Methodology, 5(1): 161-177.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Torti Ole, Vilém Pechanec (2016). Land-Use Crime Relationships in Sub-Sahara Africa: A Spatio-Temporal Assessment Using GIS in Apapa Council Area, Nigeria. International Journal of Science and Research Methodology, 5(1): 79-90.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Teowdroes Kassahun, Patrick Eneche (2019). Climate change induced soil compaction: evaluating the adaptation measures to enhance maize yields in a tropical humid acidic soil, Nigeria. Springer handbook on Climate change and Agriculture in Africa. Springer International Publishing AG.
Klára Pavlů, Teowdroes Kassahun, Chukwudi Nwaogu, Lenka Pavlů, Jan Gaisler, Petr Homolka and Vilém Pavlů (2019). Effect of grazing intensity and dung on nutrients level of herbage and soil. Plant, Soil and Environment, 65(7), 343-348. https://doi.org/10.17221/177/2019-PSE.
Abua MA, Atsa JWU, Chukwudi Nwaogu (2019). Variation Of Edaphic-Site Characteristics On Vegetative Parameters, Along A Catena In Odukpani Local Government Area Of Cross River State, Nigeria. International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, 10: 995-1006.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Joshua Onyedikachi Okeke, Henry Ugochukwu Okeke, Modupeola A. Olawoyin, and Vilém Pechanec (2017). Land Use-Land Cover Change, And Its Effects On Nature Conservation: A Geoinformatics Based Approach In Oguta, South-Eastern Nigeria. International Multidisciplinary Scientific Geoscience (SGEM), 17: 959-966.
Chinonye CO, Chukwudi Nwaogu, Paulina N, Modupeola O, Vilém P (2017). Geospatial Data Infrastructures Model For Land-Use In Developing Countries:The Nigeria Scenario. International Journal of Recent Advances in Multidisciplinary Research, 4: 2151-2162.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Onyedikachi J. Okeke, Ezekiel Eromosei, Omogbai Audu Sefiya, and Adu Simon (2017). A 30-Year Appraisal Of Soil-Gully Erosion As A Driver Of Plants Extinction Due To Changed Soil-Lithological Characterization In Southern Nigeria. International Multidisciplinary Scientific Geoscience (SGEM), 17:3-10.
Edwin W, Samuel K.A, Phanuel K. G, Modupeola A.O, Fred A. F, Richard G, William N, Chukwudi Nwaogu, Hycienth N, Selegha A (2016). Appraisal Of Water Resource As A Key Asset In The Socioeconomic And Human Development Index In Sub-Sahara Africa. North Asian International research Journal consortium, 2: 2-13.
Nwankwoala, Hycienth O., Chukwudi Nwaogu, Taiwo A. Bolaji, M. U. Uzoegbu, S. Abrakasa, and A. N. Amadi (2015). Geoochemistry and Quality Characterization of Effon Psammite Ridge Spring Water, Southwestern Nigeria. Geology & Geophysics, 4:1-5.
Olawoyin, Modupeola A., Chukwudi Nwaogu, Paulina Nakashole, Samuel Ahado, Hero K. Toseafa, and Richard Gardiner (2015). Environmental and socio-economic impacts of solid waste dumping and burning on the major motorways in developing countries. Int J Recent Advances Multidiscip Res, 2:999-1006.
Olawoyin, Modupeola A., Chukwudi Nwaogu, Samuel Ahado, Richard Gardiner, and John S. Nwogu (2015). Education And Teaching Profession: Gender Preferential Or Socio-Economic Background Differential? International Journal Of Technology Enhancements And Emerging Engineering Research, 3:131-138.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Abrakasa, S., Nwankwoala, H., Uzoegbu, M., & Nwogu, J.(2015). Evaluating Some Aspects of Gas Geochemistry of some North Sea Oil Fields. Chemical Sciences Journal, 6:2-5.
Hycienth Nwankwoala, Chukwudi Nwaogu (2009). Utilizing the tool of GIS in oil spill management: A case study of Etche LGA, Rivers State, Nigeria. Global Journal of Environmental Sciences, 8: 19-29.
