Eva Saulitis Explained

Eva Saulitis
Birth Name:Eva Lucia Saulitis
Birth Date:May 10, 1963
Birth Place:The Bronx, New York
Death Date:January 16, 2016
Death Place:Homer, Alaska
Occupation:Marine biologist, poet

Eva Lucia Saulitis (May 10, 1963 – January 16, 2016) was an American marine biologist and poet, based in Alaska.

Early life and education

Saulitis was born in the Bronx and raised Silver Creek, New York,[1] the daughter of Latvian immigrants Janis (John) Saulitis and Asja Ivins Saulitis.[2] She studied oboe at Northwestern University, before changing schools and majors to complete a bachelor's degree in environmental science at Syracuse SUNY ESF (Environmental Science and Forestry). She earned a master's degree in marine biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1993, and a second master's degree, in creative writing, in 1999.[3]

Career

Saulitis studied pods of orcas in Prince William Sound.[4] [5] Saulitis taught creative writing at Kenai Peninsula College, and in the University of Alaska Anchorage's MFA program.[6] She was one of the founders of the Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference, and co-founder of the North Gulf Oceanic Society.[7] She was involved in impact studies and restoration efforts following the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.[8] [9]

In 2013, Saulitis received the Alaska Governor's Award for the Arts and Humanities.[10] In 2015, she was awarded the Homer Arts Council's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Publications

Marine biology

Poetry, memoir, essays

Personal life and legacy

Saulitis and her husband, biologist Craig Matkin, had homes in Alaska and in Hawai'i.[22] [23] She died in 2016, aged 52, from breast cancer, at her home in Homer, Alaska. In preparation for her own death, she and her family built her coffin together, woven from branches and grasses found in their surroundings.[24] She wrote, in her final message to her loved ones, "It was a good day to die, because it was such a good life to have lived." A scholarship fund at the University of Alaska Anchorage was named for Saulitis.[25] In 2019, Randon Billings Noble of The Rumpus recommended Saulitis's Leaving Resurrection in a list titled "What to Read When You’re Haunted".[26]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Saulitis . Eva . 2017 . In The Body That Once Was Mine . 2022-07-09 . The Sun Magazine . en.
  2. Web site: January 24, 2016 . Eva Lucia Saulitis Obituary . 2022-07-09 . Chautauqua Today.
  3. Web site: January 26, 2016 . Eva Lucia Saulitis (obituary) . 2022-07-09 . Juneau Empire, via Legacy.com.
  4. Web site: Eva Saulitis . 2022-07-09 . Orion Magazine . en.
  5. Web site: Genoways . Ted . January 20, 2016 . The Woman Who Loves Orcas . 2022-07-09 . NRDC . en.
  6. Web site: Eva Saulitis . 2022-07-09 . Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation.
  7. Web site: 2022-07-09 . Eva Saulitis . 2022-07-09 . Poetry Foundation . en.
  8. Scheel, David, Graeme Ellis, Lance Barrett Lennard, Eva Saulitis, and A. K. Homer. "Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Project Annual Report." (1998).
  9. News: Hopkins . Kyle . 2009-02-15 . Killer Whales Dwindling Since Spill, Scientists Say . C4 . The Park City Daily News . 2022-07-09 . Newspapers.com.
  10. Web site: Eva Saulitis . 2022-07-09 . Red Hen Press . February 14, 2020 . en-US.
  11. Saulitis . Eva . Matkin . Craig . Barrett-Lennard . Lance . Heise . Kathy . Ellis . Graeme . January 2000 . "Foraging Strategies of Sympatric Killer Whale (Orcinis orca) Populations in Prince William Sound, Alaska" . Marine Mammal Science . en . 16 . 1 . 94–109 . 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2000.tb00906.x . 2000MMamS..16...94S . 0824-0469.
  12. Scheel . D. . Matkin . Craig O. . Saulitis . Eva . July 2001 . "Distribution of Killer Whale Pods in Prince William Sound, Alaska, 1984–1996" . Marine Mammal Science . en . 17 . 3 . 555–569 . 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2001.tb01004.x . 2001MMamS..17..555S . 0824-0469.
  13. Heise, Kathy, Lance G. Barrett-Lennard, Eva Saulitis, Craig Matkin, and David Bain. "Examining the evidence for killer whale predation on Steller sea lions in British Columbia and Alaska." Aquatic Mammals 29, no. 3 (2003): 325–334.
  14. Saulitis . Eva L . Matkin . Craig O . Fay . Francis H . 2005-08-01 . Vocal repertoire and acoustic behavior of the isolated AT1 killer whale subpopulation in southern Alaska . Canadian Journal of Zoology . en . 83 . 8 . 1015–1029 . 10.1139/z05-089 . 0008-4301.
  15. Barrett-Lennard . Lance G. . Matkin . Craig O. . Durban . John W. . Saulitis . Eva L. . Ellifrit . David . 2011-01-17 . Predation on gray whales and prolonged feeding on submerged carcasses by transient killer whales at Unimak Island, Alaska . Marine Ecology Progress Series . en . 421 . 229–241 . 10.3354/meps08906 . 2011MEPS..421..229B . 0171-8630. free .
  16. Matkin . Craig O. . Ward Testa . J. . Ellis . Graeme M. . Saulitis . Eva L. . April 2014 . Life history and population dynamics of southern Alaska resident killer whales (Orcinus orca) . Marine Mammal Science . en . 30 . 2 . 460–479 . 10.1111/mms.12049. 2014MMamS..30..460M .
  17. Saulitis . Eva . 1998 . Ghosts of the Island . Prairie Schooner . 72 . 3 . 79–90 . 40637092 . 0032-6682.
  18. Book: Saulitis, Eva . Leaving Resurrection: Chronicles of a Whale Scientist . 2012 . ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited . 978-1-4596-4680-3 . en.
  19. Book: Saulitis, Eva . Many Ways to Say It . 2012 . Red Hen Press . 978-1-59709-242-5 . en.
  20. Web site: Sessoms . Hallie . 2017-02-06 . A Life with Whales . 2022-07-09 . American Scientist . en.
  21. Book: Saulitis, Eva . Becoming Earth . 2016 . Boreal Books . 978-1-59709-902-8 . en.
  22. Web site: Saulitis . Eva . August 2015 . When No One Is Watching . 2022-07-09 . The Sun Magazine . en.
  23. News: 2008-01-08 . Two Alaska Authors Share Secrets of the Craft . 35 . The Honolulu Advertiser . 2022-07-09 . Newspapers.com.
  24. Web site: Wohlforth . Charles . January 20, 2016 . Homer writer Eva Saulitis gracefully authored the process of her death . 2022-07-09 . Anchorage Daily News . en.
  25. Web site: Eva Saulitis Memorial Scholarship . 2022-07-09 . University of Alaska Scholarship Opportunities.
  26. Web site: Noble . Randon Billings . 2019-10-04 . What to Read When You're Haunted . 2022-07-09 . The Rumpus.net . en.

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