Rowan is a marine scientist working across ocean policy, plastics, and nature restoration. For the past four years she has led a pioneering blue carbon programme, mapping and protecting seagrass, saltmarsh, and seabed habitats to safeguard carbon storage, biodiversity, and healthy ecosystems. She also helped introduce some of the first single-use plastics legislation in the British Isles.
She brings science, policy, and community together to inspire action for the living world, and in 2018 sailed across the North Pacific with eXXpedition researching the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Rowan now returns as Mission Leader for the South Pacific voyage, combining expedition experience with a focus on lasting, nature-based solutions.
