FINAL REMINDER: CSTWS webinar Feb 10th: Polar Bears in a Warming Climate

Canadian Section of the Wildlife Society Webinar Series

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CANADIAN SECTION WEBINAR

February 10th 2020
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm central time

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The second webinar in the Canadian Section of The Wildlife Society's (CSTWS) 2020 Education Series will take place 1:00-2:00 pm central time on Monday, February 10.

Dr. Andrew Derocher will present a webinar titled Trouble at the Top: Polar Bears in a Warming Arctic.

Dr. Derocher will provide an overview of how polar bears became an iconic species of climate change and present some of the challenges that the species faces in a warming Arctic. The talk will provide specific examples from across the Arctic that highlight the primary threats. He will cover aspects of polar bear research, management, and co-management that illustrate past successes and failures along with future conservation options and challenges.

Bio: Since 2002, Andrew Derocher, Ph.D. has been a Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Dr. Derocher joined the University after 7 years at the Norwegian Polar Institute as a research scientist studying polar bears in Svalbard and western Russia. His research over the last 36 years has focused on the ecology and conservation of polar bears. His current research is focused on understanding the effects of climate change on polar bears. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers on polar bears and a member and past chair of the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group. He co-authored the 2018 COSEWIC status report on polar bears.

Webinars are presented through WebEx and participation is limited to CSTWS members.

If you are a CSTWS member and are interested in participating, but have not already sent an RSVP, please respond to this e-mail (webinars.cstws@gmail.com) by Friday, February 7 to register. You will be provided with further instructions 1 day before the webinar (i.e. we won't send a confirmation e-mail after you register).

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Not a member but want to participate?

Please consider joining the CSTWS for only $10/year (http://cstws.ca/membership/). This webinar series (see other topics below) is just one of the many benefits of membership. Others include:

Newsletters published 6 times a year
Keeping current on issues in wildlife and conservation from across Canada with our "Canadian Clips"
Job board where we list new job and graduate student opportunities
Meeting announcements for a broad array of wildlife organizations in North America
Involvement in Canadian conservation where your expertise leads to a collective voice through the position statements and opinions directed at influencing current events in wildlife and conservation in Canada
Canadian Section Annual Conference where you can showcase your work and learn about wildlife research and management projects going on across the nation
Travel awards to the TWS Annual Conference and the CSTWS Annual Conference
Networking with a wide array of other wildlife professionals and students across Canada

Memberships can be purchased one of two ways:

The TWS parent society webpage: http://wildlife.org/join/
The CSTWS webpage: http://cstws.ca/membership/

Jenny Rodgers, CSTWS Education Committee