Louisiana Master Naturalists of Greater New Orleans

Participants must register in advance. To register, send an email request to: OrleansAudubon@aol.comwith “Offshore Wind” as the subject line and include your full name in the body of the email message. If participating by phone, also include your phone number. Please register as soon as possible and at least two hours prior to the start of the meeting.

Thanks to advances in technology and a growing bipartisan consensus that a transition to clean energy is needed to address climate change, there are a growing number of clean energy projects on the horizon, especially in offshore wind energy. National Audubon Society’s science shows that climate change is the number one threat to birds, putting up to two-thirds of North American bird species at risk of extinction. We support getting to net-zero carbon emissions and transitioning to clean energy. We want to ensure that we build new solar and wind projects in a way that protects birds and mitigates the risk to migratory species. That’s why Audubon strongly supports properly sited and operated clean energy projects. Join Dr. Shilo Felton, coastal avian ecologist and Field Manager with Audubon’s Clean Energy Initiative, to learn about how responsible offshore wind projects can protect birds and the places they live, and how you can take action in your community.

Shilo Felton is a Field Manager for National Audubon Society’s Clean Energy Initiative, where she helps to engage Audubon members in responsibly sited and operated clean energy projects in United States, promoting the build out of environmentally responsible solar and wind that is better for birds. She has worked on avian restoration projects along both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts for over 20 years, including a remote Common and Roseate Tern colony off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts and the Loggerhead Shrike Recovery Project on San Clemente Island, California. She has a PhD in Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology from North Carolina State University, where she served as a Climate Science Fellow for the USGS Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center and researched impacts to beach-nesting shorebirds from human activity. She brings her experience in avian ecology, animal behavior, experimental design, and population modeling to inform her engagement in offshore wind development.