Professor Olumuyiwa James JAYEOBA is a Professor of Soil Science with over twenty years’ experience in Agro-Meteorology, soil and water conservation, climate change research, Geo-Informatics, Digital soil Information, Geo-statistics, Remote sensing and Mapping. He holds bachelors in Agriculture (Soil Science) from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Masters in Agro-meteorology and Simulation Modelling from Department of Soil Science Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and doctorate in Environmental Resource Management from Nasarawa State University Keffi. He started his carrier at International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) as a Research Assistant in Agronomy Division. He benefitted from ICRISAT and APSRU (Agricultural Production Systems Research Unit, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization; Australia) Fellowships for his MSc studies in Data simulation modelling. During the past years, he had participated in several National and Internationally funded projects, particularly he assisted FAO, Nigeria (National Program on food Security) in developing over Fifteen National soil fertility maps and digitalization of Nigerian Ecological zonal Map. He represented Nigeria at GSP - African Soil Partnership Training Workshop on Digital Soil Organic Carbon Mapping, Nairobi, Kenya and consequently contributed (Nigeria grid) to the development of Global soil organic carbon Map by FAO. He has experience in collation, analysis and interpretation of long term weather data. He has specific experience in research data collection and analysis using statistical packages such as Arch GIS, QGIS, R-Studio, GENSTAT, SPSS, SAS, STAT etc. He also has strong skills in deployment and Management of Information and Communication technologies (ICT) Infrastructures. He has exceptional ability to initiate, manage and provide research leadership and direction to projects across national and international borders. He has published peer reviewed articles in reputable journals both home and abroad, and contributed papers to national and international conferences. He is currently the Managing editor of Production Agriculture and Technology (PAT) Journal; and a reviewer of manuscripts for many reputable local and International journals.
