Twila Moon

DepartmentOrganizationEmailPhoneAddressBoulder , Colorado 59716United StatesBioDr. Twila Moon is Deputy Lead Scientist and Science Communication Liaison at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, part of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, a leader in Earth science. Dr. Moon is an expert in glaciers and ice sheets, and the connections among ice, climate, ocean, and ecosystem. Her primary focus is on the Greenland Ice Sheet and the Arctic. Her research has been published in high-impact journals such as Science and Nature and received extensive media coverage around the world. She has led development of valuable researcher and educator tools like QGreenland and PolarPASS. Also an accomplished science communicator, she has testified for the U.S. Congress, is a lead editor for the annual NOAA Arctic Report Card, and spearheads efforts on scientist-stakeholder knowledge exchange. After completing degrees at Stanford (BS) and the University of Washington (MS, PhD), she conducted research at the University of Colorado, University of Oregon, and University of Bristol (UK) before returning to the National Snow and Ice Data Center in 2017. When not exploring the ice and outdoors, she works from her home in Montana, usually with a cat on her lap.

Interests

Land Ice/Glaciers, Interdisciplinary Research, Science Education

Science Specialties

Glaciology, ice-ocean interaction, freshwater production, Greenland coastal zones, climate change impacts.