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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Do it tomorrow and do it every day after tomorrow, too.
#TruthandReconciliationDay #TruthBeforeReconciliation
#OrangeShirtDay #OrangeShirtDay2021
On #TruthandReconciliationDay, the @SednaEpic Expedition's sea women stand in solidarity with Canada's Indigenous peoples. Sedna's Indigenous and non-Indigenous women are working for a more equitable future #TruthBeforeReconciliation #OrangeShirtDay2021
Canada marks first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Thursday marks Canada’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, as communities across the country honour ...
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Art piece by Urban Iskwew Artwork by Hawlii Pichette
#EveryChildMatters #OrangeShirtDay2021
#NationalDayforTruthandReconciliation
On #TruthandReconciliationDay, I stand in solidarity with Canada's Indigenous peoples. What a moving story (and video) on how this day inspired #Indigenous artists in Saskatchewan #orangeshirtday2021 #truthbeforereconciliation #everychildmatters
What a day to honour reconciliation inspired in these Indigenous artists | CBC News
Three Saskatchewan artists created original works for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Thursday, cover...
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After nearly a decade of activism by students and faculty, @Harvard University will fight climate change by divesting its #fossilfuels portfolio and appointing its first-ever vice provost for #climate and #sustainability @HuffPostGreen
Harvard To Divest $42 Billion Endowment From Fossil Fuels After Years Of Student Protest
“This announcement is a massive victory for activists and for the planet,” Divest Harvard, a student- and alumni-led group, wrote.
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The @SednaEpic's founder & leader @SusanREaton_Geo was included in the @ExplorersClub's 2021 Class of 50 people changing the world!
You've got until Sept. 8 to nominate candidates for the #Explorers50 Class of 2022!
#womeninscience #womenofthearctic #changetheratio #diversity https://twitter.com/ExplorersClub/status/1432440254443626499
LAST CHANCE to nominate #Explorers50 candidates! We're seeking nominations for 50 individuals who've explored realms that we haven't previously considered.
Applications are due this Wed, Sept. 1st.
👉http://bit.ly/3AViZlh
📸:@SusanREaton_Geo @SVenkatesh__
#science #diversity
Word of the Day
ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᔾᔪᑎᕗᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᒥ #Inuktitut
Dream
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Sinnattuaq
Sin-nat-tu-aq
Image: Kenojuak Ashevak_song of spring
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Family heirlooms are often tucked away in someone's basement. For Germaine Benuen, they were stored in the Canadian Museum of History near Ottawa.
Benuen, who lives in the Innu community of Sheshatshiu in central Labrador, was returning from a three-week cross-country road trip to British Columbia in September when she followed up on a tip that hand-beaded moccasins that her late mother made 62 years ago were on display at the Canadian Museum of History, which is in Gatineau, Quebec.
"When we were driving by, I said we have to stop at the museum to see what we can find," Benuen told CBC Radio's Labrador Morning.
While she could not find anything on display, emails and phone calls with staff helped her quickly track down the moccasins in the museum's collection storage.
After 62 years, this Innu woman was finally able to see her mother's artwork | CBC News
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Family heirlooms are often tucked away in someone's basement. For Germaine Benuen, they were stored in the Canadian Museum of History in Ottawa.
A wonderful image, by Ledoux Florian Photographer, of a polar bear and her cubs in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago located midway between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole, at 74 to 81 degrees north latitude.Earlier this year, in May and June we were grateful to see many cubs of the year that were born last December and came out of the den around the end of March. Only 2-3 months later they have totally changed from a small cute cub to more of a teenager look as you can see on this image. They more than doubled in size!
#PolarBear #Nature #Svalbard #Arctic #Bear #PolarBears #Cub#Spitzbergen
Another generation of women will have to wait for gender parity, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021. As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be felt, closing the global gender gap has increased by a generation from 99.5 years to 135.6 years.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has raised new barriers to building inclusive and prosperous economies and societies. Pre-existing gender gaps have amplified the crisis asymmetrically between men and women, even as women have been at the frontlines of managing the crisis as essential workers. The hardest hit sectors by lockdowns and rapid digitalization are those where women are more frequently employed. Combined with the additional pressures of providing care in the home, the crisis has halted progress toward gender parity in several economies and industries.
Gender-sensitive recovery strategies will be critical in making up ground lost during 2020 to prevent long-term scarring in the labour market. Leaders have an unprecedented opportunity to build more resilient and gender-equal economies by investing in inclusive workplaces, creating more equitable care systems, advancing women’s rise to leadership positions, applying a gender lens to reskilling and redeployment and embedding gender parity into the future of work.
This year’s report aims to keep the focus on consistent measurement of gender gaps while providing new data to point to emerging and concerning trends in the labour market so
that we can proactively address them. We are delighted to feature in this report a special collaboration with LinkedIn and Ipsos, who have provided unique data and new measures to track gender gaps."
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Another generation of women will have to wait for gender parity, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021. As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be felt, c...