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14 digital files : JPG
1 digital file : PDF
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Lydia Dotto was born in 1949. In 1971, she graduated with an Honors degree in journalism from Carleton University.
Dotto worked as a general assignment journalist for the Edmonton Journal in 1969 and for the Toronto Star between 1970 and 1971. From 1972 to 1978, Dotto was a staff science writer for The Globe and Mail. In 1978, she became a freelance science and environmental journalist and writer, publishing in varied media and publishing several reports and books. During that time, Dotto was also a partner at Dotto and Schiff Science News Service, co-director of Canadian Science News (a weekly syndication service), and president of the Canadian Science Writers Association.
In 2004, Lydia Dotto focused her work on wildlife photography, travelling across Canada, Tanzania, Costa Rica, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States of America. And publishing in Canadian Wildlife magazine, WILD magazine, On Nature magazine, and Muskoka magazine, among others.
Lydia Dotto also worked as a teacher, including classes on environmental communications for ten years at Trent University.
During her professional years, Lydia Dotto published numerous reports and books, including, among others:
- The ozone war (1978),
- Planet Earth in jeopardy: environmental consequences of nuclear war (1986),
- Canada in space (1987),
- Asleep in the fast lane: the impact of sleep on work (1990),
- Losing sleep: how your sleeping habits affect your life (1990),
- Blue planet: a portrait of Earth (1991),
- The astronauts: Canada's voyageurs in space (1993),
- Storm warning: gambling with the climate of our planet (1999),
- Le ciel nous tombe sur la tete: sommes-nous entrain de risquer le climat de notre planete? (2001), and
- Thinking the unthinkable: civilization and rapid climate change (2006).
Lydia Dotto passed away on September 17, 2022.
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Digital photographs and digitized surrogates of photographs of Dotto in different research and work settings. Also contains a digital file with descriptions of the photographs provided by Dotto. Photographs are described as:
- 01. "Dotto Antarctica penguins" shows Dotto with thousands of king penguins in Gold Harbour, South Georgia Islands, Antarctica (December 23, 2015),
- 02. "Dotto_Arctic dive 1 - suiting up" shows Dotto suiting up when covering the Arctic IV underwater expedition, Resolute Bay (May 1974),
- 03. "Dotto_Arctic dive 2 - dive hole" shows Dotto entering the dive hole, Arctic IV underwater expedition, Resolute Bay (May 1974),
- 04. "Dotto_Arctic dive 3 - Sub-Igloo" shows Dotto underwater rest station; Arctic IV underwater expedition, Resolute Bay (May 1974),
- 05. "Dotto_Arctic dive 4 - dive hut" shows Dotto sitting suited up in the dive hut over the ice during the Arctic IV underwater expedition, Resolute Bay (May 1974),
- 06. "Dotto_Arctic dive 5 - scuba training" shows Dotto learning to dive and earning scuba certification in the Bahamas prior to diving in the Arctic in May 1974 (date uncertain but probably late 1973 or early 1974),
- 07. "Dotto_book launch London, England" shows Dotto in London (United Kingdom) for the launch of the book Planet Earth in Jeopardy: Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War (1980s),
- 08. "Dotto_flight training" shows Dotto training for private pilot’s license (1970s)
- 09. "Dotto_KC135" shows Dotto aboard NASA’s KC-135 aircraft (known as "The Vomit Comet") used to train astronauts for working in microgravity (late 1970s or early 1980s),
- 10. "Dotto NASA KSC press site 1" shows Dotto sitting at the Kennedy Space Center press site for spaceflight coverage, with Bjarni Tryggvason in the background with sunglasses (1970s or early 1980s),
- 11. "Dotto_NASA KSC press site 2" shows Dotto sitting at the Kennedy Space Center press site with Ken Money for coverage of space shuttle flight 41-G, the first flight of a Canadian astronaut, Marc Garneau (undated),
- 12. "Dotto_plane" shows Dotto after receiving her pilot’s license. She flew the plane in the photo (a Piper Cherokee) for a few years (undated),
- 13. "Dotto_Skylab recovery - Ticonderoga 1" shows Dotto on board the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga for coverage of the recovery of the Skylab 1 astronauts in the Pacific Ocean. Dotto was a member of the press pool and the first woman to be aboard a US aircraft carrier at sea (undated),
- 14. "Dotto_Skylab recovery Ticonderoga 2" shows Dotto on board the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga for coverage of the recovery of the Skylab 1 astronauts in the Pacific Ocean. The picture was taken at dawn in the morning the spacecraft was scheduled to enter earth’s atmosphere and splash down in the ocean (undated).
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Donated by Lydia Dotto in 2021.
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Described by CGD in 2022.
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