Verena tunnicliffe biography samples

Who knows what treasure lies inside a random box on a shelf in a dusty old what-not shop?

In Verena Tunnicliffe‘s case, it was a gift her mother found in a second-hand store, a tiny chest of jewels in the form of seashells from a far-away ocean, and it made a seven-year-old girl dream of the seas while growing up in Deep River, Ont., where her physicist father worked at Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories.

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Fast forward several decades and Tunnicliffe’s name is synonymous with deep-sea research off Canada’s West Coast, work the Governor General recognized by recently making Tunnicliffe an officer of the Order of Canada.