About me
David joined the Pidemont Discovery Center team in 2023 as their Conservation Nursery Manager. David is responsible for managing in-house nursery production that supports PDC’srestorations, assisting with installing and managing restoration projects, collecting seeds, and participating in biological surveys. David started working with PDC in 2021 as a part-time technician for the Piedmont Grassland assessment upon referral from his graduate advisor.
David grew up in the Metro Atlanta region of Georgia and graduated from Warren Wilson College with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Master’s degree from Virginia Tech. His passion for native plant conservation and propagation grew from a 2018 research internship at the Missouri Botanical Garden studying the genetics of Mead’s milkweed.
