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Nwasinachi Menkiti

Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Sciences

Office: CIS 220A
Email: nmenkiti@skidmore.edu

 

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Texas Tech University
• Land-use Planning, Management and Design (with Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Science and Technology)

RESEARCH AREA 

• Geospatial technologies
• International Development  
• Human – environment interactions 
• Sustainable development 
• Landscape change
• Community Resilience and Engagement 

COURSES TAUGHT AT SKIDMORE

• ID 210 Introduction to Geographic Information Science
• ES 100 Environmental Concerns in Perspective
• HF 200 Science in society: Climate of hope

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Nwasinachi Menkiti, Carlos Portillo-Quintero, Patricia Solis and Gad Perry. Using Remote Sensing and Openstreetmap to monitor land cover change in a dry sub-humid nature reserve In Ghana. (Submitted article)
• Nwasinachi Menkiti, Carlos Portillo-Quintero. Spatial patterns of contemporary Forest cover change in West Africa. (Submitted article)
• Nwasinachi Menkiti, Carlos Portillo-Quintero, Mukti Subedi. Effectiveness of Protected Areas to maintain low deforestation and mitigate deforestation in West Africa (Submitted article)
• Portillo-Quintero, C., Grisham, B., Haukos, D., Boal, C. W., Hagen, C., Wan, Z., ... & Menkiti, N. (2022). Trends in Lesser Prairie-Chicken Habitat Extent and Distribution on the Southern High Plains. Remote Sensing, 14(15), 3780.
• Huynh, N. T., Solis, P., Huot, P., Menkiti, N., Brown, A. N., Carney-Nedelman, D., ... & Soren, K. (2020). Becoming Globally-minded Scientists: The Short-and Long-term Impacts of International Exchange. Journal of Research in Geographic Education
• Solís, P., McCusker, B., Menkiti, N., Cowan, N., & Blevins, C. (2018). Engaging global youth in participatory spatial data creation for the UN sustainable development goals: The case of open mapping for malaria prevention. Applied geography, 98, 143-155.
• Solís, P., Huynh, N. T., Huot, P., Zeballos, M., Ng, A., & Menkiti, N. (2018). Towards an overdetermined design for informal high school girls’ learning in geospatial technologies for climate change. International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 1-24.
• Menkiti, N. U., & Agunwamba, J. C. (2015). Assessment of noise pollution from electricity generators in a high-density residential area. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 7(4), 306-312.