Dr. Steven C. Amstrup
U.S. Geological Survey's Alaska Science Center, Ursid & Arctic Marine Team Leader
Dr. Amstrup is also an adjunct professor at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, and an associate professor at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.
Dr. Andrew Derocher
Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Dr. Derocher's extensive field research has focused on polar bears in both Canada and Norway.
Dr. Nick Lunn
Canadian Wildlife Service, Research Scientist
Dr. Lunn focuses on the condition of the Western Hudson Bay population of polar bears in relation to environmental change.
Dr. Nikita Ovsyanikov
Wrangel Island Polar Bear Project, Scientist
Dr. Ovsyanikov is the lone researcher for Russia’s Wrangel Island’s polar bear population, condition, and behavior. The remote island is one of the largest polar bear denning sites in the world. He is the author of Polar Bears: Living with the White Bears.
Megan Owen
San Diego Zoo, Institute for Conservation Research
Megan Owen is also director of logistics for Dr. Tom Smith's maternal den study in northern Alaska. She has worked with PBI on research projects, including a polar bear hearing range study and an olfactory study at the zoo that has had application to wild populations.
Dr. Thomas S. Smith
Brigham Young University, Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Associate Professor and Wildlife Biologist
Dr. Smith’s work on North American bear conservation and conflict management has now extended to polar bears’ den emergence ecology and response to human activities on the
North Slope of Alaska.
Dr. Ian Stirling
University of Alberta, Adjunct Professor
Dr. Ian Stirling has studied polar bears throughout the Canadian Arctic for over 37 years. His book, Polar Bears, is considered the definitive work on the biology of the polar bear.
Dr. Ronald R. Swaisgood
San Diego Zoo, Center for Reproductive Studies, Associate Director
Dr. Swaisgood has authored or co-authored more than 40 scientific papers and has received numerous grants and awards.
Dr. Jane Waterman
University of Central Florida, Research Scientist
Dr. Waterman studies the behavior of the polar bears in the Churchill. She has pioneered a whisker pattern identification technique, which is noninvasive, as well as a to determine a polar bear's weight through noninvasive digital photos.
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