My Curriculum Vitae

Full Name: Sunday Damina Goshit

Date of Birth: February 10th 1960

Nationality: Nigerian

Marital Status: Married to Regina

Number of Children: Four (three sons, Museyilnen, Palngji and Muengnenshime and a daughter, Nenkimwa)

College Education: 

  1. University of Jos 1981-1985

  2. University of Jos 1996

  3. University of Iowa 2000-

Qualifications:

  1. B.Sc. Geography  1985 (Second Class Honors Upper Division)

  2. M.Sc. Environmental and Resources Planning 1996

  3. Ph.D.  Geography (in progress) (Specializing in Climate Variability  and Change in Mountain Regions)

Working Experience:

  1. Class Teacher High School 1985-1988

  2. Zonal Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, World Bank Assisted Plateau State Agricultural Development  Programme, Plateau State, Nigeria 1988-1994

  3. Principal Evaluation Officer, World Bank Assisted Plateau State Plateau Agricultural Development Programme, Plateau State, Nigeria 1994-1995

  4. Graduate Assistant Department of Geography and Planning University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria 1995-1996

  5. Assistant Lecturer Department of Geography and Planning, University of Jos, Jos,   Nigeria  1996-1999

  6. Lecturer II Department of Geography and Planning University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria 1999- date

  7. Graduate Teaching Assistant Department of Geography University of Iowa Fall 2000- Spring 2003 (Introduction to Earth Systems Science)

  8. Graduate Assistant, The WiderNet Project, University of Iowa  Summer 2002, 2003

  9. Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Geology, University of Iowa Fall 2003 (Introduction to Environmental Science)

  10. Research Assistant Summer 2003, Environmental Teaching Resources Digitization Project, Department of Geography, University of Iowa (With Prof. Raj)

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Selected Community and Development Organization  Services:

1. National President, Ngas Youth Movement (A dynamic Youth Organization In Plateau            State, Nigeria) 1998-2000
2. Secretary, Ngas Student Association 1983/84
3. Vice President, Amper Students Association 1980-81
4. President, Seri Development Association, Jos Branch 1997-98
5. Coordinator Arkang (A rural road development project, NGO in Nigeria)
6. Master Trainer on Family Health Education, United Nations Fund for Population Activities   (UNFPA) Plateau State, Nigeria
7. President, African Students Association, University of Iowa 2003
8. Volunteer, Crisis Center Iowa City
9. Volunteer, The WiderNet Project
10. Senator, Graduate Students Senate, University of Iowa 2001-date
11. Senator, Graduate and Professional Students Senate
12. Co-Chair of the Graduate Students Senate Forum Committee
13. Senator, University of Iowa Student  Government 2003
14. Member, The University of Iowa Speakers Bureau

Public Presentations:

1. Talk " Global Poverty" (Delivered to mobilize Support for the Food           Crisis Center in Iowa City) in a Church in Cedar Rapids and  a                     members of a Bank in Tipton, Iowa
2. Talk "Nigeria, Peoples and Culture" , Systems Unlimited Iowa City
3. Talk "Nigeria, Peoples, Politics and Economy" in Muscatine, Iowa
4. Several International Program organized events at the University           of   Iowa

Professional Membership:

Association of American Geographers (AAG)
Nigerian Geographical Association (NGA)
Mountain Forum
Dendrochronology Forum

Publications:

Goshit S.D and Eziashi A.C. 1999: Availability of groundwater and Land Resources  for irrigation in the Jarawa Catchment Basin of the Jos Plateau. Journal of Environmental Sciences 3 (1): 90-97

Goshit S.D. and Malanson G.P.  (In Preparation) Patterns of Correlation Between Climate and Pacific Decadal Oscillation in Glacier National Park, Montana. 

Conference Presentations:

Goshit S.D. Linking  Climate Variability in an Alpine Region to Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Paper presented at the West Lakes Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Minneapolis MN October 17th -19th 2002

Goshit SD and Zimmermann P. The Effect of Pacific Decadal Oscillation on a local water balance. A poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in New Orleans LA March 3rd -8th 2003

Goshit S. D. Geostatistical Interpolation of precipitation for Montana. Paper presentation at the Centennial Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in Philadelphia  Pa 2004

Goshit S. D. Climate Variability in Montana 1951-2000. Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in Denver Colorado April 5-9 , 2005

 

 

Referees:

  1. George  P. Malanson, Coleman-Miller Professor of Geography, The University of Iowa, 316 Jessup Iowa City IA 52242

  2. David McGinnis, Research Climatologist, Affiliate Faculty and WISER Director, University of Idaho

  3. Rex Honey, Professor of Geography, The University of Iowa, 316 Jessup Hall Iowa City IA 52242

  4. Monday Mangvwat, Professor of History and Vice Chancellor University of Jos, P.M.B. 2084 Jos, Nigeria

  5. A. A. Adepetu, Professor of Geography, University of Jos, P.M.B. 2084 Jos Nigeria

  6. Patrick Moss, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison 180 Science Hall, 550 N. Park St.