Oceanography Kathryn (Kate) Moran OC is an ocean engineer and Professor in the Faculty of Science at the University of Victoria.
She spent some time working at Procter and Gamble before joining a new program in Ocean Engineering at the University of Rhode Island.
[7] In 2008, Moran delivered testimony to the US Senate committee on Environmental and Public Works outlining the scientific evidence for climate change, and future predictions which resulted from the research.
[2] She is a supporter of renewable energy, "when I first started to be seriously concerned about the fact we need to stop [creating] CO2, I got involved in the first offshore wind farm in the U.S".
[18] In 2017, Moran won a $2.4 million grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation to build a new observatory to provide information on seismic and tsunami risks in British Columbia.