Justine Ngoma

Biography

She conducts climate vulnerability studies in the forests and agriculture, evaluates and map forests biomass and carbon; develops below and above ground biomass models, and provides training in environmental related issues. Justine also conducts Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA), Environmental Project Briefs (EPB), and Environmental Auditing (EA).

Jules is a member of several professional organizations (e.g., Ecological Society of America (ESA), British Ecological Society (BES), Association of Tropical Biology Conservation (ATBC), and Society for Conservation Biology (SCB)). Jules is also part of the British Ecological Society’s Grant Review College and Committee.

Justine’s career development started almost 19 years ago at Zambia Forestry College where she was a training officer. Justine is currently working for the Copperbelt University (CBU) in Zambia as a lecturer in the School of Natural Resources. She is the main organizer of the ‘African Dendrochronological Fieldschool’. Justine is the focal point person coordinating activities under ‘Monitoring Biodiversity and Ecosystem Impacts’ (MBEI) thematic area of the Copperbelt University Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable mining (CBU-ACESM), a World Bank Funded project. She is also the Academic Representative for Zambia on the Community of Practice for Article 6 Implementing Countries (CoP- ASIC), a component of Supporting Preparedness for Article 6 Cooperation (SPAR6C) of the PARIS agreement. Justine is the “Member-at-Large” on the Tree-ring Society Council Representing the continent of Africa. She is also the Board Chairperson for Zuteba Smart Climate and Water Aid. Justine is currently the co-principal Investigator on the urban forest project where the team is determining the amount of carbon sequenced by the urban forests and their role in mitigating climate change. Justine has determined the vulnerability of the Zambia’s Zambezi teak forests to climate change and estimated their total carbon. Justine has participated in the review of the Policy & Institutional Landscape for Eco-Innovation in Zambia to understand successes, failures, and reasons for successes or failures. Justine uses various software programs in her work, including the LINTAB software, Cdendro, Coorecorder, application of dynamic vegetation models, R modelling software, Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), and ArcGIS. Justine won the 2021 Florence Hawley Ellis Diversity Award, a recognition for promoting tree-ring science in Africa.