Marianne Voigt Moore[1] is an American aquatic ecologist, whose area of expertise is the threat posed to lakes from manmade origins.
Under the tutelage of Roger W. Bachmann, Moore studied the effects of bi-products from a nearby meat processing plant on the Iowa River and earned her degree in limnology in 1977.
[2] That year, winning a Fulbright-Hays fellowship, she began her doctoral research studying zooplankton in freshwater lakes in New Zealand at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch.
[9] In 2000, Moore and Hodge went to Lake Baikal and discovered that Irkutsk State University owned a small derelict research station in the village of Bolshiye Koty.
[7] Hampton arranged for the University of California, Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis, to assist with analyzing the data on the World Heritage Site and finance the collaborative work.
[9] Though Moore headed the team which evaluated zooplankton, she was also involved in analyzing[7] "the world's only exclusively freshwater seal", pusa sibirica.
Extracting teeth and analyzing the metal content with a mass spectrometer they discovered high levels of mercury and cadmium had jeopardized the health of the seals in the 1960s and 1970s.
[7] In 2015, Moore was honored by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, who conferred upon her their Ramón Margalef Award for Excellence in Education, for her development of the interdisciplinary, multi-institutional and multinational research project at Lake Baikal, which has allowed students learn research techniques while simultaneously developing their ability to critically analyze and create solutions for logistical problems, cultural sensitivity, and language obstacles.