Rate My Professor Chris Owers

Prior appointments include CERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CSIRO Land and Water (February 2021–April 2022), Project Research Scientist at Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom (January 2019–December 2020), and CSIRO Visiting Research Scientist. His honors comprise the Big Earth Data Best and Outstanding Paper Award from Taylor and Francis Group (2021), Student of the Year at the NSW Coastal Conference (2018), Vice-Chancellor’s award for interdisciplinary research excellence at the University of Wollongong (2018), and Teaching Excellence award from the College of Engineering, Science and Environment at the University of Newcastle (2023). Notable publications are 'Operational continental-scale land cover mapping of Australia using the Open Data Cube' (2022), 'DEA Land Cover: 30+ years of continental-scale mapping for monitoring coastal ecosystems' (2023), 'Carbon Storage in the Coastal Swamp Oak Forest Wetlands of Australia' (2022), and 'Mapping blue carbon ecosystems from Earth observations at a continental scale' (2025). These works support national monitoring of landscapes and coastal blue carbon ecosystems.