Ecological monitoring of polar bears and seals in Nunavut a step toward the future.

• Main Authors: Ferguson, Steven H., Peacock, Elizabeth, Derocher, Andrew, Obbard, Mary E., McKinney, Melissa A., Lunn, Nick, Luque, Sebastian, Stapleton, Seth, Bortoluzzi, Tara, Sahanatien, Vicki
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Cryospheric Information Network 2012
• Subjects: Biological sciences; FOS Biological sciences; Community-based monitoring; Foxe Basin; Hudson Bay; Polar bear; Sanikiluaq; Seals; Telemetry; Traditional Ecological Knowledge TEK; Arctic; Nunavut; Greenland; Norway; Hudson; Gwamm; Beluga; Beluga*; Circumpolar biodiversity monitoring program; Climate change; inuit; IPY; ringed seal; Sea ice; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5443/11419; https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/?doi_id=11419

We deployed satellite transmitters on live ringed seals captured in Hudson Bay in the summer of 2009. Polar bear transmitters have been deployed in Hudson Bay in 2007, 2008, and 2009. This project will provide management information and advice for the Hudson Bay and Foxe Basin ringed seal stocks by:...