You may call him Thierry Chopin, the chevalier of seaweed. The expat Frenchman and current professor of biology at UNB, is being knighted by his native country for his extensive research about and passion for seaweed. He said sailing the cold waters there gave him an appreciation of the sea and instilled his love of the Atlantic. "What is the common link between all of us is this passion for the sea and the different way of being involved with the sea." Chopin will be invested into the order by the ambassador of France to Canada in a ceremony in Moncton on Nov. 21.

Source: CBC News November 11, 2017 19:41 UTC