The Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation is losing its Coastal Outreach Specialist.
Rhiannon Moore says she's accepted on offer that was just too good to turn down. She has been invited to join the Canada C3 expedition that is part of Canada's 150 birthday celebrations. The ship will take 150 days to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. She says there are three themes for the voyage; diversity, reconciliation and the environment. Moore will be on leg 12, which is the longest leg of the journey starting in September and ends on October 1st and she will catch up with the ship in Tuktoyaktuk in the Northwest Territories and travel around Alaska, through the Bering Sea to Prince Ruperth B.C.
Moore has been asked to be the micro-plastic lead on the ship and micro-plastics in the oceans and Great Lakes has been a passion of hers for several years and she will use the samples collected on this trip to start her Master's degree in Vancouver which will take another two years.
Another aspect that made Moore's chance to go back to Vancouver hard to turn down is that she has been invited to work with a world expert on micro-plastics while completing her Masters. Moore will be leaving the Coastal Centre at the end of July. More information about the Canada C3 voyage can be found on the web site : https://canadac3.ca/en/homepage/
The vessel that will embark on the Canada C3 expedition.
