Steven Moore Ph.D.
Education
- Ph.D., Renewable Natural Resources, University of Arizona
- M.B.A., University of Illinois, Chicago
- B.A., Biology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Professional Background
Dr. Moore is Director of the Center for Spatial Studies (CSS) and Director of Sponsored Programs at the University of Redlands. In his role as CSS Director, Dr. Moore oversees the research and instructional support activities of the Center for Spatial Studies. In his role as Sponsored Programs Director, Dr. Moore supports faculty and staff as they search for and acquire public and private funding for research, scholarship and other programs. Before coming to the University of Redlands, Dr. Moore was CEO of Science Approach, a small business, and Executive Director of the Center for Image Processing in Education, a nonprofit company. Both organizations developed online lessons, e-books, and professional development programs that introduced middle school–college instructors and students to digital image analysis and geographic information systems as tools for self-guided research and discovery. During his career, Dr. Moore has served as Principal Investigator on 19 federally and privately funded science education projects that focused on using digital image analysis, geographic information systems, and other computer-based visualization technologies for student learning in grades 5-12 and college. Nine of these projects were funded by Small Business Innovative Research/Technology Transfer grants from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Moore is a graduate of the National Institutes of Health Commercialization Assistance Program (NIH-CAP). A recently completed NSF grant—Spatial STEM+C—evaluated curricular materials designed to improve the spatial thinking, computational, and mathematical skills of K-5 students.
Areas of Expertise
- Cognitive Psychology of Spatial Thinking Development
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Geographic Information Science (GIScience)
- Proposal Development
- Scientific Image Analysis
- Spatial Thinking Education
- Sponsored Programs Management
- STEM Curriculum Development
- Teacher Training
- Using Drones in Geospatial Instruction