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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....
Katujjiqatigit / Working Together: The all-female Sedna Epic Expedition brings a changing ocean to eye level for coastal Inuit communities
BANK TO THE LEFT, bank to the right. Tethered to diver propulsion vehicles, the women flew through emerald-green waters at six kilometres per hour, dodging sculpted ice formations off the northern coast of Labrador. They soon discovered that snorkelling in pack ice is a contact sport. After several star-inducing head bumps, the team’s dive physician determined that helmets would be standard gear for future expeditions.
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
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Sedna Epic: Seawomen To Snorkel Northwest
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(Image: Pitaloosie Saila's Three Women Playing) @kenojuakcentre
#rememberthe14 #ndravaw #December6
First day on and in the water with the @sednaepic seawomen team! Orcas all around, over the next 5 days we will be collecting water samples, acoustic recordings and photographic IDs of the animals we encounter.
Delighted to be part of the #WomenoftheArctic collective @PlanArctic that's focused on making Gender Plan A in the Arctic: Kudos to @GenderArctic for including #WoA in the launch of its first #GEA Times newsletter on #gender #equality in the #Arctic
Thank you to @GenderArctic for including us in the launch of your first #GEA Times newsletter on #gender #equality in the #Arctic. You can read our contribution “Beijing +25 and Making Gender Plan A in the Arctic” here: https://t.co/7q4tmTlJzO. #WomenoftheArctic #WoA
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(Image: Ohotaq Mikkigak’s calm waters)
@kenojuakcentre #tallurutiupimanga #tuvaijuittuq #Inuit
Countdown to Tromsø, Norway! In two weeks, the #seawomen @SednaEpic will be exploring fjords some 350 kms above the #ArcticCircle. Please support my #GoFundMe campaign to lead Team Sedna during the herring run #orcas #wintersnorkel https://t.co/zGojBCBVzP
Click here to support Sedna Epic Norway: Women's Leadership & Snorkel organized by Susan R. Eaton
Susan R. Eaton Sedna Epic Norway: Women's Leadership & Snorkel COVER: Snorkeling 350 kilometres above the Norway's Arctic Circle during the winter her...
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“Seek adventure. Save the ocean,” says Drew Richardson, President and CEO of PADI. #DEMA Show 2019
PADI President Calls On Members To Be Ocean Ambassadors – DeeperBlue.com
From the surface to the abyss, PADI aims to recruit a billion "torchbearers" in the fight to preserve our oceans.
www.deeperblue.com
Acorn Woodpeckers are best known for their habit of hoarding acorns: the birds drill small holes in a dead snag, then harvest acorns in fall and store them in these holes, to be eaten during winter. https://t.co/h6xxMzUbas
This fascinating article highlights the social structure of orcas and the importance of older females in relation to the survival of calves.
“Because orca (also known as killer whale) societies are matriarchal, it’s likely that these older females carry with them crucial knowledge about food resources that can mean life or death for their kin.”
Why do orca grandmothers live so long? It's for their grandkids.
on.natgeo.com
One only a few species known to experience menopause, orcas can live 90 years. Now, a new study suggests there’s a reason why.#OrcaFoodCulture #CetaceanGastronomy 🙂
Finland’s coalition government will be composed of five parties all led by women for the first time after the female transport minister won a vote to be the next leader.
Sanna Marin has been chosen by her Social Democratic party to replace the outgoing prime minister Antti Rinne.
She will lead a centre-left coalition of five parties who all have female leaders – four under the age of 35.
Ms Marin, aged 34, will become the world’s youngest sitting prime minister and the country’s third female leader.
Former prime minister Alexander Stubb celebrated the new coalition, saying it “shows that Finland is a modern and progressive country”.
Finland forms entirely women-led government, with world's youngest PM
Four leaders are also in their thirties
This warms my heart on cold, grey, December's day!
The USA should outsource Washington to the Scandinavians!
Fintastic! 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Eliza Renner
A social media app geared toward the outdoor lives of Inuit launched Wednesday with features that tie traditional knowledge to smartphone technology.
The Siku app and web platform, named after the Inuktitut word for sea ice, allows users to trade observations about dangerous conditions, document wildlife sightings and trade hunting stories.
It also integrates modern weather, sea ice and satellite imagery, while allowing travellers to add in the traditional terms for potentially perilous conditions using their own language.
Inuit sharing ancient knowledge of ice, sea and land with new app | CBC News
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A social media app geared toward the outdoor lives of Inuit launched Wednesday with features that tie traditional knowledge to smartphone technology.Love this. To have it in their language is key.
Do you have a link to the actual app?