Michael Proctor

BSc, University of British Columbia, Ecology 1995

PhD, University of Calgary, Ecology department, Grizzly Bear Ecology 2003

Post Doctoral Research Fellow with Dr. Mark Boyce, University of Alberta 2004-2005

M Proctor is an independent research scientist and current lead researcher for the Trans-border Grizzly Bear Project in southern BC, Canada who works to inform conservation problems and solutions related to bears and large carnivores. He focuses on small threatened populations requiring higher conservation attention, including population recovery, human-bear conflict reduction, community-based conservation, landscape genetics, population fragmentation, connectivity and management, habitat use, bottom-up-top-down population dynamics, demographics, and trend monitoring. He has spent his 30+ year career researching, integrating, and implementing conservation solutions to real world conservation problems including managing people and bears.