Activity Budgets of Polar Bears in Response to Variation in Seasonal Sea Ice Conditions

Project ID: G13AC00057

Federal Agency: U.S. Geological Survey

Partner Institution: Washington State University

Fiscal Year: 2013

Initial Funding: $50,000

Total Funding: $184,916

Project Type: Technical Assistance

Project Disciplines: Biological

Principal Investigator: Jansen, Heiko

Agreement Technical Representative: Rode, Karyn

Abstract: The overall goal is to analyze one of the largest long-term activity datasets available for polar bears gathered by USGS scientists for seasonal and population-level changes in activity patterns. The data were obtained from female polar bears in the Chukchi and southern Beaufort Seas between 1980 and 2000’s.