Segun Ogunjemiyo

Dr. Ogunjemiyo is a full professor in the department who recently served as the department chair and the interim Dean of the College of Social Sciences. He studied on three continents, receiving his undergraduate degree from the Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria, his master’s degree from University of Ghent in Belgium and his doctoral degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He teaches courses and conducts research in areas that cut across multiple disciplines with special emphasis on climate change, air quality and biosphere-atmosphere interactions, especially as it relates to transport of air pollutants in the boundary layer and was involved in several large-scale interdisciplinary studies on climate change. His current research is devoted to studying air quality and how exposure to heat waves, ozone, particulate matters and other pollutants affect people living in the Central Valley. He has been successful in leading his department to apply for a variety of grants. Since 2006, he has been awarded grants from funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the United States Department of Agriculture – National Institute of Food and Agriculture program and the Agricultural Research Institute.