Research

My research spans ecology, evolution, and ecophysiology. I study the role that time and uncertainity play in shaping plant responses to the environment. In particular, I focus on plant phenology, the timing of annually reoccuring life-history events like growth, maturation, reproduction, and dispersal. Although I have specific expertise in alpine, arctic tundra, and agricultural systems, I view plant phenology as a unifying concept in ecology and evolution which integrates processes across biological scales. Plant phenology is an inherently individual and physiological process that can directly impact fitness, demography, and population persistence. Variation in phenological plasticity among species generates novel temporal community assemblies under variable environmental conditions. Taken together, these processes may scale to impact land surface phenology with critical implications for water, energy, agriculture, and ecosystem health.

Publications

Moore, M. A.., Emery, N. C., and Elmendorf, S. C. (In prep). Divergent regional trends in alpine tundra productivity linked to changes in snow-free season length.

Clark, Eliza I., Moore, M. A., Khoury, C. K., Hulke, B. S., Kane, N. C., Elmendorf, S. C. (In Review). Climate drives variation in optimal phenology: 46 years of multi-environment trials in sunflower.

Presentations

Moore, M. A., Hoy, E. E., Griffith, P. C., Schaefer, K. M., & Bourgeau-Chavez, L. L. (2023). From Field to Air: Integrating Field Data in Support of the ABoVE Airborne Campaign. 2023, B31B-08. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023AGUFM.B31B..08M

Datasets

Moore, M.A., K. Schaefer, L.K. Clayton, E.E. Hoy, M. Auclair, K. Bakian-Dogaheh, M.J. Battaglia, K. Bennett, W.R. Bolton, L.L. Bourgeau-Chavez, A.E. Bredder, D. Chen, R.H. Chen, A.C. Chen, J. Chen, D. Chiasson, R. Chitra-tarak, A. Collins, L. Cornette, J. Dann, E. Devoie, M. Dominico, T.A. Douglas, S. Gagnon, S.E. Grelick, P. Griffith, J. He, G. Iwahana, E. Jafarov, L.K. Jenkins, E.S. Kasischke, S. Kim, P.B. Kirchner, B. Lecavalier, J. Ledman, S. Liben, L. Liu, T.V. Loboda, S. Ludwig, M.J. Macander, N. Matsui, R.J. Michaelides, M. Moghaddam, S. Natali, S.K. Panda, A.D. Parsekian, M. Pearce, W. Quinton, A.V. Rocha, H. Rodenhizer, P. Roy-Léveillée, N. Saravanan, Z. Sauve, S.R. Schaefer, E.A.G. Schuur, O. Sonnentag, T.D. Sullivan, A. Tabatabaeenejad, L. Thomas, B. Thorne, K. Turner, K. Wang, C.J. Wilson, H.A. Zebker, T. Zhang, Y. Zhao, and S. Zwieback. (2025). ABoVE: Soil Moisture and Active Layer Thickness in Alaska, USA and Canada, 2005-2022. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2369

White, C. T., Morse, J. F., Brandes, H., Chowanski, K., Kittel, T., Losleben, M., & Moore, M. A. (2025). Homogenized, gap-filled, daily air temperature data for Saddle, 1986—Ongoing. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/49a2171ec028c4ddef298752bc9ebe8d

White, C. T., Morse, J. F., Brandes, H., Chowanski, K., Kittel, T., Williams, M., Losleben, M., & Moore, M. A. (2025). Infilled daily precipitation data for Saddle, 1981—Ongoing. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/8caa444276521b797e4a16485dc0e137

Kittel, T., White, C., Hartman, M., Chowanski, K., Ackerman, T., Williams, M., Losleben, M., & Moore, M. A. (202a). Infilled daily air temperature data for C1 chart recorder, 1952—Ongoing. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/0b4f8747ea72258e46681bb511c262f3

Kittel, T., White, C., Hartman, M., Chowanski, K., Ackerman, T., Williams, M., Losleben, M., & Moore, M. A. (2025). Infilled daily air temperature data for D1 chart recorder, 1952—Ongoing. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/b05689181c21ac40d35b6c1c01e2f8a

Kittel, T., White, C., Hartman, M., Chowanski, K., Ackerman, T., Williams, M., Losleben, M., & Moore, M. A. (2025). Infilled daily precipitation data for C1 chart recorder, 1952—Ongoing. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/5f896d7d1eb19649ee2ff9fca7166160

Kittel, T., White, C., Hartman, M., Chowanski, K., Ackerman, T., Williams, M., Losleben, M., & Moore, M. A. (2025). Infilled daily precipitation data for D1 chart recorder, 1952—Ongoing. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/02b125f7d0dc87a6d40e6ca7001471ce