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Ekanem Aniekan Martin

Senior Lecturer

Basic Information

  • Ekanem Aniekan Martin
  • +2347038032166
  • aniekanekanem@aksu.edu.ng
  • Senior Lecturer
  • Physics
  • Academic Staff

Profile

Aniekan is a sound academic and experienced Physicist/Geophysicist, who teaches Physics/Applied Geophysics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and also carries out high quality research in Applied Geophysics and Hydrogeophysics. 

Academic Qualifications
  • Ph.D. Geophysics (University of Edinburgh, UK 2012)
  • M.Sc. Exploration Geophysics (University of Leeds, UK 2007)
  • B.Sc. Physics (University of Calabar, 1997)
Professional Membership
  • Physics Writers Series Creation (PWSC)
  • Nigerian Institute of Physics (NIP)
  • Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
  • European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE)
Expertise
  • Experimental and Theoretical Geophysics
  • Hydrogeophysics
  • Seismology
  • Petrophysics
  • Gravity and Magnetics
  • Seismic Modelling
Contact details
Telephone number(s): +2348080321698; +2347038032166
Postal Address: Department of Physics, Akwa Ibom State University, P.M.B. 1167, Uyo
Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

JOURNAL ARTICLES 

1.  Ikpe, E.O., Ekanem, A. M. and George, N.J., 2022. Modelling and assessing the protectivity of hydrogeological units using primary and secondary geoelectric indices: a case study of Ikot Ekpene Urban and its environs, southern Nigeria. Model. Earth Syst. Environ. (2022) https://doi.org/10.1007/s40808-022-01366-x

2. Ekanem, K. R., George, N. J. and Ekanem, A. M., 2022. Parametric characterization, protectivity and potentiality of shallow hydrogeological units of a medium‑sized housing estate, Shelter Afrique, Akwa Ibom State, Southern Nigeria. Acta Geophysica. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-022-00737-3

3.   Ekanem, A. M., 2022. AVI- and GOD-based vulnerability assessment of aquifer units: a case study of parts of Akwa Ibom State, Southern Niger Delta, Nigeria. Sustainable Water Resources Management, 8, 29 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40899-022-00628-x

4.   Ekanem, A. M., 2021. Estimation of aquifer geohydrodynamic properties using the Inverse Slope method. Researchers Journal of Science and Technology (REJOST), 1, 1-16 

5.   Ekanem, A.M., Akpan. A. E., George, N.J. and Thomas, J. E., 2021. Appraisal of protectivity and corrosivity of surficial hydrogeological units via geo-sounding measurements. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 193(11), DOI: 10.1007/s10661-021-09518-9

6.   George, N. J. and Ekanem, A.M., Thomas, J. E. and Ekong, S. A., 2021. Mapping depths of groundwater-level architecture: implications on modest groundwater-level declines and failures of boreholes in sedimentary environs. Acta Geophysica 69(4), DOI: 10.1007/s11600-021-00663-w

7.    Ekanem, A.M., George, N.J., Thomas, J. E. and Ekpenyong, N. E., 2021. Seismic modelling study of CO2 effects on P-wave amplitude. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 7(2) DOI: 10.1007/s40808-020-00904-9

8.   Thomas, J. E., Ekanem, A. M., George, N. J. and Akpan, A. E. 2021. Electron temperature and ion density perturbations prior to the M6.8 Eastern Honshu, Japan earthquake of July 23, 2008. J. Earth Syst. Sci., 130:134. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-021-01645-8

9.    George, N. J. and Ekanem, A.M., Thomas, J. E. and Harry, T. A., 2021. Modelling the effect of geo‑matrix conduction on the bulk and pore water resistivity in hydrogeological sedimentary beddings. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40808-021-01161-0

10.  George, N.J., Ekanem, A.M., Obiora, D.N., Ibuot, J.C. and Akpan, S. A., 2021. Estimating the energy in current signals during electrical sounding: a novel approach. Arab J Geosci. Saudi Arabia, 14, 301 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-021-06625-2

11.   George, N.J., Bassey, N.E., Ekanem, A.M. and Thomas, J. E., 2021. Effects of anisotropic changes on the conductivity of sedimentary aquifers, southeastern Niger Delta, Nigeria. Acta Geophys., 68, 1833–1843 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-020-00502-4.

