Dr. Todd Moore
Chair, Department of Geosciences
Associate Professor of Geosciences, Geography
Department Office: Tomanek Hall 233 B
Phone:785-628-4587
Email: twmoore@fhsu.edu
Social Media: Twitter @MooreClimate
Curriculum Vitae - contact me for a current vitae
Welcome to the Department of Geosciences. Like my colleagues in the Geosciences, I am interested in the physical world and how we interact with it. My training as a physical geographer has broadened my interests, but I focus mostly on severe weather hazards and climate change and variability.
Educational Background
- Ph.D. in Geography and studies in Climatology, Texas State University - San Marcos, TX 2013
- M.S. in Geography, Texas State University - San Marcos, TX 2009
- B.S. in Geography, Texas State University - San Marcos, TX 2005
Courses Taught
- Climatology
- Meteorology
- Severe and Hazardous Weather
- Climate Change
- Physical Geography
Research Interests and Specializations
- Severe weather hazards and climatology
- Tornado climatology
- Climate change and variability
Highlighted Publications/Abstracts & Presentations
(see CV for complete listing)
Brace AM, Moore TW, Matthews TL. 2020 The relationship between food deserts, farmers' markets, and food assistance programs in Hawai'i census tracts. Hawai'i Journal of Health & Social Welfare 79:4-9.
Moore TW, McGuire MP. 2019. Tornado-days in the United States by phase of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Global Wind Oscillation. Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-019-04983-y.
Moore TW, McGuire MP. 2019. Using the standard deviational ellipse to document changes to the spatial dispersion of seasonal tornado activity in the United States. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. DOI: 10.1038/s41612-019-0078-4.
Moore TW, DeBoer TA. 2019. A review and analysis of possible changes to the climatology of tornadoes in the United States. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment. DOI: 10.1177/0309133319829398.
Moore TW. 2019. Seasonal frequency and spatial distribution of tornadoes in the United States and their relationship to the El Niño/Southern Oscillation. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2018.1511412.
Moore TW, St. Clair JM, DeBoer TA. 2018. An analysis of anomalous winter and spring tornado frequency by phase of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation, the Global Wind Oscillation, and the Madden-Julian Oscillation. Advances in Meteorology: 3612567. DOI: 10.1155/2018/3612567.
Moore TW. 2018. Annual and seasonal tornado activity in the United States and the Global Wind Oscillation. Climate Dynamics 50: 4323–4334. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-3877-5.
Moore TW. 2018. Annual and seasonal tornado trends in the contiguous United States and its regions. International Journal of Climatology 38(3): 1582–1594. DOI: 10.1002/joc.5285.
Moore TW, Sokol NJ, Blume RA. 2017. Spatial distributions of tropical cyclone tornadoes by intensity and size characteristics. Atmosphere 8 . DOI: 10.3390/atmos8090160.
Moore TW. 2017. On the temporal and spatial characteristics of tornado days in the United States. Atmospheric Research 184: 56–65. DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2016.10.007.
Current Research
My current research is focused on the tornado climatology of the United States. I am interested in documenting spatio-temporal trends in tornado activity and identifying possible drivers of these trends in the climate system. Through this research, I have documented decreases in the number of days with few tornadoes and increases in the number of days with many tornadoes, decreases in the number of tornadoes in the Great Plains and increases in the number of tornadoes farther east, and decreases in the spatial dispersion of tornadoes. I have also identified relationships between tornado activity and such climate patterns as the El Niño/Southern Oscillation, Madden-Julian Oscillation, and Global Wind Oscillation.
There is still much work to be done—trends to document and relationships to identify. If you are interested in learning about and contributing to this fun and important topic, please contact me.