top of page

John Moore

Arctic Centre, University of Lapland

Research Professor at Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland.

Lead University of the Arctic Thematic Network in Frozen Arctic Conservation

Member of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.


Member of 6 Antarctic, 5 Greenlandic and 20 Svalbard scientific expeditions.

Led the Chinese geoengineering research program 2015-2022.

Authored over 200 articles ~21000 citations, H-index=62,

19 articles published in PNAS & the "Nature" group.

Research Activities: Climate-engineering. Sea level change. Ice sheet dynamics. Social-natural and indigenous-western science co-design of targeted interventions to conserve the cryosphere.


Climate simulations with Earth System Models and local impact models. Sea level change and prediction and extreme event scenarios. I have also published on a wide variety of subjects including mathematics, economics, history, ice cores (including the DEP technique I developed in my PhD), remote sensing and social science.


Chief scientist on 2007-2009 International Polar Year project: Kinnvika. I lead the University of the Arctic Thematic Network on Frozen Arctic Conservation. I am the Finnish representative on International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) Glaciology Network. A Member of World Meteorological Organization advisory panel on Geoengineering and a Steering committee member of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP).

John Moore
  • CCR and UoC Logos_Transparent_edited
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • X
  • Youtube

Arctic Repair Conference, hosted by Centre for Climate Repair with UArctic.

bottom of page