Owen Sinderman

Owen Sinderman is a Research Fellow with the Center for Climate and Health (CCH) and Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) at Boston University. In this role, he leverages his experience with spatial data and remotely sensed imagery to support a variety of projects, including the Clean Energy and Environment Legacy Transition (CELT) Initiative, Community Adaptations to City Heat (CATCH), Gateway Exposome Coordinating Center (GECC), and ASCENT Project 18. His primary interests are in sustainable energy and environmental health and the ways that these topics intersect- particularly in urban settings.

Owen earned his BS in Environmental Science from Western Washington University, where coursework in air and water pollution, environmental justice, and a minor in energy sciences helped to establish his research interests. Subsequently, he earned a certificate in GIS from the University of Washington, where he worked directly with City of Seattle GIS modernization leaders to develop deep learning feature extraction methods for the city. Building on these interests, he then earned his MS in Remote Sensing & Geospatial Sciences from Boston University, where he further developed his expertise working on projects related to sunlight exposure, solar panel distribution, air pollution, and urban expansion. He is very excited to return to BU in a staff role and continue contributing to the important research being done at IGS and CCH.