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Publications
2009
Gleason, J.S., and K. D. Rode. 2009. Apparent shift in polar bear distribution and habitat association as a function of changing sea ice conditions during the fall open-water period in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea. Arctic: in press.
MacGillivray, A.O., D.E. Hannay, C. J. Perham, M. T. Williams, S. A. MacLean, S. C. Amstrup. In prep. Measurements of industrial noise and ground vibration in artificial polar bear dens.
Rode, K.D., S.C. Amstrup, and E.V. Regehr. 2009. Reduced body size and cub recruitment in polar bears associated with sea ice decline. Ecological Applications: in press.
Rode, K.D., Amstrup, S.C., and Regehr, E.V. 2009. Reduced body size and cub recruitment in polar bears associated with sea ice decline. Ecological Applications: In press.
Shideler, R.T. and C.J. Perham. 2009. Survey of maternal polar bear den habitat between Atigaru Point and Kogru River Dew line Site, National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska, March 2009. Unpubl. rept. to Jacobs Field Services, Anchorage, Alaska. 11p.
Shideler, R.T. and C.J. Perham. 2009. Survey of maternal polar bear den habitat between Atigaru Point and North Kalikpik Well No. 1, National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska, March 2009. Unpubl. rept. to Marsh Creek, LLC, Anchorage, Alaska. 11p.
Verreault, J., Muir, D.C.G., Norstrom, R.J., Stirling, I., Fisk, A.T., Gabrielsen, G.W., Derocher, A.E., Evans, T.J., Dietz, R., Sonne, C., Sandala, G.M., Gebbink, W., Riget, F.F., Born, E.W., Taylor, M.K., Nagy, J., and Letcher, R.J. 2005. Chlorinated hydrocarbon contaminants and metabolites in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Alaska, Canada, East Greenland, and Svalbard: 1996-2002. Science of the Total Environment 351-352:369-390.
2008
Rush, Scott A., Katrine Borgå, Rune Dietz, Erik W. Born, Christian Sonne, Thomas Evans, Derek C.G. Muir, Robert J. Letcher, Ross J. Norstrom, and Aaron T. Fisk. 2008. Geographic distribution of selected eslements in the livers of polar bear from Greenland, Canada, and the United States. Environmental Pollution 153:618-626.
Schliebe, S., Rode, K.D., Gleason, J.S., Wilder, J., Proffitt, K., Evans, T.J., and Miller, S. 2008. Effects of sea ice extent and food availability on spatial and temporal distribution of polar bears during the fall open-water period in the Southern Beaufort Sea. Polar Biology 31:999-1010
Shideler, R.T. and C.J. Perham. 2008. Survey of maternal polar bear den habitat between Kaktovik and the KIC Well No. 1, February 2008. Unpubl. rept. to Marsh Creek, LLC, Anchorage, Alaska. 11p.
Smith, T. S., S. Herrero, T. D. DeBruyn, and J. M. Wilder. 2008. Efficacy of bear deterrent spray in Alaska. Journal of Wildlife Management 72:640-645.
Stirling, I., Derocher, A.E., Gough, W.A., and Rode, K. 2008. Response to Dyck et al. (2007) on polar bears and climate change in western Hudson Bay. Ecological Complexity 5:193-201.
2007
Hunter, C.M., Caswell, H., Runge, M.C., Regehr, E.V., Amstrup, S.C., and Stirling, I. 2007. Polar bears in the Southern Beaufort Sea II: demography and population growth in relation to sea ice conditions. U. S. Geological Survey Administrative Report. U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA. 46p
Kannan, K., Agusa, T., Evans, T.J., Tanabe, S. 2007. Trace Element Concentrations in Livers of Polar Bears from Two Populations in Northern and Western Alaska. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 53:473-482.
Obbard, M. E., McDonald, T. L., Howe, E. J., Regehr, E. V., and Richardson, E. S. 2007. Polar bear population status in Southern Hudson Bay, Canada. U. S. Geological Survey Administrative Report. U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA.
Regehr, E.V., Hunter, C.M., Caswell, H., Amstrup, S.C., and Stirling, I. 2007. Polar bears in the Southern Beaufort Sea I: survival and breeding in relation to sea ice conditions, 2001-2006. U. S. Geological Survey Administrative Report. U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA.
