"The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity... If we have clear and proven answers anytime an organization or individual asks 'How can I help?', then we can get action – and we can make sure that none of the caring in the world is wasted. But complexity makes it hard to mark a path of action for everyone who cares — and that makes it hard for their caring to matter."

— Bill Gates

Userboxes This user is a female contributor. en-5 This user can contribute with a professional level of English. fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français. dlph-1 Eeek ack sque'ek ook kkkk'k squeek. This user helped promote Sea otter to featured article status. This user helped promote Sustainable energy to featured article status. This editor won the Million Award for bringing Sustainable energy to Good Article status. This user has been a major contributor to 1 article featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. This user is a proud Canadian. This user lives in Metro Vancouver. This user acknowledges that she lives on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people. This user is a member of WikiProject Medicine. This user participated in Wikimania 2017 held in Montréal, Canada. BSc This user has a Bachelor of Science degree.

Greetings! I've been at Wikipedia since the spring of 2006, and work on a variety of topics, mostly in the life sciences, Canadian issues, and climate change mitigation.

Clayoquot Sound (pronounced “clack-wot”, not “clay-o-quot”), is a beautiful wilderness area on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. In real life, I am a woman in Vancouver and work in the software development industry. I use the accounts Clayoquot2 and Clayoquot3 for test edits.

Articles to which I've made big contributions include:

• Sustainable energy
• Sea otter
• Downtown Eastside
• Killer whale
• Sea otter conservation
• Michael Bigg
• Low milk supply
• Energy poverty and cooking
• Christopher Reeve
• Breast (more de-writing than writing)
• Delayed sleep phase syndrome
• Polar bear
• Oliver Schroer
• Carles Puyol
• North Shore Rescue

I've also had lots of fun collaborating on Common Raven, Humpback Whale, Cougar, and Lion.

I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to meet many Wikipedians in real life and I'm fairly active in outreach, especially when it comes to improving climate articles. I am supporting TatjanaClimate in her work at the Global Systems Institute and I train trainers for various events. On July 17, 2023 I led a climate-focused editathon, for which I'm receiving funding from Wikimedia NYC. I made some edits related to this event, such as removing copyright violations. In 2023 I served as a part-time Wikipedian in Residence at the Hydrogen Science Coalition.

Gratefully received

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  I hereby award Clayoquot the 'Coming of the Cavalry' Award for saving the Humpback Whale after a Featured Article Review...cheers, Cas Liber 00:05, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
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  The Reviewer's Award for Clayoquot, in appreciation of her patient, thoughtful, and comprehensive review of Cougar. We can work out later where all the cats wandered in from. Marskell 18:03, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
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  The Original Barnstar This award is presented to Kla'quot for tracking down an excellent photo for the Fin Whale article and making the extra effort to convince the photographer to release a low-resolution version of it for use on Wikipedia. Well done! Neil916 (Talk) 05:05, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
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  I hereby award this Wikipedia:wikignome award to Clayoquot for help in chiselling away at the mighty lion, which is now featured. cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 03:20, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
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  The Fauna Barnstar To Clayoquot, for all her fine work on furry and not-so-furry critters, culminating in the damn fine Sea Otter.....Casliber (talk · contribs) 03:37, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
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  Editors like you are unusual. You seem to be connected to 'real-life' and create content that is relevant to under-represented groups on Wikipedia. There are women and families that will greatly benefit from your work on Wikipedia for helping them to find answers to difficult questions. I appreciate your sensitivity to creating content that is missing. Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 00:03, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
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  The Original Barnstar Thank you for your recent hard work, including creating Energy poverty and cooking article :) Bogazicili (talk) 05:59, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Requiem for a good man

Thank you for quality articles around life sciences and Canadian topics, such as Delayed sleep phase disorder, Low milk supply, Cougar, Sea otter, and Michael Bigg as a Requiem for a good man, for welcoming new users, for missing, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:30, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

		The Featured Article Medal
		By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this special, very exclusive award created just for we few, we happy few, this band of brothers, who have shed sweat, tears and probably blood, in order to be able to proudly claim "I too have taken an article to Featured status". Gog the Mild (talk) 22:35, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

		The Environmental Barnstar
		Really cool to see sustainable energy as today's featured article. It's a great read and I see you were responsible for its promotion. Thank you for your efforts! Bzweebl (talk • contribs) 17:00, 2 November 2021 (UTC)