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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Orcas in the distance! Masks, fins & snorkels at the ready! Team Sedna's Kelly Fraser, a Juno-nominated #Inuk pop singer-songwriter from #Nunavut, died by suicide at the age of 26 years. Kelly was a bright light and a powerful voice for Inuit youth.
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Kelly Fraser was my snorkel buddy during the @SednaEpic ocean research expedition to Norway’s arctic fjords in 2019: A Juno-nominated, #Inuk pop singer-songwriter from #Nunavut, Kelly died by suicide at age 26. She was a powerful voice for Inuit youth.
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
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Image: Napachie Pootoogook's Lost in the Storm
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“We have the vision, we need the resources.” Ethel Blondin-Andrew on how investing in #Indigenous-led #conservation can help fight #climatechange & help Canada meet international commitments to conserve 30% of lands & water by 2030.
https://bit.ly/3aqcCL7
Melting sea ice in #Arctic, warming oceans and killer whale predation may explain why bowhead whales held off their annual 6,000km migration in 2018-2019: Dr. Stephen Insley @theWCS Canada publishes findings in the Journal @RoyalSociety Open Science https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/21/melting-ice-in-arctic-linked-to-bowhead-whales-holding-off-annual-migration
Melting in May
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2018
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Image: Pauta Saila's Late Arrival
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Team Sedna member and Juno-nominated, Inuk pop singer-songwriter from Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, Kelly died by suicide, leaving this world far too young, at the age of 26 years.
Kelly was a bright light and a powerful voice for Inuit youth.
The silence she leaves behind is palpable...
#sednaepic #rememberingkelly #kellyfraser #suicideprevention #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawarenessweek #Inuit #NunavutDuring the Sedna Epic Expedition's 2019 ocean research and snorkel expedition to Norway’s arctic fjords, I check in with my snorkel buddy Kelly Amaujaq Fraser, ensuring that she's fine in these deep, dark waters full of ocean predators (orcas!).
Team Sedna member and Juno-nominated, Inuk pop singer-songwriter from Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, Kelly died by suicide, leaving this world far too young, at the age of 26 years.
Kelly was a bright light and a powerful voice for Inuit youth.
The silence she leaves behind is palpable...
#sednaepic #rememberingkelly #kellyfraser #suicideprevention #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawarenessweek #Inuit #Nunavut
Pictured during the 2019 Sedna Epic Expedition to Norway's arctic fjords is Kelly Amaujaq Fraser, Team Sedna member and Juno-nominated, Inuk pop singer-songwriter from Sanikiluaq, Nunavut.
Kelly died by suicide, leaving this world far too young, at the age of 26 years. She was a bright light and a powerful voice for Inuit youth.
#SednaEpic #rememberingkelly #kellyfraser #suicideprevention #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawarenessweek
"Chris Kelly was invited inside last winter and just shared these photos with us. Here's what he says about this once in a lifetime experience for him.
"It was one of the highlights of my time in Tuk. It was so quiet and the sights were amazing, with the shine of the permafrost and the ice crystals that cover the upper portion of the corridors.
The ladder down, was covered in ice near the top and I didn’t have my camera bag at the time. I needed both hands to navigate the ladder and held the camera in the hood of my parka. I climbed down trying not to move my neck for fear of it falling out, it was worth it."
Shared via CBC North.
I have been inside few year ago. Nice frig for the whole community.