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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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.
Bringing the Ocean to Eye Level for Inuit in the Arctic
Bank to the left; bank to the right: Tethered to a diver propulsion vehicle, I flew through emerald-green arctic waters at six kilometres per hour, dodging sculpted ice formations off the northern coast of Labrador, Canada.
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
VIDEOS
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
SOCIAL MEDIA
"I’ve gone from being an ecologist to a coroner", says Dr. @DianaSix1 @umontana. She's spent 30 years studying @GlacierNPS in Montana, and laments the impacts of disappearing glaciers on plants, birds, insects and animals #climatecrisis #rockymountains
Top US scientist on melting glaciers: âI‘ve gone from being an ecologist to a coroner‘
Diana Six, an entomologist studying beetles near Glacier national park in Montana, says the crisis has fundamentally changed her profession
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Captured this image of the Meta Incognita Peninsula on the SE coast of Baffin Island: This #KenBorekAir Twin Otter de Havilland was equipped with tundra tires, enabling us to land on a glacial outwash plain #womenofthearctic @sednaepic @arctickingdom @TravelNunavut @NuTourism
Sending a huge shout out to the #seawomen @sednaepic on #PADIWomensDiveDay: We wish you a fab day of exploring the oceans and freshwater bodies near you #PADIwomen #womeninscience #womenofthearctic #equity #equality #inclusion @PlanArctic @TheWDHOF @ExplorersClub @WaterproofExped https://twitter.com/PADI/status/1416170800193982464
Happy PADI Women's Dive Day to all the incredible #PADIWomen from around the world 🌎 Don't forget to tag #PADIWomensDiveDay in your posts so we can see what you get up to! 📷: IG user 'hoodabrown'.
Happy #PADIWomensDiveDay 🤿🧜♀️🐠🐙🦈🦭🐟 🌊📸🌎💙
@andreackelley @Cosmicstrenght3 @RunDiverCar1888 @ReneeDomenz @BoucherLeanne @wvduivenvoorde @SusanREaton_Geo @DiverBliss @CristinaZenato https://twitter.com/PADI/status/1416306714110988292
It's #PADIWomensDiveDay!! 💙 Where are you celebrating today? 🌍
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“The future does not lie in oil. The future belongs to #renewableenergy, and in that respect we have much more to gain,” said the #Greenland government, taking co-responsibility for combating the global climate crisis #ArcticSeaIceDay #Arctic @ABC
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An Arctic scientist and educator, Emily Choy has contributed tirelessly to research on climate change and its effect on the Canadian North.
We're excited to add her to our lineup of Explorers-in-Residence.
https://rcgs.org/programs/explorers-in-residence/emily-choy/
Fancy joining the Nov. 2021 and Nov. 2022 teams of Indigenous & non-Indigenous #seawomen @SednaEpic? Participants are self-funded.
I’m recruiting women with the 'right stuff'. Send your biography & resume to susan@sednaepic.com.
#womenofthearctic #herringrun @WaterproofExped
Happy #WorldOrcaDay!
This superb image was captured 350 kms north of the #ArcticCircle by Australian photographer Pamela Martin during our Nov-Dec 2019 proof-of-concept ocean research & winter snorkel (with #orcas!) expedition to Norway's arctic fjords. #explorers #womeninSTEM
High tide ᐅᓕᓐᓂᖅ ulinniq (u-lin-niq)
Image: Mary Pudlat's Loading the BoatWord of the Day
ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᔾᔪᑎᕗᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᒥ #Inuktitut
High tide
ᐅᓕᓐᓂᖅ
ulinniq
u-lin-niq
Image: Mary Pudlat's Loading the Boat
listen here:
Happens so often and especially to women.
Sounds familiar things are not much better now
Perfect!!
Good one! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
What do you mean by "et al."? 😄😄
Ian Angus, marine species manager at the Department of Conservation, said Toa's carers "threw everything at trying to save him".
"We were always aware that the longer he was in captivity, away from his mother, the more likely it was that his health would deteriorate," Mr Angus said.
"Toa passed quickly, surrounded by love, with his last days made as comfortable as possible."
The killer whale - named Toa - washed ashore near the capital Wellington 10 days ago, prompting a desperate search to find his family in nearby waters.
Believed to be two to six months old and about 2.5m (8ft) long, the orphan could not survive alone in the ocean.
His fate gripped the nation, with hundreds of people volunteering to help the nationwide search.
Toa - Maori for "warrior" - was separated from his pod and found by two teenagers in a rockpool in Plimmerton, north of Wellington.
Conservationists placed him in a makeshift pool, where he was fed via a special teat every four hours.
A fleet of aircraft and on-shore observers scoured hundreds of miles of coastline for Toa's pod in the hope his mother could be found.
But Whale-Rescue.org, an organisation that had been helping care for Toa, said his condition suddenly deteriorated on Friday. Vets rushed to help but were unable to save him.
"We have to report that a little time ago Toa passed away," the organisation said. "As you can all imagine we are devastated."
The team had hoped to reunite Toa with his mother, or if that failed, have him adopted by another pod.
www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57950919
Baby orca, Toa, dies in New Zealand after failed search for mother
www.bbc.com
Toa, a killer whale stranded from his family, had washed ashore on the New Zealand coast.