Sue Moore
Alma mater	University of California, San Diego
Scientific career
Thesis	Cetacean 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.

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]

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/

• Grebmeier, Jacqueline M.; Overland, James E.; Moore, Sue E.; Farley, Ed V.; Carmack, Eddy C.; Cooper, Lee W.; Frey, Karen E.; Helle, John H.; McLaughlin, Fiona A.; McNutt, S. Lyn (2006-03-10). "A Major Ecosystem Shift in the Northern Bering Sea". Science. 311 (5766): 1461–1464. Bibcode:2006Sci...311.1461G. doi:10.1126/science.1121365. PMID 16527980. S2CID 23505224.
• 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 1939-5582. PMID 18494369.
• 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.
• 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.
• Stabeno, Phyllis J.; Kachel, Nancy B.; Moore, Sue E.; Napp, Jeffrey M.; Sigler, Michael; Yamaguchi, Atsushi; Zerbini, Alexandre N. (2012). "Comparison of warm and cold years on the southeastern Bering Sea shelf and some implications for the ecosystem". Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 65–70: 31–45. Bibcode:2012DSRII..65...31S. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2012.02.020.

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]