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DATIVA J. SHILLA

Senior Lecturer, Dar Es Salaam University College Of Education
Education:

PhD. Environmental and Marine Chemistry, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan, 2012.

Teaching:

  • Environmental Sciences
  • Environmental/Analytical Chemistry
  • Industrial Chemistry
  • Environmental Pollution and Toxicology

Research:

  • Fingerprinting of organic matter and bioaccumulation of organic pollutants using fatty acid biomarkers and stable isotopes in aquatic environment, aiming at identifying sources, transport processes, and the fate of organic matter in aquatic systems.
  • Aquatic pollution and environmental contaminants, cycling of nutrients and organic matter in aquatic ecosystems.
  • Clean Energy in Urban and Rural areas.

Projects:

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Publications:

  • Dativa Shilla and Daniel A. Shilla. 2020. Assessment of the Geochemical Characteristics of Water and Surface Sediment of Rufiji Mangrove Forest, Tanzania. Tanzania Journal of Science 46(2): 482-497.
  • Dativa Shilla 2019. Status Updates on Plastics Pollution in Aquatic Environment of Tanzania: Data Availability, Current Challenges and Future Research Needs. Tanzania Journal of Science 45(1):101-113.
  • Jo Vearey, Isaac Luginaah, Ng’weina Francis Magitta, Dativa Shilla and Tolu Oni. 2019. Urban health in Africa: a critical global public health priority. BMC Public Health, 19:340, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6674-8.
  • Dativa Shilla, Gustav Pajala, Joyanto Routh, Mårten Dario, Peter Kristoffersson. 2019. Trophodynamics and biomagnification of trace metals in aquatic food webs: The case of Rufiji estuary in Tanzania. Applied Geochemistry 100, 160– 168, doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2018.11.016. 
  • Dativa Shilla and Joyanto Routh. 2018. Distribution, Behavior, and Sources of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon in the Water column, Sediments and Biota of the Rufiji Estuary, Tanzania. Frontiers in Earth Science, 6, 70. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2018.00070
  • Susan Murphy., Dativa Shilla, Consolata Chua, Christina Raphael, Niahm O’Rourke, and Molly Middlehurst-Schwartz. 2018. Unravelling the gender bind, uncovering the heterogeneity of domination. Comparative Education, 55 (2): 264- 280. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2018.1543378
  • Dativa Shilla and Joyanto Routh. 2017. Using biochemical and isotopic tracers to characterize organic matter sources and their incorporation into estuarine food webs (Rufiji delta, Tanzania), Chemistry and Ecology, 33 (10): 893-917, DOI: 10.1080/02757540.2017.1391796.
  • Dativa Shilla. 2016. Distribution and Behavior of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) In Sub-tropical River-Estuary, Okinawa Japan. Chemistry and Ecology, 32 (5): 472-491
  • Dativa Shilla., Mimura, I., Takagi, K.K., Tsuchiya, M., 2013. Preliminary Survey of the Nutrient Discharge Characteristics of Okinawa Rivers, and their Potential Effects on Inshore Coral Reefs. Journal of Coral Reef Studies (Galaxea), Special Issue: 172-181.
  • Dativa Shilla., Daniel, S.A., 2012. Effects of riparian vegetation and bottom substrate on macroinvertebrate communities at selected sites in the Otara Creek, New Zealand. Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 9 (3): 131-150
  • Dativa Shilla., Boothroyd, I., Daniel. A.S., 2011. The effects of catchment land-use on water quality and macroinvertebrate communities in Otara Creek, New Zealand. Chemistry and Ecology, Vol. 27(5): 445-460.
  • Dativa Shilla., Tsuchiya, M., Abel, D.S., 2011. Terrigenous nutrient and organic matter in a subtropical river estuary, Okinawa, Japan: Origin, distribution and pattern across the estuarine salinity gradient. Chemistry and Ecology, 27 (6): 523- 542.