Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience |  University of Cape Coast

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Eric Appiah Krampah, a final year PhD (Fisheries Science) candidate of the Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience (ACECoR) at the University of Cape Coast (U.C.C), Ghana, has placed second for the Student Innovation Research Award (SIRA) award in the Agriculture Thematic Area.

SIRA, organized by the Regional Facilitating Unit (RFU), the Association of African Universities (AAU), in collaboration with the World Bank, aims to strengthen the project's dedication to fostering the creation of novel and significant knowledge. The prizes honor ACE Impact students who have made novel research contributions that have a direct bearing on the most pressing priority issues in the region. Student-led initiatives that provide solutions and promote improvement in the knowledge and practical research in a variety of fields, such as health, power generation and transmission, renewable energy, mining and extractives, sustainable urban planning and transportation, sustainable agriculture, environmental sciences, education, and Information and Communications Technology (ICT), will be included in this scope of impact.

The awards are intended to provide students supported by the ACE Impact initiative with a forum to present their influential research toward creative responses to Africa's developmental concerns.

Eric Krampah is passionate about sustainable aquatic resource management and utilization. He has extensive training in marine biology, fish biology, and aquaculture. His study looked into the possibility of using regional microalgae isolates as a food source to enhance the West African mangrove oyster's seed production in a lab setting, in order to sustain extensive oyster aquaculture along the coast of West Africa. His research was supervised by Prof. Edward A. Obodai and Dr. Paul Kojo Mensah.

To learn more about Eric’s studies on tropical ecology and the Crassostrea tulipa mangrove oyster's larval development in West Africa, click here https://youtu.be/enKX76acLlk

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