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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In Nunavut, you are surrounded by wildlife and stunning landscapes. To know more about our members offering wildlife viewing : https://travelnunavut.ca/things-to-see-do/wildlife-viewing/
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These 20 women were trailblazing explorers—why did history forget them? https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/these-20-women-were-trailblazing-explorers-why-did-history-forget-them-feature
Arctic Bay, Nunavut, is even more beautiful in the winter! Thank you, Frank, and for your image featuring rocks in the foreground. In January, I received my P.Geo. designation from @NAPEG_North for Nunavut & the NWT #arctic #baffinisland #arcticbay #geology #geologist #earth
The geology around #ArcticBay #Nunavut is amazing FEB.21.2021 #ArcticViews #Rocks @SusanREaton_Geo
I vividly remember this event during the 2018 women's dive & snorkel expedition @SednaEpic. What an incredible sight to see #polarbears in their element! This mother bear was teaching her cubs how to hunt for seals #polarbearday #nunavut #arctic #oceans #snorkel #climatechange
Happy #PolarBearDay! We encountered this mother polar bear and her cubs in front of a tidewater glacier, near Devon Island, Northwest Passage, #Nunavut. The mother had a seal in her jaws, and the trio hauled out on a bergy bit to feast on the seal #oceans #climate @TravelNunavut
Join me in celebrating #PolarBearDay! I encountered these two magnificent bears while snorkelling with belugas near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Churchill is known as the "polar bear capital of the world" due to the 1,000-plus #polarbears that inhabit this area #climate #seaice
What an honour and privilege to lead the @SednaEpic Expedition! Since 2014, Sedna's Indigenous & non-Indigenous #seawomen have mounted 4 polar dive & snorkel expeditions, conducting ocean research to document ocean change in the #Arctic @ExplorersClub @RCGS_SGRC @PADI @PlanArctic
Interested in joining Team Sedna? Check out our page and stunning brochure (produced by #Sedna's art director Whitley Mike) detailing our women's polar dive & snorkel and ocean research expeditions to #Norway, #Greenland and #Nunavut in late 2021 and 2022 https://goadventureguide.com/sedna-epic-expedition
"Qujaliniq" means "gratitude" in #Inuktitut. Yesterday I received my second dose of the #ModernaVaccine. Thank you, to the @GOVofNUNVUT, for its pandemic response and rollout of the @moderna_tx vaccine #inthistogether #COVIDvaccine #nunavut @CityofIqaluit
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Qujaliniq
Qu-ja-li-niq
Gratitude
(Image: Papiara Tukiki's Helping Hands)
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Forty years ago, in the spring of 1981, there were none. But efforts were underway to change that. For several years, the Club's president, Charles Brush, had been pushing for change. There was considerable opposition; but others in the all-male organization, including astronomer Carl Sagan, were supportive.
As the debate raged, Sagan wrote an eloquent letter to the board, concluding with a strong warning that "if membership in The Explorers Club is restricted to men, the loss will be ours."
When Brush presented his proposition to the membership for a vote in early 1981, the result of the secret ballot was close, 753 to 613 in favor of amending the bylaws to allow women into the club as members. The big announcement was made at the Annual Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel; and a few months later, in September, five women were elected as members. More were elected later in the fall; and by the end of the year, there were 16 women members of The Explorers Club. All had pushed their bold dreams into solid field research.
Check out these images from some of the extraordinary expeditions and accomplishments of four iconic explorers: Dr. Sylvia Earle, Kathy Sullivan, Carol Beckwith, and Anna Roosevelt.
Get to Know the First Women of The Explorers Club
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Today there are more than 800 female members of The Explorers Club. Forty years ago, in the spring of 1981, there were none. But efforts were underway to change that. For several years, the Club's president, Charles Brush, had been pushing for change. There was considerable opposition; but others in...
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