Dr. Kate Moran: Connecting our Planet’s Oceans to the Internet

Ninety-nine percent of the life-forms on our planet live in the ocean. Dr Kate Moran says, “it’s really a much greater part of the planet than we realise. ” Dr. Moran is a world-renowned ocean engineer. Her research focuses on marine geotechnics and its application to the study of paleoclimate (the study of changes in climate taken on the scale of the entire history of Earth), tectonics and sea-floor stability.

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ABOUT Dr Kate Moran

“Dr. Kate Moran formerly served a two-year term as Assistant Director in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in Washington, DC.

In her White House role, she advised the Obama administration on the oceans, the Arctic and global warming. She was seconded to the position from a Faculty appointment at the University of Rhode Island where she was a Professor of Oceanography and Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Oceanography.

She has led several major oceanographic expeditions, including the first drilling expedition to the Arctic Ocean in 2004. The following year she led the first expedition to find the source of the earthquake that caused the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. She has also made major contributions to the assessment of hazards in Canada’s offshore regions and authored more than 45 publications.”

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