Adegoke majored in
Geography, with minors in
Physics and
Geology, as an undergraduate at
Ahmadu Bello University. He attended the
University of Ibadan, earning an
M.S. in
Geography, specializing in
Climatology, and a
Ph.D. at
Pennsylvania State University USA, focusing on
satellite climatology. He completed postdoctoral work at the
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at
Colorado State University, USA. He was also, in the early 1990s, a visiting research scholar at the
Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) at the
University of Washington, in Seattle. Professor Adegoke is a globally recognized leader in the sub-specialty field of "land surface-atmosphere interactions" where he has made important scientific contributions over the last two decades. His current work focuses on societal impacts of
environmental change, including
air pollution studies in rapidly changing mid-latitude urban areas, climate impacts on water resources in the
Lake Chad Basin, and coastal ecosystem dynamics in the
Niger Delta region of
Nigeria. He is a member of several professional societies including the
American Geophysical Union (AGU),
Association of American Geographers (AAG), and
American Meteorological Society (AMS). He is on the Advisory Council or Boards of multiple programs or centers funded by major funding institutions such as the
World Bank and the
UK Research and Innovation. He has held research and teaching appointments at the
Federal University of Technology Minna in Nigeria,
Colorado State University in
Fort Collins,
Colorado and the
Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center, in
Sioux Falls, South Dakota. From 2010 to 2012 he served as the executive director of the
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Natural Resources & Environment (NRE) Division, in
Pretoria,
South Africa where he had concurrent appointment as Director of the Applied Center for Climate & Earth Systems Science (ACCESS), a Center of Excellence (CoE) of the
South Africa Department of Science and Technology (DST) Global Change Grande Challenge (GCGC) program. In 2017, he completed a consultancy stint in 2017 (April to December) as Interim Executive Director of the West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL). Before that, he served for two years on WASCAL's Governing Board and as chair of the organization's Scientific Advisory Committee. More recently, he served as Senior Consultant at the
African Development Bank Group (AfDB) Department of Climate Change and Green Growth while on leave from the
University of Missouri-Kansas City. ==References==