This animation shows how temperatures have changed over the last 100 years for each February-April period. On each map, red shading indicates warmer than average conditions, and blue shading shows the opposite. Note the trend.

Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...).

BioTime 2.0 If we want to understand how biodiversity is shifting in this rapidly changing climate, we need two critical ingredients: microclimate time series and biodiversity time series. (And yes, let’s not …

**NEW DATABASE** - and it's a big one: BioTIME 2.0 is out!

I'll guide you through why this database is a game changer for anyone interested in species on the move
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International consensus principles for the sustainable harvest of polar bears Multilateral agreements are required for the effective management of large carnivores with ranges that cross geopolitical boundaries. This is particularly important for species subject to rapid chang...

Interesting summary of sustainable harvest principles for P-bear. Canada signed international agreement, but harvest is a territorial/provincial jurisdiction. In some provinces, Indigenous harvest has no quota and there are no reliable data. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Space use of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in Davis Strait in relation to sea ice and harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus) Polar bears (Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774) rely on seals as their primary prey, yet predator–prey spatial relationships are poorly understood. We examined the spatial relationship between Davis Strait...

Congrats to our field ambassador, Larissa Thelin, whose master's thesis was published this week by Arctic Science. We're proud to have such incredible researchers and science communicators on our team! Read the paper below. cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....

Posted our summer positions if you are keen on conservation recruiting.ultipro.ca/ASS5002APAC/...

Progress, research and loss mark 20th year of polar bear habitat The Cochrane facility took part in a research study and also mourned the loss of one of its longtime bears

Progress, research and loss mark 20th year of polar bear habitat www.timminstoday.com/local-news/p...

Most museums that I know are underfunded and struggle to keep up with preparing new specimens for collections. Not many folks are learning how to prep specimens so hard to find expertise.

We have sent birds to the Manitoba Museum and I think CMN still add birds. In both cases they are from window collisions or other “natural” mortality but typically not active collections.

I think Alberta is working on an updated status report Jason Fisher would know.

2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution Fourwaves - 2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution

Proposez un symposium ou atelier pour la rencontre 2025 de la Société Canadienne de l'Écologie et de l'Évolution à Sherbrooke en juillet! Date limite le 31 janvier event.fourwaves.com/fr/scee2025/...

Painting of woman with hand on head

I would have titled this TGIF #nationalgalleryofcanada

Excited to share our latest paper in Global Change Biology! 🐳Here we examined bowhead and narwhal genomics and the legacy of commercial whaling: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Collabs w/ C. Müller, @biomatt.bsky.social, S. Ferguson, C. Watt, M. Marcoux, S. Petersen, @colingarroway.bsky.social