Tom Moran received a PhD in experimental plasma physics at MIT, where
he studied UV and visible light emitted by magnetically confined
high temperature plasmas as part of a nuclear fusion research project. 
This led to work in visible and IR solar astronomy with Peter Foukal 
of Cambridge Research and Instrumentation, performing coronal and
photospheric observations at the National Solar Observatory at Kitt 
Peak, AZ. and Sacramento Peak, NM. From there, he came to NASA/GSFC
as an NRC fellow to work with Drake Deming and Don Jennings in IR
solar astronomy, measuring magnetic field strengths as part of a 
project which is still active. Before the launch of SOHO, he joined 
the SUMER team to help calibrate and then operate the UV spectrograph,
making coronal hole observations. He is now part of the STEREO team,
and has worked to develop calibration procedures for coronagraph 
instrumental polarization. Out of that work, he became interested in 
studying the three-dimensional structure of CMEs using polarimetric 
measurements and developed a technique to reconstruct these eruptions, 
which he demonstrated using SOHO/LASCO observations. Polarimetric CME 
reconstruction continues to be one of his primary interests.