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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
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Happy #BiodiversityDay! In Nov/Dec 2019, Sedna's #seawomen documented one of the planet's greatest spectacles of nature: Orcas & humpbacks feasting during the winter #herringrun in Norway's fjords. Image by Australian photographer Pamela Martin #arcticcircle #snorkel @PlanArctic
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Beyond thrilled to share:
My first book, 'Unbroken,' a brave & riveting narrative nonfiction debut in the vein of Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga and Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid and From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle, is being published!
FIVE years in the making!
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“Deal News: World English rights to UNBROKEN by @angelasterritt, a narrative nonfiction debut based on Sterritt's own story and the larger story...
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Oriole nests are incredible architectural feats. Have you ever wondered how they're built?
How Orioles Build Those Incredible Hanging Nests
The delicate-looking structures are stronger than they seem, and come in a variety of shapes and materials.
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40 years later geologists @USGSvolcanoes unlock the mystery behind the eruption of #MountSaintHelens, a volcano that's perched atop a zone of rock too cold to produce the magma to feed its furious blasts #40YearsAgo #MSH40 #volcanoes @NatGeoScience
Mount St. Helens isn't where it should be. Scientists may finally know why.
The volcano is responsible for the deadliest eruption in the U.S., yet many mysteries remain about the closely watched peak, including why it formed i...
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Have you heard of #polardinosaurs? 70 million years ago, duck-billed hadrosaurs (the 'caribou of the Cretaceous') unearthed in Alaska may have walked across the #BeringLandBridge from Asia to America #Edmontosaurus #FossilFriday @PerotMuseum @GeologyPage
Arctic Edmontosaurus lives again: A new look at the 'caribou of the Cretaceous' | Geology Page
A new study by an international team from the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas and Hokkaido University and Okayama University..
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Marine biology professor @AmandaVincent1 @UBCoceans wins $US250K award for her lifework protecting #seahorses around the world from extinction: Prof Vincent @UBC @projectseahorse is the first Canadian to win the prestigious @IndyPrize #conservation #oceans https://t.co/qy20R4LVO1
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A frozen bird was found on the ground in Siberia in 2018, but it had been there much longer than the latest snowfall. The bird is actually about 46,000 years old and was well-preserved in Siberian permafrost, scientists have determined.
Researchers from Stockholm University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History analyzed the frozen bird and determined it to be a female horned lark which roamed the Earth 44 to 49 kiloannum ago (a kiloannum is a period of a thousand years). The researchers recently published their findings in Communications Biology.
In the study, images of the horned lark show it still has distinct charcoal-colored feathers, despite being thousands of years old. Because carcasses like this one are extremely well preserved when frozen, "they allow for studies of morphological traits, as well as the ecology and evolution of a range of extinct and extant animal species," the researchers said.
However, most examples of this type of frozen tissues have been from large mammals, according to the study. Researchers say they have not seen any frozen bird carcasses from late Pleistocene permafrost deposits.
The research is also helping scientists learn about ecosystems back in the last Ice Age. The researchers' long-term hope is to map the complete genome of the 46,000-year-old lark and compare it with the genomes from all subspecies of horned lark.
A frozen bird found in Siberia is about 46,000 years old
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Along with the ancient bird, scientists are also studying an 18,000-year-old puppy and other extremely old specimens.Lori Cook cool eh!!
Bennett Wong!!!
Hello Sedna friends! Today we are introducing #TeamSedna member Anya Janzen who currently resides in Hamilton, Ontario, with her dog, Silver, and cat, Mowgli.
In the Fall of 2018, Anya obtained her M.Sc. degree in earth and environmental science from McMaster University, which was entitled “Late Holocene Paleoclimate Records from Lake Pac Chen and Carwash Cenote, Quintana Roo, Mexico.” During her reseach in the Yucatan, Anya collected sediment cores to investigate past climate records and learned scientific methods for scuba diving research.
She currently works as environmental technician for WSP's landfill geosciences team in southern Ontario.She competes provincially in Olympic weightlifting 💪 and enjoys hiking, backcountry camping ⛺️, the general outdoors and craft beer 🍻.
#sednaepic #womeninSTEM #womeninscience #womeningeoscience #womenofthearctic #womenwhoexplore #yesshecan #changetheratio
💪👏 Anya Janzen 👏💪
Thanks for the video..can't wait to meet you in Norway😀🐋🐬
Welcome to #TeamSedna, Anya!
IN THE PAMIR Mountains of Central Asia, time has stopped working. Seasonal indicators are becoming unreliable across the globe, and long-standing traditional knowledge is at risk.
Communities in the region traditionally kept time by pegging it to environmental markers, such as melting snow or the first appearance of a migratory bird. But these “ecological calendars” have ceased to function properly due to the effects of climate change.
An array of environmental shifts in the region, such as unusual weather events, untimely glacial melts, lake bursts, and changes in animal and bird migration patterns, have thrown the calendars so far off kilter that most villagers no longer use them, and they struggle to reliably predict cues for planning agricultural and cultural activities.
“What's happening, is it is creating instability at many levels—insecurity within local contexts, uncertainty with respect to anticipatory capacity, risk with respect to hazards that are turning into disasters—so imagine the level of anxiety,” says Karim-Aly S. Kassam of Cornell University.
This year, Kassam and an international team of researchers and local residents are starting work on a massive, multipart project to recalibrate time in the region. If successful, the Ecological Calendars and Climate Adaptation in the Pamirs (ECCAP) project will allow villagers to better plan their food production and adapt to future changes.
Climate Change Is Making Calendars Run Amok
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People in the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia are recalibrating their system of time to adapt to a changing ecosystem.