| M. Obbard & F. van Manen | Introduction and Welcoming Remarks |
| Bear Specialist Group Session - Expert Team Updates |
| Djuro Huber & Jon Swenson | European Brown Bears |
| Larry van Daele & Tsutomu Mano | North Asian Brown Bears |
| Emre Can & S. Sathyakumar | South Asian Brown Bears |
| Dave Garshelis & Mei-hsiu Hwang | Asiatic Black Bears |
| G. Hosein Yusefi | Bears in Iran |
| Gabriella Fredriksson & Rob Steinmetz | Sun Bears |
| Coffee Break |
| Bear Specialist Group Session (cont'd) |
| Lorraine Scotson | Bears in Laos |
| Chris Servheen & Chris Shepherd | Trade in Bear Parts |
| Thomas Sharp, Naim Akhtar & Harendra Bargali | Sloth Bears |
| Dajun Wang & Ron Swaisgood | Giant Pandas |
| Ximena Velez-Liendo & Isaac Goldstein | Andean Bears |
| Diana Doan Crider | Bears in Mexico |
| John Beecham | Human-Bear Conflicts |
| Lydia Kolter | Captive Bears |
| Lunch Break |
| Bears and Climate Change |
| P. Gachon (Invited) | An overview of anticipated global climate changes for the 21st century and their associated uncertainties at the regional-scale |
| M. Proctor et al | GPS telemetry and habitat modeling identify linkage zones in fragmented region of western North America providing adaptive options for grizzly bear response to climate change |
| K. Pigeon et al. | Denning behaviour and climate change: Linking environmental variables to denning of grizzly bears in the Rocky Mountains and boreal forest of Alberta, Canada. |
| J. Whiteman et al. | How are polar bears (Ursus maritimus) adjusting their physiology and behavior to cope with climate change? |
| K. Rode et al. | A tale of two polar bear populations: ice habitat, harvest, and body condition |
| Coffee Break |
| Bears and Climate Change (cont'd) |
| S. Nielsen and B. McLellan | Potential implications of climate change on grizzly/brown bears in North America |
| M. Songer | Giant Panda and climate change |
| S. Garcia-Rangel and G. Papadakis | Global warming: A threat for the Andean bear? |
| S. Amstrup (Invited) | Polar bear population projections: reliability in the face of uncertainty |
| Dinner Break & Announcements |
| C. Servheen | Workshop - Climate Change and Bears |
| Announcments |
| Conservation Case Studies |
| E. Can | The Challenge of Bear Conservation in Developing Countries of the World |
| S. Wong et al. | The effects of selective logging on sun bears in lowland dipterocarp rainforest of Borneo |
| N.P.S. Chauhan and S. Sathyakumar | Sun bears in India: Conservation vs. Threats |
| A. Aryal | Conservation and Research Status of Brown bear from 2008 to 2011 in Nepal |
| N. Dharaiya et al | Status of Sloth bears in north Gujarat, India and their conservation opportunities |
| B. Zug et al | Community engagement, para-biologist training and Andean bear conservation in and around southern Sangay National Park, Ecuador |
| Coffee Break |
| Collaborative Projects in Bear Studies |
| M. Proctor et al (Invited) | Population Fragmentation and Inter-ecosystem Movements of Grizzly Bears in Western Canada and the Northern USA |
| A. Zedrosser et al | One species, two continents, three patterns of growth; brown bears in North America and Europe. |
| M. Owen et al. | Polar bears are seasonally motivated to discriminate conspecific sex and reproductive status via pedal scent |
| R. Van Horn et al. | How well can we use photographs to identify Andean bears, assess their kinship, and estimate their ages? |
| H. Reynolds et al | Is it ethical to capture brown bear offspring? |
| Lunch Break |
| Ecology and Behaviour of Polar Bears |
| I. Stirling et al. | Interrelationships between polar bears, seals, sea ice and climate in northern Labrador and Davis Strait |
| E. Peacock et al. | Population Ecology of Polar Bears in Davis Strait, Canada and Greenland |
| V. Sahanatien et al. | Multi Scale Assessment of Polar Bear Habitat in Seasonal Sea Ice, Foxe Basin, Nunavut |
| G. Thiemann et al. | Individual Dietary Specialization in Polar Bears |
| A. Pagano et al. | Long-distance swimming events by adult female polar bears in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas |
| A. Derocher and P. Molnar | Polar bear politics, ecology, and conservation in Canada |
| Coffee Break |
| Aboriginal and Traditional Knowledge of Bears |
| S. Senger | Grizzly bears as the Umbrella Species for the St'at'imc First Nation Culture |
| C. Lambert-Koizumi and A. Derocher | Do grizzly bears eat mountain sheep? A search for evidence in a northern alpine ecosystem |
| E. Rodriguez | Significance of Mashiramo (Tremarctos ornatus) to the Yupka's communities in the Columbian Serrania Del Perijá |
| M. Kakekespan | Cree Understanding of Wabusk: Documenting traditional knowledge of Polar Bears in the Hudson Bay Lowlands of Ontario |
| D. Henri and E. Peacock | Combining Inuit Ecological Knowledge and Western Science in Wildlife Governance: The Case of Polar Bear Co-Management in Nunavut |
| Dinner Break & Announcements |
| Public Session | I. Stirling & S. Herrero |
| Announcments |
| Bear Behaviour |
| R. Appleton et al. | Seasonality of Reproduction in Wild Spectacled Bears in the Dry Forest of Cerro Venado, Peru |
| L. Homstol and C. St Clair | Whistles and slingshots increase the wariness of American black bears |
