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Web Link
Region
Arctic
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Grade
All Aged
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Topic
General Life Science
Life Science
Ecology
Organisms and Their Environments

John Whiteman says that most of his fun comes from thinking about how events outside an animal affect events inside an animal. For his PhD research, he’s studying how warm weather during summer can make hunting difficult for polar bears, forcing them to make seasonal adjustments such as living off of their own body fat. He’s also investigating how these adjustments may be affected by longer Arctic summers caused by climate change.


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