Enoch Gyamfi-Ampadu

Enoch Gyamfi-Ampadu is a Lecturer at the Department of Forest Resources Technology, KNUST. He is a trained forester with over ten years of experience in forest ecosystems management, forest governance and conservation-related projects and research. His PhD was in Environmental Sciences, specialising in Remote Sensing and GIS from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban, South Africa. He focused on mapping forest cover, spatiotemporal forest cover change detection and forecasting future cover distribution, tree species diversity prediction, and biomass/carbon stock estimation of a subtropical Afromontane natural forest reserve in South Africa using remote sensing and machine learning modelling. His Master's was in Tropical Forestry from Bangor University, United Kingdom. Gyamfi-Ampadu's research focused on participatory GIS, where he collaborated with forest fringe communities to map sites in forest reserves that community members obtain Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs). His Bachelor's degree and Diploma were in Natural Resource Management from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. The research for his Bachelor degree research focused on employing Remote Sensing and GIS for degradation and forest cover change assessment of a natural forest reserve in Ghana.