Shimelis Aynalem (Phd)

Home Department: 
College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
Environmental Directorate
Email: 
shimelis.aynalem@gmail.com
Phone: 
+251918008194
Office: 
Wisdom Tower, office no 501

 

Full Name Shimelis Aynalem

Academic Rank Ph. D

Directorate Environment

Position (Researcher/Director)

Membership of BNWI: September 2011

Home Base College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences

Office Address:

  1. Dept. Fishery Wetlands and Wildlife Management, Office No.31 _Zenzelima Campus
  2. BNWI Wisdom Tower, office no 501

Phone Number 0918008194

E-Mail Address: shimelis.aynalem@gmail.com

 

EDUCATION

Degree

Year of Award

Awarding Institution

Ph.D. in Biology (E.S.Z.)

2017

Addis Ababa University

B.Sc. in Public Health (H.O.)

2012

Alkan University College, B/Dar

M.Sc. in Biology (E.S.Z.)

2007

Addis Ababa University

B.Sc. in Agriculture (An.Sc.)

1993

Alemaya Universit

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

  • Development  and Research experience
  • Leadership (Team leader, and office Head)
  • Teaching
  • Professional tour guide: Birdwatching (licensed, South Africa )

Previous and current research work

Research title

started                        status

--Preliminary assessment of some

2012                        completed

ecological effects of water hyacinth

 

(Eichhornia crassipes) on

 

waterfowls at River mouths in north

 

eastern Lake Tana, Ethiopia

 

--Bird Species Abundance and their

     2013                          completed

Correlation with Microclimate and

 

---Habitat Variables at Lake Tana: the

 

case of Zegie Peninsula, Chimba

 

wetlands and Fogera plain,

 

Ethiopia.

 

cranes (Balearica pavonina

 

ceciliae) at Lake Tana wetland

 

areas,  Ethiopia

--Feeding ecology of black-crowned

  
 

cranes (Balearica pavonina

  

ceciliae) at Lake Tana wetland

  

areas,  Ethiopia

  

                   2014   completed

--Macroinvertebrates spatial           

2016              ongoing

distribution of Lake Tana wetlands:

 

the case of Dirma, Chimba and

 

Yiganda wetlands relative to Black

 

Crowned Crane breeding time

 

Community service                                                                                     started

Research title

Community Based Wetland Restoration General Management Plan:            2013

the case of Infranz wetland, Lake Tana Ethiopia.                                                  2014 

Integrated Wetland Management for the “ Proposed Lake Tana Biosphere Reserve’ 

 

Capacity building and Knowledge       

                2015

Completed

transfer on Integrated Wetland

 

 

Management at four sites

 

 

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

  1. Ethiopian Red Cross Society – Lifelong membership
  2. Ethiopian Biological Society since 2014
  3. Research Associate of International Crane foundation, Baraboo, Wisconsin 53913 USA.
  4. IUCN: Crane specialist group Since 2015

 

PUBLICATIONS

a)   Refereed (i.e., peer-reviewed) papers

  • Shimelis Aynalem, Nowald, G., Schroder, W. 2011. Observation on the biology and ecology of cranes: wattled

cranes (grus carunculatus), black-crowned cranes (balearica pavonina), and eurasian cranes (grus grus) at Lake Tana, Ethiopia. INDWA. Journal of African Crane Research and Conservationist 7: 1-12. https://www.ewt.org.za/Portals/0/ewt/workgroups/.../Indwa%207.pdf www.ewt.org.za/programmes/ACCP/INDWA/INDWA%208.pdf

  • Günter Nowald , Werner Schröder, Volker Günther & Shimelis Aynalem (2010): Kraniche Grus grus in

Äthiopien. – Common Cranes Grus grus in Ethiopia. VOGELWELT 131: 1 – 13. http://www.vogelwelt.com/cms/red/download/Inhalt-Index-2010.pdf

