Kent Moore

Professor Moore has for over 25 years taken the earth’s temperature and done in depth analysis on how and why it is changing. He has flown through winter storms in the Arctic, climbed some of our highest peaks, measured Artic sea ice and examined ice cores. 

Professor Moore has a Ph.D. in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics from Princeton Univ. He is a Distinguished Professor of Theoretical Geophysics of Climate Change at the Univ. of Toronto, From 2018 to 2024, he served as the the Vice-Principal Research  and Innovation at the Univ. of Toronto Mississauga In 2017, he was the Fulbright Visiting Chair in Arctic Studies at the Univ. 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. In 2017,  Professor Moore was elected a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in recognition of his contributions to Arctic research. in 2024, Professor Moore was awarded the Patterson Medal by Environment and Climate Change Canada in recognition of his distinguished service to meteorology in Canada.  In 2024,  he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in recognition of his  innovative research that has transformed our understanding of the impacts of climate change in polar and mountainous regions.

Professor Moore has published over 200 research papers in the peer-reviewed literature including papers in Science, Nature, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, the New England Journal of Medicine and the British Medical Journal. As a recognized authority in climate science, Professor Moore is frequently asked to speak or provide comment on current environmental issues. 

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