Regehr, E.V., Lunn, N.J., Amstrup, S.C., and Stirling, I. 2007. Effects of earlier sea ice breakup on survival and population size of polar bears in western Hudson Bay. Journal of Wildlife Management 71: 2673-2683.
Rode, K.D., Amstrup, S.C., and Regehr, E.V. 2007. Polar bears in the Southern Beaufort Sea III: stature, mass, and cub recruitment in relationship to time and sea ice extent between 1982 and 2006. U. S. Geological Survey Administrative Report. U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA. 28p.
Wilder, J. M., T. DeBruyn, T. Smith, A. Southwould. 2007. Systematic collection of bear-human interaction information for Alaska’s national parks. Ursus 18:209-216.
2006
Amstrup, S.C., Stirling, I., Smith, T.S., Perham, C., and Thiemann, G.W. 2006. Recent observations of intrapsecific predation and cannibalism among polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea. Polar Biology 29: 997-1002.
Miller, S., S.Schliebe, and K. Proffitt. 2006 Demographics and behavior of polar bears feeding on bowhead whale carcasses at Barter and Cross Islands, Alaska, 2002-2004. Technical report MMS 2006-14 prepared for Minerals Management Service by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Marine Mammals Management Office, Anchorage, Alaska. 29pp.
Muir, D.C.G., Backus, S., Derocher, A.E., Dietz, R., Evans, T.J., Gabrielsen, G.W., Nagy, J., Norstrom, R.J., Sonne, C., Stirling, I., Taylor, M.K., and Letcher, R.J. 2006. Brominated flame retardants in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, East Greenland, and Svalbard. Environmental Science & Technology 40:449-456.
Regehr, E.V., S.C. Amstrup and I. Stirling. 2006. Polar bear population status in the Southern Beaufort Sea. Report Series 2006-1337, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Anchorage, Alaska. 55pp.
Schliebe, S., T.J. Evans, K. Johnson, M. Roy, S. Miller, C. Hamilton, R. Meehan, and S. Jahrsdoerfer. 2006. Status assessment in response to a petition to list polar bears as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Marine Mammals Management, Anchorage, Alaska. 262pp.
Smithwick, M., J.W. Martin, S.A. Mabury, K. Solomon, C. Sonne, E.W. Born, R. Dietz, A.E. Derocher, R.J. Letcher, T.J. Evans, G.W. Gabrielsen, J. Nagy, I. Stirling, and D.C.G. Muir. 2006. Temporal trends of perfluoroalkyl contaminants in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from two locations in the North American Arctic 1972-2002. Environmental Science and Technology 40(4):1139-1143.
Williams, M.T., C.S. Nations, T.G. Smith, V.D. Moulton and C.J. Perham. 2006. Ringed seal (Phoca hispida) use of subniviean structures in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea during development of an oil production facility. Aquatic Mammals 32(3): 311-324.
2005
Kannan, K., Yun, S.H. and Evans, T.J. 2005. Chlorinated, Brominated, and
Perfluorinated Contaminants in Livers of Polar Bears from Alaska. Environmental Science and Technology, 39: 9057-9063.
Perham, C.J. 2005. An Analysis of Oil Spill Impact for Polar Bears in the Central Beaufort Sea. Unpubl. rept., USFWS, Marine Mammals Management, Anchorage, Alaska. 34pp.
Perham, C.J. 2005. Proceedings of the Beaufort Sea Polar Bear Monitoring Workshop. OCS Study MMS 2005-034. Prepared by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service-Marine Mammals Management, Anchorage, AK. Prepared for the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Alaska OCS Region, Anchorage, AK. 26 pp. plus appendices.
Smithwick, M., Mabury, S.A., Solomon, K.R., Sonne, C., Martin, J.W., Born, E.W., Dietz, R., Derocher, A.E., Letcher, R.J., Evans, T.J., Gabrielsen, G.W., Nagy, J., Stirling, I., Taylor, M.K., and Muir, D.C.G. 2005. Circumpolar study of perfluoroalkyl contaminants in polar bears (Ursus maritimus). Environmental Science & Technology 39:5517-5523.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Alaska Nanuuq Commission. 2005. A summary of polar bear harvest management in Alaska (booklet). Susanne Miller, ed., Marine Mammals Management, Anchorage, Alaska. 66pp.
