PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Community Science and Coastal Resilience Manager for Mass Audubon North Shore David Moon will lead a discussion on Plum Island on Nov. 13 at 7 pm.

 

The talk will be held at the Guardian Life Insurance building located at 700 South Street Live, In Person and via Zoom

 

For over 44 years, David Moon has been birding Plum Island, one of the most visited regions by birders in the Northeast.  

 

David Moon will discuss Plum Island’s geography, how it shifts and changes throughout the year while continuing to supporting a wide and diverse variety of avian species. He will explain what is being done to combat climate change and rising sea levels, in particular, landscape level ecological restoration.

 

David Moon is Community Science and Coastal Resilience Manager for Mass Audubon North Shore and works from Joppa Flats Education Center in Newburyport, where he was the Sanctuary Director from 2016 - 2020.  He has been an environmental educator and an administrator of such programs for 40 years in both classrooms and non-formal settings.

 

Among other positions, he has been the Executive Director of Ashuelot Valley Environmental Observatory, in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, the Education Director at Stonewall Farm in Keene, NH.  David continues to teach Tropical Forest Ecology in Costa Rica for Franklin Pierce University.