Biography

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering and hold the York Research Chair in Space Exploration at York University (with a graduate appointment in the Earth and Space Science and Physics and Astronomy Departments). I am a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists as well as a Participating Scientist on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Mission, popularly known as the Curiosity Rover. After training on MER in 2004, I contributed to the 2005 Huygens Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan and the 2008 Phoenix Mission to the Martian Arctic and currently serve on the InSight, MSL and Juno missions in various capacities. My work has been included in 75 peer-reviewed papers and 159 conference proceedings. I am the Director of the Technologies for Exo/Planetary Science NSERC CREATE Program, a member of the Canadian Space Agency’s Planetary Exploration Consultation Committee, the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society’s Scientific Committee and serve as the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at the Lassonde School of Engineering.

Research Interests

• Numerical Modeling of volatile processes on planetary bodies
• Laboratory Simulation of planetary bodies
• Space Mission Operations, Experiment Design & Data Analysis
• Planetary instrument design and development & Space Mission Design
• Planetary Science, Space Exploration & instrumentation
• Atmospheric Science
• Exoplanets
• Geophysics

Selected Publications

Moores, J.E., P.L. King, C.L. Smith, G.M. Martinez, C. E. Newman, S. Guzewich, P.-Y. Meslin, C.R. Webster, P.R. Mahaffy, S.K. Atreya and A.C. Schuerger (2019c) The methane diurnal variation and micro-seepage flux at Gale Crater, Mars as constrained by the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and Curiosity Observations. Geophys. Res. Lett. 46 (16) pp. 9430-9438. Doi: 10.1029/2019GL083800

Smith, C.L., J.E. Moores, S.D. Guzewich, C.A. Moore and D. Ellison (2019) Visibility and Line-of-sight extinction measurements within gale crater during the 2018/Mars Year 34 Global Dust Storm by Curiosity. Geophys. Res. Lett. 46 (16) pp. 9414-9421 doi: 10.1029/2019GL083788

Campbell, C., Kling, A., Guzewich, S., Smith, C.L., Kloos, J., Lemmon, M., Moore, C.A., Cooper, B.A., Haberle, R., Moores, J.E. (2019) Estimating the Altitudes of Martian Water-Ice Clouds Above the Mars Science Laboratory Rover Landing Site. Planetary and Space Science. v182 nº 104785 10.1016/j.pss.2019.104785

Godin, P.J., Stone, H., Bahrami, R., Schuerger, A.C. and Moores, J.E. (2019) UV Attenuation by Martian Brines. Canadian Journal of Physics. Accepted for Publication. Doi: 10.1139/cjp-2019-0425

Moores, J.E., R.V. Gough, G.M. Martinez, P.-Y. Meslin, C.L. Smith, S.K. Atreya, P. R. Mahaffy and C.R. Webster (2019) Methane Seasonal Cycle at Gale Crater, Mars consistent with regolith adsorption and diffusion. Nature Geoscience. 12(5) pp.321-325. doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0313-y

Kloos, J.L., Moores, J.E., Sangha, J., Nguyen, T.G. and Schorghofer, N. (2019) The temporal and geographic extent of seasonal cold trapping on the Moon. J. Geophys. Res. Planets 124 (7) pp.1935-1944 doi: 10.1029/2019JE006003

Cooper, B.A., C.L. Smith, D. Ellison, J.E. Moores, J.L. Kloos, S.D. Guzewich, C.L. Campbell (2019) Constraints on Mars Aphelion Cloud Belt Phase Function and Ice Crystal Geometries. Planetary and Space Science v.168 p 62-72 doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2019.01.005

Schuerger, A.C., Moores, J.E., Smith, D.J. and Reitz, G. (2019) A Lunar Microbial Survival (LMS) Model for Predicting the Forward Contamination of the Moon. Astrobiology. 19 (6) pp. 730-756. doi: 10.1089/ast.2018.1952

C. R. Webster, P. R. Mahaffy, S. K. Atreya, J. E. Moores and 40 co-authors, including C.L. Smith (2018) Background Levels of Methane in Mars’ Atmosphere Show Strong Seasonal Variations. Science. 360 (6393) 1093-1096 doi: 10.1126/science.aaq0131

Moores, J.E., Smith, C.L., Toigo, A. and Guzewich, S. (2017) Penitentes as the origin of the bladed terrain of Tartarus Dorsa on Pluto. Nature. 541 p. 188-190 Doi: 10.1038/nature20779.Moores, J.E., Smith, C.L., Toigo, A. and Guzewich, S. (2017) Penitentes as the origin of the bladed terrain of Tartarus Dorsa on Pluto. Nature. 541 p. 188-190 Doi: 10.1038/nature20779.

