Information on Lydia Dotto's diving in the Arctic Circle in 1974. Includes photographs, diver's log, articles that she wrote about the experience, and letters of congratulations.

Photographs of Lydia Dotto diving in Resolute Bay in the Arctic.

Two signed photographs and 4 snapshots of Christ Hadfield, as well as a signed photograph and a snapshot of the 1984 Space Team Canada.

One photograph of Lydia Dotto and colleagues standing in front of a large satellite dish in front of the ROM. The satellite was the idea of Dotto who arranged for the 1983 Canadian Science Writers' Association conference to be a teleconference. The conference was linked to six other cities across the country.

Materials related to Lydia Dotto's participation in conferences and events. Includes scripts for the "Couchiching Conference on the Social Impact of Microcomputers" (July 30, 1983), the "Canadian Global Change Program" (August 1, 1990), "Space Business" (April 30, 1984), and one unidentified.

Contains a photograph of a media visit to the Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine (DCIEM), and two photographs of Katheleen Campbell presenting the Ministry of State for Science and Technology Award to Dotto.

Also includes the RBW Award for Science and Technology from the National Magazine Awards Foundation to Lydia Dotto in 1979.

20 photographs of Lydia Dotto from all stages of her life. Includes images of her as a baby, at graduations, during work events, and candids.

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).

Two photographs of Lydia Dotto during a zero gravity training flight at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas.