Susan L. Ustin
Director, John Muir Institute of the Environment, University of California Davis
Dr. Susan L. Ustin is the Interim Director of the John Muir Institute of the Environment at the University of California, Davis and Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources. She is an ecophysiologist with expertise in airborne imaging spectroscopy and other remote sensing systems including those on small drones, satellites, and commercial systems, which she has used to investigate questions at a variety of scales from leaf level to globe. She has been a member of NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Science Team and for the planned Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (HyspIRI) satellite, among other NASA teams, e.g., SIR C radar space shuttle experiment. Dr. Ustin is an author or co-author on ~240 journal publications, 36 book chapters; she is coauthor on a book on Leaf Optics and was Editor of Vol. 4, Manual of Remote Sensing. She recently served on the NASEM Committee on the Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California Davis and graduated in 1983.
