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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The eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano generated lightning strikes—caused by the electrostatic interaction of very fine volcanic ash particles in the air—peaking at 63,000 events per 15 minutes @scronin70 @AucklandUni #TongaVolcano #Tsunami
Opinion: The enormous Tonga volcano eruption was a once-in-a-millennium event
The eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano on Saturday was so large, it was a spectacle best appreciated from space.
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We know so little about the oceans, which cover 71 percent of the planet's surface area. The discovery, of 100 billion fish eggs covering a 240-square-km area under an Antarctic ice shelf, is mind-blowing indeed #oceans #weddellsea #antarctica @AWI_Media
Largest ever fish colony hosts 100 billion eggs under Antarctic ice | New Scientist
In the Weddell Sea near Antarctica, scientists have found the largest colony of fish nests in the world, covering 240 square kilometres
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In mid-December, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration @NOAA released its #ArcticReportCard: Update for 2021, saying that rapid and pronounced warming continues to drive the evolution of the Arctic environment #climatechange @ArcticCouncil https://youtu.be/_WbWjLUTvZM
Stunning image of a #polarbear in the window of an abandoned meteorological station on #KolyuchinIsland wins Russian photographer Dmitry Kokh 1st place in wildlife in an anthropogenic environment category @NatGeo #Arctic #Russia #Chukotka #ChuckchiSea
Polar bears settled on an abandoned meteorological station in Chukotka (PHOTOS)
People left these places some 30 years ago. Now wildlife has taken the place of scientists.
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180-million-year-old marine reptile the largest and most complete #fossil of its kind ever found in the UK: #Ichthyosaur measures 10 metres long and its skull weighs about a tonne #notadinosaur #palaeontology
Huge âsea dragon‘ named one of UK‘s greatest fossil finds
Ichthyosaur about 10 metres long and dating back 180m years discovered at Rutland Water
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Time for us to get involved in the #ScubaSunday recommending action for #scubadiving in #Canada @CanGeo @McClellanRobert @jettbritnell @diverdowndeep @OceanaCAN @SusanREaton_Geo @jillheinerth @ExplorersClub @WetspotImages @DavidSuzukiFDN and just for fun @VancityReynolds 😎🤿
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We know so little about the oceans, which cover 71 percent of the planet's surface area. The recent discovery under an Antarctic ice shelf, of 100 billion fish eggs covering an area of 240 square-kilometres, is mind-blowing indeed...
The largest colony of fish nests ever seen has been discovered under an ice shelf in the Weddell Sea near Antarctica. Autun Purser at the Alfred Wegner Institute in Germany and his colleagues discovered the breeding ground by chance when they went on a six-week expedition to the polar region in February 2021.
They were on board RV Polarstern, a massive polar exploration ship designed to navigate icebergs by breaking through them. Purser’s job was to trail a camera behind the ship to image the seafloor. “It’s a normal Canon camera you can buy in any shop… it’s just housed in a €3.5 million frame,” he says.
The researchers were doing a routine analysis of the seafloor when they stumbled upon thousands of nests made by Jonah’s icefish (Neopagetopsis ionah), a type of small ray-finned fish typically found in the Southern Ocean. “And then we kept moving for four hours and kept seeing more fish nests,” says Purser.
The nests look like blue circles on the seafloor and are each about 15 centimetres deep.
The researchers then spent the next four days documenting the colony. “Some days, we would be travelling for up to 19 hours,” says Purser.
He and his colleagues estimate that the colony has more than 60 million nests and covers at least 240 square kilometres. “It looked computer generated how structured these nests were,” says Purser. Each nest had one adult fish and about 1500 to 2000 eggs. “We don’t know how long they take before they hatch or even how many will survive,” he says.
While researchers have observed this species of icefish before, they have only been seen in small colonies. We know very little about the fish, says Purser.
“I went on an expedition to this region about 25 years ago and one of the big questions then was where do these icefish breed,” says Katrin Linse at the British Antarctic Survey. “Finding an assemblage on this scale is just mind-blowing to me.”
www.newscientist.com/article/2304458-largest-ever-fish-colony-hosts-100-billion-eggs-under-antarc...
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Largest ever fish colony hosts 100 billion eggs under Antarctic ice
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In the Weddell Sea near Antarctica, scientists have found the largest colony of fish nests in the world, covering 240 square kilometres
The mighty raven.
According to Canadian Geographic: "This large corvid is entirely black, with a thick neck, shaggy throat feathers and a sharp beak. They are omnivorous, opportunistic eaters, and live year-round in every province and territory."
They are also tough as nails.
-40 C is nothing for these birds.
Thanks to Mike McCann of the Yukon, Canada, for this detailed closeup of this awesome creature!
Photo: Mike McCann via CBC NorthThe mighty raven.
According to Canadian Geographic: "This large corvid is entirely black, with a thick neck, shaggy throat feathers and a sharp beak. They are omnivorous, opportunistic eaters, and live year-round in every province and territory."
They are also tough as nails.
-40 C is nothing for these birds.
Thanks to Mike McCann of the Yukon for this detailed closeup of this awesome creature!
Photo: Mike McCann