Professor Emeritus Steve Strand
Steve Strand received his doctorate in marine biology from UC Davis. His doctoral research focused on the role that predators play in ecosystem dynamics. While at UCLA he continued studying predators and their prey. He studied jellyfish in the Arctic, krill in Antarctica and fishes throughout the South Pacific. Strand was a faculty member at UCLA from 1978 until 2005 when he retired in order to devote more of his time to conservation education and research. While at UCLA he was chair of the Life Science
Core, director of the UCLA Ocean Discovery Center and spent two years on loan to UC Berkeley while he was director of the Richard Gump Research Station on Moorea, French Polynesia. Strand and his wife Pat spend their summers in British Columbia, living among the bears and wolves while they enjoy photography, birding and spend as much time as possible making observations of predators in their natural habitats.

About the Trip

Most of us have seen polar bears in captivity, but few have had the extraordinary experience of watching these amazing creatures in their natural habitat. Become one of these lucky few when we set out for Canada's Hudson Bay. Stay in Churchill, the polar bear capital of the world, and cruise the icy landscape in buggy vehicles, watching young males play-fighting, mothers with cubs at their sides and solitary adults lumbering across the tundra. Presentations by Professor Steve Strand and other naturalists will help us understand the white and wondrous environment and the creatures that inhabit it.

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