University of Cape Coast

Centre for Coastal Management

Mr. Richard Adade, an Assistant Research Fellow at the Centre for Coastal Management, African Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience (ACECoR), has embarked on a one-month internship program with the Environmental Data Centre (EDC) at the Coastal Institute of the University of Rhode Island (URI) in the United States. The URI EDC over the years has built institutional and professional relationships with UCC’s Centre for Coastal Management (CCM) in Ghana through USAID-funded projects.

This initiative is a component of the ACECoR staff capacity development program, financed by the World Bank. This training aims to enhance his skills in utilizing modern Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems and tools for processing, analyzing, visualizing, and disseminating spatial data within the context of coastal management and marine spatial planning.

The knowledge and skills acquired through this training are expected to improve research at the Centre and enhance ACECoR's Environmental spatiotemporal data management capabilities.