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Kristin Laidre

Associate professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Whales, Wildlife

206-616-9030 / klaidre@uw.edu

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Expertise: Arctic marine mammals (polar bears, narwhals, bowhead whales, belugas) as well as baleen whales (humpbacks and fin whales)

Kristin Laidre is also a principal research scientist at the UW Applied Physics Laboratory.


KRISTIN LAIDRE'S RECENT MENTIONS IN THE NEWS

  • Glacial ice offers polar bears a precarious climate refuge | Eos
  • Warming climate poses challenge to Arctic animals — and those who hunt them | CBC News
  • Polar bears that persist | Scientific American
  • Polar bears face an uncertain future with climate change | WNYC
  • What polar bear genomes may reveal about life in a low-ice Arctic | WIRED

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KRISTIN LAIDRE'S RECENTLY TAGGED POSTS

  • Newly documented population of polar bears in Southeast Greenland sheds light on the species’ future in a warming Arctic
  • Last ice-covered parts of summertime Arctic Ocean vulnerable to climate change
  • Some polar bears in far north are getting short-term benefit from thinning ice
  • Polar bears in Baffin Bay skinnier, having fewer cubs due to less sea ice
  • Outlook for the polar regions in a 2 degrees warmer world

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