Christopher Charles Chapman

I am a senior lecturer in oceanography based in the School of Science at UNSW-Canberra. My research spans a broad range of topics, from physical and biological oceanography, to meteorology and remote sensing and even ecology, but focuses on disentangling how our oceans influence weather, climate, and marine ecosystems. I use observations, field campaigns (including on board the RV Investigator, Australia's premier blue-water research vessel) and numerical modelling to tackle a wide range of problems. I joined UNSW-Canberra in May, 2026. Prior to rejoining academia, I was a research scientist in oceanography and climate at the CSIRO's Environment Research Unit from December 2017 to March 2026. I was a visiting scientist at the Department of Geoscience and Remote sensing and at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands from January-July 2025. From 2014-2017, I was a postdoc at the Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat: Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), hosted at the Sorbonne University in Paris. I continue to collaborate internationally, particularly with Dutch and French institutions. Scholarships of AUD$35,000 are available for PhD students who achieved H1/High Distinction in their undergraduate program and/or have completed a Masters by Research. If you are interested, please contact me at christopher.c.chapman AT unsw.edu.au Physical and biological oceanography, meteorology, remote sensing, ecology, focusing on disentangling how our oceans influence weather, climate, and marine ecosystems. Current research priorities: The role of the oceans in extreme events; Small scale interaction between the tropical ocean and atmosphere; The ocean's influence on marine ecosystems, plankton, and predators; Large scale drivers of local scale extremes: the 'outside-in' approach.