Christopher Brown
received a B.S. (1982) in Biological Sciences from Cornell University and an
M.S. (1987) and Ph.D. (1993) in Oceanography from the Graduate School of
Oceanography of the University of Rhode Island. After his doctorate, he held
a two year postdoctoral fellowship at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
as a National Research Council Resident Research Associate. Chris joined NESDIS
in November 1995. Until he became the Director of STAR's Cooperative Research
Program (CoRP) in October 2019, he was a member of its Satellite Climate Studies
Branch. He is currently a Visiting Research Scientist with the Cooperative
Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS) and Affiliate Research
Scientist of the University of Maryland's Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric
Sciences in College Park, MD, and Adjunct Faculty at the University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science's Horn Point Laboratory in Cambridge, MD. His
primary scientific research interest includes the remote detection, characterization
and prediction of marine organisms.