| K. Noyce and D. Garshelis | Evidence for Conspecific Cueing in Guiding Landscape-Level Movements of American Black Bears in Northcentral Minnesota |
| K. Kendall et al. | Grizzly Bear and Black Bear Marking Behavior |
| I. Seryodkin et al. | Intraspecific Relationships Between Brown Bears, Asiatic Black Bears and the Amur Tiger |
| M. Krofel | The Noble Cat and the Big Bad Scavenger: The Effects of Kleptoparasitism by Brown Bears on Eurasian Lynx |
| Coffee Break |
| Physiology of Bears |
| A. Mendoza et al. | Non-invasive monitoring of ovarian function in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) by measuring fecal steroid metabolites. |
| T. Roth et al. | Non-invasive Fecal Hormone Monitoring for Evaluating Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) Reproductive Activity |
| O. Fröbert and J. Swenson | The brown bear as a reverse translational model for human health and disease |
| T. Spady et al | Characterization of polyestrus in American black bears, Ursus americanus |
| K. Malcolm et al. | The critical role of captive bears in assessing stress in wild Asiatic Black Bear populations in southwest China |
| Lunch Break |
| Population Estimation |
| M. Efford (Invited) | Estimating bear populations by spatially explicit capture-recapture |
| J. Woods et al (Invited) | Genetic tagging free-ranging black bears and grizzly bears since 1995: implications for population-level studies of bears and other wildlife |
| J. Laufenberg et al | Effects of Subsampling Genotyped Hair Samples to Estimate Black Bear Abundance |
| C. Apps et al. | Grizzly bear Abundance, Distribution, Connectivity and Conservation across the Southern Coast Ranges of British Columbia |
| S. Sathyakumar et al | Estimating the Asiatic black bear Population using different techniques-a case study from Dachigam National Park, Kashmir, India |
| D. Ngoprasert and G. Gale | Density estimation of Asiatic Black Bear and Sun Bear using chest marks and photographic capture recapture sampling |
| S. Stapleton et al | Aerial survey estimation of abundance for polar bears during the ice-free season |
| Coffee Break |
| Population Ecology of Bears |
| B. McLellan | Population regulation of grizzly bears on an industrialized landscape: the case of the changing bottom. |
| S. Nielsen et al | Silver spoons, forest landscapes, and grizzly bear body size patterns in Alberta |
| R. Maraj et al. | Effects of conspecifics on habitat selection by grizzly bears in the southwest Yukon, Canada |
| O. Gonzalez et al. | Litter size reduction reveals sibling competition in brown bear Ursus arctos. |
| S. Koike et al. | Are bears effective seed disperser in the temperate forest ecosystem? Estimate of the seed shadow created by the Asiatic black bear. |
| Dinner Break & Announcements |
| M. Efford | Workshop - Spatially-explicit capture-recapture population estimation |
| R. Van Horn | Workshop - Facilitating collaborative partnerships to improve bear research, conservation, and husbandry of captive and free-ranging bears |
| Announcments |
| Invited Panel on Bear Feeding - Introduction |
| Invited Panel on Bear Feeding |
| J. Hechtel | Bear feeding: an overview of current policies and state of knowledge |
| K. Gunther | A fed bear is a dead bear: how this catchy phrase and management philosphy led to positive changes for bears and visitors in national parks. |
| L. Rogers | Can food lead black bears out of trouble? |
| A. Bryant | Experimental Diversionary Feeding of Black Bears at Lake Tahoe, CA |
| S. Baruch-Mordo | Food for thought: why diversionary feeding may not be an effective management tool for urban human-bear conflicts |
| K. Jerina | Effects of supplemental feeding on bear spatial behavior, habituation on people, and human-bear conflicts: studies of long-term intensive feeding of brown bears in Slovenia, Europe |
| Coffee Break |
| Invited Panel on Bear Feeding (cont'd) |
| Discussion (Led By D. Garshelis) |
| Human-Bear Conflict / Human Dimensions |
| N. D'Cruze et al | Human-Bear Conflict: A Review of Concepts and Global Trends |
| Lunch Break |
| F. van Manen | IBA Members Meeting |
| Human-Bear Conflict / Human Dimensions (cont'd) |
| M. Ditmer et al. | Factors driving range requirements and habitat use of a population living on the edge: Ursus americanus thriving in a fragmented, agricultural landscape |
| F. Liu et al. | Human-bear conflicts influence villagers' attitudes but not necessarily behaviors |
| T. Kubo and Y. Shoji | Trekkers' preferences for bear-encounter risk management in Daisetsuzan National Park, northern Japan: Using a choice experiment |
| U. Singh et al | Investigation on black bear-human conflict in Kashmir, India |
| Coffee Break |
| I. Kumari et al | Socio-economic Survey of Rehabilitated Kalandars in India, (Pre and Post Rehabilitation) |
| X. Velez-Liendo | Identification of human-bear conflict zones for Andean bears in Bolivia |
| D. Zec et al | Hunting brown bears as a key management tool in Croatia |
| T. Coleman et al. | Interaction between grizzly bears and backcountry users in Yellowstone National Park, bear management areas |
| K. Satyanarayan | Poaching of sloth bear cubs and illegal trade routes in India |
| M. Obbard & F. van Manen | Conference Closing |
