Hakeem Omilowo

Results-driven Environmental Scientist with 5+ years of experience in ecological risk assessment, freshwater remediation research, and oil spill response across 3 countries.

Mitacs Accelerate

Fellow with a track record of delivering defensible technical findings that directly informed regulatory and management decisions. Proficient in R and QGIS for reproducible environmental data analysis; experienced producing reports aligned with Canadian and international consulting standards.

Graduate Research Assistant - IISD Experimental Lakes Area - Kenora, ON

(2022-05 - 2024-05)

• Executed 3+ freshwater mesocosm risk assessment projects generating ecological risk findings used directly in remediation product evaluation decisions.
• Built a biofilm monitoring and analysis program, increasing sampling consistency by ~40% and reducing data gaps that previously delayed reporting.
• Analyzed 2+ years of environmental time-series data in R, producing fully reproducible outputs that reduced analyst review time by an estimated 30% vs. prior manual workflows.
• Maintained and calibrated YSI water quality sondes with full QA/QC logging, achieving >95% instrument uptime over 2 field seasons and eliminating data loss from sensor drift.

Graduate Intern - National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) - Abuja, Nigeria

(2018-08 - 2021-10)

• Conducted site-specific oil spill impact assessments across land and aquatic environments, documenting findings for spills affecting an estimated 500+ hectares of impacted land and waterways.
• Reviewed 30+ contingency and response plans against NOSDRA national standards, cutting average regulatory approval turnaround by ~3 weeks through early identification of non-compliant sections.
• Participated in 40+ compliance inspections across 5 states, identifying 3–5 regulatory violations per site and issuing corrective action notices tracked to resolution.
• Supported post-spill remediation monitoring across 8 sites over 2 years, producing quarterly reports that triggered adaptive adjustments at 3 underperforming sites.

Research Assistant - Department of Marine Sciences, University of Lagos - Nigeria

(2017-03 - 2018-01)

• Conducted heavy metal ecological risk assessments on 3 fish species across 4 Lagos Lagoon sites, detecting Pb, Cd, and Hg exceedances of FEPA limits — findings cited in regulatory mitigation recommendations.
• Designed a 6-station water quality monitoring program, improving spatial coverage by 50% and enabling detection of a previously uncharacterized pollution gradient.
• Cleaned and standardized 5 years of archival datasets (~15,000 data points), accelerating subsequent analytical work by an estimated 2 months.

M.Sc. - Environment & Geography - University of Manitoba (2025)

B.Sc. (Hons) - Marine Biology - University of Lagos