Moon conducts a wide variety of research, including discovery science and geoscience education research, and is also involved in science community organization and collaboration initiatives. Current projects include:

QGreenland: QGreenland (https://qgreenland.org/) is a Greenland data viewing, mapping, and analysis tool. QGreenland provides a curated set of multidisciplinary geospatial data for the Greenland ice sheet and terrestrial and marine areas. The QGreenland package works on the free QGIS platform and comes with complete User Guide and supporting information, so even those new to GIS can explore. Moon is the project PI. Source of support: NSF

PolarPASS: The PolarPASS geoscience education research project aims to increase polar knowledge and interest amongst undergraduate students. The project achieves this in part by evaluating how use of a 360-degree interactive environment can increase student sense of place and spatial analysis skills. Moon was the project PI. Source of support: NSF

GRISO: The Greenland Ice Sheet Ocean Science Network (GRISO, https://griso.ucsd.edu/) goal is to facilitate scientific progress by bringing together the community and leveraging international collaborations between individuals, groups and networks. Current activities include facilitating the successful outcomes for five working groups (focuses: ice forcing ocean, ocean forcing ice, data, coastal ecosystems, and paleo) and launching a Greenland science summer school. Moon is a project Co-PI. Source of support: NSF

Greenland freshwater production: In collaboration with colleagues at Boise State University and San Jose State University, this project works to understand the location and timing of freshwater fluxes from Greenland, including iceberg melt. Moon is a project Co-PI. Source of support: NSF

Greenland system science: Work across disciplines with other researchers to discover how glacial and ice environments interact with larger Arctic systems. For example, collaborative work with researchers at the University of Washington and elsewhere discovered the world's 20th polar bear subpopulation in southeastern Greenland, where bears use glacial ice as key habitat. Source of support: NASA, other.

Navigating the New Arctic Community Office: The NNA-CO (https://nna-co.org/) provides leadership and coordination to support use-inspired convergence research in the Arctic—collaborative research that deeply draws on information and expertise from across disciplines and knowledge systems to solve complex challenges. Moon was project Senior Personnel. Source of support: NSF

Twila Moon, Pavel S. Molchanov Climate Communication Prize