Owen Middleton
Science & Verification Lead (Emerging Nature Markets)
Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOwen Middleton is a biodiversity scientist and consultant with eight years’ experience translating ecological science into corporate strategy, monitoring programs, and nature-positive action plans. Currently Science & Verification Lead for emerging nature markets at Environment Bank, he has led product development and technical guidance for TNFD, SBTN, CSRD and other reporting frameworks while also designing landscape-scale monitoring tools. His PhD in ecology underpins a strong quantitative skillset—R, GIS, community ecology and automated reporting pipelines—combined with extensive hands-on fieldwork across temperate, tropical and desert systems. He has a track record of turning complex ecological data into market-ready products and practical corporate roadmaps that reduce operational and reputational risk. Notably, he has built community-led biodiversity monitoring programmes and prototype functional-diversity insights (including fungi and invertebrates) that bridge science, product and commercial teams. He brings a pragmatic optimism: aiming to scale nature-based solutions by centering local communities and rigorous verification.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (Integrated) Ecology, Master of Science (Integrated) Ecology at University of SouthamptonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Ecology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Ecology at University of Sussex
Github Skills (11)
database5
diet4
biology3
ecology3
biodiversity3
bioinformatics3
eol2
interaction2
taxonomy1
etl-framework1
datasets1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
osmiddleton/CarniDIET-Database
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Database of the diets of the world's terrestrial carnivorous mammals
Contributions:63 commits, 1 PR, 32 pushes in 10 months
database
osmiddleton/EBE-Coding-Club
Sep 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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