Wow. What a line-up! You're invited to meet and talk with some of the world's foremost authorities on polar bears and climate change during our free Tundra Connections® broadcasts. Big names. With big stories. And big bears just outside.
2011 WEBCAST SCHEDULE
Our webcasts are targeted to a general audience, except for the first one, which is targeted for grades 4-8. To join in, please register in advance and then CLICK HERE at the dates and times below.
OCTOBER 27 at 12:30 P.M. CST
Polar Bears: Questions from Students Around the World
NOVEMBER 2 at 12:30 P.M. CST
Polar Bear Moms & Cubs
NOVEMBER 3 at 1:30 P.M. CST
Polar Bears & Other North American Bears
NOVEMBER 8 at 1:30 P.M. CST
Certainties & Uncertainties: Polar Bears in a Warming World (Targeted to zoo professionals)
NOVEMBER 9 at 12:30 P.M. CST
Polar Bears on Thin Ice
NOVEMBER 10 at 12:30 P.M. CST
All About Polar Bears: Questions from Around the World
NOVEMBER 14 at 12:00 Noon CST (Special Edmodo Webcast)
To the Top of the World—A Look at the Arctic and Its Biodiversity
NOVEMBER 15 at 12:00 Noon CST (Special Edmodo Webcast)
Nanuq—The Great White Bear
NOVEMBER 15 at 1:30 P.M. CST
The Future for Marine Mammals ... Paths to a Sustainable Planet
NOVEMBER 16 at 12:00 Noon CST (Special Edmodo Webcast)
Polar Detectives—Discovering Ways to Help Polar Bears and Live on a Sustainable Planet
NOVEMBER 21 at 12:30 P.M. CST
Live from the Polar Bear Capital of the World with Scientist Ian Stirling
NOVEMBER 23 at 12:30 P.M. CST (Cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances)
Forty Years in the Arctic: A Biologist's Perspective
Click here to complete a post-program evaluation. Your name will be entered into a drawing to receive a polar bear adoption package!
In addition to the webcasts, we offer free videoconferences. These are prescheduled, with limited spaces available. Read our FAQ to see if a videoconference is right for you. Also check out our archived webcasts.
Our heartfelt thanks to our Platinum Sponsor, Frontiers North Tundra Buggy Adventure. Generous support has also been provided by explore.org, the philanthropic media organization and multi-media arm of The Annenberg Foundation, as part of its Pearls of the Planet initiative, a vareity of live feeds that aim to help people fall in love with the world again.
Bear hugs to Julene Reed, an Apple Distinguished Educator and PBI Education Advisory Council member, who directs the PBI Tundra Connections program, and also to Parks Canada and Tandberg, now part of CIsco Systems.
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