Join us as Courtney Mondoux shares her research experience with polar bears of the southern and western Hudson Bay subpopulations. Her MSc research was conducted out of Trent University and was based on capture data from 1999-2013 for the southern and western Hudson Bay subpopulations of polar bears which include parts of Ontario, Manitoba, Quebec, and Nunavut.  She will talk about how polar bear individuals and groups, especially maternal groups, organize themselves when they come together on shore in the summer after the sea ice breaks up. On the sea ice, there is lots of space, but when polar bears come ashore they have to co-exist at a higher density.  Her talk will discuss family groups, influence of age, sex and reproductive status on distribution, even adoption of wild offspring.