12.  Thomas, J. E., George, N. J., Ekanem, A. M., Nsikak, E. E., 2020. Electrostratigraphy and hydrogeochemistry of hyporheic zone and water-bearing caches in the littoral shorefront of Akwa Ibom State University, Southern Nigeria. Environ Monit Assess, 192:505 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-020-08436-6

13.  Ekanem, A.M., George, N. J., Thomas, J.E. and Nathaniel, E. U., 2020. Empirical Relations Between Aquifer Geohydraulic–Geoelectric Properties Derived from Surficial Resistivity Measurements in Parts of Akwa Ibom State, Southern Nigeria. Natural Resources Research, 29(4), 2635-2646. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11053-019-09606-1

14.    Ekanem, A.M., 2020. Georesistivity modelling and appraisal of soil water retention capacity in Akwa Ibom State University main campus and its environs, Southern Nigeria. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40808-020-00850-6 

15.  Thomas, J. E., George, N. J., Ekanem, A. M., Nathaniel, E. U., 2020. Preliminary investigation of earth tremors using total electron content: a case study in parts of Nigeria. , NRIAG Journal of Astronomy and Geophysics, 9:1, 220-225, DOI: 10.1080/20909977.2020.1723866  

16.   Thomas, J. E., George, N. J., Ekanem, A. M. and Akpan A. E., 2020. Ionospheric Plasma Variations Afore the East of Kuril Islands Earthquake of 13th January, 2007.Geological Behavior (GBR), 4(1), 42 – 46. DOI: 10.26480/gbr.01.2020.42.46

17.  Thomas, J. E., George, N. J., Ekanem, A. M., Ekpenyong, N.E., 2020. Ionospheric induced plasma disturbances afore the m7.9 eastern Sichuan China earthquake of 12th May, 2008. International Journal of Advanced Geosciences, 7(2), 194-199.  DOI: 10.14419/ijag.v7i2.29980
 
18.   Akpan, A. E., Ibanga, J. I., George, N. J. and Ekanem, A. M., 2019. Assessing seismo‑ionospheric disturbances using Vanuatu and Honshu earthquakes of March 25, 2007, employing DEMETER and GPS data. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 1 - 10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-019-02339-x

19.  Ekanem, A. M., Xu, Y., 2018. Finite-difference modelling of anisotropic wave scattering in discrete fracture model. Journal of Earth System Science, 127(3):40 (DOI: 10.1007/s12040-018-0942-3)
 
20.  George, N. J., Ibuot, J. C., Ekanem, A. M., and George, A. M., 2018.   Estimating the indices of inter-transmissibility magnitude of active surficial hydrogeologic units in Itu, Akwa Ibom State, southern Nigeria. Arabian Journal of Geosciences 11(6) (DOI: 10.1007/s12517-018-3475-9)
 
21.  Ibanga, J. I., Akpan, A. E., George, N. J., Ekanem, A. M. and George, A. M., 2017. Unusual ionospheric variations before the strong Auckland Islands, New Zealand earthquake of 30th September, 2007. NRIAG Journal of Astronomy and Geophysics 7(2018), 149-154 (DOI: 10.1016/j.nrjag.2017.12.007)
 
22.  George, N. J., Ekanem, A. M., Ibanga, J. I. and Udosen, N. I., 2017. Hydrodynamic Implications of Aquifer Quality Index (AQI) and Flow Zone Indicator (FZI) in groundwater abstraction: a case study of coastal hydro-lithofacies in South-eastern Nigeria. Journal of Coastal Conservation, 21(6), 759–776 (DOI: 10.1007/s11852-017-0535-3)
 
23.  Akpan, U. B., George, N. J., Ekanem, A. M., Emah, J. B., 2016. Investigation of Intermixing/Implantation in Pulsed Laser Deposited Metallic Cr/Ni80Fe20 and Ni80Fe20/Polypyrrole Multilayer Thin Films. Lasers in Manufacturing and Materials Processing, 3(4) 204-236 (DOI: 10.1007/s40516-016-0031-x)
 
24. Ekanem, A. M., Li, X-Y., Chapman, M and Main, I. G., 2016. Effects of CO2 on P-wave attenuation in porous media with micro-cracks: A synthetic modelling study. Journal of Applied Geophysics 135, 309-316 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2016.10.025)
 
