 Heidi
Krajewsky
Heidi grew up in a
rural area of Northern Ontario, Canada, where she enjoyed the outdoors
and small adventures with her family. She fell in
love with the sea on the west coast as a sea cadet in her teenage years
and started working onboard a 92-foot classic schooner. While Heidi attended
the University of Victoria for Marine Biology she continued as deckhand
and then mate aboard the schooner doing natural and cultural history
tours on Canada’s west coast and Southeast Alaska.
While completing
a bachelor’s degree Heidi spent time studying
and working at Bamfield Marine Station on the west coast of Vancouver
Island. Field work has taken Heidi to shorebird nesting sites on the
east coast of the US, seabird colonies in the Queen Charlotte Islands,
salmon stream, marine mammal and seabird surveys on British Columbia’s
central coast and onboard research vessels undergoing benthic invertebrate
sampling for environmental monitoring programs.
Heidi and her husband
Stephen currently co-run a 66-foot research vessel for Raincoast
Conservation Society in the Great Bear Rainforest on
Canada’s
west coast. They live aboard their own 33-foot sailboat in Nanaimo,
British Columbia, which they sailed across the Pacific from Sydney,
Australia. |
