Ernest Nama

Specialisation

Tectonics; GIS; Remote Sensing; Research; Fieldwork, Report writing; Presentation; Computers

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+44 (0)161 737 0402

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Short curriculum vitae

August 2003 – Present: Engineering Services, Calderdale Council, Halifax. Duties include: creating GIS highway databases, field site analysis, detection and analysis of faults and landslide susceptibility along highways, supervising 5 junior officers, report writing, managing projects and researching historical documents.

1998-2002 University of Salford: PhD Tectonic Geomorphology – ‘Detection of Landscape Changes Arising from Tectonism and Volcanism on Mount Cameroon’.A very diverse project, with great emphasis placed on using different processing methods and data of different scales and resolutions. I gained expertise in processing and interpreting satellite (Landsat-5 TM, Landsat ETM and JERS-1) and aerial imagery, using GIS software in terrain modelling, mapping and applications, analysing volcanic manifestations and crustal dynamics, lineament detection and analyses, slope instability, hydrology, risk/hazard analyses, hazard management and analysing landform development and processes. The use of GPS in field data collection was invaluable. I was ultimately responsible for all aspects of my research, and had to utilise and develop a broad range of key skills to ensure the success of my PhD.

1994-1996 University of Salford: MPhil Geomorphology -‘Slope Instability in Yaounde, Cameroon – Assessing the Hazard’
Also a diverse project, with strong GIS, remote sensing, environmental and mapping applications. I was solely responsible for all aspects of my research.

1990-1993 University of Yaounde, Cameroon: BSc. (Hons.) Geo-Environmental Sciences.

Nama, E. E., 2004, Lineament detection on Mount Cameroon during the 1999 volcanic eruptions, using Landsat-7 ETM International Journal of Remote Sensing,25, 3, 501 – 510.

Nama, E. E., 2004, Cover, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 25, 3, 499.

Nama, E.E., 2000, Modelling variables to predict landslides in the southwest flank of the Cameroon Volcanic Line, Cameroon (West Africa). Proceedings of the Asian Conference on unsaturated soils, UNSAT-ASIA 2000, 813-817, Singapore.

Nama, E.E., 2000, Terrain modelling and the impact of lava erosion in a neotectonic landscape: the case of the southwest flank of Mount Cameroon, West Africa. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on GeoComputation, 23-25 August 2000, Greenwich, www.geocomputation.org/2000/GC022/Gc022.htm.