About Tiara

Dr. Tiara Moore is the Founder and CEO of Black In Marine Science (BIMS) and the BIMS Program Lead at The Nature Conservancy in Washington. She has been featured in the Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Phys.org, ASLO Bulletin, ProQuest, Daily Bruin and Reddit.

A native of Greenwood, SC, Tiara received her B.S. in Biology at Winthrop University. She completed her M.S. in Biology with a concentration in Environmental Science at Hampton University. She earned her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from UCLA. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at The University of Washington and The Nature Conservancy.

Tiara has conducted research on the Chesapeake Bay, Carpinteria Salt Marsh, Upper Newport Bay, and the Ellsworth Forest. Internationally, she has conducted research in Bali, Indonesia, and Mo’orea, French Polynesia, where she has explored various topics such as the effects of macroalgal decomposition on sediment biogeochemistry and the microbial community using environmental DNA (eDNA) to assess the biodiversity of entire ecosystems with only a soil sample.