Steven Amstrup

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Steven C. Amstrup (born February 4, 1950) is an American zoologist who researches bears, particularly polar bears.

He is the 2012 winner of the Indianapolis Prize.

Early life

Steven Amstrup was born in Fargo, North Dakota, where he became interested in bears at an early age. He attended the University of Washington as an undergraduate, receiving his bachelor's degree in forestry in 1972. He earned a master's degree in wildlife conservation at the University of Idaho in 1975. For his master's thesis, he researched black bears in central Idaho. In 1995, he received his doctoral degree from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

He began working with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in Wyoming in 1975, where he studied pronghorn antelope and sharp-tailed grouse. He migrated to Alaska in 1980, where he took over the fledgling Polar Bear Research Project of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Amstrup's research position was moved to the United States Geological Survey in 1996. He studied polar bear ecology in Alaska for 30-years, most in the Beaufort Sea. Amstrup's team of scientists wrote nine reports leading to the introduction of polar bears as a vulnerable species under the Endangered Species Act in 2008. He wrote an article in Nature in 2010 stating that even if climate change resulted in complete melting of the polar ice packs, the ice could return if global temperatures subsequently cooled. Since 2006, he has taught at the University of Wyoming as an adjunct professor.

In 2012, the Indianapolis Zoo named him the winner of their biennial Indianapolis Prize for his contributions to polar bear conservation. He received an Our Earth Bambi Award in Düsseldorf later this year.

Personal life

Amstrup is married. In northeast Washington, he and his wife are building an energy-efficient house.

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