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Joseph Moore - Research Professor

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Adjunct Professor
Dept of Geology and Geophysics

Phone: 801-585-6931
Fax: 801-585-3540

Email: jmoore@egi.utah.edu

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Professional Research Interests and Expertise:

  • Hydrothermal Alteration
  • Fluid Inclusion Investigations of Geothermal
  • Petroleum and CO2 Reservoirs
  • Mineralogy
Regional and Basin Experience:

  • Geologic mapping in the Basin and Range
Education:

  • 1975 Ph.D. in Geology, Pennsylvania State University
  • 1972 M.Sc. in Geology, Pennsylvania State University
  • 1969 B.Sc. in Geology, City College of New York
Memberships:

  • Geological Society of America
  • Geothermal Resources Council
Honors/Awards:

  • 2009, Geothermal Resources Council Special Achievement Award
  • 2008 - Present, Technical Advisory Board, Geothermal Energy Association
  • 2005, Geothermal Resources Council Special Achievement Award
  • 2003 - Present, Board of Directors, Geothermal Resources Council
  • 1999 - Present, Associate Editor for the Americas, Geothermics
Publications:

  • Lynne, B.Y., Campbell, K.A., James, B.J., Browne, P.R.L., and Moore, J.N., 2007 Tracking crystallinity in siliceous hot-spring deposits, American Journal of Science, v.307, p. 612-641
  • Hochstein, M., and Moore, J.N., 2008, Geothermal Systems of Indonesia: A Special Issue of Geothermics devoted to Indonesia: Hochstein and Moore, eds.
  • Moore, J.N., Allis, R.G., Nemcok, M., Powell, T.S., Bruton, C.J., Wannamaker, P.E., Raharjo, I.B. and Norman, D.I., 2008, The evolution of volcano-hosted geothermal systems based on deep wells from Karah - Telaga Bodas, Indonesia: American Journal of Science, v. 308, pg 1-48
  • Lynne, B.Y., Campbell, K.A., Moore, J.N. and Browne, P.R.L., 2008, Origin and evolution of the Steamboad Springs siliceous sinter deposit, Nevada, U.S.A.: Journal of Sedimentary Geology, doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2008.07.006
  • Moore, J., Adams, M., Allis, R., Lutz, S. and Rauzi, S., 2004, CO2 mobility in natural reservoirs beneath the Colorado Plateau and southern Rocky Mountains: an example from the Springerville-St. Johns field, Arizona and New Mexico: Chemical Geology, v. 217, p. 365-385.
  • Nemcok, M., Moore, J. N., Allis, R., McCulloch, J., 2004, Fracture development within a stratovolcano: the Karaha-Telaga Bodas geothermal field, Java volcanic arc. In: The initiation, propagation, and arrest of joints and other fractures (Engelder, T. and Cosgrove, J. eds.): Geological Society of London, Special Publication 231, p. 223-242.
  • Bloomfield, K.K. and Moore, J.N, 2003, Modeling hydrofluorocarbon compounds as geothermal tracers: Geothermics, v. 32, p. 203-218
  • Moore, J. N., Christenson, B., Browne, P. R. L. and Lutz, S. J., 2004, The mineralogic consequences and behavior of descending acid-sulfate waters: an example from the Karaha-Telaga Bodas geothermal system, Indonesia: Canadian Mineralogist, v. 42, p. 1483-1499.
  • Lynne, B.Y., Campbell, K.A., Moore, J.N. and Browne, P.R.L., 2005. Rapid diagenesis of siliceous sinter (opal-A to quartz) over 1900 years at Opal Mound, Roosevelt Hot Springs, Utah, U.S.A.: Journal of Sedimentary Geology, v. 179, p; 249-278
  • Lynne, B.Y., Campbell, K.A., Perry, R.S, Browne, P.R.L. and Moore J.N. and, 2006. Acceleration of sinter diagenesis in an active fumarole, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand: Geology, in press.
  • Nash, G., Moore, J.N., and Sperry, T., 2003, Vegetal-spectral anomaly detection at the Cove Fort-Sulphurdale thermal anomaly, Utah, USA: implications for use in geothermal exploration: Geothermics, v. 32, p. 109-130.