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Sue Moore (scientist)

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

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

Education and career

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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

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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

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Awards and honors

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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

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  1. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "Sue Moore Appointed Director of National Marine Mammal Lab". apps-afsc.fisheries.noaa.gov. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  4. ^ a b "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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