Susan R. Eaton
P. Geol., P. Geoph., M.Sc., B.Sc. Hon., B.J. (Journalism) Hon.
President, SR ECO Consultants Inc.
Founder & Leader, Sedna Epic Expedition
Geoscientist / Explorer / Journalist / Speaker
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There’s no place Susan R. Eaton and the Sedna Epic team won’t go for answers to issues facing the planet.
Garmin Women of Adventure: It’s Up to Us, with Susan R. Eaton In November 2019, Team Sedna collaborated with GARMIN Outdoor during the Sedna Epic’s ocean research and winter snorkel (with orcas!) expedition to Norway’s arctic fjords (70 degrees North...
Susan R. Eaton has been named to the Women Divers Hall of Fame’s Class of 2020!
Honoured and humbled to be named to the Women Divers Hall of Fame's Class of 2020! I'd like to congratulate the other five amazing recipients who I hope to meet on March 27 at the inauguration ceremony at Beneath The Sea in Secaucus New Jersey....
Susan R. Eaton
A geoscientist, journalist and explorer, Susan R. Eaton studies the interplay of plate tectonics, oceans, glaciers, climate and life in polar regions.
A Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Susan explores the world’s oceans—from Antarctica to the Arctic—in the snorkel zone, a unique land-sea-ice-air interface where charismatic animals and snorkelers comingle.
In 2018, Ocean Geographic named Susan one of the “Ocean’s Best” 18 most influential women leaders in ocean conservation.
Twelve years ago, Susan suffered a scuba diving trauma that landed her in a hyperbaric chamber for three days, ending her 30-year diving career. Undaunted, her up-close-and-personal relationship with the ocean—which had included studying marine biology and teaching scuba diving—didn’t end in the hyperbaric chamber…
Redefining her relationship with the ocean, Susan has snorkeled with thousands of chatty belugas Hudson Bay and with docile manatees at Crystal River, Florida. She’s snorkeled in the Galapagos Archipelago where sea turtles, sea lions and nurse sharks outnumber snorkelers. In Haida Gwaii, she’s assisted the Haida Nation, snorkeling northern rivers to count salmon migrating to their ancestral spawning grounds. Susan has come face-to-mask with charging 1,400-pound leopard seals in the Southern Ocean—so close, in fact, that she could count the freckles on their upper palates and inspect their tri-serrated teeth which dispatch 30-pound penguins in mere minutes.
On Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017, Susan was honoured to be included in the book by Paulina Cameron, entitled “Canada 150 Women: Conversations with Leaders, Champions and Luminaries.”
In 2015, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society named Susan one of Canada’s top 100 modern-day explorers and trailblazers. A year later, the same organization named her one of Canada’s 25 greatest female explorers.
Sedna Epic Norway 2019: Women’s Leadership & Winter Snorkel
Please consider supporting a portion of my personal costs to lead the Sedna Epic Expedition’s women’s leadership program and winter snorkel expedition to Norway in November 2019.
Every donation is welcome and accretive to my bottom line.
Warm regards, Susan
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Martial Glacier, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
Garmin Women of Adventure: It’s Up to Us, with Susan R. Eaton
Sedna Epic: Seawomen To Snorkel Northwest
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Reminder: @JacAshby and @SusanREaton_Geo are co-facilitating our first @Zoom call to shape the women's leadership program which is part of our ocean research and winter snorkel (with orcas!) expedition to Norway's #arctic fjords in Nov. 2021 #womenofthearctic @PlanArctic https://twitter.com/JacAshby/status/1383621355057254401
Reminder Sedna Epic Expedition Team 🤿 !
We have our Women’s Leadership Program meeting co-facilitated by @SusanREaton_Geo & myself tomorrow at 12:00 noon EDT.
I look forward to connecting with you all & learning more about your ideas for our 2021 Leadership Conference. 😊
Reminder Sedna Epic Expedition Team 🤿 !
We have our Women’s Leadership Program meeting co-facilitated by @SusanREaton_Geo & myself tomorrow at 12:00 noon EDT.
I look forward to connecting with you all & learning more about your ideas for our 2021 Leadership Conference. 😊
Sedna's founder & leader @SusanREaton_Geo lives and works in Canada's arctic territory of Nunavut: What a privilege to live in the #Arctic and to be immersed in #Inuit culture, language and traditional knowledge #sednaepic #womenofthearctic #explorenorthof60 https://twitter.com/SusanREaton_Geo/status/1380960643617062914
Spring has arrived in Canada’s Arctic! Temps hovered around -5 °C (with a wind chill of -17 °C) as I explored the rafted sea ice in Iqaluit’s harbour and kept a watchful eye out for polar bears #northof60 #nunavut #frobisherbay #spring @TravelNunavut @NuTourism @CityofIqaluit
Spring has arrived in Canada’s Arctic! Temps hovered around -5 °C (with a wind chill of -17 °C) as I explored the rafted sea ice in Iqaluit’s harbour and kept a watchful eye out for polar bears #northof60 #nunavut #frobisherbay #spring @TravelNunavut @NuTourism @CityofIqaluit
Great Egret nestlings are aggressive little birds. They compete fiercely with their siblings and will even threaten and attack intruders. https://bit.ly/2Rc8w39
Narwhal tusks provide an invaluable archive of information during the whales' 50-year lifespans, say scientists @AarhusUni_int @mcgillu in @CurrentBiology, revealing their eating habits, migration and exposure to pollution in a rapidly changing climate
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/narwhal-tusk-study-mercury-1.5970276
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ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᔾᔪᑎᕗᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᒥ #Inuktitut
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Flexibility
Image: Ningeokuluk Teevee's Moon Dance
Listen here:
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https://soundcloud.com/user-817699715/moon-light
In a video Twitter post, Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq recorded herself getting the news that she’d passed her doctoral program at Utah State University.
She covered up her face as she cried tears of joy when she was told she was the first person in the program to be passed with distinction. As emotional as the moment was in general, Itchuaqiyaq says she was personally touched by hearing how her name was presented.
“Hearing ‘Dr.’ with a wholly Iñupiaq name was pretty overwhelming,” Itchuaqiyaq said.
Her doctorate is in technical writing and rhetoric. She says her focus has been in how using more traditional storytelling can inform how people communicate in more Western-focused academia.
“Using story is an incredibly effective way to communicate the stakes of an issue,” Itchuaqiyaq said. “Especially issues that affect populations or communities that are disenfranchised or that are marginalized in some way.”
Itchuaqiyaq says for the most part, academics and research institutions rely on more quantitative data in their work, often discounting personal experiences or stories.
“People will say, when you use story for example, they will say that’s anecdotal evidence,” Itchuaqiyaq said. “And I argue that is lived experience from people who are experts in that experience describing that.”
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The process of earning a doctorate takes a lot of time and work. And for one Iñupiaq woman hearing the words doctor next to her name was pretty emotional. Her response to passing her dissertation defense went viral this month after hundreds of thousands of people saw her reaction.
A Navy Sailor Died Scuba Diving. Now His Widow Dives to Share His Story.
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Ashely Bugge frequently dives her husband’s reef memorial, runs a podcast, and shares his rebreathing accident in a safety documentary to honor his vivacious life.We are delighted to welcome Ashley Porshe Bugge to Team Sedna. Ashley is an accomplished scuba diver, author, public speaker and mother of three beautiful young children.
Such a touching story - thank you for your strength and inspiration!
Aww thank you for sharing! ❤️❤️
"Having women friends is our super power," says Jane Fonda. "We congregate. We understand the collective of the common good."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dlrhX3mD9Q
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