25.  George, N. J., Akpan, A. E., and Ekanem, A. M., 2016. Assessment of Textural Variational Pattern and Electrical Conduction of Economic and Accessible Quaternary Hydrolithofacies via Geoelectric and Laboratory Methods in SE Nigeria: A Case Study of Select Locations in Akwa Ibom State. Journal of the Geological Society of India 88(4):399-532. (DOI: 10.1007/s12594-016-0514-6)
 
26.  George, N. J., Obiora, D., Ekanem, A. M. and Akpan, A. E., 2016. Approximate relationship between frequency-dependent skin depth resolved from geoelectromagnetic pedotransfer function and depth of investigation resolved from geoelectrical measurements: A case study of coastal formation, southern Nigeria. Journal of Earth System Science 125(7), 1379-1390 (DOI: 10.1007/s12040-016-0744-4)
 
27.    Ekong, U. N., Nyakno, J. G., Ibanga, Jewel, I. I, and Ekanem, A. M., 2016. Efficacy of Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) in the Analysis of Instantaneous Low Frequency Waves of Magnetosheath. International Journal of Geosciences, 2016, 7, 11-19 (http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ijg.2016.71002)

 28.     Ekanem, A. M., Li, X-Y., Chapman, M and Main, I. G., 2015. Seismic attenuation in fractured porous media: insights from a hybrid numerical and analytical model. Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, 12 (2015), 210 - 219 (doi:10.1088/1742-2132/12/2/210)

 29.    Udoh, F. E.; Nyakno, J. G. and Ekanem, A. M., 2015. Analysis of Microstructural Properties of Paleozoic Aquifer in the Benin Formation, using Grain Size Distribution Data from Water Borehole in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. IOSR Journal of Applied Geology and Geophysics, 3(4),  25-30 ( DOI: 10.9790/0990-03422530) 
 
30.   Ekanem, A. M., Wei, J., Li, X-Y., Chapman, M and Main, I. G., 2014. Effect of fracture  aperture on P-wave attenuation: A seismic physical modelling study. ISRN Geophysics, 2014, 1 - 8 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/241279)

31.  George, N. J.; Ekanem, A. M. and Ibanga, J. I., 2014. Graded Pleistocene Hydrogeologic Units’ correlation between interface conductivity and other Pore space properties. Nigerian Journal of Physics, 25(2), 27 – 45

32.  Ekanem, A. M., Wei, J., Li, X-Y., Chapman, M and Main, I. G., 2013. P-wave attenuation      anisotropy in fractured media: A seismic physical modelling study. Geophysical Prospecting, 61(1), 420 – 433 (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2012.01127.x)



Research Area

1. Groundwater studies
2. Groundwater contamination and waste
management studies
3. Reservoir characterization
4. Seismic wave attenuation
5. Seismic and Georesistivity Anisotropy
6. Earthquake prediction
7. Fracture detection

Publications

1.   Ikpe, E.O., Ekanem, A. M. and George, N.J., 2022. Modelling and assessing the protectivity of hydrogeological units using primary and secondary geoelectric indices: a case study of Ikot Ekpene
Urban and its environs, southern Nigeria. Model. Earth Syst. Environ.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s40808-022-01366-x

2.   Ekanem, K. R., George, N. J. and Ekanem, A. M., 2022. Parametric characterization, protectivity and potentiality of shallow hydrogeological units of a medium‑sized housing estate, Shelter Afrique, Akwa Ibom State, Southern Nigeria. Acta Geophysica. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-022-00737-3

3.   Ekanem, A. M., 2022. AVI- and GOD-based vulnerability assessment of aquifer units: a case study of parts of Akwa Ibom State, Southern Niger Delta, Nigeria. Sustainable Water Resources Management, 8, 29 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40899-022-00628-x

4.   Ekanem, A. M., 2021. Estimation of aquifer geohydrodynamic properties using the Inverse Slope method. Researchers Journal of Science and Technology (REJOST), 1, 1-16 

5.   Ekanem, A.M., Akpan. A. E., George, N.J. and Thomas, J. E., 2021. Appraisal of protectivity and corrosivity of surficial hydrogeological units via geo-sounding measurements. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 193(11), DOI: 10.1007/s10661-021-09518-9

