Sue Moore
Alma materUniversity of California, San Diego
Scientific career
ThesisCetacean habitats in the Alaskan Arctic (1997)

Sue E. Moore is a scientist at the University of Washington known for her research on marine mammals in the Arctic.

Education and career

Moore has a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego and an M.S. from San Diego State University.[1] She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego / Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1997 working on whales in the Arctic.[2] Moore worked at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for twenty years,[1] and was appointed director of the NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory in 2002.[3] Moore was a member of the United States' delegation to the International Whaling Commission.[3] As of 2021, Moore is a research scientist in the department of biology at the University of Washington.[4] On May 25, 2022, Moore was nominated by US President Joe Biden to be a member of the US Marine Mammal Commission.[5] The nomination was positively forwarded to the full Senate by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on December 7, 2022.[6] The nomination was confirmed by the full US Senate on December 22, 2022.[7]

Research

Moore is known for her research tracking marine mammals in the Arctic, including bowhead whales,[8] fin whales,[9] and gray whales.[10] She has used acoustic instruments, or sound, to listen to multiple species of whales along the coast of Alaska,[11][12] including a project attaching acoustic instruments to gliders and then tracking marine mammals.[13] She has linked changes in sea ice with the habitats used by bowhead whales[14] and defined patterns in marine mammal distributions that track climate change in the Arctic.[15][16]

A list of additional publications and a biographical sketch are available on the website of the Center for Ecosystem Sentinels at the University of Washington, https://ecosystemsentinels.org/sue-moore/

Selected publications

Awards and honors

In 2020, Moore was elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences in recognition of her work in the Arctic.[4] In 2020, the International Arctic Science Committee awarded the IASC Medal for "exceptional and sustained contributions to the understanding of the Arctic" to Moore.[17]

References

  1. 1 2 "Dr. Sue E. Moore". Center for Ecosystem Sentinels. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  2. ↑ Moore, Sue E (1997). Cetacean habitats in the Alaskan Arctic. OCLC 1083793253.
  3. 1 2 "Sue Moore Appointed Director of National Marine Mammal Lab". apps-afsc.fisheries.noaa.gov. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  4. 1 2 "7 University of Washington researchers elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences in 2020". UW News. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  5. ↑ "7". WhiteHouse. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
  6. ↑ "7". SenateCommerceCommittee. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
  7. ↑ "8". USCongress. Retrieved 2022-01-08.
  8. ↑ Moore, Sue E.; George, John C.; Coyle, Kenneth O.; Weingartner, Thomas J. (1995). "Bowhead Whales along the Chukotka Coast in Autumn". Arctic. 48 (2): 155–160. doi:10.14430/arctic1237. ISSN 0004-0843. JSTOR 40511639.
  9. ↑ Moore, Sue E.; Stafford, Kathleen M.; Dahlheim, Marilyn E.; Fox, Christopher G.; Braham, Howard W.; Polovina, Jeffrey J.; Bain, David E. (1998). "Seasonal Variation in Reception of Fin Whale Calls at Five Geographic Areas in the North Pacific". Marine Mammal Science. 14 (3): 617–627. Bibcode:1998MMamS..14..617M. doi:10.1111/j.1748-7692.1998.tb00749.x. ISSN 0824-0469. S2CID 83663245.
  10. ↑ Moore, Sue E; Grebmeier, Jacqueline M; Davies, Jeremy R (2003-04-01). "Gray whale distribution relative to forage habitat in the northern Bering Sea: current conditions and retrospective summary". Canadian Journal of Zoology. 81 (4): 734–742. doi:10.1139/z03-043. ISSN 0008-4301.
  11. ↑ Moore, Sue E.; Stafford, Kathleen M.; Mellinger, David K.; Hildebrand, John A. (2006). "Listening for Large Whales in the Offshore Waters of Alaska". BioScience. 56 (1): 49. doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2006)056[0049:LFLWIT]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0006-3568.
  12. ↑ Moore, Sue E.; Stafford, Kathleen M.; Melling, Humfrey; Berchok, Catherine; Wiig, Øystein; Kovacs, Kit M.; Lydersen, Christian; Richter-Menge, Jackie (2012). "Comparing marine mammal acoustic habitats in Atlantic and Pacific sectors of the High Arctic: year-long records from Fram Strait and the Chukchi Plateau". Polar Biology. 35 (3): 475–480. Bibcode:2012PoBio..35..475M. doi:10.1007/s00300-011-1086-y. ISSN 0722-4060. S2CID 18029930.
  13. ↑ Moore, Sue E.; Howe, Bruce M.; Stafford, Kathleen M.; Boyd, Michael L. (2007-12-01). "Including Whale Call Detection in Standard Ocean Measurements: Application of Acoustic Seagliders". Marine Technology Society Journal. 41 (4): 53–57. doi:10.4031/002533207787442033. ISSN 0025-3324.
  14. ↑ Moore, Sue E.; Laidre, Kristin L. (2006). "Trends In Sea Ice Cover Within Habitats Used By Bowhead Whales In The Western Arctic". Ecological Applications. 16 (3): 932–944. doi:10.1890/1051-0761(2006)016[0932:TISICW]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1051-0761. PMID 16826993.
  15. ↑ Moore, Sue E.; Huntington, Henry P. (2008). "Arctic Marine Mammals and Climate Change: Impacts and Resilience". Ecological Applications. 18 (sp2): S157–S165. Bibcode:2008EcoAp..18S.157M. doi:10.1890/06-0571.1. ISSN 1051-0761. PMID 18494369.
  16. ↑ Moore, Sue E. (2008). "Marine mammals as ecosystem sentinels". Journal of Mammalogy. 89 (3): 534–540. doi:10.1644/07-MAMM-S-312R1.1. ISSN 0022-2372. S2CID 53392780.
  17. ↑ "Medal - International Arctic Science Committee". iasc.info. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
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