Smith, C.L., B.A. Cooper and J.E. Moores (2016) Possible ground fog detection from SLI imagery of Titan. Icarus. In Press. Doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2016.02.002.

Moores, J.E. (2016a) Lunar water migration in the interval between large impacts: Heterogeneous delivery to Permanently Shadowed Regions, fractionation, and diffusive barriers. In Press. J. Geophys Res. Planets. 121 (1) p. 46- Doi: 10.1002/2015JE004929

Moores, J.E. and 14 co-authors including C.A. Moore (2016b) Transient Atmospheric Effects of the Landing of the Mars Science Laboratory Rover: The Emission and Dissipation of Dust and Carbazic Acid. Advances in Space Research. 58 pp. 1066-1092 Doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2016.05.051

Kloos, J.L, Moores, J.E. et al. (2016) The First Year of Atmospheric Monitoring Movies from Mars Science Laboratory (Sol 0-800). Advances in Space Research. 57 (5) pp. 1223 – 1240, doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2015.12.040

Moores, J.E. and 25 co-authors including R. Francis and E. McCullough (2015c) Atmospheric movies acquired at the Mars Science Laboratory landing site: Cloud Morphology, Frequency and Significance to the Gale Crater Water Cycle and Phoenix Mission Results. Advances in Space Research. 55 (9) pp 2217-2238 Doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2015.02.007

Moores, J.E. and 25 co-authors including R. Francis and E. McCullough (2015a) Observational evidence of a suppressed planetary boundary layer in northern Gale Crater, Mars as seen by the Navcam instrument onboard the Mars Science Laboratory rover. Icarus v. 249 pp.129-142 Doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2014.09.020

Webster, C.R. and 29 co-authors including J.E. Moores (2015) Mars methane detection and variability at Gale crater. Science. 347 (6220) pp. 415-417 doi: 10.1126/science.1261713

Moores, J.E., K.A. Carroll, I. DeSouza, K. Sathiyanathan, B. Stoute, J. Shan, R.S. Lee and B. Quine (2014b) The Small Reconnaissance of Atmospheres (SMARA) Mission Platform Concept, Part I: Motivations and Outline for a Swarm of Scientific Microprobes to the Clouds of Jupiter in 2030. Int. J. of Space Science and Engineering. v 2 (4) pp. 327-344 doi: 10.1504/IJSPACESE.2014.06696

Moores, J.E., T.H. Mcconnochie, D.W. Ming, P.D. Archer, Jr. and A.C. Schuerger (2014a) The Siding Spring Cometary Encounter with Mars: A Natural Experiment for the Martian Atmosphere? Geophysical Research Letters 41 (12) 4109-4117 doi: 10.1002/2014GL060610

Meslin, P.-Y. and 47 co-authors including J.E. Moores (2013) Soil diversity and hydration as observed by ChemCam at Gale Crater, Mars. Science 341 (6153) doi: 10.1126/science.1238670

Moores, J.E., R. Francis, M. Mader, G.R. Osinski and the ILSR Team (2012b) A Mission Control Architecture for Lunar Sample Return as Field Tested in an Analogue Deployment to the Sudbury Impact Structure. Advances in Space Research. 50 (12) p.1666-1686 doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2012.05.008

Moores, J.E. and A.C. Schuerger (2012c) UV degradation of accreted organics on Mars: IDP longevity, surface reservoir of organics, and relevance to the detection of methane in the atmosphere. JGR-Planets. 117 (E8) CiteID E08008 doi: 10.1029/2012JE004060

Moores, J.E., L. Komguem, J.A. Whiteway, M.T. Lemmon, C. Dickinson and F. Daerden (2011b) Observations of Near-Surface Fog at the Phoenix Mars Landing Site. Geophys. Res. Lett. 38(4) L04203 doi: 10.1029/2010GL046315.

Whiteway, J., Komguem, L., Dickinson, C., Cook,, C., Seabrook, J., Popovici, V., Duck, T., Davy, R., Taylor, P., Pathak, J., Fisher, D., Carswell, A., Daly, M., Hipkin, V., Tamppari, L., Renno, N., Smith, P.H. Moores, J. and Lemmon, M.T. (2009) Mars Water Ice Clouds and Precipitation. Science vol 325, Issue 5936 pp. 68- doi: 10.1126/science.1172344.

Tomasko, M.G., Smith, P.H. , Moores, J.E. and 37 co-authors (2005) Rain, winds and haze during the Huygens probe’s descent to Titan’s surface. Nature vol 438 n°7069 pp 765-778.