Neil Sims

Dr Neil Sims is a Research Manager at CSIRO, Australia, with more than 25 years’ experience in Earth observation for landscape ecology, forest plantation management, water resources modelling and land degradation assessment amongst other applications. 

Dr Sims was lead-author of the Good Practice Guidance methods report for United Nations SDG Indicator 15.3.1 (the proportion of degraded land over total land area) for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).  For this work Dr.Sims received the inaugural 2019 GEO Sustainable Development Goals Award for Innovation during GEO Week 2019 in Canberra.  Dr.Sims is a co-Chair of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Initiative, and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Ad Hoc Team on SDGs.