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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: polar bear scientists
  name:
    name part: Lourie, Peter.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 80 pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 30 cm.
  abstract: In the world there are probably fewer than thirty 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 raised 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." The Polar Bear Scientists begins on the first day of capture season and follows Kristin, Mike, and their helicopter mechanic as they fly through the skies over Barrow, looking for polar bears, and finding more water and less ice than they've seen in the past. The process of capturing polar bears is an exciting and challenging one. The polar bears have to be properly tranquilized in a safe area, so just because the team spots a polar bear, doesn't mean they automatically try to capture it. Tranquilizing a bear too close to water or thin ice might mean the polar bear could stumble in a…
  table of contents: The polar bear research project -- A conversation with Dr. Steven Amstrup about polar bear research -- The 2008 threatened species designation -- A polar bear capture -- Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) -- A conversation with Dr. Steven Amstrup about capture-recapture estimates and polar bears -- Another capture -- A conversation with Dr. Steven Amstrup about radio collars and polar nations -- Recording information -- An overview of samples taken in the field and what they are used for -- Searching the bone pile -- A final conversation with Dr. Steven Amstrup about climate change and the future of polar bears -- Glossary -- Polar bear field guide.
  target audience: juvenile
  note: by Peter Lourie.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (page 78) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Polar bear
    topic: Research
    genre: Juvenile literature
  subject:
    topic: Biologists
    genre: Biography
    genre: Juvenile literature
  subject:
    topic: Polar bear
    topic: Research
  subject:
    topic: Biologists
    genre: Biography
  classification: QL737.C27 L68 2012
  classification: 599.786
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Scientists in the field
  identifier: 9780547283050 (hardback)
  identifier: 0547283059 (hardback)
  identifier: 2011003449
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 110304
    record change date: 20151203083935.0
    record identifier: in00002811510