Joshua is a passionate Earth Scientist from a small rural community in Northern Nigeria. His path in Geosciences has been nonlinear, from his undergraduate studies, where he mapped the Basement Complexes of Northern Nigeria to understand their tectonic and structural configurations for mineralization throughout Earth's history.

His graduate experience in Nigeria has been quite exhilarating, working with Prof. James  Ogg as a TimeScale Foundation lexicon data compiler for the Deep-time Digital Earth Program of Africa's Sedimentary Basins (https://nigerlex.geolex.org, https://nigerialex.geolex.org, https://geolex.org) and for his thesis, harnessing the utility of foraminifera, calcareous nannoplankton, and sediments to understand the Miocene paleocenographic and paleoenvironmental dynamics in the Niger Delta Basin. Josh's passion for travelling and taste for good food enabled him to pursue an Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters degree program in  France and Greece, where he worked with Dr Clara Bolton and Dr Luc Beaufort, utilizing the state-of-the-art automated microscopy machine to investigate ODP Site 959 sediments of the Equatorial Atlantic Ocean, focusing on calcareous nannoplankton size dynamics during the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum.