Rate My Professor Susan Steele-Dunne

Steele-Dunne earned her S.M. in 2002 and Ph.D. in 2006 in hydrology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her contributions include innovative approaches to soil moisture retrieval, radar backscatter analysis for vegetation parameters, and diurnal cycle exploitation for stress detection. She has been awarded an NWO Vidi grant for radar-based soil moisture studies and the prestigious NWO Vici grant in 2024, worth up to 1.5 million euros over five years, for the project 'Taking the pulse of Earth’s ecosystems.' Notable publications feature 'Radar Remote Sensing of Hydrologic Processes,' 'Microwave remote sensing for agricultural drought monitoring' (Frontiers in Water, 2022), 'The influence of vegetation water dynamics on the ASCAT backscatter' (HESS, 2022), 'Understanding Sentinel-1 backscatter response to sugarcane development' (Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023), and 'Assimilation of ASCAT normalized backscatter into the Community Land Model' (Remote Sensing of Environment, 2024). She serves on advisory boards for the European Space Agency, editorial board of Earth Observation, and teaches courses on microwave remote sensing and earth system science.