Collaborations

Contaminants

• Estimating potential effects of hypothetical oil spills on polar bears
• Dietary biomagnification of organochlorine contaminants in Alaskan polar bears
• Organohalogen concentrations in blood and adipose tissue of Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears
• Stable isotope and mercury profiles in polar bears from northern Alaska

Genetics

• Microsatellite DNA and mitochondrial DNA variation in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, Alaska
• Establishing paternity with genetic fingerprinting

Feeding Ecology

• Variation in winter feeding ecology of southern Beaufort Sea polar bears inferred from stable isotope analysis
• Influence of diet on biomagnification of organochlorine pollutants in polar bears
• Stable isotope and mercury profiles in polar bears from northern Alaska

Health and Condition

• Recent efforts to assess Beaufort Sea polar bear (Ursus maritimus) health
• Brucella species testing in polar bears (Ursus maritimus)