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Dr. Kurt R. Moore
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM

Kurt R. Moore received a B.S. in Physics from the University of Kansas in 1977 and a M.S. and Ph.D., both in Geophysics and Space Physics, from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1986 and 1990, respectively. He became a technical staff member at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in 1979 in the Laser Fusion Target Fabrication Group. He transferred to the newly formed Earth and Space Science Division (later reorganized to the Space Science and Technology Division and now a part of Nonproliferation and International Security Division) in 1980 to do data acquisition and control and switched to the Space Plasma Physics section in 1987. He was a co-investigator on the energetic particle and space plasma experiments on nuclear treaty verification satellites and has also participated in ULYSSES, CASSINI, IMAGE, and other scientific space missions. He was project leader of the DOE Deployable Adaptive Hardware project and principal investigator for the Event Classifier on the FORTE small satellite mission. He was also principal investigator for a Venus magnetotail study for the NASA Venus Data Analysis Program. He has received six LANL Large Team Distinguished Performance awards. He has participated in numerous field experimental campaigns that include astrophysical X-ray measurements from sounding rockets, ionospheric remote sensing using radar, and various atmospheric remote sensing experiments using LIDAR. He has been a leader in the application of biologically inspired techniques to high speed real time data acquisition, analysis, and control and is currently investigating synchronization of spiking neurons for information extraction from high bandwidth data streams. His current interests are advanced data processing and pattern recognition techniques and hardware (particularly spectral decomposition); attitude control, formation flying, and collision avoidance for nanosatellite constellations; low energy neutral atom imaging; and solar neutron phenomena.