Dr. Todd W. Moore holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Texas State University. After completing his studies, he served as an Assistant and Associate Professor at Towson University before advancing to Chair and Professor at Fort Hays State University. In Fall 2024, Dr. Moore began his role as Chair and Professor of the Department of Geosciences at Middle Tennessee State University.

Dr. Moore enjoys teaching Physical Geography, Climatology, Meteorology, Quantitiate Methods, and Research Design courses along with those on more specialized topics like Severe and Hazardous Weather. In the classroom, Dr. Moore enjoys exploring non-traditional teaching and assessment methods that are designed to shift the focus of students away from letter grades and toward the content, outcomes, and skills of the course. 

Dr. Moore's research centers on the climate system and severe and hazardous weather, particularly on tornadoes and their connections to large-scale climate phenomena such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. He employs a combination of statistical and physical approaches to investigate trends and variability in the tornado record along with relationships between tornadoes and other climate phenomena. His work is motivated by a deep interest in identifying trends, patterns, and relationships in climate data sets, a drive to help deepen our understanding of the climate system, and a desire to create information that can be used to prepare people for impactful climate an weather events and, ultimately, mitigate losses. 

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Recent publications:

Moore TW, DeBoer TA, Fricker T. 2024. Multi-timescale exploration of teleconnection/tornado activity relationships in the Southeastern United States. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. doi: 10.1007/s00704-024-04960-4 31.

Nunez D, Moore TW. 2024. Sociodemographic disparity of asthma calls in Wichita, Oklahoma City, and Tulsa. Papers in Applied Geography. doi: 10.1080/23754931.2024.2332246 30.

Moore TW, St Clair JM, McGuire MP. 2022. Climatology and trends of tornado-favorable environmental ingredients in the United States. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. doi: 10.1080/24694452.2021.1910479 29.

McGuire MP, Moore TW. 2022. Prediction of tornado days in the United States with deep convolutional neural networks. Computers & Geosciences 159:104990. 28.

Moore TW. 2021. Decreasing trends in consecutive-day tornado events in the United States. International Journal of Climatology 41: 6530–6540. doi: 10.1002/JOC.7210 27.

Moore TW, Fricker T. 2020. Tornadoes in the United States are concentrating on fewer days, but their power dissipation is not. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 142:1569–1579. doi: 10.1007/s00704-020-03402-1 26.

Moore TW, McGuire MP. 2020. Tornado-days in the United States by phase of the Madden-Julian and global wind oscillation. Climate Dynamics 54:17–36 25.

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 and Social Welfare 79:36–41.

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