GCLME / UNILAG Centre for EIMS

GCLME / UNILAG Centre for EIMS are leaders in research, survey and geo-informatics systems in the areas of environmental pollution and bio-diversity. GCLME/ UNILAG Centre for EIMS will be contributing to the partnership the experience they have acquired from performing the following projects within the past three years as presented below:

• Collaborating with private and public sector organizations such as ESRI, Chevron Nigeria, Shell Development Petroleum Corporation, UNEP, IUCN, UNEP-WCMC, the US NOAA, the US Army Corps of Engineers, NCF and the University of Lagos
• University of Lagos has provided a conducive working environment including the provision of internet access, payment of electricity bills and some staff salaries.
• ESRI/Chevron has provided ESRI GIS software including picking the cost of ESRI software trainer to the Centre. This is estimated to be worth $500,000.00 and in three phases. UNEP has supplied Landsat images covering the entire Africa both TM and ETM
• US NOAA through the University of Rhodes Island provided multispectral imageries for the coastal areas of the GCLME region
• The Centre collaborated recently with WWF, NCF, UNEP-WCMC to carry out a study of the impacts of oil industry activities on biodiversity of the Niger Delta. This kind of study could be replicated in other parts of the region or Nigeria
• The Centre is also about to establish a collaboration with the Nigerian Academy of Science on the impacts of pollution to human health in Lagos