Thomas Earle Moore

Thomas E. Moore earned the B.S. in Physics in 1970, and the M.A.T. in 1971, from the University of New Hampshire. He received the Ph.D. in Astrogeophysics from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1978. Back at UNH, he worked on the dynamics of the plasma environment at geosynchronous orbit, and the first multi-point observations to reveal moving space weather fronts. He also was active in the observation of plasma and energetic particles above auroral displays from sounding rocket platforms. Dr. Moore joined NASA at Marshall Space Flight Center in 1983 as a member of the science team for the Retarding Ion Mass Spectrometer on the Dynamics Explorer-1 Satellite. He supplied plasma spectrometers for the TOpside Probe of the Auroral Zone (TOPAZ) series of sounding rocket payloads, the ARCS series of active experiment payloads, and the SCIFER and CAPER rocket payloads. At MSFC, he became the principal investigator for the Thermal Ion Dynamics Experiment and Plasma Source Instrument for the ISTP POLAR spacecraft. Dr. Moore joined the Goddard Space Flight Center in 1997, as mission scientist for the IMAGE mission, lead co-investigator for the Low Energy Neutral Atom imager on IMAGE, and to pursue broader interests in heliospheric and planetary plasma heating and outflow. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, having served as awards committee member, section secretary, and program committee member, and associate editor for the Space Physics and Aeronomy section. He served as a member of the Solar Probe science definition team, The Sun Earth Connections Advisory Subcommittee, as a co-chair of the first NASA “Heliophysics” Roadmap Committee, as study scientist for the Magnetotail Constellation Mission, and as Co-convener for the 2015 Conference on Measurement Techniques in Solar and Space Physics. He is a co-investigator on the Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission, and the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, as Project Scientist.