Suzan Essiembre, Fundraising Committee Chair. Suzan brings to the team many years of experience in administrative infrastructure, financial planning, construction and environmental auditing. As a former Certified Environmental Inspector, she conducted numerous environmental site assessments on residential, commercial and industrial properties. She was a former Personnel Manager for a large Canadian law firm and an Internal Audit Manager for a Canadian Property Investment Corporation where she managed a huge investor portfolio. Suzan was on the Board of Directors for the Peace and Environment Resource Centre where she played an important role on the Fundraising Committee and locally she has helped in the protection of the Halfmoon Bay Creek property for salmon restoration.
	Dr Michael Jackson, Society Chair and Project Director, has a wealth of experience in conservation, wetland ecology, educational instruction, writing and project management as well as sound business acumen. As the managing director of a book business in central London and as a production manager in theatre and televison, he has the ability to work together with large teams of people to achieve a common aim. He is currently a Research Associate with Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia and runs his own wetlands consultancy that specialises in habitat restoration and natural methods of mosquito control.
	Dr John Field, is a Science Instructor at Capilano College Campus in Sechelt and a well-known local natural history expert. He is experienced in course design and programming, nature guiding and field instruction. He leads many courses and has a strong ability to bring out the most in his students. He is also gifted with a good head for figures and is the treasuruer of both the RLLNRS and the SCCA.
	David Stiles, Dave is a field biologist who has spent the past decade working on wildlife research and conservation projects. He has worked with a great diversity of animals including amphibians, birds, bats, insects, and small and medium sized mammals. Dave is skilled at organizing, coordinating and motivating large teams of researchers, volunteers and interns.
	Maureen Parrott - Born 3 Oct. 1966, oldest daughter of Billy and Iris Griffith, Maureen loves words and learning, but is most enthralled by marine life and all kinds of natural history. Maureen fished commercially for salmon with her family on her Dad's 56' seine boat and married Brian Parrott from Newfoundland. Brian sadly passed away in 1999 when their son Michael was only one year old. Maureen is engaged to her fiancé, Paul Juffs, and with young Michael they spent a year travelling aboard Canada's first semi-submersible boat (a vessel with underwater windows - built by Paul and used to show shipwrecks in Lake Huron) through The Great Lakes, Erie Canal, Hudson River, and Intra-Coastal Waterway, and returned overland by way of Niagara Falls and the Grand Canyon. The semi-submersible will be used to show off the underwater world of Egmont.
	Cindy Cantelon, Director, has a BFA in Fine Arts and works full time as an artist. She works in cast metal, primarily silver, gold, bronze and pewter, and has explored the mediums of painting and photography. Her work is based on her passion for the natural world and the animals and plants that live on the coast. Cindy and her life partner, Marshall Mar, live and work from their home and studio/shop in Pender Harbour.

More about the Lagoon Society

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Ruby Lake Lagoon Nature Reserve Society RR#1 Site 20 C16 Madeira Park, BC, V0N 2H0 Phone/Fax: 604-883-9893 Email: info@lagoonsociety.com

Iris Griffith Interpretive Centre 15386 Sunshine Coast Highway 101 North (1KM south of Ruby Lake) Phone: 604-883-9201 Open Daily 10AM to 4PM