MR UTIBE UTIN

Biography

Utibe Utin, male, is a second year PG Researcher at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. His PhD research is supervised by Paul Hallett, Jo Smith and Josie Geris. The work titled 'Soil structure dynamics and its interaction with carbon under different management systems' is aimed at assessing soil structural changes caused by soil management-induced carbon variations and the resulting effect on hydrology and carbon cycling. The first chapter of his work focuses on the modelling of soil water retention curves soils under different tillage treatment. He has also developed a model to predict the parameters of Assouline model using bulk density and macroporosity to allow for the prediction of soil water retention curve, a measure that will prevent multiple measurements of SWRC, which is laborious and costly.

Utin is a lecturer in the Department of Soil Science and Land Resources Managament, University of Uyo, Nigeria. Before leaving for his PhD, he was serving the Department as Examinations Officer. He also served as Board member and Examinations Officer for the Directorate of General Studies of the University of Uyo, Nigeria. Before joining the service of the University of Uyo, he worked as an Agricultural Extension Agent under Akwa Ibom Agricultural Development Programme and the Nigeria Institute for Oil Palm Research (NIFOR).

Utin is a member of the Soil Science Society of Nigeria (SSSN) and the European Geosciences Union (EGU). He has eight journal papers, one book chapter and one conference proceedings to his credit.

He is married with children.

Funding and Grants

My PhD is funded by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), Nigeria