6.   George, N. J. and Ekanem, A.M., Thomas, J. E. and Ekong, S. A., 2021. Mapping depths of groundwater-level architecture: implications on modest groundwater-level declines and failures of boreholes in sedimentary environs. Acta Geophysica 69(4), DOI: 10.1007/s11600-021-00663-w

7.    Ekanem, A.M., George, N.J., Thomas, J. E. and Ekpenyong, N. E., 2021. Seismic modelling study of CO2 effects on P-wave amplitude. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 7(2) DOI: 10.1007/s40808-020-00904-9

8.   Thomas, J. E., Ekanem, A. M., George, N. J. and Akpan, A. E. 2021. Electron temperature and ion density perturbations prior to the M6.8 Eastern Honshu, Japan earthquake of July 23, 2008. J. Earth Syst. Sci., 130:134. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-021-01645-8

9.    George, N. J. and Ekanem, A.M., Thomas, J. E. and Harry, T. A., 2021. Modelling the effect of geo‑matrix conduction on the bulk and pore water resistivity in hydrogeological sedimentary beddings. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40808-021-01161-0

10.  George, N.J., Ekanem, A.M., Obiora, D.N., Ibuot, J.C. and Akpan, S. A., 2021. Estimating the energy in current signals during electrical sounding: a novel approach. Arab J Geosci. Saudi Arabia, 14, 301 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-021-06625-2

11.   George, N.J., Bassey, N.E., Ekanem, A.M. and Thomas, J. E., 2021. Effects of anisotropic changes on the conductivity of sedimentary aquifers, southeastern Niger Delta, Nigeria. Acta Geophys., 68, 1833–1843 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-020-00502-4.

12.  Thomas, J. E., George, N. J., Ekanem, A. M., Nsikak, E. E., 2020. Electrostratigraphy and hydrogeochemistry of hyporheic zone and water-bearing caches in the littoral shorefront of Akwa Ibom State University, Southern Nigeria. Environ Monit Assess, 192:505 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-020-08436-6

13.  Ekanem, A.M., George, N. J., Thomas, J.E. and Nathaniel, E. U., 2020. Empirical Relations Between Aquifer Geohydraulic–Geoelectric Properties Derived from Surficial Resistivity Measurements in Parts of Akwa Ibom State, Southern Nigeria. Natural Resources Research, 29(4), 2635-2646. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11053-019-09606-1

14.    Ekanem, A.M., 2020. Georesistivity modelling and appraisal of soil water retention capacity in Akwa Ibom State University main campus and its environs, Southern Nigeria. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40808-020-00850-6 

15.  Thomas, J. E., George, N. J., Ekanem, A. M., Nathaniel, E. U., 2020. Preliminary investigation of earth tremors using total electron content: a case study in parts of Nigeria. , NRIAG Journal of Astronomy and Geophysics, 9:1, 220-225, DOI: 10.1080/20909977.2020.1723866  

16.   Thomas, J. E., George, N. J., Ekanem, A. M. and Akpan A. E., 2020. Ionospheric Plasma Variations Afore the East of Kuril Islands Earthquake of 13th January, 2007.Geological Behavior (GBR), 4(1), 42 – 46. DOI: 10.26480/gbr.01.2020.42.46

17.  Thomas, J. E., George, N. J., Ekanem, A. M., Ekpenyong, N.E., 2020. Ionospheric induced plasma disturbances afore the m7.9 eastern Sichuan China earthquake of 12th May, 2008. International Journal of Advanced Geosciences, 7(2), 194-199.  DOI: 10.14419/ijag.v7i2.29980
 
18.   Akpan, A. E., Ibanga, J. I., George, N. J. and Ekanem, A. M., 2019. Assessing seismo‑ionospheric disturbances using Vanuatu and Honshu earthquakes of March 25, 2007, employing DEMETER and GPS data. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 1 - 10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-019-02339-x

19.  Ekanem, A. M., Xu, Y., 2018. Finite-difference modelling of anisotropic wave scattering in discrete fracture model. Journal of Earth System Science, 127(3):40 (DOI: 10.1007/s12040-018-0942-3)
 
20.  George, N. J., Ibuot, J. C., Ekanem, A. M., and George, A. M., 2018.   Estimating the indices of inter-transmissibility magnitude of active surficial hydrogeologic units in Itu, Akwa Ibom State, southern Nigeria. Arabian Journal of Geosciences 11(6) (DOI: 10.1007/s12517-018-3475-9)
 
