Kate Moran

Kate Moran, an Officer of the Order of Canada, is at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria. She previously was President of Ocean Networks Canada. She also served in the Obama Administration’s White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where she focused on Arctic, polar, ocean, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and climate policy issues. Moran spearheaded a research initiative on offshore renewable energy that led to the first offshore wind project in the US and, most recently, leads the climate mitigation solution project Solid Carbon (solidcarbon.ca).