[1] Her great-grandfather on her mother's side was a German whaler while her other maternal ancestors were North Baffin Inuit in an area ranging from modern-day Pond Inlet to Somerset Island and as far as Taloyoak on the mainland.
[2] She grew up in Iqaluit and Pond Inlet on Baffin Island, and as a child ventured with her parents into the waters of Nunavut to examine marine life including sea angels, northern krill, and eels.
[1] Her thesis was on health in ringed seals collected by Inuit hunters for food, looking for the presence of antibodies of five parasites: trichinella, brucella, leptospira, erysipelas and toxoplasma.
[3] Sudlovenick studies marine ecology in the Beaufort Sea, part of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, and the western Hudson Bay.
[3] She uses Western scientific methods including serology and study of contaminants alongside Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit concerning aspects such as whale taste, birth and migration rates, and other traditional knowledge.