Justice, Chris

Bio

Chris Justice received a Ph.D. from the University of Reading, United Kingdom and is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. He served as Chair of the Department of Geographical Sciences from 2010 to 2021 and as Acting Chair in the Fall of 2024. He is Project Scientist for NASA's Land Cover Land Use Change (LCLUC) Program and the Chief Scientist for HARVEST, NASA’s program on Global Agriculture and Food Security. He is the Land Discipline Co-Lead for the NASA Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Soumi-NPP VIIRS Science Team,  Chair of the international GOFC/GOLD Program, and Co-Chair of the international GEOGLAM Initiative on global agricultural monitoring. His current research is on land cover and land use change, land observations and data products, global agricultural monitoring, and their associated information technology and decision support systems. In 2010 he received the NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal, in 2014 he received the William T. Pecora Award. In 2017 he received the AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group Award for Outstanding Contributions to Remote Sensing. In 2020 he received the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal. In 2021 he was made a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland.