M. SUSAN MORAN

Susan Moran is a Hydrologist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Arizona Dept. of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, Tucson, Arizona.  Dr. Moran began her ARS career at the USDA-ARS U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1984.  In 1999, she was selected as Research Leader for the Southwest Watershed Research Center in Tucson, Arizona.  Dr. Moran has also served on the NASA Landsat Science Team and EO-1 Validation Team to evaluate selected technologies for meeting science needs in the 21^st Century. 

Her research is focused on the development of theory, principles, and methods for estimation of soil moisture and evapotranspiration, and detection of physical and biological stress in plants at local and regional scales utilizing a combination of models and remote sensing techniques.  She has a keen interest in practical research that will put high technology, particularly remote sensing, into the hands of resource managers.