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Ned Shenton's eighty plus years have been full of adventure. He grew up in small town Pennsylvania, the son of an famous illustrator father and a writer mother but he did not follow in either of their footsteps. Rather he studied oceanography at Texas A&M and worked in the field for many years. He became an expert in underwater craft and eventually joined Jacques Cousteau's famous diving saucer crew. Along the way he worked on teams that photographed the early space satellites and drilled into the Greenland ice sheet. He has loved several old houses, many boats and innumerable automobiles. Looking back over his well-spent life, Ned Shenton is truly grateful.

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Edward H Shenton grew up on a farm outside of Philadelphia as only child of parents who were writers and artists. He attended the local public school then went to four years of a private boys school, The Haverford School; in June 1950 he enrolled at Colby College, where he studied geology. Wanting to become a marine scientist he got an Masters' Degree at Texas A&M in Oceanography but took a position with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in the International Geophysical Year satellite tracking program. He later became Chief of the twelve world wide tracking stations from 1958 to 1962. Aftrer his stint with the Smithsonian, he was hired by Westinghouse Underseas of Annapolis, Maryland to join the the Jacques Cousteau group in the Pacific as science director for the two man submersible Diving Saucer.He worked on the Greenland Ice Sheet Project from 1990 to 1993, drilling the deepest ice sheet core with the longest record of world climate change. He has one daughter and has lived on Peaks Island, Maine for the last 34 years.

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