Background:

Ringim is an accomplished explorer, adventurer, and wildlife photographer. Reading and creative writings are his passion. Ringim held a B.Sc. Zoology from Bayero University Kano, Nigeria, and Master of Science in Biodiversity Conservation from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Ringim is a Tetfund-Morgan Scholar in his second year of the Bioenvironmental Sciences PhD program at Morgan and has joined the PEARL Natural Resources Economics team to work on their Sika Deer Project. His research focuses on biodiversity, conservation, and citizen science.

Specific Research Interests:

• Biodiversity Conservation
• Ornithology
• Wetlands Ecology
• Citizen Science
• Conservation Education

Publications:

• Ringim, A. S., Muhammad, S. I., Bako, L. A., Abubakar, H. M., Isa, S., Nelly, D. J., Bajoga, A. A., Bunu, A. S., Adam, H. A., Jalo, I. M., Eveso, J. O., Mathew, E. D., Danmallan, B. A., Mador, U., Paul, J. I., Aminu, I., Lawal, A., Izang, J. I., & Abu, P.N. (2022). How citizen scientists are rapidly generating big distribution data: Lessons from the Arewa Atlas Team, Nigerian Bird Atlas Project. Ostrich 93(1): 24-33. 

• Emmanuel O. Akindele; Michael C. Ekwemuka; Paul Apeverga; Tajudeen Amusa; Samuel Olajuyigbe; Oluwakayode M. Coker; Fatsuma Olaleru; Michelle Fasona; Elizabeth N. Usen; Abubakar S. Ringim; Opeyemi A. Adedoja; Chinedu C. Nsude; Ama C. Ota; Freeman E. Oluowo; Alex Onatunji; Abiodun Adedapo; Aghogho Kolawolo-Daniels. Assessing awareness on biodiversity conservation among Nigerians: the Aichi Biodiversity Target 1. Biodiversity and Conservation, 30(7), 1947-1970.
  

• Abubakar, H. M. & Ringim, A. S. (2020). Red-pate Cisticola Cisticola ruficeps in Potiskum, northeast Nigeria. Malimbus, 42, 24-26.

• Ringim, A. S. BirdPix - report on the photographic atlas of the birds of Nigeria, 2012-2019 (2020). Biodiversity Observations, 11(4), 1-10. 
  

• Ringim, A. S., Ibrahim, J. I., Ottosson, U., Ivande, S. T., Tende, T., & Ezekiel, S. P. (2020). An extension to the known range of the Grey-backed Fiscal Lanius excubitoroides in Nigeria. Malimbus, 42, 31-32.

• Ringim, A. S. (2019). A leucistic Long-tailed Glossy Starling Lamprotornis caudatus. Malimbus, 41, 60-61.

• Ringim, A. S., Abu, P., Ottosson, U., Ivande, S. T., Tende, T., Abubakar, H. M., Okwhofase, J., Ezekiel, S. P. & Muhammad, S. I (2020). Range extension and breeding of the House Sparrow Passer domesticus in Nigeria. Malimbus, 41, 63-65.

• Ringim, A. S. & Aliyu, D. (2018). Bird species richness, relative abundance and conservation status in protected and unprotected areas of the Hadejia-Nguru Wetlands. The Zoologist, 16: 12-20.

• Ringim, A. S., Magige, F. J., & John, J. R. M. (2018). Diversity and density of avifauna in areas with different protection status: a case study in Hadejia-Nguru Wetlands, North-eastern Nigeria. International Journal of Ecology and Environmental of Sciences, 44(2): 117-125.

• Ringim, A. S., Magige, F. J. & John, J. R. M. (2017). A comparative study of species diversity of migrant birds between protected and unprotected areas of the Hadejia-Nguru Wetlands, Nigeria. Tanzania Journal of Science, 43(1), 110-122

• Ringim, A. S. & Harry, H. Jr. (2017). Is the bird population in the Hadejia-Nguru Wetlands under threat? West African Journal of Applied Ecology, 25(2), 57-77.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

• Ringim, A. S., Knoche, S., & Ritchie, K. (2022). Human Dimensions of Sika Deer Management on Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore. 77th Annual Northeast Association of Fish & Wildlife Conference. Long Branch, NJ. April 2022