Susan Hazlett likes to say that three things make up her life. She is a scientist, a sailor, and a storyteller. As a child, she spent summers at the Oregon coast, and recalls that when her friends were building sandcastles, she was turning over rocks in the intertidal looking for interesting sea life. Her love for marine biology led her to other related fields of science, from tidewater glaciers to the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems. As part of her research, she learned modern computer cartography, using satellite imagery and geographic information systems programs to map everything from how animals utilize their habitats to how plant and animal life returns to a barren landscape after a natural disaster. She spent 25 years in Fairbanks, Alaska, raising two children in a one-room log cabin with no electricity or running water. She has crossed the North Pacific and Atlantic oceans, visited the Arctic and Antarctic, been around Cape Horn, and explored rain forests in South America and tropical islands in the South Pacific. She says the thing that fascinates her most about nature is how everything in the natural world is interconnected.

A few years ago Sue moved from Alaska to Castine, Maine to teach at Maine Maritime Academy where she is also part of the crew of a 100-year old Arctic exploration schooner. She loves teaching and speaking on ships because she believes that the ocean, the land, and its inhabitants have stories to be told and that when we share stories, we connect with the world and with each other.

Polar Regions/Arctic
In Extremis – Adaptations to a Polar Environment
Ice, Ice, Baby
Navigating the North
Whales and Whaling in the Far North
Under Arctic Seas
Slip, Sliding Away: Glaciers of the Polar Seas
Amundsen and the Northwest Passage
Pass the Polar Bear Please - Victuals and Expeditions

Antarctica
Penguins - From Chilly Willy to Happy Feet
Hooray and Up She Rises
Ice, Ice, Baby - Glaciers of Antarctica
Under Polar Seas
Endeavor
Polar Journeys – Early Explorers to Modern Mariners
Those Magnificent Men and Their Polar Machines
Sidekicks and Also-Rans – The unsung heros
Amundsen and Scott
Pass the Penguin Please - Victuals and Expeditions
Ghosts of Cape Horn
Ways to Die at the Pole

Alaska/Pacific Northwest
In the Wake of Giants
A Wondrous Scene
Orcas and tigers and bears, Oh my!
Call of the Wild
Under Alaskan Seas
A Tlingit Journey
Hooray and Up She Rises: Whales and Whaling
The Rush is On!
The Aleutian Islands
For Gold, God, and Glory
Don’t call it Frisco
Mainfest Destiny
Bad Guys and Good Time Girls

New England/Canada
Early Explorers of the North Atlantic
18th Century Colonialism in the New World
Revolution and evolution: The history of a Maine town
Whales and Whaling in New England and Canada
Cod:The fish that shaped the world

Southeast US
Mainfest Destiny
The Civil War
Swamps and Where to Find Them
A Clash of Cultures
Deadliest Predator: The Mosquito

South America/Patagonia
Happy Feet: A World of Penguins
Ghosts of Cape Horn
A Wondrous Scene
In the Wake of Giants
Exploiting the Southern Ocean
Call of the Wild

Amazon
Run Through the Jungle
Down by the River

South America/Peru
For Gold, God, and Glory
Pre-Columbian Civilizations
A Desert of Whales

Baltic
Eastward the Vikings!
Rivers of the Steppes
Cassocks and Cossacks
Amber: Frozen in time
Animals of the Steppes

Scandinavia
Vikings
How to Make a Fjord
Glaciers
The Bog People
The Northern Lights
The Saami

Iceland/Greenland
Land of Fire and Ice
Glaciers
Viking
Fishermen, Friars, and Felons
The Inuit
Search for the Northwest Passage
Mammals of the Arctic Seas
Whales and Whaling in the North Atlantic

British Isles
After the Ice Age: Early peoples of Britain
Ice Age Britain
Troubled Land: History of Ireland
Faces of the Titanic

Mediterranean
People of the Middle Sea
The Spice Trade
The Silk Road
Ancient Rome versus the Rest of the World
The Renaissance
Could you survive? Ancient Greece
Could you survive? Ancient Rome
Could you survive? Ancient Egype
Could you survive? Medieval Europe

Africa
Treasures of Ivory and Gold
The Desert War
The Nile
Natural History of the Sahara
Life at an Oasis
The Boer War
The Cape of Storms
Madagascar

Far East
The Bhudda
The British East India Company
The Great Dynasties of China
The Mongol Hoards
Darwin and Wallace: Discovering Evolution
Krakatoa
Islands of Indonesia

Australia/New Zealand
The Great Grain Races
In the Wake of Giants
The Secret Life of Sharks
Whales and Whaling in the Southern Ocean
The Gold Rush
Voyages of the 18th Century
The Amazing Captain Cook
The Maori

Polynesia
Wayfinding: Traditional Navigation
Populating Polynesia

Maritime/Cartography
Earth from Space
Under the Sea
Here Be Dragons: A History of Maps
From Early Explorers to Modern Mariners
Sea Rovers and Castaways
The Economics of Piracy and Privateering
Current Affairs: The Great Ocean Currents of the World

Over 20 years of experience as a lecturer/naturalist in most parts of the world. Specialist in Alaska. I have also worked as an expedition guide in Antarctica. Lines worked for include Princess, Royal Caribbean, Celebrity, Regent Seven Seas, Cunard, P&O, Viking, Virgin, and Hurtigruten

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