Maura E. Hagan is a Professor Emeritus of Physics and a former Dean of the College of Science at Utah State University.
Hagan worked on exospheric temperature with William L. Oliver, using measurements made at Millstone Hill between 1970 and 1980.
[3] Hagan joined the Haystack Observatory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a staff member in 1986.
[1] In 1992 Hagan was made a Senior Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) High Altitude Observatory.
The collaboration used the IMAGE spacecraft to study plasma bands in the upper atmosphere, finding ultra bright areas that were located above thunderstorms in tropical rainforests.
[14] She is Co-Chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Solar and Space Physics.