Christopher Moore

Education

Ph.D in Marine Ecology, East Carolina University, 2022

B.S. In Biology, University of Maryland-College Park, 2016

B.A. in Classics, Davidson College, 2005

Biography

I am a disciple of the liberal arts, having original studied Classics in college. The most important thing I learned was to love learning. I went back to school in the wake of The Great Recession - when the pool of jobs in the world of editing ran dry - and found myself years later waist deep in a coastal marsh, struggling to breathe in the humidity but totally committed to learning how the oyster reefs we were building would affect trophic complexity compared to oyster reefs that were built with more conventional design features. Currently, I’m a Florida Man – I live and work near Ft. Pierce, Florida, on the Indian River Lagoon, an estuary with a rich and complex environmental history. In addition to fishing, cycling, gardening, reading, and helping care for my
6 fur babies, I enjoy walking the shoreline of the Lagoon and looking for bits of old pottery washed out from Native American middens, trash heaps in which the spoils of everyday life were piled and left for others to find and, therein, find meaning. Here is your homework: read “this was a poet” by Emily Dickinson. The most interesting things in life are sometimes the most mundane. Collectively, our purpose as scientists (and humans) is to “Distill(s) amazing sense / From Ordinary Meanings –”, whether an irregular Latin verb, an oyster reef, or a well-worn bit of earthenware. Human hands made that pottery long ago. The textile imprint remains visible after thousands of years, “a Fortune – / Exterior – to Time –”. What will be your legacy?