2004
Evans, T.J. 2004. Concentrations of selected essential and non-essential elements in adult male polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Alaska. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, AK. Technical Report MMM 04-02.
Evans, T.J. 2004. PCBs and chlorinated pesticides in adult male polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Alaska. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, AK. Technical Report MMM 04-01.
2003
Evans, T.J., A.S. Fischbach, S. L. Schliebe, B.F. Manly, S.B. Kalxdorff,
and G.S. York. 2003. In Press. Polar bear aerial survey in the eastern
Chukchi sea: a pilot study. Arctic 00(0): 000-000.
2002
Brower, C.D., A. Carpenter, M. Branigan, W. Calvert, T. Evans, A. Fischbach,
J. Nagy, S. Schliebe, and I. Stirling. 2002. The polar bear management
agreement of the southern Beaufort Sea: an evaluation of the first ten
years of a unique conservation agreement. Arctic 55(4): 362-372.
Schliebe, S.L., J.W. Bridges, T.J. Evans, S.B. Kalxdorff, A.S. Fischbach,
and L. Lierheimer. 2002. Polar bear management in Alaska 1997-2000 In:
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Working Meeting of the IUCN/SSC Polar
Bear Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, U.K.
2001
Howlin, S. M. Stishov, L.McDonald, S. Schliebe. 2001. Modeling polar
bear den site selection on Wrangel Island. Submitted Journal of Agricultural,
Biological, and Environmental Statistics.
Kalxdorff, S., S. Schliebe, and S. Belikov. 2001. U.S./Russia Bilateral
Agreement on Polar Bears Breaks New Ground in International conservation.
In: CAFF: Arctic Flora and Fauna: Status and Conservation. Helsinki,
Finland. 272pp.
Schliebe, S.L. 2001. United States-Russia sign polar bear accord. In:
Arctic Bulletin; World Wildlife Fund No. 4, p.17.
1999
Schliebe, S.L. 1999. Conservation and the polar bear hunt. In: Arctic
Bulletin; World Wildlife Fund No. 3, p.18.
Schliebe, S.L., T.J. Evans, A.S. Fischbach, and M.A. Cronin. 1999.
Using genetics to verify sex of harvested polar bears: management implications.
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 1999: 27(3).
1998
Garner. G.W., S.E. Belikov, M.S. Stishov, O. Wiig, A. Boltunov, G.I.
Belchansky, D.C. Douglas, L.L. McDonald, D.M. Mulcahy, and S. Schliebe.
1998. Polar bear research in Western Alaska, Eastern and Western Russia
1993-1996. In: Proceedings of the Eleventh Working Meeting of the IUCN/SSC
Polar Bear Specialist Group, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge,
U.K.
Norstrom, R.J., S.E. Belikov, E.W. Born, G.W. Garner, B. Malone, S.
Olpinski, M.A. Ramsay, S. Schliebe, I. Stirling, M.S. Stishov, M.K.
Taylor, and O. Wiig. 1998. Chlorinated hydrocarbon contaminants in polar
bears from Eastern Russia, North America, Greenland, and Svalbard: Biomonitoring
of arctic pollution. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology;
35: 354-367.
Schliebe, S.L., T.J. Evans, A.S. Fischbach, and S.B. Kalxdorff. 1998.
Summary of polar bear management in Alaska. In: Proceedings of the Twelfth
Working Meeting of the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland,
Switzerland and Cambridge, U.K.
1993
Schliebe, S.L., S.C. Amstrup, and G.W. Garner. 1993. The status of
polar bear in Alaska 1993. Pages 125-138 in Proceedings of the Eleventh
Working Meeting of the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group, IUCN, Gland,
Switzerland and Cambridge, U.K.
Schliebe, S.L. and T.J. Evans. 1993. Polar bear management in Alaska
1988-92. Pages 139-144 in: Proceedings of the Eleventh Working Meeting
of the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland
and Cambridge, U.K.
1991
Nageak, B.P., C.D.N. Brower, and S.L. Schliebe. 1991. Polar bear management
in the southern Beaufort Sea: An Agreement between the Inuvialuit Game
Council and the North Slope Borough Fish and Game Committee. In: Transactions
of North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference. 56:337-343.
