Longing as a child to be the next Jacques Cousteau, Vanessa Griffiths followed her passion to become a marine biologist, earning her degree in marine biology at Liverpool University. After college Griffiths spent a year doing field research at the marine station on the Isle of Man, then went on to get her master's degree and teaching certificate. She now teaches ecology at the Orielton Field Center in Pembrokeshire in the United Kingdom, where she has introduced hundreds of school children to the vast marine life that can be found in an afternoon at the beach.

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