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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Perhaps it was the blowing snow... Or the low light conditions... This is what happens when you mistake a snowmobile trail in #Iqaluit for a gravel road #Northof60 #Nunavut #BaffinIsland #Arctic #winter #winterdriving @TravelNunavut @NuTourism
Black Herons will catch a fish by turning into an umbrella, a behavior called "canopy feeding". Watch @leedsbirder's video to see this effective manner of hunting in action.
Such great news for the Southern Resident Killer Whale (#Orca) pods ranging between British Columbia's Gulf Islands and the State of Washington's San Juan Islands! $775-million sewage plant treats equivalent of 43 Olympic-sized pools of waste daily #oceans https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/victoria-sewage-plant-1.5867582?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar
Brava! Sedna's founder & leader @SusanREaton_Geo is one one of the eight Women of Adventure @GarminOutdoor! Need a dose of inspiration today? Check out what drives these #WomenofAdventure to live out their passions on the land and in the sea and air #leaders #rolemodels #mentors https://twitter.com/GarminOutdoor/status/1350102955412905987
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What an honour to be one of the eight Women of Adventure @GarminOutdoor! Need a dose of inspiration today? Read about what drives Garmin's #WomenofAdventure to live out their passions on the land and in the sea and air #leaders #rolemodels #mentors #explorers #athletes @Garmin
Need a fresh dose of inspiration? Meet our Women of Adventure. Tag a fearless female you admire!
Learn more: http://ms.spr.ly/6013pYmgV
Double Tusked Narwhal
Tim Pitsiulak
2016
This double pyramid-shaped, indigo-blue anatase crystal from Piedmont, Italy, is one of the mineral forms of titanium dioxide (TiO2). Used as a semiconductor, #anatase is often prepared synthetically in laboratories. Field of View 2.5 mm, Photo © Giuseppe Finello @GeologyPage
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Qinuisaarniq/Utaqqittiarniq (Qi-nu-i-saar-niq/U-taq-qit-ti-ar-niq)
Patience
(Image: Tim Pitsiulak’s Sedna's Repose)
ᓈᓚᒃᓯᐅᒃ ᐅᕙᓂ Listen here:
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Orcas.... Humpbacks... Herring Run... Winter Snorkel...
This video by Behind the Mask will take your breath away...
In November 2021, the Sedna Epic Expedition's 32 sea women will explore Norway's arctic fjords during the winter herring run.
Team Sedna will conduct ocean research—water sampling for eDNA of orcas, humpbacks, fish, algae and bacteria; seaweed collection; passive acoustic recording of whales feasting on herring; photo IDs of whales; and much more. Donning dry suits, Sedna's sea women will snorkel with orcas and humpbacks, documenting (via photos and video) one of the planet's most amazing wildlife spectacles...
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+++ ORCA KINGDOM +++ Are there still Orcas coming into the Fjords of northern Norway to hunt for the herrings? Will it be much harder to locate them and to s...Wow! Amazing! !!
The Arctic is “pervasively” polluted by microplastic fibres that most likely come from the washing of synthetic clothes by people in Europe and North America, research has found.
The most comprehensive study to date found the microplastics in 96 of 97 sea water samples taken from across the polar region. More than 92% of the microplastics were fibres, and 73% of these were made of polyester and were the same width and colours as those used in clothes. Most of the samples were taken from 3-8 metres below the surface, where much marine life feeds.
Other recent analysis estimated that 3,500tn plastic microfibres from clothes washing in the US and Canada ended up in the sea each year, while modelling suggested plastic dumped in the seas around the UK was carried to the Arctic within two years.
Clothes washing linked to ‘pervasive’ plastic pollution in the Arctic
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Polyester fibres that injure marine life were found in sea water across region