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New Paper (02/2023) – Click the links below:

Moore DM, Flink AE, Prendergast E, & Gilbert A (2023). Personal submersibles offer novel ecological research access to Antarctic waters: an example, with observations of the rarely encountered scyphozoan Stygiomedusa gigantea. Polar Research, 42.8873. View Online  PDF Download

Dr. Daniel Moore is a marine biologist with a passion for adventure. He is a Visiting Researcher at the University of Exeter where he is developing investigations into the effects of past climate change on deep sea megafauna. Additionally, he works as Chief Scientist for an Expedition Vessel operating in Antarctica and the Great Lakes.  His professional research interests are broad but include: spatial ecology of marine predators, evolutionary biology and connectivity in marine predator populations. Daniel is a passionate scientist and has worked in many remote locations around the world from isolated tropical volcanic islands to Antarctica. When not pursuing his scientific interests, he can usually be found seeking adventure in the mountains or on the ocean waves around the UK.

Daniel regularly works with businesses, NGOs and schools as a marine consultant and a passionate advocate for marine conservation. Daniel is an accomplished public speaker and writer. He is also a qualified Mountain Leader and BSAC Open water Instructor with significant expedition leadership experience. If you are interested in booking Daniel for an event, are keen to work with him as a consultant or just have some great expedition ideas you’d like to share then you can contact him here.

He completed his PhD at Durham University, under the supervision of Prof. Rus Hoelzel. This body of work investigated environmental drivers of evolution in marine predator populations and used the bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus and the yellowmouth barracuda Sphyraena viridensis from the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean as model species.

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Observing wildlife is a key passion for Daniel, such as these Rough-Toothed Dolphins spotted on a research expedition in the mid-Atlantic.

Currently, Daniel works as Chief Scientist for Viking Expeditions, managing scientific work in Antarctica.

Humpback whales can be identified as individuals using tail markings, a feature of Daniel’s research.

Marine Biology can take you to some interesting and beautiful locations. This is St. Kilda, a remote archipelago of the UK.

Daniel has spent significant time at sea, exploring some wild and remote locations.

Daniel participated in the Antarctic Circumpolar Expedition (ACE).

First inspired to study the sea by palaeobiology this remains one of Daniel’s interests to date. This fossilized tooth comes from Carcharocles megalodon and remains in Daniel’s personal collection.

Daniel is a passionate believer in the sustainable use of the sea by all. Finding opportunities for industry, recreation and conservation to work in harmony is a key part of his ethos.

Placing a temperature logger into the nest of a Green Turtle. Daniel has worked with a great variety of marine animals.

Daniel has worked with deep sea sharks extensively such as this specimen collected in the North Atlantic.

The coasts of Britain still harbour some of Daniel’s favourite wild places.

It is Daniel’s firm belief that to understand the ocean, you must experience it first-hand – something he endeavours to do regularly.