Michael J. Moore is the Assistant Unit Leader of the U.S. Geological Survey, Iowa Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit and Assistant Professor in the Natural Resources Ecology and Management Department at Iowa State University. He received his B.S. from the University of Missouri (2012), his M.S. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech; 2016), and his PhD from the University of Missouri (2021).
His research is centered on understanding how anthropogenic stressors affect freshwater biodiversity and aquatic resources, particularly the fish and crayfish faunal groups in order to inform actionable science by cooperating agencies. His work spans a variety of scales from landscape-level and aquatic community studies to local and single-species studies. He has been involved with the Mississippi-Yangtze River Basins network since 2021 to promote international collaborations and communications among large river researchers and conservation practitioners.
Research Interests: hydrologic alteration, invasive species control, effects of agriculture on fisheries, stream habitat management, sturgeon and paddlefish conservation, crayfish ecology and conservation, and movement ecology.