Dr. Thomas E. Moore NASA/GSFC, Code 670 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Phone: (301) 286-5236 Fax: (301) 286-14335 Email: thomas.e.moore@nasa.gov Home Page

PRESENT POSITION:

Deputy Director, Heliophysics Science Division
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

EDUCATION:

B.S. (honors), Physics, University of New Hampshire, 1970
M.A.T., Education, University of New Hampshire, 1971
Ph.D., Astrogeophysics, Unversity of Colorado, 1978

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Dr. Moore's main interests are in the heating and acceleration of ionospheric plasmas, their escape into space to form planetary plasmaspheres, and in the further acceleration of these plasmas to form unstable plasma sheets and diamagnetically-trapped ring currents. He has also conducted active space plasma experiments to explore plasma heating phenomena. Dr. Moore has been a science investigator and-or project scientist for 10 suborbital, one space shuttle, and 4 orbital NASA missions: ATS-6, Dynamics Explorer-1/RIMS, GGS/Polar/TIDE & PSI, IMAGE/LENA. He is currently a coinvestigator for the NASA IBEX (Interstellar Boundary EXplorer) and MMS (Magnetosphereic Multiscale) missions. Dr. Moore was Co-Chair for the 2006 Heliophysics Roadmaps, after previously serving as a member of the Sun-Earth Connection Roadmap Committees. He has served as secretary for the Magnetospheric Physics subsection of the American Geophysical Union, as a member of the International Space Science Institute working group on Source and Loss Processes of Magnetospheric Plasma, as associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research, as a member of the NASA Magnetospheric Physics Management Operations Working Group, as a member of the NRC Space Studies Board Committee on Solar and Space Physics, and as a member of the NASA Sun-Earth Connection Advisory Subcommittee. He has served as a member of NASA's study team for the Inner Magnetosphere Imager, as a member of the NASA study team for the Solar Probe Mission, and is currently the study scientist for the Magnetospheric Constellation Mission.

EXPERIENCE:

1997-present -- Head, Heliospheric Physics Branch, NASA GSFC.
1988-2002 -- Graduate Faculty, Physics, Univ. of Ala. in Huntsville.
1984-1997 -- Chief, Space Plasma Physics Branch, NASA MSFC.
1978-1983 -- Research Scientist, University of New Hampshire.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

1. "Origins of magnetospheric plasma", Moore, T. E., Rev. Geophys., Supplement, 1039, 1991.
2. "Non-Adiabatic Transport Features in the Outer Cusp Region," Delcourt, D. C., T. E. Moore, J. A. Sauvaud, and C. R. Chappell, J. Geophys. Res., 97(A11), 16,833-16,842,1992.
3. "Polar wind dynamics in the magnetotail", Delcourt, D.C., J.A. Sauvaud, and T. E. Moore, J. Geophys. Res., 98(A6), 9155, 1993.
4. "The Thermal Ion Dynamics Experiment and Plasma Source Instrument", Moore, T. E., C. R. Chappell, et al., Space Sci. Revs., 71, p.409, 1995.
5. "The geopause", Moore, T.E., and D.C. Delcourt, Revs. Geophys., 33(2), p. 175, 1995.
6. "Plasma heating and flow in an auroral arc," Moore, T. E., M. O. Chandler, C. J. Pollock, D. L. Reasoner, R. L. Arnoldy, B. Austin, P. M. Kintner, and J. Bonnell, J. Geophys. Res., 101(A3), p.5279, 1996.
7. "The cleft ion plasma environment at low solar activity", Moore, T.E., C.J. Pollock, M.L. Adrian, P.M. Kintner, R. L. Arnoldy, and K. Lynch, Geophys. Res. Lett., p.1877, 1996.
8. "High altitude observations of the polar wind", Moore, T. E., C. R. Chappel et al., Science, 277, p.349, 1997.
9. "Ionospheric mass ejection in response to a CME", Moore, T. E., et al., Geophys. Res. Lett., 26(15), pp. 2339-2342, 1999.
10. "The Low Energy Neutral Atom Imager for IMAGE", Moore, T. E., et al., Space Sci. Revs., 91(1-2), p.155, 2000.
11. "Ring Currents and Internal Plasma Sources", Moore, T.E., et al., Space Science Reviews, 95(1/2): 555-568, January 2001.
12. "The dayside reconnection X line", Moore, T. E., M.-C. Fok, and M. O. Chandler, J. Geophys. Res., 107(A10), 10.1029/2002JA009381, p.SMP 26, 2002.
13. "Heliosphere-Geosphere Interactions Using Low Energy Neutral Atom Imaging", Moore, T. E., et al., Space Science Reviews 109: 351-371, 2003..
14. "Dayside flow bursts in the Earth's magnetosphere", Chen, S.H., and T. E. Moore, JGR, 109(A3), A03215, Jan 2004.
15. "Ionospheric Plasmas in the Ring Current", Moore, T. E., M.-C. Fok, et al., IN Inner Magnetosphere Interactions", Geophys. Mono. Ser., 159, Am. Geophys. Un., ISBN 0-87590-424-6, p.179, 2005.