Environmental Science Without Borders (ESWB) is a multinational peer-mentorship program developed for students and scientists across different continents so they can come together, learn from one another, and develop together in the field of environmental science.
ESWB was created by UCLA's Center for Diverse Leadership in Science Fellow, Yemi Adebiyi, who recognized that many students abroad might be interested in working in science but may lack the infrastructure, resources, and connections to break through barriers. To help solve these problems, ESWB hosts bi-monthly video-conference meetings for participants around the world to learn about research design, general funding, teaching portfolios, amongst other topics.
University of California, Los Angeles, USA (UCLA)
California State University, Northridge, USA (CSUN)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington, USA (PNNL)
Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa (NMU)
Congo Basin Institute, Yaoundé, Cameroon (CBI)
National Institute of Cartography, Yaoundé, Cameroon (INC)
Meru University of Science and Technology, Meru, Kenya (MUST)
Nigeria Maritime University, Delta State, Nigeria (NMU)
National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Ibadan, Nigeria (NACGRAB)
Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria (FUTA)
Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France (UGA)
UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK (UNEWCMC)
Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia (CIFOR)
Adeyemi was born in Nigeria, where he obtained his B.S. (with First-Class honors) in Physics at the Federal University of Technology, Akure. Thereafter, he was one of only 50 students selected worldwide in 2009 to study at the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy. There, he obtained an M.S.-equivalent diploma in Earth System Physics in 2011. He then moved to the United States for graduate school and obtained his Ph.D. in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at the University of Miami in 2016, for which he received the Distinguished Koczy Award for outstanding doctoral-level research. Adeyemi joined Prof. Kok at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA in 2017, and he is now an Assistant Professor at the University of California - Merced.
You can reach him via aaadebiyi@ucmerced.edu.