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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T16:43:14.433294'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/susan-m-hall
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations: []
   education: []
   email: susanhall@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms:
   - Economic Geology
   - Uranium Geology
   - Resource Estimation
   honors: []
   intro_statements:
   - Susan Hall is the uranium resource specialist at the US Geological Survey. She
     leads a project that estimates uranium remaining unmined in the US to help determine
     if potential supply is adequate to fuel US nuclear reactors.
   name: Susan M Hall
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0002-0931-8694
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/central-energy-resources-science-center
   organization_name: Central Energy Resources Science Center
   personal_statement: "Career History and Highlights:Dr. Hall is an economic geologist\
     \ at the USGS Central Energy Resources Science Center based in Denver, Colorado.\
     \ She is the uranium resource specialist for the USGS, leading the uranium resource\
     \ evaluation project for the US and also working on uranium environmental issues\
     \ and international uranium supply and demand. Since she began her USGS career\
     \ in 2008, she has revitalized the USGS uranium resources program; planning,\
     \ securing funding, evaluating the efficacy of modeling methodologies, and initiating\
     \ the first comprehensive, domestic uranium resource assessment since 1980.She\
     \ creatively applies cutting edge analytic techniques to develop genetic models\
     \ for complex mineral systems. Her publications are described as \u201Cbenchmark\
     \ references\u201D which success she attributes to the practical experience\
     \ gained during a 20 year career in the mining industry before joining USGS\
     \ coupled with the ability to seek out specialized expertise and develop successful\
     \ research teams comprised of scientists in academia, industry, state and other\
     \ federal agencies. She is a recognized international expert in uranium mineral\
     \ systems. Her analysis of the underlying controls of these systems has taken\
     \ her around the world to study deposits throughout North and South America,\
     \ Europe and Africa.Her investigations into the groundwater impacts of in-situ\
     \ uranium mining, developed in collaboration with industry and state regulators,\
     \ were used as scientific basis for regulations developed by the US Environmental\
     \ Protection Agency. She contributes her technical expertise to tribal nations,\
     \ state, and federal agencies to help evaluate remediation strategies for legacy\
     \ uranium mines.Dr. Hall has been invited to speak to U.S. Congress, the U.S.\
     \ Nuclear Regulatory Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy, environmental law\
     \ conferences, and industry forums and has been a keynote speaker and panelist\
     \ at International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conferences. Her expertise also\
     \ extends to issues of international uranium supply and demand. In this role\
     \ she chairs the IAEA-Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development/Nuclear\
     \ Energy Agency Uranium Group as the first American to chair this group of international\
     \ uranium resource experts in 30 years, and the first woman ever to hold this\
     \ position."
   professional_experience: []
   title: Geologist