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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Conservationists @BelugaSanctuary @SeaLifeTrust express hopes of creating a model for rehoming some 300 belugas currently in captivity. These two #belugas have not been in the sea since they were taken from a Russian whale research centre in 2011 #arctic
Captive beluga whales released into Iceland sea sanctuary
Two beluga whales from a Shanghai aquarium have returned to the sea in an Icelandic sanctuary, conservationists said Monday, expressing hopes of creat...
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@JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris, U.S. Senator and Democratic candidate for Vice President of the United States. Team #BidenHarris2020Landslide is going to pommel Trump #BlackLivesMatter #InThisTogether #BidenHarris2020
Let’s go win this, @KamalaHarris.
Tucked into the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the dwarf planet Ceres shows evidence of recent ice volcanoes and remnants of an ancient ocean: Scientists @NASA @NASAJPL @JHUAPL publish data acquired by the Dawn spacecraft @michaelgreshko @NatGeoUK
Dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter is geologically alive
The tiny, frigid world Ceres amazes with evidence of recent ice volcanoes fed by the remnants of an ancient underground sea.
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Published in the journal of Nature Climate Change on Aug. 3, the study by PhD candidate Sam Anderson @UBC found that glacier retreat in the #RockyMountains will impact communities relying on glacier runoff during the summer season @ice_rivers_sam @UBCeoas
Melting glaciers will bring instability to more than 1 million Albertans' water supply | CBC News
A first of its kind study from the University of British Columbia has found that melting glaciers will bring water shortages to one in four people li...
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Satellite animation, from July 30 to August 4, shows the collapse of the last fully intact #iceshelf in #Canada. The Milne Ice Shelf, located on #EllesmereIsland in #Nunavut, has now reduced in area by ~43%. #MilneIceIsland #seaice #Arctic #earthrightnow #glacier
“Above normal air temperatures, offshore winds and open water in front of the ice shelf are all part of the recipe for ice shelf break up,” said the Canadian Ice Service. The Milne Ice Shelf near #EllesmereIsland shrank by 80 sq km @Cryospheric @ECCC_CIS
Canada's last fully intact Arctic ice shelf collapses
The last fully intact ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic has collapsed, losing more than 40% of its area in just two days at the end of July, researcher...
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(CNN) Rehoming animals is a delicate business at the best of times. Rehoming two whales on a new continent during a global pandemic is about as hard as it gets.
Nevertheless, a pair of belugas, named Little Grey and Little White, are enjoying their first taste of the sea since 2011, thanks to a leviathan relocation project that has been years in the making.
Check out the video of the belugas returning to sea after years of captivity!
After being captured at a very young age off the coast of Russia and spending years in a Chinese aquarium, the whales are about to get used to the freedom of an 8-acre sanctuary at Klettsvik Bay in Iceland.
"It's been quite the journey for these two," Audrey Padgett, the Beluga Whale Sanctuary's general manager, told CNN on a video call in front of the belugas. "It hasn't been easy, but it's definitely been a labor of love."
Back in 2011, Little Grey and Little White were moved from a Russian research facility to the Changfeng Ocean World aquarium in Shanghai. The following year, the aquarium was bought by Merlin Entertainments Group, a company opposed to keeping whales and dolphins in captivity.
And so the idea of taking the whales back to the sea was born.
The belugas' new home, run by the SEA LIFE Trust Beluga Whale Sanctuary charity, is a much "larger, natural environment" with lots of potential benefits, Padgett said.
www.cnn.com/2020/08/10/europe/beluga-whale-journey-intl-scli/index.html
Two beluga whales finally reach the sea after epic journey from captivity
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Rehoming animals is a delicate business at the best of times. Rehoming two whales on a new continent during a global pandemic is about as hard as it gets.Laetitia Neko Lionnet Hanna Vatcher
Elin Signe Askvik has always been connected to the sea: Her first job was on a cargo carrier, then came Arctic exploration and finally a decade of salvaging wrecks in pirate-infested waters.
A personal favorite: a 2013 expedition, financed by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, to recover Apollo 11’s F-1 rocket engine, which had been jettisoned into the sea 44 years earlier. Skippering REV Ocean, the world’s largest yacht, will be a sea change.
But Askvik will be using familiar technology to scan and map the oceans down to 20,000 feet, in a bid to save them.
Meet the Woman In Charge of Taking the World’s Biggest Yacht on Its Maiden Voyage
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Avid explorer Elin Signe Askvik is planning to put the mammoth research vessel to good use.
