Research Catalog
The polar bear scientists
- Title
- The polar bear scientists / by Peter Lourie.
- Author
- Lourie, Peter.
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
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Details
- Description
- 80 pages : color illustrations, maps; 24 x 28 cm
- Summary
- "In the world there are probably fewer than 30 people who spend all or most of their effort working with polar bears. A veteran polar bear biologist, and the man in charge of Alaskan polar bear research for the past thirty years, Dr. Steven Amstrup has worked full time on polar bears since he joined the Polar Bear Project in 1980. The Polar Bear Project conducts ongoing research on polar bear populations and habitats in the Southern Beaufort Sea in Barrow, Alaska. Now under the leadership of George Durner, the Project has collected four decades of detailed, valuable data about how polar bears are responding to sea ice changes in the Arctic. This information has helped raise awareness about polar bears and their plight, and the same data may one day help scientists make new decisions for polar bear survival. Amstrup and Durner now spend most of their time 725 miles south of Barrow, Alaska at the University of Alaska, Anchorage campus, conducting research and drawing conclusions based on the discoveries that their team makes. Those scientists include polar bear biologists Kristin Simac and Mike Lockhart, based at times out of the abandoned Navy Arctic Research Laboratory in Barrow. Every spring scientists like Kristin and Mike go out for six to eight weeks to capture bears on the Southern Beaufort Sea. By capture one means "tranquilize, take samples and measurements, tag, and release..."--
- Series Statement
- Scientists in the field
- Uniform Title
- Scientists in the field.
- Subjects
- Note
- "The Arctic, Where science meets adventure"--Cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-[79]) and index.
- Call Number
- JFF 13-1446
- ISBN
- 9780547283050
- 9780544339064
- 0544339061
- LCCN
- 2011003449
- OCLC
- 867078335
- Author
- Lourie, Peter.
- Title
- The polar bear scientists / by Peter Lourie.
- Imprint
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Scientists in the fieldScientists in the field.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-[79]) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 13-1446