Dr. Steven C. Amstrup is a Research Wildlife Biologist with the United States Geological Survey at the 
Alaska Science Center, Anchorage AK. He also is an adjunct professor at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, and an associate professor at the 
University of Alaska in Fairbanks.
Dr. Amstrup earned a B.S. in Forestry from the University of Washington (1972), an M.S. in Wildlife Management from the University of Idaho (1975), and a Ph.D. in Wildlife Management from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (1995). He has been conducting research on all aspects of polar bear ecology in the Beaufort Sea since 1980. He is a past chairman of the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group and has been an active member of the group for 28 years. He has authored or coauthored over 60 peer reviewed articles on movements, distribution and population dynamics of large mammals, and is the senior editor of a recent text on population estimation methods.
Dr. Amstrup led the team of researchers which prepared 9 reports that became the basis for the recent decision to list polar bears as a threatened species.
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