Taleya Ouellet
Taleya Ouellet is an environmental engineer from Canada. She was selected to work on marine plastics as a Darwin Leader for Rapa Nui. This opportunity is invaluable to her as she has a deep-rooted passion for our oceans and specifically towards marine plastics. She is particularly interested in this region due to interesting oceanic current dynamics and proximity to the South Pacific Subtropical Gyre.
Her drive for understanding oceans has been an anchoring point in her career. She has acquired years of international experience in the water industry as well as plastics from doing water filtration research at IIT in India to microplastics research in sediment. She is inspired by scientific discovery and her curiosity to understand problems. Taleya hopes to meet other inspirational role models at Darwin200 to learn, grow, and eventually trailblaze her own positive impacts on the oceans. As great activists like Sylvia Earle and Jane Goodall have alluded to, there is no plan or planet B.
| LOCATION: | Easter Island | AREA OF STUDY: | Micro Plastics |
| NATIONALITY: | Canada | SPONSOR: | Redfern |
| FILMMAKER: | Tom Dixon |
| START DATE: | 5th June |
| END DATE: | 12th June |
| LOCATION: | Easter Island |
| END POINT: | Canada |
| AREA OF STUDY: | Micro Plastics |
| SPONSOR: | Redfern |
| FILMMAKER: | Tom Dixon |
Area of Study: Micro Plastics
Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) is one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world, located over 3,600 km from the coast of Chile in the South America. Yet even this island, is not safe from receiving plastics.
Where does this plastic come from and how does it get here? Most importantly, why is this small island being forced to deal with other’s trash? This report and documentary series will explore these questions with the goal to spark a conversation and to help amplify the voices of those who are impacted the most.
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This Project Was Made Possible By: Redfern
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