Campus Directory

Division Social Sciences Division

Department/ College/ Unit Environmental Studies Department

Title Graduate Student

Affiliation Graduate

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Coastal Science & Policy Program

Primary Office Location Nat Sci 2 Main Building
433

Additional Location(s) Ecological Aquaculture Greenhouse

Mail Stop Environmental Studies

Biography, Education and Training

Leader of innovative social entrepreneurship programs and land and water research for improved livelihoods, sustainable food systems, and climate resilience. 

Selected Presentations

• Designing a Circular Economy Cooking Technology Startup in Lilongwe, Malawi: Preventing Deforestation and Household Air Pollution and Mitigating Climate Change. Graduate Climate Conference, Woods Hole, United States of America (2023)
• Producing Briquettes from Agricultural Waste; Minimizing Deforestation and Biomass Waste; Case studies in Lilongwe rural, Malawi. Graduate Climate Conference, MIT, United States of America (2019)
• Access to Finance for Scaling Small and Medium Enterprises Tailored for Positive Social and Environmental Impact. Citizens and Diaspora. Directorate of the African Union SME boot camp, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. (2019)
• A Hydrological Assessment of Wetlands in Lilongwe Per-Urban Areas; a case of Njewa catchment, Lilongwe, Malawi. International Conference on Sustainable Agricultural and Natural Resources Management under Changing Climate in Sub-Saharan Africa. Lilongwe. (2018)

Selected Publications

• Andrade, Sofie, Pallab K Sarker, Anne R Kapuscinski, Devin Fitzgerald, Connor Greenwood, Abel Mkulama, et al. 2024. “Enzyme-Treated Microalgal Co-Product Diets for Rainbow Trout Aquaculture: Supporting Fish Growth, Phosphorus Digestibility, and Reducing Phosphorus Waste Emission.” Elementa 12 (1). https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2023.00119.
• Sarker, Pallab K, Anne R Kapuscinski, DevinFitzgerald, Connor Greenwood, Abel Mkulama, et al. 2023. “Extrusion Processing Improves Rainbow Trout Digestibility of Microalgal Nannochloropsis Oculata Co-Product Biomass for More Sustainable Aquaculture Diets.” Algal Research 75 (September): 103295–95.
• Mkulama, A.K., Tibu, A., Wiyo, K.(2020). A Hydrological Assessment of Wetlands in Lilongwe Peri-urban Areas: A Case of Njewa Catchment, Lilongwe, Malawi. In: Singh, B., Safalaoh, A., Amuri, N., Eik, L., Sitaula, B., Lal, R. (eds) Climate Impacts on Agricultural and Natural Resource Sustainability in Africa. Springer, Cham.