DR. ABUBAKARI ZAROUK IMOROLECTURERDEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, WATER AND WASTE ENGINEERINGSCHOOL OF ENGINEERINGNYANKPALA Campus
Background
Dr. Abubakari Zarouk Imoro is a Lecturer with the University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana. He joined the University in 2016 as an assistant lecturer at the Department of Ecotourism and Environmental Management. His research interests include, wastewater treatment, converting waste to resources, solid waste management (bioremediation) and water sanitation and hygiene (WASH). He is currently the department’s quality assurance officer and seminar coordinator He was a junior fellow with the Regional Water and Environmental Sanitation Center, KNUST, Kumasi and a chemistry training executive with the Golden Sunbeam international schools, Accra, Ghana
Education
PhD Environmental Sanitation and Waste Management. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. 2019-2015
MSc. Environmental Science. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. 2010-2013
BEd. Science. University of Education, Winneba, Winneba, Ghana. 2004-2008
Abubakari, Z. I., Mensah, M., Buamah, R., and Abaidoo, R. C. 2019. Assessment of the electricity generation, desalination and wastewater treatment capacity of a plant microbial desalination cell (PMDC). International Journal of Energy and Water Resources. 3. pp. 213-218
Issah, A., Imoro, Z. A., and Bakobie N. 2019. Bacteriological quality of hand dug wells in Moshie Zongo, Kumasi, Ghana. UDS International Journal of Development. 6(3). pp. 17-23.
Assifuah-Hasford, K. A., Imoro, Z. A., and Cobbina, J. S. 2018. Synthesis of insecticides from selected plant materials. Journal of Applied Science and Environmental Management. 22(3). pp. 362–367.
Enoch, Y., Samuel, J. C., and Zarouk, I. A. 2017. Review of microbial food contamination and food hygiene in selected capital cities of Ghana. Cogent Food and Agriculture 3: 1395102.
Imoro, A. Z., Iddrisu, W. A., and Abubakari, I. 2014. Modeling the Effects of Bile and Nutrients on Microbes and the Evolution of Temperature, Electrical Conductivity, Surface Tension and pH during Biodegradation of Used Engine Oil Contaminated Water. Journal of Environment and Earth Sciences. 4(4). pp. 40-46
Fei-Baffoe, B., Imoro A. Z., Agyapong, E. A. 2013 Effect of Biosurfactant (Bile) on the Biodegradation of Used Motor Oil Contaminated Water. KNUST, Kumasi, July 15 – 19th, organized by the Ghana Science Association, Ghana
Team Member: Operations and Maintenance Training and the Development of a Manual for WASH Facilities in Seven CHPS Compounds in the Zabzugu District, Northern Region (2018). Project Sponsored by UNICEF, Ghana
African Centre of Excellence: Regional Water and Environmental Sanitation Centre, KNUST, Scholarship award (2015)
