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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Reciting cowboy poetry and telling tall tales on the longest day of the year at the Historic @ReesorRanch in Canada’s Cypress Hills.
It doesn’t get any better… #SummerSolstice @CHdestinationA @Saskatchewan
#NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay falls on the summer solstice, and recognizes and honours #FirstNations, #Inuit and #Métis cultures.
‘We have an infinite capacity for joy,’ says award-winning novelist Eden Robinson. #reconciliation #celebration #Canada
Break bread, laugh and learn: How to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day | CBC Radio
Unreserved asked a few friends of the show — Indigenous people who are celebrated in their own right — ...
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Can't wait! Moving to the Northwest Territories to work @environmentca on carbon sequestration, climate change, and endangered species in the Yukon, NWT and Nunavut #Northof60 #CanadianWildlifeService #ECCCfamily @spectacularNWT @OurYellowknife
Midnight Sun, June Midnight, Great Bear Lake, N.W.T.
Franz Johnston
1939
Looking Back at Where We Came From
Robert Davidson ~ Haida
2000
Canada and Denmark draw a line down the middle of Hans Island, a 1.3-sq-km rock in the #Arctic sea passage between #Greenland and #Nunavut, settling a decades-old border dispute. Inuit call the island 'Tartupaluk' which describes its kidney-like shape.
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Canada and Denmark reach settlement over disputed Arctic island, sources say
Under the agreement, a border will be drawn across Hans Island, dividing it between the Canadian territory of Nuna...
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Paddling on Both Sides
Buffy Sainte-Marie ~ Cree
Blake Angeconeb ~ Anishinaabe
2021
Viruses play key role in the ocean's biological carbon pump (every day, dead plankton sink to the sea floor, entombing the carbon in their bodies) that sequesters as much as 12 gigatonnes of carbon/year—or about 1/3 of the human-caused CO2 emissions/year.
Thousands of previously undescribed viruses found by huge ocean survey | New Scientist
A massive survey of the world's oceans has uncovered 5000 viruses that are new to science, some of which are i...
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“Wa ayás kwis es i chap tl'iḵ (With peace, we welcome you all)" is the title of a newly installed piece of art adorning streetlight banners throughout West Vancouver.
The artwork installation honours National Indigenous Peoples Day (Tuesday, June 21) in Canada—banners have been installed along the Spirit Trail in Ambleside Park, waterfront parks, and Centennial Seawalk.
The design is by Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) artist Sinámkin (Jody Broomfield).
“There will be opportunities for everyone of all ages to participate in activities such as Indigenous art workshops, traditional storytelling, wool weaving and wood carving,” said West Vancouver Mayor Nary-Ann Booth. “And to learn more about the rich and diverse cultures, experiences and histories of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.”
At Ambleside Park, canoe families will paddle through the traditional waters in West Vancouver Police Department’s canoe, Ch’ich’iyuy, and the Integrated First Nation Unit canoe, Sema7maka, while sharing stories of the area.
Check out the video featured in this story!
#NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay #Indigenous #FirstNations #Metis #Inuit #Reconciliation
West Van unveils streetlight banners for National Indigenous Peoples Day
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The district is inviting people to Ambleside Park on Tuesday afternoon for Indigenous art workshops, traditional storytelling, wool weaving and wood carving.
Happy Summer Solstice!
Arctic plants are small and low-growing, which protects them from wind and frost. Storing more solar energy (in lower temperatures) than plants do in the South, their leaves and buds blossom rapidly, carpeting the tundra with vibrant colours during the brief arctic summer.
The photo of this beautiful field of Dryas integrifolia (a member of the rose family) was captured near Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, by polar photographer Frank R. Reardon.
#summersolstice2022 #summersolstice #arctic #arcticsummer #arcticflowers #tundra #nunavut #canada
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Just in time for #OrcaActionMonth, Canada Post releases a limited edition series of stamps featuring five endangered species of whales in Canada, including the Killer whale (Orcinus orca).
"Killer whales, or orcas, are highly social animals, living in family-based pods and hunting collaboratively. A killer whale typically remains with its mother for life. Each pod has its own dialect of sounds and a unique, sophisticated culture passed down through generations. Three distinct groups of killer whales inhabit Canadian Pacific waters – transient, offshore and resident (which includes northern resident and southern resident populations). Once captured for aquariums, southern residents are now estimated to have a population of about 75, with only a few successful births in recent years." - Canada Post
Canada Post’s national stamp program highlights five whale species with Canadian populations that have been assessed as Endangered by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC).
To learn about the four other endangered species of whales featured on these stamps beautifully illustrated by David Miller, go to:
www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/blogs/personal/perspectives/endangered-whales-stamps/
#orcaawarenessmonth #canadapost #orcas #killerwhales #whales #salmon #salishsea #washingtonstate #britishcolumbia #conservation #education #awareness #oceans #oceanchange #oceanliteracy #oceandecade #seawomen #seawomenexpeditions