Book
Chukwudi Nwaogu (2020). Landscape transitions in space and time in diverse land use: the geoinformatics and statistical approach. Publikace neprosla redkcni jazykovou upravou. (University of Palacky Press, Olomouc, Czech Republic).
Book Chapters
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Bridget E. Diagi, Victor A. Agidi, Simon I. Okweche (2023). Climate Change and Other Environmental Factors as Drivers of Fauna and Flora Biodiversity in Africa. In: Izah, S.C., Ogwu, M.C. (eds) Sustainable Utilization and Conservation of Africa’s Biological Resources and Environment. Sustainable Development and Biodiversity, vol 888. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6974-4_16.
Chukwudi Nwaogu (2020). Improving food security by adapting and mitigating climate change-induced crop pest: the novelty of plant-organic sludge in southern Nigeria. In: W. Leal Filho et al. (eds), African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation in Climate Change Management series. Springer.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Teowdroes Kassahun, Patrick Eneche (2020). Climate change induced soil compaction: evaluating the adaptation measures to enhance maize yields in a tropical humid acidic soil, Nigeria. In: Walter Leal Filho et al, (eds), Climate Change, Natural Hazards and Adaptation Option: Handling the impacts of a changing climate. In Springer Climate Change Management series, Springer International Publishing AG.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Oluwatoyin Fashae, Onyedikachi Okeke, Vilem Pechanec (2019). Effects of land use on the chemical characterization of Imo River basin and its catchments: a GIS approach. In: El-Askary Hesham et al. (eds). Advances in Remote Sensing and Geo-Informatics Applications. 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Springer publishing AG, 1(10): 125-129. https://doi.10.1007/978-3-030-01440-7_30.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Antonia Benc, Vilém Pechanec (2018). Prediction Models for Landscape Development in GIS. In: Ivan et al. (eds) Dynamics in GIscience. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, Springer, 289-304. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61297-3_21.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Onydikachi J.Okeke, Simon A. Adu, Babine E, Vilém Pechanec (2018). Land use – land cover change and soil-gully erosion relationships: a study of Nanka, Southeastern Nigeria using geoinformatics. In: Ivan et al.(eds.) Dynamics in GIscience. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Cham, Springer International Publishing AG, 305-320. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61297-3_21.
(B) Conferences and Workshop (Selected few)
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Maurício R. Cherubin, Renato Paiva de Lima (2022). Integrated Agricultural Systems: the solution to the global FEES challenges. Workshop on Energy Transition Research and Innovation – ETRI held at the International Diffusion Center of the University of São Paulo between the 25th and 27th of October 2022. Brazil.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Babatunde Alabi, Victor A. Agidi, Susan I. Ajiere, Bridget E. Diagi, Justin N. Okorondu (2022). Utilizing Geospatial Technologies in the Planning Sector to Assess the Effects of Climate Change on the Urban Environment and Health. Symposium on Climate change and health in Africa held on 24th November 2022 at Hamburg, Germany.
Justin N. Okorondu, Victor A. Agidi, Chukwudi Nwaogu, Bridget E. Diagi, Susan I. Ajiere, Babatunde Alabi (2022). Solid waste management practices in urban environment and its impact on climate change in sub- Saharan Africa. Symposium on Climate change and health in Africa held on 24th November 2022 at Hamburg, Germany.
Diagi E. Bridget, Susan I Ajiere, Chukwudi Nwaogu, Victor A. Agidi, Justin N. Okorondu, Babatunde Alabi (2022). Climate change-food security-health nexus in tropical Africa. Symposium on Climate change and health in Africa held on 24th November 2022 at Hamburg, Germany.
