Dr. Noble Kwame Asare is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), GHANA. He holds a PhD in Marine Biogeochemistry from the University of Plymouth, England, and a Masters degree in Tropical Aquatic Ecology from the University of Bremen, Germany.
He is presently the Head of the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (DFAS) at UCC, a board member of the Centre for Coastal Management, UCC and the Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator for the Fisheries and Coastal Management Capacity Building Support Project being implemented by DFAS, UCC and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) over a 5-year period.
He teaches several courses at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels including physical oceanography, marine ecology, aquatic pollution, brackishwater ecology. His current research work involves pollution and ecology of coastal water bodies, assessment of the biophysical environment with respect to aquatic pollution, ecological and socioeconomic impacts of pollution in marine systems and its significance to the global climate variabilities, microbial ecology of coastal water bodies, and ecological studies of fish fauna in coastal marine environment.