Professor Moore has a Ph.D. in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics from Princeton University.  He is a Professor of Physics at the University of Toronto and the 2017 Fulbright Visiting Chair in Arctic Studies at the University of Washington.  Professor Moore’s research interests include: geophysical fluid dynamics, polar meteorology, observational studies of high latitude air-sea-ice interactions, physical oceanography, paleoclimatology and high altitude physiology.

Professor Moore has published over 150 research papers in the high quality peer-reviewed literature Among the journals that Professor Moore has published in include: Science, Nature, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Climate, the Journal of Hydrometeorology, Geophysical Research Letters, the British Medical Journal, Progress in Oceanography, Deep Sea Research and the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. In addition, Professor Moore has played a leadership role in a number of national and international research collaborations including the Canadian Atlantic Storms Program, the Beaufort and Arctic Storms Experiment, the Canadian GEWEX (Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment) Program, the Labrador Sea Deep Ocean Convection Experiment, the Greenland Flow Distortion Experiment, the Storms of the Arctic Experiment and the Iceland-Greenland Sea Project.