Chukwudi Nwaogu (2018). Umbrella tree species: are they preserving or preventing biodiversity in the riparian vegetation of southern Nigeria? On the 59th Annual Conference of the ‘Association of Nigerian Geographers’, University of Ibadan, Nov., 4-9, 2018, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Vilém Pechanec, Onyedikachi Okeke, Olutoyin Fashae (2018). An appraisal of river basin as a key to sustainable national development: Nigeria-Czechia comparison, and a lesson for Nigeria. On the 59th Annual Conference of the ‘Association of Nigerian Geographers’, University of Ibadan, Nov., 4-9, 2018, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Onyedikachi J. Okeke, Olutoyin Fashae, Ugo H. Okeke (2018). Enhancing soil organic carbon and nitrogen pools to climate change adaptation in Imo watershed, Sub-Saharan Africa. International symposium for climate change adaptation in Africa: Fostering African resilience and capacity to adapt. University of Ibadan, Nigeria. May 14-15, 2018.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Hycienth Nwankwoala (2018). Effects of human-induced landscape changes on biodiversity conservation of soil and plants in different land-use, southern Nigeria. 5TH International/Global Biodiversity Conservation Conference (GBCC), Prague, Czech Republic. ISBN: 978-80-213-2874-7.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Hycienth Nwankwoala, Vilém Pavlů (2018). Effects of cutting, burning, and mulching on soil and plants in the Guinea Savanna-grassland. In: Horan et al.(eds.). Sustainable meat and milk production from grasslands. ISBN: 978-1-84170-643-6. Conference held in Ireland.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Shitta Habu, Onyedikachi Okeke, Vilém Pechanec, Tomaš Pohanka, Olutoyin Fashae (2018). Jos natural disaster vulnerability, management and the roles of Land use/land cover: an assessment of landslides using GIS. Ostrava GIS conference on Geoinformatics for Safety & Security Management, Czech Republic.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Olutoyin Fashae, Onyedikachi J. Okeke and Vilém Pechanec (2018). Effects of land use on the chemical characterization of Imo River basin and its catchments (Nigeria): a GIS approach. Ist Arabian Conference on Geosciences, Tunisia.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Joshua Okeke, Eromosei, E. et al. (2017). A 30-year appraisal of soil-gully erosion as a driver of plants extinction due to changed soil-lithological characterization in southern Nigeria. 17th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM, Water Resources, Forest, Marine and Ocean Ecosystems-Soils section. ISBN 978-619-7408-05-8 / ISSN 1314-2704, Albena, Bulgaria, 17(32): 3-10. 29 June – 5 July 2017. https://doi.org/10.5593/sgem2017/32/S13.001.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Onyedikachi J. Okeke, Ugochukwu H. Okeke, Modupeola Olawoyin, Vilém Pechanec (2017). Land use-land cover change, and effects on nature conservation: A Geoinformatics based approach in Oguta, S.E, Nigeria. 17th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM, Informatics, Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing. ISBN 978-619-7408-01-0 / ISSN 1314-2704, Albena, Bulgaria, 17(21): 3-10. pp. 959-966. https://doi.org/10.5593/sgem2017/21.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Modupeola Olawoyin, Hycienth Nwankwoala, Vilém Pavlů (2016). Effects of joint grassland management on the soil chemical properties, aboveground biomass, and maize grain production in Guinea savanna. Kostelecke Inspirovani Conference, Czech Republic. Nov. 24-25, pp. 28.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Modupeola Olawoyin, Hycienth Nwankwoala, Vilém Pavlů (2016). The semi long-term cutting, burning, and mulching effects on soil, plant, and species abundance in the Northern Guinea Tropical Grassland. 3rd Tropical Biodiversity Conservation Conference (TBCC), Prague, Czech Republic. pp. 23-24.
Chukwudi Nwaogu, Anna Perepenova, Hana Sillerova, et al. (2014). Weathering Profiles of Alkaline Earth Metals in Base-Poor Forest Ecosystem: Lysina, Slavkov Forest, Czech Republic. 8th Symposium on Ecosystem Behviour ‘Biogeomon’, Germany, July 13-17,2014.
Workshop: Advanced Training workshop on Ecosystem monitoring and Mgt for developing countries, Institute of Geographic Sci & Natural Resources Res., Chinese Academy of Sci, China; Nov 1-8, 2014.
Research/Publication Links
ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6855-9113
Research Gate Profile URL: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chukwudi-Nwaogu-2/research
Google Scholar Page:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=peErIPEAAAAJ&hl=en