21.  Ibanga, J. I., Akpan, A. E., George, N. J., Ekanem, A. M. and George, A. M., 2017. Unusual ionospheric variations before the strong Auckland Islands, New Zealand earthquake of 30th September, 2007. NRIAG Journal of Astronomy and Geophysics 7(2018), 149-154 (DOI: 10.1016/j.nrjag.2017.12.007)
 
22.  George, N. J., Ekanem, A. M., Ibanga, J. I. and Udosen, N. I., 2017. Hydrodynamic Implications of Aquifer Quality Index (AQI) and Flow Zone Indicator (FZI) in groundwater abstraction: a case study of coastal hydro-lithofacies in South-eastern Nigeria. Journal of Coastal Conservation, 21(6), 759–776 (DOI: 10.1007/s11852-017-0535-3)
 
23.  Akpan, U. B., George, N. J., Ekanem, A. M., Emah, J. B., 2016. Investigation of Intermixing/Implantation in Pulsed Laser Deposited Metallic Cr/Ni80Fe20 and Ni80Fe20/Polypyrrole Multilayer Thin Films. Lasers in Manufacturing and Materials Processing, 3(4) 204-236 (DOI: 10.1007/s40516-016-0031-x)
 
24. Ekanem, A. M., Li, X-Y., Chapman, M and Main, I. G., 2016. Effects of CO2 on P-wave attenuation in porous media with micro-cracks: A synthetic modelling study. Journal of Applied Geophysics 135, 309-316 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2016.10.025)
 
25.  George, N. J., Akpan, A. E., and Ekanem, A. M., 2016. Assessment of Textural Variational Pattern and Electrical Conduction of Economic and Accessible Quaternary Hydrolithofacies via Geoelectric and Laboratory Methods in SE Nigeria: A Case Study of Select Locations in Akwa Ibom State. Journal of the Geological Society of India 88(4):399-532. (DOI: 10.1007/s12594-016-0514-6)
 
26.  George, N. J., Obiora, D., Ekanem, A. M. and Akpan, A. E., 2016. Approximate relationship between frequency-dependent skin depth resolved from geoelectromagnetic pedotransfer function and depth of investigation resolved from geoelectrical measurements: A case study of coastal formation, southern Nigeria. Journal of Earth System Science 125(7), 1379-1390 (DOI: 10.1007/s12040-016-0744-4)
 
27.    Ekong, U. N., Nyakno, J. G., Ibanga, Jewel, I. I, and Ekanem, A. M., 2016. Efficacy of Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) in the Analysis of Instantaneous Low Frequency Waves of Magnetosheath. International Journal of Geosciences, 2016, 7, 11-19 (http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ijg.2016.71002)

 28.     Ekanem, A. M., Li, X-Y., Chapman, M and Main, I. G., 2015. Seismic attenuation in fractured porous media: insights from a hybrid numerical and analytical model. Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, 12 (2015), 210 - 219 (doi:10.1088/1742-2132/12/2/210)

 29.    Udoh, F. E.; Nyakno, J. G. and Ekanem, A. M., 2015. Analysis of Microstructural Properties of Paleozoic Aquifer in the Benin Formation, using Grain Size Distribution Data from Water Borehole in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. IOSR Journal of Applied Geology and Geophysics, 3(4),  25-30 ( DOI: 10.9790/0990-03422530)
 
30.   Ekanem, A. M., Wei, J., Li, X-Y., Chapman, M and Main, I. G., 2014. Effect of fracture  aperture on P-wave attenuation: A seismic physical modelling study. ISRN Geophysics, 2014, 1 - 8 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/241279)

31.  George, N. J.; Ekanem, A. M. and Ibanga, J. I., 2014. Graded Pleistocene Hydrogeologic Units’ correlation between interface conductivity and other Pore space properties. Nigerian Journal of Physics, 25(2), 27 – 45

 32.  Ekanem, A. M., Wei, J., Li, X-Y., Chapman, M and Main, I. G., 2013. P-wave attenuation      anisotropy in fractured media: A seismic physical modelling study. Geophysical Prospecting, 61(1), 420 – 433 (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2012.01127.x)