BIO
Dr. Ken Moore is Professor of Agronomy at Iowa State University where he has been a faculty member since 1993. He holds a B.S. (1979) degree from Arizona State University and M.S. (1981) and Ph.D. (1983) degrees in Agronomy from Purdue University. He held faculty positions at the University of Illinois (1983-87) and New Mexico State University (1987-89), and was a USDA/ARS Research Agronomist and adjunct faculty member at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (1989-93). His research interests include development of improved systems for the production and utilization of biomass and forage crops. He is Director of the Master of Science in Agronomy distance education program and Crop Adviser Institute at Iowa State University. He teaches graduate courses on the design and analysis of agronomic experiments (field plot technique) and crop management and ecology and co-teaches another on publishing in plant science journals. He has worked on collaborative research and education projects in Morocco, Costa Rica, and New Zealand where he was a Senior Research Fellow with AgResearch Grasslands in 1998. Dr. Moore served as President of the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA, 2004) and is currently Past-President of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA). He served on the editorial boards of Agronomy Journal and Crop Science, and was the founding editor of the e-journal Crop Management. He is co-editor of Forages Volume I: An Introduction to Grassland Agriculture (6th ed.) and Forages Volume II: The Science of Grassland Agriculture (6th ed.). Dr. Moore is a member of Gamma Sigma Delta, Phi Kappa Phi, and Sigma Xi and has been recognized with Outstanding Young Scientist and Merit Awards by the American Forage and Grassland Council and the Young Crop Scientist Award by CSSA. He is a Fellow of ASA, CSSA, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).