A member of the Canadian Science Writers' Association, Susan is a journalist who specializes in science and technology, natural resources, renewable energy, business, the environment, and ecotourism. As a freelance writer, she contributes regularly to several Canadian and American publications, and to the travel sections of newspapers. Equipped with degrees in geology, biology, geophysics and journalism, Susan began her journalism career in 1987, as a television reporter with CBC-TV. Since then, she has successfully blended her scientific and journalistic skills to tell stories which, she believes, engage the reader in the natural world around us.
 

As a geologist and geophysicist, Susan has had a successful career in the Canadian energy sector, attaining the position of Vice President of Exploration in several junior oil and gas companies. Known for her business acumen, she's been listed in the Who's Who of Canadian Women Directory. Involved in the grassroots environmental movement since 1990, Susan sits on the board of directors of the southern Alberta chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, a not-for-profit organization. In recognition of Susan's environmental leadership, she was selected an Olympic Torch relay runner for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Susan participated -- as an explorer, geoscientist, and journalist -- in the Elysium Visual Epic Expedition, from February 10 to March 2, 2010. Part of Elysium's 57-member team from 19 nations, she joined the world's most celebrated image-makers, historians, and scientists, travelling to Antarctica and South Georgia, and following in Sir Ernest Shackleton's footsteps one hundred years later. Elysium's mission was to scout, record, and analyze this pristine wilderness of ice and snow, and to create a visual library -- both above and below the water -- documenting the impacts of climate change on the planet's last Frontier.