Sean Chua

Sean Minhui Tashi Chua is a multidisciplinary scientist specializing in Earth observation and machine learning, with a focus on the cryosphere and sea ice. At the Australian Antarctic Division, he served as Assistant Director of the Sea Ice Team, where he developed the sea ice mapping platform nilas.org, conducted fieldwork in the Ross Sea validating airborne snow thickness measurements with penetrometer techniques, and contributed to research on sea ice thickness and time series analysis. Previously at Geoscience Australia, Chua led change detection processes for monitoring tailings dam collapses using radar interferometry and spearheaded the development of a machine learning workflow for large-scale agricultural mapping. In addition to his research, Chua is a consultant in the geospatial and climate-tech space and is a working artist. At the Nansen Center, he is joining the European Space Agency Arktalas project developing sea ice drift algorithms using Synthetic Aperture Radar.