Emily Puckett presented her talk, “Maintaining Bears’ Adaptive Potential: monitoring and assessing genetic indicators in Ursidae” at the 28th International Bear Association Conference in Edmonton, Canada. This work is a collaborative effort with Alex Kopatz from the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Trondheim, Norway. We are calling on the world’s bear experts to come […]

Congratulations to Phil Douchinsky upon the successful defense of his MS thesis: Comparative landscape genetics and dynamics in demography within sympatric ursids in Southeast Alaska.

Emily Puckett was elected as Secretary to the Council of the International Association for Bear Research and Management. Her three-year term will run 2024-2026. IBA is a professional society dedicated to the conservation of the world’s eight bear species. They support managers, researchers, and conservationists through communication, capacity-building, international meetings, and grant opportunities. I am […]