  • Shimelis Aynalem, Afework Bekele 2009. Species composition, relative abundance and habitat association of the bird fauna of montane forest of zegie peninsula and nearby islands, lake tana, ethiopia. SINET: Ethiop. J. Sci., 32(1):45—56. http://www.ajol.info/index.php/sinet/issue/view/8179
  • Shimelis Aynalem, Afework Bekele, Abebe Getahun 2008. Species Diversity, Distribution, Relative Abundance and Habitat Association of the Avian Fauna of Modified Habitat of Bahir Dar and Debre Mariam Island, Lake Tana, Ethiopia. International Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences 34 (3): 259-267. http://www.nieindia.org/ijees/abstracts/v34/abstrv34_259.asp
  • Shimelis Aynalem, Afework Bekele 2008. Species composition, relative abundance and distribution of bird fauna of riverine and wetland habitats of Infranz and Yiganda at southern tip of Lake Tana, Ethiopia. Tropical Ecology 49(2): 199-209. www.tropecol.com/pdf/open/PDF_49_2/11%20Aynalem.pdf

b)   Book chapters/ reviews

  • Aynalem, S. (2017). Birds of Lake Tana Sub-Basin, pp 179-206. In: Social and Ecological System Dynamics: Characteristics, Trends, and Integration in the Lake. Tana Basin, Ethiopia. K. Stave, G. Goshu and S. Aynalem. USA, Springer.
  • Aynalem, S., et al. (2017). Wetlands of the Lake Tana watershed, pp 245-256. In: Social and Ecological System

Dynamics: Characteristics, Trends, and Integration in the Lake Tana Basin, Ethiopia. K. Stave, G. Goshu and S. Aynalem. USA, Springer.

  • Aynalem, S. and A. A. Mengistu (2017). Herpetofauna and Mammals, pp 207-230. In: Social and Ecological

System Dynamics: Characteristics, Trends, and Integration in the Lake Tana Basin, Ethiopia. K. Stave, G. Goshu and S. Aynalem. USA, Springer.

  • Goshu, G and Aynalem, S. (2017). Problem Overview of the Lake Tana Basin, pp 9-24. In: System Dynamics: Characteristics, Trends, and Integration in the Lake Tana Basin, Ethiopia. K. Stave, G. Goshu and S. Aynalem. USA, Springer.
  • Goraw G., Aynalem, A. Bayele, D., and Krys, S (2017). Research Needs in the Lake Tana, pp 631-646. In: Social-Ecological System. System Dynamics: Characteristics, Trends, and Integration in the Lake Tana Basin, Ethiopia. K. Stave, G. Goshu and S. Aynalem. USA, Springer.
  • Book Authored:

Shimelis Aynalem Zelelew. 2013. Birds of Lake Tana Area, Ethiopia. A photographic Field Guide. View Graphics and Printers, Addis Ababa. ISBN 978-99944989-4-9

  • Edited Book Co-authored

Stave, K., G. Goshu, and S. Aynalem. 2017. Ecological sysytem Dynamics Characterstics. Page 631 in K. Stave, G. Goshu, and S. Aynalem, editors. Characteristics, Trends, and Integration in the Lake Tana Basin, Ethiopia. Springer International Publishing Switzerland. ISSN 2509-9787 ISSN 2509-9795 (electronic) ; AESS Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences Series ISBN 978-3-319-45753-6 ISBN 978-3-319-45755-0 (eBook); DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-45755-0

Theses

MSc Theses

  1. Species Composition Specious Composition, Distribution, Relative Abundance and Habitat Association of the Bird Fauna of Bahir Dar, Zegie Peninsula and the Nearby Islands of Lake Tana at Bahir Dar

​Ph.D. dissertation

  1. The Ecology of Black Crowned Crane (Balearica pavonina ceciliae) in relation to changes of land use at Lake Tana, Ethiopia

RESEARCH  INTERESTS

Field ecology is my main interest. Mainly studying the biology and ecology of fauna, their interaction to the environment, and studying the impact humans’ on the natural ecosystem are

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